Grabbing mining_target for an entity on creation

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Grabbing mining_target for an entity on creation

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I'm having issues when trying to grab a mining-drill entity's mining target whenever it is created. It seems to only get it on the first tick it runs, even though it's a pump jack. I tried using find_entities_filtered on the area where it spawns, but it doesn't return what I need. It seems to return a userdata block thing that appears as a luaentity but isn't useful at all for table matching with pre-existing LuaEntity objects.

What should I do about this?
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redplasticstraw wrote: Wed Aug 21, 2024 4:52 am I tried using find_entities_filtered on the area where it spawns, but it doesn't return what I need. It seems to return a userdata block thing that appears as a luaentity but isn't useful at all for table matching with pre-existing LuaEntity objects.
I think here is the issue. If you can't get mining_target immediatelly then finding it manually as you did seems like the right approach. And you seem to have done it correctly, and just missinterpreted the results.

find_entities_filtered returns an array of LuaEntity, which is what you want. If you try to print or log this though then it shoes user-data-something, beause it's not a real table.
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It only becomes an issue because I have two separate scripts, one to store mining patches and one to store the machines that go on those mining patches. The way I had the patches indexed was by entity so I could use mining_target on the machines and just grab the associated patch, but it just looks like I'll have to use the filtered for both indexes instead of the actual entity itself.

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I see. What modders usually use is unit_number.
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