Hide Unavailable Items from Factoriopedia

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Hide Unavailable Items from Factoriopedia

Post by NLZ »

TL;DR
Hide items from Factoriopedia that are not yet available.
What?
Make it so Factoriopedia and other places only shows available items.
Inserter's filter is almost good, but even that has stuff slipped through (I see fluoroketone barrels withouth leaving the planet).
Optionally it could show unresearched stuff for planning.

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/hide-space-age-spoilers hides stuff from planets not yet available, although it's limited by manual revealing.
Alternative to Factoriopedia is https://mods.factorio.com/mod/RecipeBook which has this option to hide unresearched stuff.
Why?
As a first time player, seeing all the items in Factoriopedia is unnecessary and distracting.
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Re: Hide Unavailable Items from Factoriopedia

Post by quineotio »

As a setting I'd be ok with it, but I'm absolutely against this otherwise. I regularly look at the factoriopedia to check recipes and sometimes to get ghosts or set filters for things I don't yet have. It's very useful in planning. Hiding things may provide some level of excitement for some people on the first playthrough, but other than this single case it's pure downside.
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Re: Hide Unavailable Items from Factoriopedia

Post by NLZ »

Yes of course, it's more about making it manageable for first time users.
There is already the Interface settings "Show all items in selection lists", maybe that could be used
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Re: Hide Unavailable Items from Factoriopedia

Post by danbopes »

Alternatively: Just show unavailable recipes as RED, so you can distinguish easily between ones you can craft, and ones you can't.
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Re: Hide Unavailable Items from Factoriopedia

Post by MrSmoothieHuman »

i agree that there should be a setting for hiding locked recipes, but even if they were a seperate colour - they should use the dark green thats already used for unresearched recipes, not red (which is already used for non-handcraftable recipes)
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