Nevermind, I'm stupid. I forgot that spider-vehicle also have legs that create building smoke.

I thought that would work too. Unfortunately, even when I create an empty smoke and define it in the entity's created_smoke property, the building smoke still shows up.

When entities are placed, the game creates the "trivial-smoke" defined in the "created_smoke" property of the entity. By default, this is the "smoke-building"-smoke. Currently, it is not possible to disable the creation of this smoke.

For my mod, I added a place_result to a capsule to enable ...

If possible sure.

Would it be possible to add the item count when hovering over an item stack as a new custom-input property?

Thank you.

Thanks for the clarification. I assume its not possible to change the projectile so it can also link to "LuaPlayer" or "playeridentification"? Because according to the API documentation, both the parameter "player" in surface.create_entity() and the attribute "last_user" of the class "luaEntity ...

Sorry for the late reply. Its neither one of these. I try to clarify the situation more.

1. First the player is read via local player = game.players[...]
2. Second, a capsule is created via command surface.create_entity{ player = player }. This capsule has a projectile asscociated to it. The ...

When a projectile is created via LuaSurface.create_entity() with the parameter “player” set, but the player.character is destroyed before the projectile has time to trigger the “on_trigger_created_entity” event, the variable last_user in the created event.entity is nil.

The issue can be reproduced ...

Description:
This mod aims to overhaul the behaviour of Factorio's vanilla combat robots to make them more useful.

Defender Units will either follow the player or automatically defend the base in case of a biter attack. (toggle-able)

Distractor Units have been renamed to Sentry Units to better ...