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Searching on the tech tree screen yields unexpected results. Ignoring whitespace is one thing ("rail transport" -> makes sense), but character logistic slots have nothing to do with rail!

Is it searching multiple localizations or something?

This is new from 0.16.0, and does not happen in 0.15:

It doesn't search for connected letters, but for the letters in that order. You can for example find the programmable speaker when searching for gear because it contains the letters in that order: programmable speaker. Same thing works for this technology. This means that when you search for lds, you will find low density structures

Bilka wrote:It doesn't search for connected letters, but for the letters in that order. You can for example find the programmable speaker when searching for gear because it contains the letters in that order: programmable speaker. Same thing works for this technology. This means that when you search for lds, you will find low density structures

Interesting. The behavior is slightly different for the tech tree. Perhaps there were too many results so it uses a narrower but similar pattern. Searching "lds" in the tech tree doesn't give rocket silo tech (for low density structures) at all, but "structure" does.

IronCartographer wrote:

Bilka wrote:It doesn't search for connected letters, but for the letters in that order. You can for example find the programmable speaker when searching for gear because it contains the letters in that order: programmable speaker. Same thing works for this technology. This means that when you search for lds, you will find low density structures

Interesting. The behavior is slightly different for the tech tree. Perhaps there were too many results so it uses a narrower but similar pattern. Searching "lds" in the tech tree doesn't give rocket silo tech (for low density structures) at all, but "structure" does.

It also searches the technology effects, in this case it finds 'structure' the the rocket tech in that, it unlocks the 'low density structure' recipe

Yes, it's just surprising that the "lds" string Bilka mentioned works in one place but not the other (despite it being a substring of the recipe unlock effect strings).

Thanks for the clarification.