About Malderan's Quick Tasks
From Factorio Mod PortalModifier-click a recipe in the crafting menu to queue it as a live, inventory-aware crafting checklist that breaks down to its components. Also supports free-form manual tasks with icons and descriptions.
Modifier-click a recipe and it becomes a live, inventory-aware crafting checklist — automatically broken down into everything you still need to make or gather.
How it works
- Grab from the crafting menu —
Ctrl+Shift+Left-clicka recipe to add it as a goal (+1),Ctrl+Shift+Right-clickfor+5. Re-clicking just increments. (Rebindable in Controls.) - Live breakdown — each goal expands into a nested, collapsible tree of its components, recomputed from your current inventory. Things you already have drop out; only real shortfalls remain.
- Counts what you really have — main inventory, the stack in your cursor, ingredients reserved in your hand-crafting queue, and fluids in storage tanks. Items still mid-craft don't count until they're actually in your inventory.
- Smart recipe choice — when something can be made several ways it picks the simplest (cheapest in raw materials), prefers researched recipes, and avoids barrel/box/recycling loops.
- Readiness at a glance — an item turns green when you can hand-craft it right now, yellow when a machine can make it from inputs you already have.
- Heads-up overlay — close the panel and a compact, click-through overlay keeps your top remaining needs on screen.
- Manual tasks — add free-form to-dos with an icon and description, tick them off, and reorder anything.
Settings (per player)
- Min ticks per recalculation — refresh rate / overhead cap (default 15).
- Max breakdown depth — component-tree depth guard (default 25).
- Auto-remove completed goals — drop finished goals, or keep them with a green tick (default on).
Requires
Support
Questions & bug reports: Malderan's Factorio Discord or the issue tracker.
Highlights
From source dataFootprint
Rated a light load on a server.
License
Published under MIT.
Last update
Its author last shipped an update 5 mo ago.
Malderan's Quick Tasks 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
- 1.0.0, released 2026-06-04
Dependencies
- Required: Factorio Library
Declared by the newest build that lists any. Required ones are installed with it on one-click installs.
Run Malderan's Quick Tasks 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 catalogQuality of life & UI
Small conveniences, tweaks and interface improvements players notice straight away.
Runs on your server
From source side supportFactorio Mod Portal lists Malderan's Quick Tasks 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 ↗
- ✓Authormalderan, as published on Factorio Mod Portal
- ✓LicenseMITFree

