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Auto-chain recipes

Open ClaudeMetz opened this issue 2 years ago • 0 comments

The idea is to, when the user adds a recipe, allow him to select that the system should add all recipes to produce that recipes automatically, like kirkmcdonald would do, for example. This has issues though. More of a stretch goal.

This is pretty messy. What to do when hitting an ingredient with two recipes? Could just stop, could also prompt the user, leading to a cascade of dialogs. Might need to consolidate duplicate recipes at the end so some recipe doesn‘t end up multiple times in there.

What would also be smart is to be able to specify, either manually or by selecting parts or your factory, which ingredients you want to supply yourself, so it stops at those.

Can‘t really create subfloors, or would be really hard to do. Might need some functionality for the user to construct subfloors afterwards, which would be useful elsewhere too, but a lot of work.

Could either be a setting that activates this automatically when possible, or an action on the item buttons. I‘d prefer an action, ctrl-left-click works, but that is not available on top-level items. Shift-right-click is an alternative.

ClaudeMetz avatar Jul 25 '23 07:07 ClaudeMetz