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TL;DR

Connect bulks of entities (poles, chests, combinator...) by hovering with red/green wire or copper cable.

What ?

Instead of click on entity, drag wire, click on entity, drag and so on, I suggest click on first entity, keep pressed, hover over all entities to be connected. Plus points, when the resulting connections are the shortest path between all entities.

Eventually a niftier way: click on first entity, then keep pressed. If you want to add a connection see above, if you don’t want to connect to that entity press shift. Can also be used to bulk remove wire connections, which is currently a click orgy.

Why ?

Connecting the chests of whole train station (up to 12 chests per wagon) is a lot of work.

ssilk wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 22, 2020 5:20 am

Why ?

Connecting the chests of whole train station (up to 12 chests per wagon) is a lot of work.

You can CTRL-C CTRL-V some already connected chest, then place manually the chest, and the wires magically appears .

To remove the connexion however, it would be nice !

mmmPI wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 23, 2020 5:15 am

then place manually the chest

You don’t even have to do it in order. If you place the chests first, you can copy paste over what you already did, and the wires will be added

This seems like a good quality of life change.

There are other ways to place circuits in bulk, but this seems like a much more simple and intuitive way than blueprints IMO.