I made HandyHands - Automatic . My mod does the opposite, it fills your inventory from requests. I was considering if I should make a mod that automatically throws stuff from your inventory into nearby chest and assemblers if you have too much stuff. Kind of like pre-bot personal logistics for tras...

And ... I just played through a proper game with it, and it a) didn't irritate me, and b) seemed to do a good job. I think the balance is about right?

New mod: Inventory Trim I've just been working on this mod to improve Quality of Life. From the README: This mod enables inventory trimming: your main inventory is scanned periodically to see if there are slots that are being used inefficiently, and throws their contents into the logistics trash. Hu...

Thanks for the lightning response!!

Ok, groups - perfect. I'll try it now.

I'm hoping to differentiate between things in the inventory like red-wire, which I think is always handy to have around even in small quantities, and copper-cable, which I normally want to throw in the trash.

Is there a way to identify if an item is an "intermediate item" via the modding API, please?

I'm looking in the API docs for LuaItemPrototype and I don't see anything obvious...

My solution is: rail-based artillery outposts. When I run extremely long rail routes, I hang a heavily defended autonomous artillery-train base on to the rails, with some timer logic to enable the train-stop every X minutes (like, every 20 mins). It has radar, some robots, and usually some logic to ...

Ok, this feature would be really useful ! Some actions don't feature in the "undo" chain. I've just been optimizing a station, adding circuit controls, cables, and tweaking some modules. But none of that counts as undoable actions. So I just hooked a wire to the wrong inserter and hit undo...