Compact Recipe Pins

Compact Recipe Pins

A Factoriopedia Favourites panel reminiscent of NEI and The Planet Crafter.

Remind yourself about anything in Factorio with a single key. Inspect the pins and explore their recipes, so you won't forget what you need.

Pins

Press Z (by default) when hovering over any item, any entity in the world, research technology, or any icon found in Factoriopedia. This will create a pin in the top-left corner.

(Z is shared with the standard Drop item key, so make sure your cursor is empty.)

Analogous to Factorio's native map pins, Recipe Pins represent an idea or concept from the game (technically called a prototype).

• Left-click the pin to open its Factoriopedia page.
• Press Z on the pin to delete it.
• Ctrl + Left-click a pin to delete ALL pins.

If you prefer other mods over Factoriopedia, Pins can be configured to open other mod GUIs. Currently, Recipe Book and FNEI are supported.

(NOTE: If you pin something like Water and it has a tooltip of something different like Ice melting (Recipe), this is not a bug. The mod will try to use the first sensible recipe it finds.)

Mini-Recipes

Right-clicking on a pin will show its mini-recipe below the panel, if that pin has a recipe. If you prefer Left-click to do this, mouse controls can be reversed in the Settings.

• Left-click an item in the recipe to open its Factoriopedia page.
• Right-click an item to show its own mini-recipe. (You can have lots of them!)
• Press Z to make a proper pin like you would elsewhere.
• Ctrl-Click on the Close button to delete all the mini-recipes.

Banish

When the panel is getting in the way, Ctrl-Click on the Collapse button or the title bar to Banish it out of sight. It will come back when you add a new Pin.

There is also a shortcut button which does this, and an associated keybind which you can assign. (I recommend setting Ctrl-H.)

Pipette

Pins and Mini-recipes can be Pipette'd too (default Q). It's a good place to put something if you're out of room on the quickbar.

Or store things like signals which can't go on the quickbar.

If Mini-recipes are configured to show machines, they will Pipette into an appropriate blueprint.

Copy / Paste

Recipes can be copied from a Pin or any item on a Mini-recipe into assembling machines.

• Shift + Right-click to copy from a pin
• Shift + Left-click to set the machine recipe

It also works on requester chests, and on the player character, which will create a new logistic group for the recipe.

(These are the same keybinds as Copy/Paste in regular Factorio.)

NEW in 0.4.1: Quick Recipe Copy lets you copy a recipe straight from the vanilla GUI without having to make a Pin first.

Quick Craft

Press Ctrl-Q on a pin or mini-recipe item to handcraft a bunch of them (default 5, configurable), just like in Cursor Enhancements.

If you have Cursor Enhancements installed as well, it will use the settings from that mod.

Record Pins

Press Z when holding a record from the Blueprint Library to pin it. The pin will refer to the Library, but accessing it will always create a copy, so you should treat them as read-only.

(Blueprint items do not work, including ones that are retrieved from pinned Blueprint books.)

• Left-click or Pipette the record pin to put it on the cursor.
• Right-click a blueprint or planner to edit a temporary copy, and it will go to the cursor when you're finished editing.
• Right-click a blueprint book to browse its contents. (The book is an item at this point, so you can't pin the blueprints inside.)

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Factoriopedia-alternative mods

These mods can be set as the prototype reference when you Left-click a pin. Factoriopedia will still be used as a fallback for anything they can't handle.

• FNEI (or Kuxynator's fork): Has a similar Favourites panel to CRP, so you'll want to access FNEI's Settings in its GUI and turn off "Enable hotbar". Then you can open the FNEI Home screen with Ctrl-E.
• Recipe Book: I haven't used this enough to appreciate the difference, but I'm sure many of you do. :)

Recommended companion mods

• No Remote View Border: Recover a bit of HUD space when using Remote View.
• Cursor Enhancements: For full Quick-craft functionality.
• Cycle Quality on Clipboard: Useful to change the quality of the blueprints given by recipe machines.
• Filter Helper: Adds an item panel to a lot of entity GUIs which allows you to set filters. Useful in a lot of places where Pins are helpful.
• Picker Extended Reborn: Not directly related. Lots of useful features, notably building on to ghosts when you hover an item over them.

Alternative mods

• Toolbars: A similar mod which lets you add things to a panel and view their recipes.

Troublesome mods

• Ultracube: Deliberately turns off Factoriopedia for most things in the game. Use FNEI alongside it.
• (2.0 only) Any mod which augments Copy/Paste functionality will have unintended interactions with Compact Recipe Pins. You can turn off CRP's Copy/Paste in the Settings.

Credits

• KEY.pics for the key/mouse icons in the cheat sheet.