Machine control panel

Do you often experience automated systems sending items to the wrong machine? Control what items a specific machine is allowed to process, prevent high-quality items from being processed, and turn off unnecessary machine rules. Press Q next to the machine to open the control panel.

Machine Control Panel

🎮 **The machine control expert is here! ** Are you still worried about the automated system sending items to the wrong machine? This mod gives you complete control over the operating rules of each machine!

✨ Core Functions

• **Smart Rule Management**: View and adjust processing rule priority for each Artisan machine
• **Item Input Control**: Precisely control which items can enter specific machines
• **Quality Protection**: protects high-quality items from accidental handling
• **Global/Local Settings**: You can choose to take effect only on the current location or take effect on the whole farm

🎯 How to use

**Open Control Panel:**

• Press the **Q** key when close to the machine (re-bindable)
• Or use **Left Ctrl+Q** to open the machine selection menu

📋 Rules page

All processing rules for a specific Artisan machine are displayed here, arranged from top to bottom and left to right:

• Uncheck the box to disable the rule
• Rules are applied before the machine starts processing, without interrupting the ongoing process
• "⚡" icon shows additional items needed by the machine (such as fuel)
• The "📝" icon indicates a rule that contains a large number of items, left click to see the full list
• Right click to view by-product information

📦 Input page

Show all items that can be placed into a specific machine:

• Click on an item to make it black to disable the item input
• The top 4 quality icons prevent specific quality items from being used

🌍 Global and local settings

Both inputs and rules support two modes:

• **Current Location**: Only affects machines at the current location
• **Global Settings**: Affects all similar machines in the world

Click the globe icon to switch modes!

🔍Search function

Both the machine selection menu and the control panel feature search boxes:

• Machine selection menu: search by machine name or ID
• Rules page: search by input/output or rule description
• Input page: search by input items

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🤝 Compatibility information

**✅ Fully compatible with: **

• Machines added via Content Patcher
• Furniture machine module
• Extra Machine Configs module
• Lookup Anything module
• Iconic Framework module

**❌ Not compatible with: **

• Producer Framework Mod machine (no support plan)

🎮 Multiplayer

Only console players can change machine rules, but all players can open the control panel to view the current settings.

⚙️ Configuration options

• **Control Panel Button**: Open the control panel when close to the machine (Default: Q)
• **Machine selection button**: Opens the selection menu of all machines in the game (default: left Ctrl+Q)
• **Progress Mode**: Hide machines not yet acquired
• **Default Page**: Set the default display page of the control panel
• **Global Default**: Set whether the default is global mode

🌐 Language support

• English
• Simplified Chinese

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💡 **TIP**: Machine settings are saved by farm in archive data, written to the archive file at the end of each day. In the machine selection menu, an opaque background indicates that the machine is already configured!