Advanced Crafting Table storage behavior

Advanced Crafting Tables pull ingredients from adjacent Compartment Drawers. But when clicking “Move Crafting Grid content to Storage Slots”, it refuses to return them to said Drawers, even if partially-filled Stacks of the same item exists there.

I’d prefer it to:

  • Be able to return items back to adjacent Storages that it can pull from.
  • When pulling from Storage, remember which Slot (in which Storage Block) each Item is pulled from
  • When doing “Move Crafting Grid content to Storage Slots”, prioritize putting it back where it is pulled from
  • If that fails, try to look for any partially-filled Slots in itself and adjacent Storages
  • If that still fails, go on with the current behavior

Not sure if it counts as a duplicate of 2348, since I’m not asking for an additional button, but adjusted behavior of an existing one.

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Also, I’m not doing Item Barrels because of the great variety of parts involved (flat/curved Plates, long/short Rods, Screws, large/small Gears, etc.), multiplied by different materials. Compartment Drawers are much more convenient for organizing those things.

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I understand you want to have them able to put those items back, BUT that will clash with the feature of being able to have sample items on the left 4x4 grid and returning those to the 4x4 grid after having done the crafting.

And it is not practically possible to detect where an item was pulled from in the first place, so returning it to the exact spot is not doable.

Also logically speaking, if you ONLY pull items from the left grid, then that means it should not have ANY trouble of returning said Items to the left grid, since those slots are empty at that point, meaning returning them to anywhere else would mess with the things you actually WANT in the left grid.

And if I remember correctly, anything pulled from adjacent Storages and the bottom drawer of the Table itself, will not end up actually “being“ in the top half of the table.

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