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When I'm ghost placing a line of items while bots are building, if I run out of the item, it is removed from the cursor.
Applies to all items, but most obvious with belts.
I expected it to keep the ghost in-hand, as I placed further ghosts.
E.g.

If I want to place a line of 50 ghost belts, running alongside as bots build behind me, once I use up the 20 in my inventory, the belts will be removed from the cursor despite me using ghost placing.

Hi,
I doubt this will be considered a bug - it's been like this for a while.
But if it gets moved to ideas and suggestions then I'll put a +1 against it.

please please please just put the ghost item into our hands when we run out (when the setting is set in the options menu. It would be quite confusing for new players if it occurred - as they don't know what ghosts are.)

Ahh, I see. I'll toss a copy into the ideas forum section then.

There's a mod that can change this behavior:

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/GhostInHand

Cursor Enhancements has the same feature.