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There are times where you temporarily want to not autotrash something. The common occurrence is you have a lot of ore, but are at a smelter, and want to dump the ore in to the smelters and not just have it be trashed. There are 2 things that I can think of that could dramatically improve this situation:

1. If you remove something from the trash and put it in to your inventory, don't automatically autotrash it.
2. Allow for choosing items in the trash when dumping. IE, if you control click to dump ore in a smelter, and there is some in your trash slots, grab it from your trash slots as you would any other item.

I suspect the first would be problematical, but the second would be easier. This would avoid this common issue that I'm sure every long-time player has wanted to address.

I know this isn't the first time this topic has come up but yes on off switches for autotrash and player request slots is something that a lot of people including me so I second this topic

The ability to craft or use items from the trash slots also makes sense, I might not want stone bricks in my inventory but if I grab some to make an electric furnace I don't want to be fighting my trash slots for the item, they fixed the item in hand not going to trash, I actually feel that would be a next step

oh and Hi kd7

I had a similar thought with crafting. In fact, in many instance it might make more sense to pull from the Trash slots before pulling from the regular inventory slots. It makes sense for crafting and for dumping stuff, which are the two more common reasons why people want to dump stuff, so... Hmmm...