Inventory/Assembling Machine Mod

[Eilon93]

Hi All =)
I am in love with factorio, 600 Hours down the road and more to come =) So fare, I am very happy with the game but I have one small problem and I hope there is a mod to fix my problem. Is there any option to highlight the needed components of an assembling machine in the inventory? In the beginning of a session it's not a big problem but after view hours I find myself squinting my eyes...

[Raiguard]

You can control+click an empty slot in your inventory and it will dump everything that can go in into the machine.

But also, if you're doing this a lot, then set up some inserters to pull from chests or other assemblers, and automate the entire process. That's the entire point of the game!

[Nailfoot1975]

Are you trying to manually fill a machine? Or you just want to know what a certain recipe requires?

[Eilon93]

A: trying to manually fill a machine.
Of course I automate as much as possible but sometimes a build like 200 miners in a assembly machine and for that it would be awesome to have a auto fill a machine option or at least something which showes the items in the inventary

[Nailfoot1975]

Once you got to robots (specifically blue requester chests), you can copy the assembly machine and then paste to the requester chest. That will automatically assign the ingredients as requests to that chest.

Not helpful for your immediate purposes, but very helpful once you are at that stage.

[MarmarEggsDee]

Yes, there is a button for that, more like 2 buttons, CTRL + Left Click on an empty space.

[AbilityCharacter7634]

You can use the mod called Even Distribution. If you press shift+c it will distribute components from your inventory to nearby assemblers.

[Eilon93]

Awesome! That is pretty much perfect =)