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Shift clicking (creating a ghost) with this piece of code causes an appcrash. It has probably something to do with creating a ghost where there is already one or trying to destroy a ghost because the normal click works without any problems.

This piece of code causes the crash:

script.on_event(defines.events.on_built_entity, function(event)
local ghost = {
name = "entity-ghost",
inner_name = event.created_entity .name,
position = event.created_entity .position,
force = event.created_entity .force
}

event.created_entity.destroy()
game.surfaces['nauvis'].create_entity(ghost)
end)

TheThunderBirds wrote:Shift clicking (creating a ghost) with this piece of code causes an appcrash.

Why are you trying to create a ghost inside a ghost? Ghostception?

I tried to make the normal building work like shift clicking but then found out the shift clicking now crashed the game xD. If there is a cleaner way to do this please tell me!

Simply skip processing things that are already ghosts:

Thanks for the report. It's now fixed for 0.17.