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Hi,
if im correct its currently like this:

You have buildings in your storage, if you now build via blueprint the bots take first the things out of storage and then out of the supply boxes (dont know the english name, the red ones).

Thats clever.

Now, when you play a long time you maybe have much things in storage which you dont remember... and you build things you probably had in your storage...

it would be cool to add a mod, or science to make it like this:

You click to build a water pump, if its already in a red box or in storage... let it send to player (if in range of bots) instead of building it.

What you think about this idea?

If your waterpump is in a chest on the other side of your megabase, you'll wait like forever before you get it

You dont have to use it.

You could add it to your suit, if you want it.

It is a nice idea and I could see it being helpful

But, on a side note, why not just place a bunch of chests in one area and keep things sorted manually?

Like
A chest for buildings
A chest for conveyors
A Chest for inserters
A chest for refinerys, chem labs, and pipes
A chest for weapons

Never have to worry about forgetting what you have then, just check the chest first

I have one train that I use when building outposts to bring all the things needed to build them.
I have something like 20 chests sitting near where I park the train and use them to sort out various things.
When I want to take the train somewhere, I load it up with whatever items I want to take and off I go.

If I deconstruct stuff, I put it in the chests.
If I want to build something, I check the chests first to see if I already have one (or more) made before crafting another.

V0.13 will contain a search function. Don't know if it works in area, but it should.

Search is good, but still. It would be cool if you could just build and, if in storage, they bring it to you. It could be integrated into the armor... so if you dont want to use the feature...^^