# "Plug-in" flag for vehicle parts
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/plug-in-flag-for-vehicle-parts/7538
**Category:** The Drawing Board
**Created:** [October 9, 2014, 6:53pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/plug-in-flag-for-vehicle-parts/7538 "2014-10-09T18:53:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Blaze](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Blaze)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2014, 6:53pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/plug-in-flag-for-vehicle-parts/7538/1 "2014-10-09T18:53:05Z")
We shouldn’t need a welder to change a battery.
Adding the plugin flag means you can add/remove that part without tools.
Also, consider lowering the time to remove a plugin flagged item or adding a separate flag for it.
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### Author:  [@Cherry](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Cherry)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2014, 6:55pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/plug-in-flag-for-vehicle-parts/7538/2 "2014-10-09T18:55:27Z")
This idea sounds really good. It’d definitely make me slow down on the debugged sausage.
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### Author:  [@Sean\_Mirrsen](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Sean_Mirrsen)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2014, 7:09pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/plug-in-flag-for-vehicle-parts/7538/3 "2014-10-09T19:09:55Z")
While it’d be a neat slap-patch for this sort of thing, what we really need is vehicle construction recipes. “Needs such-and-such tools, such-and-such skill, takes such-and-such time”. Fix all similar issues at once instead of just one category.
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### Author:  [@Blaze](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Blaze)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2014, 3:39am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/plug-in-flag-for-vehicle-parts/7538/4 "2014-10-10T03:39:33Z")
Well until someone does fix all those issues I’ll settle for a slapstick patch :V
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### Author:  [@kevin.granade](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kevin.granade)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2014, 5:52am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/plug-in-flag-for-vehicle-parts/7538/5 "2014-10-10T05:52:40Z")
Feel free to write it, I’m not merging it though.
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### Author:  [@Sean\_Mirrsen](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Sean_Mirrsen)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2014, 6:20am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/plug-in-flag-for-vehicle-parts/7538/6 "2014-10-10T06:20:28Z")
I’m looking for a new short project to do, seeing as the sponge project is going to take a while and I fail miserably at making the resizable windows work without segfaulting at some point. Would you mind if I took a stab at vehicle crafting recipes?
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### Author:  [@i2amroy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/i2amroy)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2014, 6:40am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/plug-in-flag-for-vehicle-parts/7538/7 "2014-10-10T06:40:22Z")
> [@Sean Mirrsen](#):
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> I’m looking for a new short project to do, seeing as the sponge project is going to take a while and I fail miserably at making the resizable windows work without segfaulting at some point. Would you mind if I took a stab at vehicle crafting recipes?
Go ahead! Something like that would be rather useful and helpful to have and would be a rather nice step forwards IMO (assuming it’s JSON-ized, of course, hardcoding is a pretty large no-no for most Cata things if at all possible)