create-trivial-smoke trigger effect is not subtype of create-entity trigger effect.

It says it is on the wiki

Inherits all properties from Types/TriggerEffectItem.

It is that explosion has no force, so it always reads and acts as 'neutral'.

So can we change that? It's created by something with a force (the projectile). I'm using it to create other effects at run-time which are force-dependent, so I would like some way to get the original force from this ...

In data.lua:

data.raw.projectile["atomic-rocket"].action.action_delivery.target_effects[2].trigger_created_entity = true

In control.lua:

script.on_event(defines.events.on_trigger_created_entity, function (e)
game.print(e.entity.name .. " " .. e.entity.force.name)
end)


When firing the ...