Enable Toolbar Slot Locking

Stollie shared this feedback ago

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I would like the ability to 'lock' certain toolbar slots.

I'm always overwriting my tools slots with other stuff. It would be awesome if I could 'lock' certain slots to my selection from the G menu.

E.g. 1-6 slots on Toolbar 1 I lock to each of the tool types and scroll-able armor block and scroll-able conveyors, so when I next double click something from the G menu it would replace whats in slot 7 instead.

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Nate ●

In addition to above request, could we get another slot? With the addition of several dlc adding new blocks, can we get addition of another toolbar slot for number 0. 1-9 are used currently.

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andersenman ●

Yes, PLEASE! Wasting an entire hotbar slot just to put things away is ridiculous and an insult to literally decades of game UI/UX design that have de-facto standardised the ten-slot hotbar standard. (Laughable console ports nonwithstanding.) The amount of times I accidentally used something in the 0 slot in another game when I wanted to put away, or holster, whatever I was holding just because SE corrupted my muscle memory with this idiotic convention is staggering.

Please, for the love of sanity, give us some other, not hard-coded key to put a selected tool or block away!

Here's another use case: I often find myself with a dedicated toolbar for actuators, say, for up/down, forward/reverse, invert/lock, and others. Meaning, for one set of actuators, I always need a pair of hotkeys. As in, two. As in, an even number. In comes your moronic nine-slot hotkey which, as I hope the genius (or the unlucky guy who failed to take a step back when people were being volunteered for it) responsible for the unfunny joke you call SE's UI/UX design remembers from basic maths, provides an uneven number of slots, usually leaving me with one slot too few for the set of controls I do need readily available.

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Esdras Guimaraes ●

You can use " ' I use a brazilian keyboard, so for me it's the first key before the 1

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bevis197 ●

Brilliant quality-of-life feature request. Constantly overwriting essential tools is so frustrating, and having the ability to lock specific slots would save so much time during intense building. It actually reminds me of saving custom car setups in Drift Hunters—once you lock in your ideal configuration, you don't want any accidental changes ruining your flow. Hopefully, the developers consider this!

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4Peace ●

The toolbar is just used for too many things. There can be separate menus to pick up tools, weapons or use consumables and leave the toolbar just for building and the possibility to hide it completely when not needed. Emoji can also be shown with a special menu. Also make those menus circular with big icons for items. Tools should automatically use the highest tier in your inventory. Same for pistols, rifles and rocket launchers. Define hot keys for all of them. You should be able to pick a welder or a rifle or use a medkit with a simple combination of keys.

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Nate ●

Please don't do circular menus for PC. Wouldn't mind if you made the toolbar "unlimited" with a key combo of CTRL + Left/Right to side-scroll it and CTRL + Up/Down to choose the next toolbar.

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