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When mouse hovers over a bot, it displays some basic information about it. But it is really basic.

I propose to extend this info to add some description of what bot is doing, example:

"Going to <icon> at <location> to pick up <icon> to build it at <location>"

And why do you think this is useful?

In my opinion it’s either obvious (just a few bots going into distinct directions), or there are thousands of bots doing stuff.

Maybe not ver usefull, but amusing. Isn't it the goal of the game?

Hmmm.

Let me say it so: it is useful/amusing, if there would be such a display. I would look at it for a while. And maybe that would already been implemented, if it would be simple to display that. But it isn’t, because the bots don’t know their route.

I’m not sure, but I mean they just know their current target: go to X and pick up Y. That’s all. The chest knows how much robots are called. You see that if you turn on debug mode and use show-logistic-robot-targets. See https://wiki.factorio.com/Debug_mode

I don’t really get how you are even supposed to see the additional description. The bots move way to fast.