NG Linking Pin

Wire any storage container to a fabricator or deconstructor and its contents count as ingredients — craft straight from your cabinets without hauling everything into the machine. ⚠ Requires LuaCsForBarotrauma with C#/Cs scripting enabled. A standalone, rebuilt replacement for the classic "Linking Pin Lua" mod — same idea, fewer rough edges.

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What it does

Every storage container (cabinets, lockers, shelves — including modded and decorative ones) gets a wireable Link Items pin in its connection panel. Wire that pin to a fabricator, medical fabricator or deconstructor and:

• the container's inventory shows up side-by-side when you open the machine;

• its items are used directly as crafting/deconstruction ingredients — no manual transferring.

How to use

• Equip a screwdriver, open the connection panel on the container and on the machine (interact key).

• Run a wire from the container's Link Items pin to the machine's Link Items pin.

• That's it — open the machine and craft from the linked storage.

Links also work when placed in the sub editor (linked pairs are auto-wired in-game).

Share Containers (bonus pin)

Fabricators and deconstructors get a second Share Containers pin. Wire two machines together through it and they share one pool of containers — so several fabricators can craft from the same storage with a single wire each, instead of wiring every cabinet to every machine.

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Improvements over the original

• Works on plain vanilla cabinets whose connection panel was empty/unusable before — the pin is injected at the prefab level, so every instance, clone and level transition is covered.

• No accidental linking — only real containers and fabricators get the pin; turrets, loaders, vents, periscopes are left alone.

• Security-aware — containers locked behind an ID/keycard (e.g. secure cabinets) are excluded and can't be wired.

• Multi-container — a fabricator opens all linked containers, not just the first one.

Multiplayer

Fully MP-safe — load it identically on the host and all clients. Links are synced, and the pins live in the shared prefab so wiring matches across everyone.

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Diagnostics: console commands nglinkpin_list (containers prepared for wiring) and nglinkpin_share (share-pin report). English & Russian localization included.

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Original Mod: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3696973977