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Malderan's Quick Tasks

by malderan · for Factorio

Modifier-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.

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5 mo agoLast updated
MITLicense
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About Malderan's Quick Tasks

From Factorio Mod Portal

Modifier-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-click a recipe to add it as a goal (+1), Ctrl+Shift+Right-click for +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

flib

Support

Questions & bug reports: Malderan's Factorio Discord or the issue tracker.

Highlights

From source data

Footprint

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

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

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What kind of mod it is

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

Quality of life & UI

Small conveniences, tweaks and interface improvements players notice straight away.

Runs on your server

From source side support

Factorio 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

Malderan's Quick Tasks, answered

Generated from the mod’s own source data.

Do my players need to install Malderan's Quick Tasks?

Factorio 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.

Is it free?

Yes. Malderan's Quick Tasks is free to download from Factorio Mod Portal. Its license is MIT.

How do I add it to my Nxeon server?

Use “Add to a server” on this page, or open NxLabs from your dashboard. We install it, restart your server and switch it on.

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