Blueprint Library: Better Search

[nyghtwulf]

TL;DR

Better search in the blueprint library.

What?

As the topic says, better search. Right now its searched based on just the string of the blueprint name and it doesn't search within blueprint books. So if you've got a named blueprint somewhere in a book and know the name, but not which book it is in, good luck finding it with search.

Additionally, being able to search for objects within a blueprint would be amazing. If I was looking for an oil refinery blueprint, but didn't know the name, I could search by 'Refinery' building object and search would return a list of blueprints that contain that building. Could even be applied to recipes of production machines.

I'd imagine that it might be costly (cpu, disk) to search, implementing and index and each time a blueprint is added/removed updating that index may be the solution so that the search system doesn't have to read every blueprint for each search.

Why?

Finding blueprints based on just their name is impossible if you don't remember the name. Especially if the blueprints you are trying to find are inside books. Additional search methods, such as by building or recipe, could greatly enhance search functionality.

[macintacos]

+1 for this feature - I was genuinely surprised that this wasn't possible. Almost feels like an oversight that you can't search your whole blueprint library, considering the improvements to search in 2.0.

[mmmPI]

yes please !

I have a book of blueprint that is called "pre-space age", and it represent about 250 MB, there are a lot of blueprint, and the more time pass the less familiar i am with the tree structure, which is quite messy anyway. The search function fine for the new blueprints, but this particularly deep book is annoying. I can't type in "solar" and expect to have my old solar tiles show up alongside the newer ones.