Ability to protect a tile from modification

[MewMew]

Players mine away or paint over the new colored concrete tiles that have been added recently.
If a custom map has a team spawn place, it can be easily removed or modified.

This could be solved by having the ability to set minable = false for a tile, protecting it from modifications.

[ssilk]

AFAIK that feature is already implemented and is called “teams”.

Edit: teams is not the right word, but I currently don’t remember what’s this feature is called in Factorio. I mean you are in one faction, and the enemies are in another and you can obviously not build on a biter nest.
Maybe someone can help...?

[MewMew]

Teams? How does that work?

[ssilk]

See my edit above.

Or - much simpler - you make a one-liner script to set non-mineable to the starting area. What I mean: the ability already exists but you will need either to script it yourself or use a mod.

[MewMew]

LuaTile does not have that ability.

[darkfrei]

Forces

[ssilk]

Thank you.

[MewMew]

Forces ?

[posila]

I changed the colored concrete prototypes to be non-mineable. So this kind of handles it.

You can always hook onto "on player mined tile" event and remove permission to mine tiles for players that mine lobby tiles

[MewMew]

Was more thinking of only setting it for specific tiles.
Maybe even for example certain areas of water tiles, that can not be landfilled.
Making all of them not mineable wasn't really my intention.
Maybe would write some custom script instead that uses the events.

[MewMew]

Already patched! That was quick
Tested it and it works out fine.

Mining the tiles isn't possible now and one can still build other tiles over them.
But they do not get deleted underneath anymore,
so this is fine enough!!