If, while holding the cut tool, I drag the selection cursor over some tile ghosts, it will delete them instead of cutting (i.e. it will deconstruct but not add them to the clipboard) if any entities are also in the selection area
Expected result
Anything deconstructed by the cut tool should be added to the clipboard, and tile ghosts should not be selected unless actual tiles would be selected.
Actual result
Tiles are deconstructed as if they are entities, but not added to the clipboard
Repro
Initially it was happening always, but then it stopped. I think these steps are incomplete.
- Make a sandbox world
- Place some tile ghosts
- Place another entity nearby
- Click the cut tool
- Drag an area around them both
- Check your clipboard
I suspect this is because tile ghosts inherits from EntityPrototype, whereas actual tiles inherit from TilePrototype. The tile ghosts get picked up because they our entities, but, since the clipboard is only expecting entities (and doesn't store ghosts as ghosts), it rejects the tiles that are passed to it.
Please let me know if my speculation was at all accurate. I'm curious what's going on here!
Related bug
(can report separately but the repro is almost exactly the same, just holding a different item on the cursor)
While testing, I observed that this issue also occurs with the default deconstruction planner; however, at least in that case there's a way to filter it so the tiles don't go "missing", and it only happens in "Normal" selection mode, not in "Never".
attachments
Screenshot (from when I first noticed the issue; this deconstruction planner is not on "always" mode):
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Freeplay save.
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