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LuaSurface:can_place_entity seems to return always true. Trying to place by hand shows the rail in red, running the command returns true. Command used (hard to see in the picture): /c game.player.print(serpent.dump(game.player.surface.can_place_entity{name="straight-rail", position={x=-203,y=7}}))
When i check with the position of an already placed rail, it's the same, seems to always be true, the good thing is, create_entity returns nil when trying to place a rail over another.

Might break resource spawning in RSO too - it will skip those it can't place but will wrongly think they were placed.

Does it act this way with other buildable entities or just rail?

Rail are special in that you can build them over each other when rotated so that may be the issue here.

I didn't investigate further - it looks like it's working for RSO to check for ore and biters spawning. I didn't try to verify it in controlled way tho.

Rseding91 wrote:Does it act this way with other buildable entities or just rail?

Rail are special in that you can build them over each other when rotated so that may be the issue here.

Seems to be only rails, tried it with a wooden-chest, with correct results.
As a side note: it also returns true when the position is over water, again only with rails.

Thanks for the report. This is now fixed for 0.12.1.

That was quick, thank you