have not seen such a mod.

I suppose that could be done for the vanilla items. It would not affect any modded items tho.
Unfortunately my schedule does not allow me to currently make mods, I am studying. But should be relatively simple if you/someone wants to dip themselves in modding.

What one needs to do is to open FCS,
create a new mod
go to items tab
and go through each item on the list, check its references of building functionalities and type them on the description box.

Tedious, but very simple.

can't it be automated tho?
never modded Kenshi, does it support any scripting?
because theoretically it would be easier with an item type dictionary, that translates item types to human readable strings and appends it to the end of the description - i could even do this runtime, so no need to manually edit all the items
it might even work with items added via other mods.
is this possible within the game, if so i might just be able to do that.

Originally posted by embor:

can't it be automated tho?
never modded Kenshi, does it support any scripting?
because theoretically it would be easier with an item type dictionary, that translates item types to human readable strings and appends it to the end of the description - i could even do this runtime, so no need to manually edit all the items
it might even work with items added via other mods.
is this possible within the game, if so i might just be able to do that.

No, unfortunately you cannot automate this. Well, you could, if you got your hands on the game and the FCS code. But since that is something the dev has not shared with us, it would be illegal.

Or, maybe you are such a good coder, that you can do an automation macro. But since there are only couple of hundred items at best you would have to type more code than there is items to edit.