Use Variant System for Inserters

13 votes

Having to reserve 5-6 hotbar slots for inserters is crazy. That's 25% of my hotbar.

I should be allowed to press a key ("V", E", etc.) to swap to a different inserter available in my inventory.

This system could be expanded to other categories (like switching between MKI and MKII variants), but my primary frustration is with inserters.

Read by dev Suggested by: Boom Blockhead (25 Jul) • Upvoted: 01 Oct • Comments: 2

Comments: 2

25 Jul
Tisaku
I'd go with two inserter groups. Standard and filtered.
26 Aug
Ste
bear in mind you end up with about 10 lines of toolbar at higher levels, so the percentage would change dramatically. Most of my toolbar rows are empty TBH, space isn't a premium. It doesn't take much toolbar space to have the belts, inserters, machines, and a few lights/tools. I think I use maybe 5 rows max? By all means have a variant system, the more user-friendly it is the better, but if implemented, would prefer to also keep the option to have all inserter types still available on the toolbar for those that like it.