Yes, this is not a bug. We do not sort based off rich text rendering but always sort based off lexgographical ordering (sometimes ignoring case).

There are no plans to sort based off anything else.


Thanks for the response, I appreciate it. But I'll find a way to do this myself one way or ...

That is a feature request and you already made it.


Having had this in the back of my head for 5 years now I don't agree with this. Or, I agree in the sense that "please fix this problem" is a feature request. I come back to this every time I have to look through my list of train stops that's ...

I propose that the default sort order of rich text icons is incorrect in, separately, both English and non-English localisations. I suggested this ( https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?t=97719 ) 5 years ago and as time goes on I am more convinced that the current ordering is a detriment to the ...

Having this on 2.0.20 as well. It's not entity-specific - as far as I can tell it happens when the hovering motion takes you above and below a point at which the minimap would shift by 1 pixel. When starting to hover you can see how the minimap nearly always moves down by 1 pixel, from there it's ...

This decision seems completely arbitrary. Recyclers state they can undo processes other than smelting and chemistry; given that this recipe is not performed in a furnace or a chemical plant it's fair for the player to assume it's neither. I think this is a bug, if not in the recyclability of ...

I think the biggest issue of handling those orders is the control scheme. We're accustomed to picking up / dropping items in the inventory with left-click, and shift-click moving to another inventory / trash.


This isn't related to this bug report, but I'd be hard-pressed to tell someone what ...

Given the following rocket inventory requests, made using the ghost cursor in remote view:

An inventory slot

A rocket can only contain 5 EM plants, so I want to cancel the unfulfilled request for 17 EM plants, which I would normally do by right-clicking. However, that actually instructs the bots ...

And it's under Quality for me (2.0.15):

Genhis also just finished up Super-force building support for the Rail planner, so crusading over lakes is easier than ever.

Imagine dropping this bombshell as a throwaway line at the end of the FFF!

(for anyone who missed it: look closely at the bottom segments of rail in the last video about ...

The new item icon placeholder effectively canonises using item icons in train stop names - that's good news for me because I already do that, but raises questions:

1. Could now be a good time to implement a more intuitive order for stops with icons in their names? I see that the list of interrupts ...

This feature looks incredible - thanks!

Noticed that kovarex is usng train stops prefixed with rich text icons. Me too! Wondering if this might be as good a time as any to suggest for 2.0 that the sort order of train stop names with icons in them be changed to match the sort order of that icon in the inventory, as opposed to being ...

I'm looking forward to it! I don't suppose there's any information about it available ahead of time?

There's no modding API that hooks into whatever method Factorio natively uses to check if there's a path from one rail to another. boskid speaks a bit about that here: https://test.forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?p=598088#p598088

That's fine. We don't need dedicated APIs, that's what hacks and ...

mmmPI wrote: Tue Oct 31, 2023 2:32 am The title says "Alphabetise" , but the picture shows "Electronic Circuits" before "Advanced Circuits". That is confusing me.

Good point! Have updated the thread title to amend.

Alright, I've gone ahead and made my first mod to implement this as a proof-of-concept.

Mod can be found here: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/ordered-rich-text-train-stops
Github: https://github.com/rossjrw/factorio-ordered-rich-text-train-stops

This mod adds a pane to the train UI with a list of ...

I've added an image to the OP with a visual example of what I'm hoping for, to hopefully make it crystal clear to everyone (and any devs who happen to stumble across this post) what this suggestion is about

It's objectively inferior for the users that the icons are sorted "randomly".


It seems like it should have been so obvious in retrospect, but yes I did initially think the stops were effectively random, as I mentioned in the OP. And that's an excellent point about it being even worse for users ...

I've been thinking about a mod that attempts to implement this, but I don't think it's feasible.

In theory, creating the new order should be easy. If the lexograhpical sort function can be hijacked, or if another sort can be inserted inside/after each method that produces such a list, e.g ...

Ctrl+Z undoes. Sometimes I'll instinctively press Ctrl+Shift+Z to redo, which obviously doesn't exist in the game. However, Factorio interprets Ctrl+Shift+Z as a superset of Ctrl+Z and undoes again , which was the opposite of my intent and may lead to me accidentally undoing lots of things. I'd love ...