About Knavt's Recat — Tidy Crafting Menu
From Factorio Mod PortalRecategorizes 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 dataFootprint
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
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.8 | 2026-07-31 | 2.0 | n/a |
| 1.0.7 | 2026-07-31 | 2.0 | n/a |
| 1.0.6 | 2026-07-19 | 2.0 | n/a |
| 1.0.5 | 2026-07-17 | 2.0 | n/a |
| 1.0.4 | 2026-07-12 | 2.0 | n/a |
| 1.0.3 | 2026-07-12 | 2.0 | n/a |
Dependencies
- Optional: Bob's Logistics mod
- Optional: Text Plates
- Optional: 5Dim's mod - New Core
- Optional: 5Dim's mod - New Mining
- Optional: 5Dim's mod - New Transport
- Optional: 5Dim's mod - New Logistic
- Optional: AAI Containers & Warehouses
- Optional: Warehousing Mod
- Optional: GrapplingGun (factorio_portal, not in our catalogue)
- Optional: Factorissimo2
- Optional: Factorissimo 3
- Optional: knavt_bots_recall (factorio_portal, not in our catalogue)
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
Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogWeapons, items & crafting
New weapons, gear, items and the recipes to make them.
Runs on your server
From source side supportFactorio 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

