How does copy paste work?

[Elpximso]

I know you can walk up to the machines and copy paste, but i was told you could also copy a machine already placed with a recipe with MMB, but it dosent work

Edit: I do know about Ctrl C/V outside of the machine

[Calippola]

MMB just copies the machine/item, not the configuration of the machine

[DaBa]

Originally posted by Elpximso:

I was told you could also copy a machine already placed with a recipe with MMB, but it dosent work

Yeah that doesn't work, I don't think it ever did unless I missed something.

What you can do is copy and paste machine settings without opening their menu which some people don't know. Also if you rebind the keys to something simpler than the combination it becomes very easy and fast to do, literally just look at something and press one key, then look at something else and press the other key.

Now, I haven't played with Blueprints that much but they MAY save the recipes. I think they would at least, else it would suck.

[raichudoggy]

Middle clicking a machine allows you to build an unset machine of the same type that you middle clicked (very convenient)

Once you place that machine, if you copied settings from another machine, you can just walk up to it and press Control+V and your settings will paste to the new machine.

[Elpximso]

Originally posted by DaBa:

Originally posted by Elpximso:

I was told you could also copy a machine already placed with a recipe with MMB, but it dosent work

Yeah that doesn't work, I don't think it ever did unless I missed something.

What you can do is copy and paste machine settings without opening their menu which some people don't know. Also if you rebind the keys to something simpler than the combination it becomes very easy and fast to do, literally just look at something and press one key, then look at something else and press the other key.

Now, I haven't played with Blueprints that much but they MAY save the recipes. I think they would at least, else it would suck.

Yeah i know about the copy pasting outside the machine and blueprints do save recipes, i just saw someone say it, but it might just be outdated or fake

[Fenix]

I don't you can copy the building with recipe already set
However using CTRL+C on a build will copy the recipe then using MMB to Sample the building, Place it then Ctrl+V the building for the recipe (If it's overclocked you need the add the power shards 1st)

[DaBa]

Originally posted by Elpximso:

Originally posted by DaBa:

Yeah that doesn't work, I don't think it ever did unless I missed something.

What you can do is copy and paste machine settings without opening their menu which some people don't know. Also if you rebind the keys to something simpler than the combination it becomes very easy and fast to do, literally just look at something and press one key, then look at something else and press the other key.

Now, I haven't played with Blueprints that much but they MAY save the recipes. I think they would at least, else it would suck.

Yeah i know about the copy pasting outside the machine and blueprints do save recipes, i just saw someone say it, but it might just be outdated or fake

Or they may have confused it with another Factory game, like Factorio or Dyson Sphere Program. If memory serves when you use the picker on a machine in Factorio it copies both the machine AND it's recipe if you set it.

[Paragon]

Originally posted by DaBa:

Originally posted by Elpximso:

I was told you could also copy a machine already placed with a recipe with MMB, but it dosent work

Yeah that doesn't work, I don't think it ever did unless I missed something.

What you can do is copy and paste machine settings without opening their menu which some people don't know. Also if you rebind the keys to something simpler than the combination it becomes very easy and fast to do, literally just look at something and press one key, then look at something else and press the other key.

Now, I haven't played with Blueprints that much but they MAY save the recipes. I think they would at least, else it would suck.

Did you re-bind your MMB to something else?

[DaBa]

Originally posted by Paragon:

Originally posted by DaBa:

Yeah that doesn't work, I don't think it ever did unless I missed something.

What you can do is copy and paste machine settings without opening their menu which some people don't know. Also if you rebind the keys to something simpler than the combination it becomes very easy and fast to do, literally just look at something and press one key, then look at something else and press the other key.

Now, I haven't played with Blueprints that much but they MAY save the recipes. I think they would at least, else it would suck.

Did you re-bind your MMB to something else?

No I didn't, why are you asking?

[kLuns]

Originally posted by Fenix:

Place it then Ctrl+V the building for the recipe (If it's overclocked you need the add the power shards 1st)

Actually the power shards jump from your inventory automatically into the machine when you past a setting. You need them in your inventory or dimensional depot but no need for manual feeding when you paste an overclocked setting.

[Fenix]

Originally posted by kLuns:

Originally posted by Fenix:

Place it then Ctrl+V the building for the recipe (If it's overclocked you need the add the power shards 1st)

Actually the power shards jump from your inventory automatically into the machine when you past a setting. You need them in your inventory or dimensional depot but no need for manual feeding when you paste an overclocked setting.

good to know