Client feature request: Sorting and Counting stacked items

[vatas]

Currently, you can "work around" this but it requires many steps* to pull off. If you want to look at an existing implementation that people like, try out Kami or Ender. People keep begging Nightdawg to add it to Hurricane but unlike on the user-side, on the back-end the whole thing is a monstrosity. It's ahrd to explain exactly why if you're not a programmer (I personally don't quite get it either, I mainly trust Nightdawg when he says that is why he won't just copy-paste it in his client like dozen people have asked him to.)

(*) step-by-step guide, assuming you use default client:
1. put the stuff you want to sort in a stockpile
2. turn off stacking
3. take back the stuff
4. alt+click it into an empty Cupboard so it's sorted by quality
5. sort/filter
6. put everything into a stockpile
7. turn on stacking
8. take back the stuff

[caz]

+1

Yeah, sorting stuff like black coal is ridiculous, I end up hovering stacks placed inside a metal cb and drop the highest q on to the floor and pick them up after
Or filling smelters with ore then having to cherry pick out the lower q(thank fuck for quality colour numbers on custom clients)

[mvgulik]

+1 ofc

Container/inventory extra-info part tip (Ender & Kami): One can do the same actions there to only those items of a specific quality range ("","1","5","10") with the same key-mouse combos.
(ie: for relative easy separation or ordering of different qualities mixed in a bunch of stacks).
(Might need two clicks instead of one at times.)
Note: Extra-info part transfers skips auto-stacking of the items, but that's probably a plus.

[springyb]

Bring back ctrl+shift scroll wheel quality sorting

[vatas]

I still think that if Loftar was to implement his own version of Ender's "extended inventory screen" it would be one of those features where people look back and say "how was this game even playable before this was added?"

But if devs are more open to make a smaller/simpler inventory QoL change, players would get a LOT of mileage from just being able to ask "how many X items do I have, and what's their average quality" and the game client providing an instant answer.

[serVar161]

I haven't played the original client in a while, but I remember moving things from one closet to another to organize them, or to my inventory using Alt(?) Shift. Ender has a very convenient sorting system, and it's done in one click. I understand the pain of those who don't have this option, and support.