PSA: Console commands to destroy resource patches, stone roc

[Jackalope_Gaming]

Crossposting this to Reddit as well at https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comme ... e_patches/


If you would like to destroy all ore-type patches and crude oil in an area around your character, use this command line:

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/c for _, entity in ipairs(game.player.surface.find_entities_filtered{ area={{game.player.position.x-32, game.player.position.y-32}, {game.player.position.x+32, game.player.position.y+32}}, type="resource"}) do entity.destroy() end

If you want to destroy stone rocks, use:

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/c for _, entity in ipairs(game.player.surface.find_entities_filtered{ area={{game.player.position.x-32, game.player.position.y-32}, {game.player.position.x+32, game.player.position.y+32}}, name="stone-rock"}) do entity.destroy() end

Replace "stone rock" with any of: "stone" "coal" "copper-ore" "iron ore" "crude-oil" to delete that respective resource. This also works on modded resources such as "rich-iron-ore" in Hardcrafting or "tin-ore" in Bob's Mods.
And if you want to delete trees, use this line:

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/c for _, entity in ipairs(game.player.surface.find_entities_filtered{ area={{game.player.position.x-32, game.player.position.y-32}, {game.player.position.x+32, game.player.position.y+32}}, type="tree"}) do entity.destroy() end

The 32's in each of the above lines measure distance away from your player character. If you wanted to only clear 4 spaces away from you then just replace the 32's with 4's and you're good to go.
If you want to delete all the resources in the entire discovered map, use this command line:

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/c local surface = game.player.surface for c in surface.get_chunks() do for key, entity in pairs(surface.find_entities_filtered({area={{c.x * 32, c.y * 32}, {c.x * 32 + 32, c.y * 32 + 32}}, type= "resource"})) do entity.destroy() end end

If you want to delete all trees in the discovered area, use:

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/c local surface = game.player.surface for c in surface.get_chunks() do for key, entity in pairs(surface.find_entities_filtered({area={{c.x * 32, c.y * 32}, {c.x * 32 + 32, c.y * 32 + 32}}, type= "tree"})) do entity.destroy() end end

And if you want to delete all stone rocks in the discovered area, use:

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/c local surface = game.player.surface for c in surface.get_chunks() do for key, entity in pairs(surface.find_entities_filtered({area={{c.x * 32, c.y * 32}, {c.x * 32 + 32, c.y * 32 + 32}}, name= "stone-rock"})) do entity.destroy() end end

*Edited to fix the last command.

These commands only work in single player. Multiplayer will require a slight tweak where instead of game.player it's game.players[1] if you're player 1, game.players[2] if you're player 2, and so on.