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better trigger/actiondelivery documentation

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it's pretty unusable.. i'm serious .. sorry :/
especially it should be structured in a reasonable way .. maybe some kind of virtual sandbox where you can just put something together, seeing what goes in where...
and the descriptions are not always too comprehensive

btw: the force: "not-self" property seems to prevent harm to the shooting entity (tank).. its a bit confusing that it's under force but i'm actually glad i found a property that does this...
edit: i misinterpreted my testing results, force = "not-self" works as it sounds, not damaging entities of the same force, my damage came from a different source. sad. guess we need another flag to prevent self-harm them.
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There is no documentation for triggers in the lua-api page. So, any documentation that exists is going to be on the wiki.

As far as I know, the wiki is just "these are the properties" and there is no "documentation". There is no "documentation" for prototype properties anywhere - just listings of properties in what something has (if the wiki has it).


Turns out, I was wrong about everything I said. Some of the other team members have written documentation about the triggers for the Lua API and have written some documentation about prototypes on the wiki.
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Hey, which documentation do you mean? Wiki/lua-api.factorio.com both somewhat document it. What exactly are the problems and what would you suggest to improve the documentation?
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https://wiki.factorio.com/Types/TriggerItem
there are just too many sub-articles...
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Re: better trigger/actiondelivery documentation

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What would you suggest to improve the page?
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