return an array of ALL entities of specific type(assemblers)

[darkrail]

I was looking around the modding api, and I can't seem to find a function that allows me to return an array with all entities of a type, assemblers, furnaces and so forth, have I missed something? Or is the LuaSurface "find_entities_filtered" the way I have to do it?

[Rseding91]

I was looking around the modding api, and I can't seem to find a function that allows me to return an array with all entities of a type, assemblers, furnaces and so forth, have I missed something? Or is the LuaSurface "find_entities_filtered" the way I have to do it?

It is.

[darkrail]

alright thanks, if I understand correctly I can go through each of the luasurfaces with a loop right? Also where can I find the max size of the areas used for the find entities

[prg]

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for chunk in surface.get_chunks() do
    local entities = surface.find_entities_filtered{name="my-entity", area={{chunk.x*32, chunk.y*32}, {(chunk.x+1)*32, (chunk.y+1)*32}}}
    for _, entity in pairs(entities) do
        --stuff
    end
end

[darkrail]

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for chunk in surface.get_chunks() do
    local entities = surface.find_entities_filtered{name="my-entity", area={{chunk.x*32, chunk.y*32}, {(chunk.x+1)*32, (chunk.y+1)*32}}}
    for _, entity in pairs(entities) do
        --stuff
    end
end

Ah, thank you very much I will try that