Remember Scroll Position of Blueprint List-View in BP book-window

ichVII · Post by **ichVII** » Mon Mar 23, 2020 10:13 pm

TL;DR

Remember scroll position in a bp book while opening a blueprint.

What ?

When you have a large blueprint book, you scroll down in it, open a blueprint and then close that blueprint again, you are back at the start of the book. I would like to be at the exact place I was before.

Why ?

Because it can be really hard to find back to the page you just opened. Vanilla supports 1000 blueprints in a book, so this problem is not restricted to mods. If you want to actually work with large blueprint books, this feature would be very welcome.

And usually, when I take a closer look at a side of a real book I do not immediatley go back to the first page afterwards. But maybe that's just me.

PS:This refers to the stable version 0.17.79. I am not aware, if this is still the case in 0.18.15.

Edit: It exists in 0.18.15 and I am reffering to scrolling in the blueprint book window, not shift+scrolling while holding the book in hand. That is why i refered to "large blueprint book", as the scroll bar only shows up for a large blueprint book.

ickputzdirwech · Post by **ickputzdirwech** » Tue Mar 24, 2020 9:36 am

I checked in 0.18 and if you take the blueprint book from your inventory or your hotbar it remembers the last used blueprint. When you take it from the blueprint library it doesn't but changes the icon regardless. I would consider this a bug and reported it: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=82749

ichVII · Post by **ichVII** » Tue Mar 24, 2020 11:53 am

You did not understand me correctly. The issue is present in 0.18.15. If you have a large blueprint book and you scroll down in it, then open a blueprint by left-clicking it and close it again by e.g. Esc, the blueprint book window is scrolled back to the top. This has nothing to do with the active blueprint.

ickputzdirwech · Post by **ickputzdirwech** » Tue Mar 24, 2020 1:30 pm

oh ok, sorry. Now I get it. Took me quite a while to make a blueprint book that was large enough to even get the scroll bar

I think it would be better if the blueprint book wouldn't remember your latest position though but just automatically scrolls to the active blueprint when opened.

ichVII · Post by **ichVII** » Tue Mar 24, 2020 1:37 pm

I am not referring to closing the book and then reopening it. Then I agree with you. I am just referring to opening a blueprint in the book and then closing that blueprint. This reopens the book immediatley and I think in this case it should keep track of where you scrolled.

Post by **ssilk** » Wed Mar 25, 2020 4:33 am

Changed title of suggestion to follow content.

jodokus31 · Post by **jodokus31** » Sun Oct 09, 2022 4:12 pm

I want to up this.

My usecase is, that I have a blueprint book from library as shortcut in my hotbar. Then I right click on it to open to book, when I want to edit a blueprint. (I'm not talking about using the book to place the next blueprint, this works all right)
When I have many blueprints in that book, it always opens the book from the start and I have to scroll down to get to correct position.
I would be easier, if the book opens on the last scroll position:

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factoriouzr · Post by **factoriouzr** » Thu Nov 21, 2024 7:25 pm

currently if you have the blueprint library open or are viewing a blueprint book with more blueprints then fit on the screen (so there is a scroll bar). Many actions like editing an existing blueprint in the book, taking new contents for an existing blueprint etc. will return you to the top of the blueprint book instead of remembering where you last were. This means you have to keep scrolling down and finding the blueprint you just edited to edit it again, or move it etc. Basically the blueprint windows should remember their last scroll position until you close it yourself.

LCStark · Post by **LCStark** » Thu Nov 21, 2024 7:34 pm

Not a bug, every time you switch to a different blueprint or book the GUI is recreated. It doesn't remember the positions.

factoriouzr · Post by **factoriouzr** » Thu Nov 21, 2024 8:09 pm

That is the bug

factoriouzr · Post by **factoriouzr** » Sun Nov 16, 2025 7:45 pm

This is still not working when editing a blueprint in a book, it will jump to the top of the book after editing is done. It's really bad to have to scroll and find the blueprint you just edited again after every edit. For eg., if you want to edit multiple blueprints that require scrolling in the book, you have to scroll down to where you were every time.

Really bad.

Post by **Koub** » Mon Nov 17, 2025 9:40 am

[Koub] Merged two threads with the same suggestion.

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