Transferring a blueprint from your blueprint menu to your inventory should not remove it from your blueprint menu. I don't know who thought this was a good idea. It is not a good idea. It simply leads to blueprints being lost inadvertently.
If I want the blueprint gone from my blueprint menu, I will explicitly delete it.
Please devs. For the love of god. Change this ridiculous system.
External link →But why do you ever need to transfer them into your inventory?
There was a serious thought about not even allowing blueprints in the inventory, as it is not needed for anything, the only reason it stayd was, that you can put them in a chest or a on a belt, and it can be used by some blueprinting mod. Other than that, there is no reason to do it ever.
Just build directly from the blueprint library, either by directly selecting form it, or by linking it to your quickbar.
Maybe I am doing something wrong, but:
I select the blueprint from the library, and then I have the blueprint at my mouse cursor. I place it. Now I need to connect the blueprint with the main bus using belts, so instinctively I select belts from my inventory.
Where is the blueprint now? Not in the library anymore. It's in my inventory.
To keep the blueprint, I have to open the library again and drop the blueprint back to its previous place.
At least I did not lose anything valuable so far because I do not overwrite any save games, so I can usually go back to a save that has a copy of the blueprint in player inventory or placed on map, and fill up my library again.
No, you just press Q, and it goes back to where you took it from. Non trivial dev time was spent on making sure that Q is pretty reliable also in these kind of situations.
Interesting comment. I didn't know people had issues with the blueprint library behavior until I saw this thread. For me it worked perfectly as is. It's very curious how different people use it differently!
I am very precise in when I copy blueprints (I only put blueprints in the shared space if I have a master copy in a save). When I play a map I just put the book in my hotbar or select from the blueprint library directly.
If I play the map for a long time and it isn't a speedrun I make sure I copy it to the saved game so I have "that version" forever in that save.
Thought id just chime in on what appears to be unpopular opinion.
It is important to have the usage of "Q" in your muscle memory, because once you do, accidents won't generally happen.
Also we just realized you need to transfer it to your inventory to share it to chat. There seems to be no way around this.
That sounds like a bug.
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