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I was playing a bit you the new surface method get_hidden_tile when I saw some weird behavior, after some time investigating, I found that it seek the wrong tile to look under. Step to reproduce :

1) Start a new game or load a savegame.
2) Place a concrete tile one the ground.
3) Stand on the concrete tile and execute the following command
This command print the name of the tile the player is on, then print the name of the tile under the tile the player is on.

Expected behavior : The first print should show "concrete", the second one shoud show the tile name of what is under the concrete (in the screenshot, grass-dry).
Actual behavior : The first print show concrete, the second one show "nil".

With a bit of test I manage to find that you get the correct hidden tile when you request the tile position just above the concrete tile.
If you stand on the tile above the concrete and run the previous command, the print will be "name of the tile you are standing on, and the second print will show the name of the tile under the concrete. In this screenshot we see that the first print show us the tile we are on (dirt) and the second print (hidden_tile) return the tile that is under the concrete (grass-dry)

Using numeric position instead of player position have the same result.

Edit : Changed factorio version to 0.13.17.

This is a result of C++ and how it converts floating point numbers to ints (round towards 0) so a position of {-5.5, 10} ends up at: {-5, 10} which isn't the same tile that collides with the original position.

If you give it tile positions as its expecting you'll get the values back you're expecting.

I'll see if I can make the function auto-convert non tile positions to tile positions correctly.

You are right, it only occur with negative value as rounding toward zero in negative jump to the other tile. If I do the exact thing as I do in the first post in an area with only positive position the bug does not occur. Why show_tile method does not have this problem ?

As a temporary workaround I remove 1 if the x or y is negative in my mod, no problem so far. But I will not release the feature until this bug is fix.

Thanks for your hard work.

Fixed for 0.13.18.