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What: change the background of 'pedia recipe icons to either red for locked, green or unlocked, or both.

Why: I'm playing pyanadons and I see this: Can you tell which recipes are unlocked? Let's look through and... hm, this one looks tasty...
I'll build that. Wait, the recipe isn't available in the Assembler. Huh? OH DANGIT!
So the tech backgrounds can be highlighted; the locked recipes in Helmod can be highlighted; and only Factoriopedia doesn't follow this pattern.

It would be nice if this were clearer.

Thank you all, stay awesome!

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Either this, or the ability to hide unresearched entries, or both. Preferably both.

MEOWMI wrote: Sun Dec 07, 2025 8:53 pm +1

Either this, or the ability to hide unresearched entries, or both. Preferably both.

Your second alternative was already suggested here : viewtopic.php?t=116359
Feel free to add your voice to that suggestion.

This was added in 2.1.7.

Bilka wrote: Tue Jun 23, 2026 11:04 am This was added in 2.1.7.

I hope you added highlighting to? I do not want to hide all unresearch recipes, I want to see what I can do (now and in the future).
For example, playing Nullius, it is very important to see how to get rid of items/liquids/gases. I do not want to click through each recipe to see if it has been unlocked or not.

Also, the ordering of the recipes does not make sense? Specifically in the "Used in" and "Made in" categories.