FOR REAL... I can hold ctrl when clicking items in a craft box to keep the screen from closing!? Omg, I swear i tried this and it still closed the screen.

Another use for Control in late-game: when choosing items to Demand or Supply in the logistics menu, hold down Control and click on items to add them without closing the item picker. Good for when you want e.g. several types of items delivered to one container (shredders set up near ecosystems for example).

Yeah we're saying the same thing. I just worded it poorly. The radius is approximately 2 small rooms from the auto crafter in all directions. The tower is a good layout idea.

Actually, Auto Crafters are capable to reach much more than 2 small rooms.
We built a tower, 5 floors of 3x3 rooms and it's completely reachable for auto Crafters if placed on level 2 middle section. ;)
Send me a PM to invite you, I'll be happy to show the results.

thx sooooooooooo much!!!!!!!!

thanks a lot, very useful, u r awesome!

thanks bro

Good tips, @jcmeerman. I did the same for auto-sorting and it can be helpful.

A second tip is to have 1 storage room exporting everything. If you have a meteorite event or crashed cargo pod, you can unload your entire inventory in that storage room and the drones will put it in the right place.

An easy way to passively make a lot of a specific product is to put a large compartment full with storage rooms, 1 for each raw material, and a autocrafter (or more) in the middle. Each storage room will import its 1 material. The autocrafter(s) can then make anything you want. The drones will collect the materials from the mines / extractors to the storage rooms. If you place a few additional storage rooms (or rockets) to accept the product of the autocrafter and you let the autocrafter export it, the drones will empty the autocrafters to whatever you need it.

The setup above requires at least 1 (1 is enough) extractor dedicated for each resource. This is possible only when T3 extractors are unlocked. But before that you can place T1 and T2 extractors. You also need a shredder machine. Have the shredder machine also import common materials, but set the priority at the storage rooms higher than that of the shredder machine.