How to Cancel Deconstruction

When building the perfect factory in Factorio, sometimes, you're going to have to deconstruct a few buildings. When you're constantly building and destroying, chances are you're going to deconstruct a thing or two by accident. Luckily, there are a few different ways to fix your mistakes or cancel deconstruction in Factorio altogether.

• How to Cancel Deconstruction
• How to Undo Destroying a Building

How to Cancel Deconstruction

If you've begun deconstructing buildings using the Deconstruction Planner, all you need to do is hold the Shift key while dragging over the affected area.

If you normally drag over an area with the Deconstruction Planner active, it will begin to queue up everything to be destroyed. By holding Shift, the border will turn blue and it will cancel out any queued buildings.

In the bottom right of the box, you'll see the order of the queue. This is the order in which things will be destroyed.

If you happen to do this by accident, but don't have any Construction Robots built, nothing will happen. So just hit Control + Z to undo the action and your selected area will return to normal.

How to Undo Destroying a Building

Sometimes, these things happen and you'll just need to undo your previous action. If you hit Control + Z, you can undo multiple actions. This will save you if you've accidentally deconstructed a bunch of important buildings.

If you've removed a chest, all the items will be placed in your inventory, and undoing this action will not put them back in the chest. You will have to do that manually.

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