Suggestion

Occasionally, when searching for how to obtain an item, there are a lot of results that lead the player in a circle, especially in technical packs with a lot of overlap in tech across many mod. What would help alleviate this would be to allow, during a search, for additional items to be added to the output search while filtering out any recipes that require those items as ingredients.

As an example of how it can be as it is now (to be followed by the same example with this feature added), you need to obtain technetium ingots and you see they can be crafted from technetium blocks and nuggets. They can also be made from every form of compressor/compactor/squeezer from nuggets and a variety of machines that can break down technetium blocks. You can get them from smelting technetium dust in a large variety of furnace-like blocks, and you can easily obtain the dust through a variety of blocks that will grind/macerate/pulverize the technetium blocks/ingots/nuggets. You can cast molten... that you get from melting... and so on. It can be difficult to find a path through the maze.

Now, if you could add items while filtering them, when looking up how to get technetium ingots, upon seeing the block and nugget recipes, you could hover over each and press some keybind to change your search for any technetium ingot/nugget/block recipes that doesn't use ingots/nuggets/blocks as input. Many of the various crafting options drop off the list. You see the smelting of the dust and also it to the filter list as you know you can get ingots if only you could make ingots/nuggets/blocks/dust. You now find that you can make the dust by running thorium ore through a squeezer. This path becomes much easier to find as you were able to filter out all of the technetium that is made using technetium.

The path to the technetium was always there, and enough searching will eventually find it, but when you don't know which version of technetium allows you to break into technetium, the journey can be difficult.

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