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As the humanitarians that factorio players are, I’d love to have the ability to return fish to the water (in reverse to the existing easter egg of taking them out the water )
this’d be personally useful for me, as i plan to have fish breeding be a part of a mod i am developing; and being able to keep them ‘fresh’ in the water would be a nice mechanic to have.

An issue i can see with this is the fact that fish give 5 when picked up, but a limitation could be forcing inserters to only put a fish entity back into the water if it currently has the same amount of fish as its mining amount? (im not sure how possible it’d be, but its the first one i thought of )

+1

+1, It may also be useful to support quality entities as such.

Made an account just to +1 this.

+1

@grungulon-what a reason

+1

Putting fish back was an easter egg and at this point there is no desire to expand it into more code with more tests around inserters.

Rseding91 wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 8:16 pm Putting fish back was an easter egg and at this point there is no desire to expand it into more code with more tests around inserters.

Thanks for the quick response, this makes total sense, just means it will need to be a janky script implementation, but since someone made a thread, figured its ok to +1 it even if it seems unlikely to be implemented.