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When clicking an item from your toolbelt, there's a special mechanic to make it go back to the same slot afterwards, if free.

Currently, the toolbelt and cursor both count as inventory space. If you pick something from your inventory, then your inventory gets filled up (by bot requests or pick-up-from-ground), you can't clear your cursor with 'Q' any more, and it's annoying.

Simple change: when you click an item in your inventory or toolbelt, it shouldn't be moved to the cursor and moved back when pressing 'Q'; it should just reference the item, blocking the slot. When clicking another item, they'd be swapped, just like now.

Pressing 'Q' could still move items from the main inventory to a free toolbelt slot like now (though it would be nice to have an option for this).

The whole toolbelt could reference items in the inventory in the same way as well, but that would reduce inventory size, so might not be desirable.

Well it would fundamentally change the way the cursor works, don't know how feasible this is and what impact it could have. Besides, on occasion I've used the cursor as an extra stack so I can cart those last few mining drills back to base.

Filtering the Quick Bar behaves very much like this, it won't insert anything else into that slot and any in your inventory will stay there. The exception is if you filter and select say Assemblers and you then start picking up Assemblers somehow, they'll automatically go into the (now empty) filtered slot. But that's the only way it doesn't behave as you've requested.

I recommend power armour and better inventory management =P

It doesn't happen to me often. But it's one of those surprising and weird things.

For transporting items on trains, I've often wished they had a little "cabin room" for player storage only.