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Posted: **Sun Mar 20, 2016 3:12 pm**

Hi there

i like to sort my Items at the Crafting Window.
I read much of it.. but most things are confusing me or just not what i am searching for..

The order at the item seams to only have affect at the sorting at the inventory.

how do i decide which crafting recipe is at the first line and which one is at the next and so on?

Posted: **Mon Mar 21, 2016 8:15 am**

Currently this isn't possible, even with mods, most of the UI elements are hard coded.

Posted: **Mon Mar 21, 2016 5:22 pm**

It is possible to reorder items inside the category.
There are item groups and sub-groups that you can assign items into.

Each defined sub-group will start from new row in item display.

You can take a look at files in data/base/prototypes/item folder inside Factorio to see how it is done for base items.

Posted: **Mon Mar 21, 2016 6:07 pm**

Thank you, that helped me out

But now i know the answer to my next question.. i think it is not possible to locate my recipe for iron-plate, copper-plate and steel-plate to my tab without moving the original ones to that tab too?

for everyone else with the same Problem, here is the code of my item-groups.lua file
just replace the my_name with the item-group/ subgroup you want

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data:extend(
{
  --item-group creation (for the new tab)
  {
    type = "item-group",
    name = "my_itemgroup", 
    icon = "__mymod__/graphics/group.png",
    icon_size = 128,
    inventory_order = "f",
    order = "e"
  },
 -- creation of the subgroups for my item-group (the letter at order decides in which line my items of that subgroup are displayed)
  {
    type = "item-subgroup",
    name = "my_pulver",
    group = "my_itemgroup", -- has to be the same as the name of the item-group to tell factorio that it is located in that tab
    order = "a"
  },
  {
    type = "item-subgroup",
    name = "my_craft",
    group = "my_itemgroup",
    order = "b"
  },
  {
    type = "item-subgroup",
    name = "my_chemie",
    group = "my_itemgroup",
    order = "c"
  },
  {
    type = "item-subgroup",
    name = "my_machines",
    group = "my_itemgroup",
    order = "d"
  }
})

and that is how it looks like:

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