question about healing_per_tick

[rabmuk]

I'm trying to make a building that decays over time. That once it's placed, it loses health automatically

I tried

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local dungeon_assembler_entity = table.deepcopy(data.raw["assembling-machine"]["assembling-machine-1"])
dungeon_assembler_entity.healing_per_tick = -1

and nothing

So then I tired

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local dungeon_assembler_entity = table.deepcopy(data.raw["assembling-machine"]["assembling-machine-1"])
dungeon_assembler_entity.healing_per_tick = 1

and after shooting it with my pistol it wouldn't heal.

I looked at the code in ModMash Splinter, Regenerative Tech https://mods.factorio.com/mod/modmashsp ... generative

I was hoping to avoid running an extra function that checks and changes building's health. It seems like that mod adds all buildings to a list and loops through them.

The documentation for healing_per_tick says: "The entity must be active for this to work". What does that mean?

[Pi-C]

The documentation for healing_per_tick says: "The entity must be active for this to work". What does that mean?

See here:

Deactivating an entity will stop all its operations (car will stop moving, inserters will stop working, fish will stop moving etc).

Entities that are not active naturally can't be set to be active (setting it to be active will do nothing)

Ghosts, simple smoke, and corpses can't be modified at this time.

It is even possible to set the character to not be active, so he can't move and perform most of the tasks.