Source-checkedWeapons, items & crafting

Knavt's Recat — Tidy Crafting Menu

by Knavt · for Factorio

Recategorizes the crafting menu: drills -> Mining, inserters -> Transporting (single row), text plates -> Decoration, fluid tanks & Bob pipes -> Fluids, production machines & Factorissimo -> Production, grappling hook -> Equipment, and a new Storage tab for chests/warehouses.

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About Knavt's Recat — Tidy Crafting Menu

From Factorio Mod Portal

Recategorizes the crafting menu: drills -> Mining, inserters -> Transporting (single row), text plates -> Decoration, fluid tanks & Bob pipes -> Fluids, production machines & Factorissimo -> Production, grappling hook -> Equipment, and a new Storage tab for chests/warehouses.

When you stack several big mods together, categories start drifting all over the place. Each mod reshuffles the crafting tabs its own way, so the same kind of item ends up split across different tabs — drills in two places, inserters scattered, machines buried wherever a given mod decided to put them. Instead of fighting that per-mod, this mod takes a simpler approach: one consistent, higher-quality sort that pulls everything back into tabs that make sense.

What it does

  • Drills, pumpjacks & oil rigs → Mining and Processing
  • All inserters (base + Bob's + 5Dim) → Transporting, as one continuous block
  • Furnaces, assemblers, labs, crushers, recyclers pulled out of the Mining tab back into vanilla Production
  • Text plates → Decoration
  • Fluid tanks and Bob's copper/steel pipes → Fluids
  • Factorissimo buildings → Production
  • Grappling hook → Equipment
  • A brand-new Storage tab for every chest and warehouse

Safe by design

Only the grouping of recipes in the menu changes — no recipes, costs or balance are touched. Everything is auto-detected by prototype type at load time, so it adapts to whatever tiers your mods add and ignores hidden recycling recipes.

Designed for

Built around a 5Dim + Bob's + Space Age setup (with Factorissimo, Text Plates, Grappling Gun). Don't run one of those? It just skips that part — no errors.

Highlights

From source data

Footprint

Rated a light load on a server.

License

Published under MIT.

Last update

Its author last shipped an update 3 mo ago.

Knavt's Recat — Tidy Crafting Menu on Nxeon

From our catalogue
One-click install
Supported on Nxeon Factorio servers. We download it from Factorio Mod Portal, place it, and restart the server.
Server side
Required on the server
Server load
light
Smallest plan we suggest
Factorio — 2 GB (2 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
Latest build
1.0.8, released 2026-07-31

Recent builds

BuildReleasedGame versionsLoaders
1.0.82026-07-312.0n/a
1.0.72026-07-312.0n/a
1.0.62026-07-192.0n/a
1.0.52026-07-172.0n/a
1.0.42026-07-122.0n/a
1.0.32026-07-122.0n/a

Dependencies

Declared by the newest build that lists any. Required ones are installed with it on one-click installs.

Run Knavt's Recat — Tidy Crafting Menu on a Factorio server

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What kind of mod it is

From the catalog
Listed on Factorio Mod Portal as “Mods”

Weapons, items & crafting

New weapons, gear, items and the recipes to make them.

Runs on your server

From source side support

Factorio Mod Portal lists Knavt's Recat — Tidy Crafting Menu as required on the server. Check its Factorio Mod Portal page to see whether players need it too.

Compatibility

Game
Factorio
Runs on
Serverrequired on the server

Verified at the source

  • ✓Factorio Mod PortalOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-08Open ↗
  • ✓AuthorKnavt, as published on Factorio Mod Portal
  • ✓LicenseMITFree

Knavt's Recat — Tidy Crafting Menu, answered

Generated from the mod’s own source data.

Do my players need to install Knavt's Recat — Tidy Crafting Menu?

Factorio Mod Portal lists Knavt's Recat — Tidy Crafting Menu as required on the server. Check its Factorio Mod Portal page to see whether players need it too.

Is it free?

Yes. Knavt's Recat — Tidy Crafting Menu is free to download from Factorio Mod Portal. Its license is MIT.

How do I add it to my Nxeon server?

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