(Reward offered) Console command to change from Sandbox

[seewhymit]

Hi,

I have tried researching this myself and struggled to find the answer I am looking for, so I thought posting here would be a good idea. I have a map that I have built out quite nicely in Sandbox mode, however I would now like to switch it to Freeplay mode (with a character). I have found a couple mentions of how to do it via Console/Lua commands, however they didn't work for me.

I am prepared to paypal gift $5USD to the first person to give me the correct console commands to do it.

I am running Factorio on OSX (although I doubt that matters).
The map was started as a Sandbox mode map, and has never been anything but.

Thanks!

[Klonan]

Hi,

I have tried researching this myself and struggled to find the answer I am looking for, so I thought posting here would be a good idea. I have a map that I have built out quite nicely in Sandbox mode, however I would now like to switch it to Freeplay mode (with a character). I have found a couple mentions of how to do it via Console/Lua commands, however they didn't work for me.

I am prepared to paypal gift $5USD to the first person to give me the correct console commands to do it.

I am running Factorio on OSX (although I doubt that matters).
The map was started as a Sandbox mode map, and has never been anything but.

Thanks!

This command should do what you're asking

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/c game.local_player.character = game.local_player.surface.create_entity{name = "player", position = {0,0}, force = game.local_player.force}

No reward needed, but if you'd like you can donate to the dev team
https://www.factorio.com/donations

[seewhymit]

Hi,

I have tried researching this myself and struggled to find the answer I am looking for, so I thought posting here would be a good idea. I have a map that I have built out quite nicely in Sandbox mode, however I would now like to switch it to Freeplay mode (with a character). I have found a couple mentions of how to do it via Console/Lua commands, however they didn't work for me.

I am prepared to paypal gift $5USD to the first person to give me the correct console commands to do it.

I am running Factorio on OSX (although I doubt that matters).
The map was started as a Sandbox mode map, and has never been anything but.

Thanks!

This command should do what you're asking

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/c game.local_player.character = game.local_player.surface.create_entity{name = "player", position = {0,0}, force = game.local_player.force}

No reward needed, but if you'd like you can donate to the dev team
https://www.factorio.com/donations

Perfect! Thankyou! Donated!

[salkinxd]

Hello guys! I'm asking, if there is a way to to the exact different, go from a character to the sandbox mode.
I wanted to change my already built map from normal mode to sandbox (So basically kill the player).
A console command would be awesome!
If there isn't any commands for that, maybe a way to change it in the files or something.

Thanks for any response!

[prg]

Detach from character:

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/c game.local_player.character=nil

To re-attach to it, point at it with the mouse and

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/c game.local_player.character=game.local_player.selected

If you're sure you don't need it anymore, point at it again while detached and

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/c game.local_player.selected.destroy()

(put your equipment in a chest first)

[salkinxd]

Thanks VERY much! Appricate it!

[bazulis]

Hello

I've tried this command to change game mode from sandbox to normal, but I am getting this error:


Is this because there is another command or I can't convert the game mode when it was started as sandbox?
Thank you.

[prg]

It's just "player" instead of "local_player" nowadays.

[bazulis]

It's just "player" instead of "local_player" nowadays.

Omg, it works! Tkank you very much