QoL - inventory management, moving/splitting stacks, etc.

[Mr. n]

This topic is supposed to group the ideas about

The inventory management could use some QoL additions.

Most other games of the type have controls for:
1. Dropping one item from a currently held stack (e.g. by right-clicking when holding a stack of items over a free slot)
2. While we're at it, dropping half the stack by shift/control/alt + right clicking would be cool
3. Picking up half the stack with a single shift/control/alt-click
4. Shift/control/alt-click to move the stack always to a container (instead of equipping/to belt)
5. Typing a number to split a stack - when selecting how many items from a stack we want, let us type in a number. When accessing the "split" menu, focus on the input field immediately, so we can click "split", type "5", "enter" and be done with it.

All that being said, I would KEEP for accessibility sake the current options as clickables. They might be preferential to people e.g. with movement disabilities.

As for ctrl/alt/shift - I don't remember the keys here, but you could go for some golden standard, e.g. "as in MineCraft".

[MechWarden]

I remember in Graveyard Keeper there was a (something)+click that auto transferred an item one at a time. I just quickly spam clicked up to what I wanted and moved on. It was so easy to get used to.

The current system still feels awkward, even after what has to be over a hundred hours of play (from 2nd Playtest, demo, and now EA).

[zORg_alex]

Yes! We need that desperately for simplier inventory management.
Shift + Click transfer fulll stack
Shift + Right click transfer one
Ctrl + click Transfer half
Shift + number transfer amount
Shift + scroll transfer in both directions one at a time on each scroll tick

[MechWarden]

You are all over the place with this idea. I'll post and support one of them, so not to spam things to much.

[zORg_alex]

People keep opening new threads for the same topic.

[Mr. n]

This was the attempt to bring the topics to an end so people could search for it and support in one place instead of being fragmented into different topics. I couldn't find one reasonably so I made a new one with links to existing, barely findable topics covering less.

Shift-scroll thing? - I never heard of it used but it sounds good!

We could also use:
1. Shift+click on item in inventory: swaps with current hotbar item
2. Click on "recycle", then shift+click on a stack: recycle whole stack at once (it's a chore otherwise).

[MechWarden]

Doesn't help that currently Steam's search feature is broken.

I tried looking for a thread I made, and then a thread I was looking right at, and it gave no results.
(also bumping back to the top, because reasons. )

[zORg_alex]

Автор сообщения: Mr. n

This was the attempt to bring the topics to an end so people could search for it and support in one place instead of being fragmented into different topics. I couldn't find one reasonably so I made a new one with links to existing, barely findable topics covering less.

Shift-scroll thing? - I never heard of it used but it sounds good!

We could also use:
1. Shift+click on item in inventory: swaps with current hotbar item
2. Click on "recycle", then shift+click on a stack: recycle whole stack at once (it's a chore otherwise).

Shift Scrolling is a minecraft thing I believe. Since it's so popular, probably can be used widely.
Your 1. thing is not intuitive. I've seen games use hotbar keys to swap with what's on that hotbar cell. Just press 1-0 to swap with that cell. I think this is much more intuitive and fast.
And recicle is fixed now. And I'm happy with their simplest solution. Scrapping stack of pipes is a breeze now.

[Mr. n]

I guess shift is too close. I know about the number swap thing, but I e.g. don't want to move the left hand all the way up to 8 if I could just alt-click.

[Mr. n]

Someone made a mod https://www.nexusmods.com/abioticfactor/mods/6 (unsure on specifics / bannability so I'm not gonna use mods just yet) to be able to press a key and have one item of a stack under the mouse cursor picked up - not bad either. Would work well before we get shift+click.