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[infectedm]

When pressing shift+number to display item stats, the inventory gets reordered in a seemingly random order.
The selected item usually gets reordered to position 1 or 2, but I haven't checked this thoroughly.

[biomatter]

You probably have Item Sorting turned on in the Options. It moves similar items to the top of your inventory.

[infectedm]

Indeed, turning it off stopped the random reordering. But still, is this behavior intended when autosorting is on?

[biomatter]

It is, in fact. If you look at the info panel for auto-sorting, you'll see it says that it moves your most recently looked-at item and all similar types (e.g. weapons) to the top of your inventory.

[infectedm]

You are right, I completely missed the description for the autosort option...
I still do not get the point of switching it on, though.

When I first activated the option I thought it would automatically reorder the inventory according to the last selected inventory sort mode (t/m/i), which would make much more sense to me.

[Kyzrati]

You are right, I completely missed the description for the autosort option...
I still do not get the point of switching it on, though.

When I first activated the option I thought it would automatically reorder the inventory according to the last selected inventory sort mode (t/m/i), which would make much more sense to me.

The main purpose was to make it easier for you to immediately see what other similar items you may already have in your inventory. This is especially useful for large (>10) inventories where they may not be on the same page.

By contrast, t/m/i sorting is purely for comparing parts based on different criteria when you need to cull parts, or select one of something which you may already have several similar versions of.