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Simple QOL request: a combinator that simply passes the input to the output. Perhaps with a single toggle to invert the signal.

This is trivially doable in game at present with an arithmetic combinator. Either do "each * 1 output each" or "each * -1 output each." This mod would add no functionality per se. But what it would do is give you an easy way of visually seeing what was going on in complicated combinator setups.

Maybe this would be better moved to suggestions for vanilla. And I would change this to making the arithmetic combinator have more functions or simply better show its configuration on ALT view.

Two special cases quickly come to mind:
- "each + 0" or "each * 1" setting should show some form of NOP or DELAY icon. Maybe a diode symbol?
- "each * -1" should show up as a negation

I'm not sure if the devs would want to do it in vanilla, after all it's not really adding any more functionality per se.

But you can't really mod it.

I think the best you can do is take a standard arithmetic combinator, program it for "each * 1 = each", remove the GUI options and switch the images. The ALT view would still be confusing though.

Or is there a way to mod a different ALT view over an entity?

Ah, I'm not familiar with the modding mechanics so I didn't know this wasn't doable. It seemed trivial in my head.