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TL;DR

Let's add the option to have hotkeys for the quickbars after the first two.

What?

There already exists the option to add/change the hotkeys for the first two quickbars. I suggest adding the option to add hotkeys for the other ones as well.
Having the option to hotkey everything on every quickbar is probably overkill, but why should there be a limit?

This probably also requires some UI changes, since the list of hotkeys in the options menu would be extremely long.

Why?

As someone who also likes playing MMO's, I am very much used to using dozens of hotkeys. Since Factorio has dozens of entities one might want to have on the quickbar, it makes sense to me to be able to have hotkeys for essentially all of them.

While 20 hotkeys is plenty, I find myself using those 20 for my factory, and thus not having room for combat stuff and blueprints. This is where I use the third quickbar, but to use the things set on it requires me to cycle through or swap quickbars. To me, it is mostly annoying, since I regularly forget to swap the quickbars back to how they are supposed to be.


In case there is an option in the game I missed, please tell me

TheApokari wrote: Tue Sep 01, 2026 10:23 amIn case there is an option in the game I missed, please tell me

There is a hidden setting for quick-bar-width which allows you to expand from 10x Columns per Row up to 100x. The additional slots do not have a Key Binding to make them accessible, but I have found them very useful as a place to pin Blueprint shortcuts or less-used items without having to change through the additional Rows.

Good Luck!

eugenekay wrote: Tue Sep 01, 2026 1:11 pm There is a hidden setting for quick-bar-width which allows you to expand from 10x Columns per Row up to 100x.

Thank you so much for pointing this out!

While this may not add additional hotkey options, it is better than swapping quickbars or having a lot of them stacked on top of each other.

Though this wants me to be able to have 3 (or 4) quickbars with 12 slots each, all with hotkeys. I might just be able to convince my MMO friends to play Factorio with me and pretend that it is just like an MMO
(For those who don't know, the most popular MMO's often have you play with 3-4 hotbars with up to 12 abilities each)