Building with minified items?

[BloodyRain2k]

By now I forgot if it was by default possible to minify barricades and sandbags, but regardless, they're the best example:
Why can't we create blue prints for objects and instead of building a new one from scratch, the game would prefer to just place one that's already lying around anyways?
For the rare cases where it could be intended to just build new copies, blueprints could just get a toggle added that forbids this behaviour.

Would this maybe doable with a mod?

[Lost Hunter]

It IS doable with a mod!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2185809028

[ichifish]

Originally posted by Lost Hunter:

It IS doable with a mod!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2185809028

Lol, of COURSE there’s a mod for that!

In vanilla structures like barricades are not minify-able. You’re using Minify Everything, probably. I don’t know what the current state is but I’ve seen on the forums that reinstalling minified objects can occasionally cause issues (like minified wind generators retaining the original zone, I think), so you might want to be on the look out for that.

[Jigain]

Originally posted by ichifish:

reinstalling minified objects can occasionally cause issues (like minified wind generators retaining the original zone, I think)

These kinds of issues are only on buildings that check their environment for certain items. In other words, almost exclusively wind generators and any mod buildings working the same way (such as the wind pumps from Dub's Bad Hygiene). All of these issues can be solved with a save and a load after reinstalling the building.

[Astasia]

I had a mod start doing this in 1.3 and it actually become really annoying. Like I'd be trying to build better beds or sleeping rolls than the ones I had laying in around in storage, but instead of building a new my haulers would go grab one out of storage and plop it in the blueprint. I assumed it was replace stuff as it was the only thing I had really changing building, other than quality builder. I don't remember if I found an option to toggle it off or I just stopped storing minified furniture.

[BloodyRain2k]

Originally posted by Astasia:

I had a mod start doing this in 1.3 and it actually become really annoying. Like I'd be trying to build better beds or sleeping rolls than the ones I had laying in around in storage, but instead of building a new my haulers would go grab one out of storage and plop it in the blueprint.

Most minified building can be deconstructed while they're minified, which might help with that issue of quality production. No idea if you could also just disallow minified items.

What I DO know is that disallowed deep drills WON'T allow themselves after you instucted a relocation of them, which is so damn annoying -_-