Vacuum menu on F replaces the pick-up modes (t16)

Pick-up takes everything unless something is marked; F with the Vacuum
(when nothing in reach can be used) or the card chips open a menu with
pick-up and blow toggles per material. The bag rows lose their buttons.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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## The core loop
1. Dig with the resonance drill. Rock shatters into loose grains: rubble, ore, coal, clay, sand.
2. Vacuum up what you want (mark materials with ⬇ to take only those), and blow it out where you need it.
2. Vacuum up what you want (mark materials in the vacuum menu, F, to take only those), and blow it out where you need it.
3. Build a furnace from wall blocks, with a grate floor over a mold. Charge it with ore and coal,
light it, and let the molten metal run into the mold.
4. Bars drop out of the bottom of the mold; collect them and sell them at the trade dock, or fill buyers' orders, which pay more.
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- **Holding Ctrl** while placing replaces what is built there (moved to G on 2026-10-23).
- **Fans melt like copper (1085°C).** Put the fan outside the furnace, blowing in through a grate.
The game warns when a fan gets close to melting.
- **The vacuum takes only marked materials** in Only marked mode, even if the drag starts on
something else. The t6 controls below replace the shared ticks.
- **The vacuum takes only marked materials** once any are marked, even if the drag starts on
something else. The t6 controls below replace the shared ticks; t16 replaces t6's modes.
- **The Refiner** grinds stone, granite and basalt rubble, gravel, sand and dirt for trace ore,
roughly halving the waste. Ore and anything else it cannot grind drop straight through.
- **Pipes, pumps and outlets** move liquids up to 500°C, one liquid per line. A line is stored as
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As built: T or the chip cycles What I click → Only marked → Everything; adding a mark switches
to Only marked and removing the last goes back to What I click. A bag name or Q/E blows one
material; ⬆ marks build an even mix (bars are never mixed).
- **The vacuum menu replaces the modes (t16, 2026-10-24).** Pick-up has no mode: nothing marked
takes everything, anything marked takes only those, Shift takes everything for one click. F with
the Vacuum (when nothing in reach can be used) or a click on the card opens a menu with ⬇ Pick up
and ⬆ Blow toggles per material; the bag rows lose their buttons. T no longer does anything for
the vacuum. The owner found t6's version had too many modes.
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