Invisible ghosts..?

[teemu]

I tried to create an inserter ghost with the in-game console but it seems to be invisible and in general just not there:

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/c E = game.player.surface.create_entity{name = "entity-ghost", inner_name = "inserter", position = game.player.position, expires = false}

If I, however, use

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E.revive()

then the inserter is "revived" as expected. What's up with this?

[321freddy]

This is because you haven't defined a force for the ghost. The force defaults to enemy and you cannot see ghosts of different forces.
If you do this it should work:

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/c E = game.player.surface.create_entity{name = "entity-ghost", force="player", inner_name = "inserter", position = game.player.position, expires = false}

[teemu]

Ah right. That explains. Thanks.