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What?

In map/radar view you can deconstruct items in inventories by clicking on them, summoning construction bots to fetch them. Like so:
Deconstruction planners should be able to do this on a mass-scale, using filters.

Why?

The other day I wanted to transition several smelting arrays from solid fuel to rocket fuel and while I could get rid of stacks of fuel one at a time, I could not order it done en-masse.

How?

A tab in the deconstruction planner titled "Items", working like the other tabs: when selecting entities it orders deconstruction of all the items inside matching the filters. Like so:

That would also be really good if it applied to belts, so we would finally have a way to clear them out without rebuilding them

radical_larry wrote: Thu Jun 18, 2026 9:46 am That would also be really good if it applied to belts, so we would finally have a way to clear them out without rebuilding them

Very good point!