Iracus wrote:order an item is added to my inventory
Can also cycle things to and from your backpack to move them to the top of the queue, and hide more valuable rocks (lime, granite) in your backpack til you need them. Once you get used to it I think it's a rather good system, or at least less bad than the alternatives.
I wouldn't mind some way to make it a little more obvious which item is getting used or about to get used... The green highlighting can be tedious to find in a full inventory sometimes, especially with recipes that have many ingredients. I'm imagining a little popup box that gets filled with the otherwise green highlighted items that you can easily swap in and out of just like any other container. Maybe buildings could be toggled to show the unbuilt stored items with a hotkey (you wouldn't want to do this with something that takes hundreds of items, but then again you probably wouldn't store them all unbuilt all at once since that decays quickly)