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I have a quality of life idea, add the option to make blueprints and books readonly.

I hold a large ammount of private Blueprint Catalogs, all of them cost me a lot of effort.
But because its so easy to alter or remove stuff in blueprint books, without any warning, i never feel like my blueprints are "safe" nor final / complete.
This actually becomes a problem with larger books, because small removals/alterations tent to be overlooked.

It actually makes me pretty paranoid about my blueprint books, and i tent to save the Strings in a .txt file in a non game folder.


Being able to make readonly books will not only feel safer, it will also live up to my sense of completion .

Personally i would like to see a little lock icon in the Blueprint book screen (next to the pen to alter name).

LordSquirrel wrote: Mon Jul 22, 2019 11:11 pm But because its so easy to alter or remove stuff in blueprint books, without any warning, i never feel like my blueprints are "safe" nor final / complete.

Being able to make readonly books will not only feel safer, it will also live up to my sense of completion .

To steal and abuse a quote, you don't need backups, just publish them on the Internet and let other people mirror them.

...I agree with the suggestion, but I also employ the strategy of having a backup of all the important books in a text file via the export string. Then I can at least get back to before I broke things.

the new blueprint-menu is really good.
but i was surprised when i looked for my blueprints in a second attempt.
i figured out that if you take out a blueprint from the libary, you REALLY TAKE it out.

please add a LOCK-button
what the button does:
if the box is checked you "ctrl+C" instead of "ctrl+X" when taking the blueprints
and you can't change anything in the BPs (deleting tiles, change icons, etc)

in case i didn't explain good enough. i mean this action:


PS: the checkbox should count for the whole book with its nested books and sheets