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I am trying to debug a mod that creates new cliffs based on existing cliffs. It is maddeningly difficult to identify a single cliff entity that I'm looking at. If game.player.selected recognized cliffs it would be trivial. Is there a way I can emulate this, perhaps by finding entities whose bounding box intersects the location of the cursor? Right now I'm thinking I'll need to place some marker entities to triangulate a position, then reference that position with an entity search, which seems very convoluted.

Thanks to @Honktown#2912 on Discord for suggesting a temporary workaround to change to in the cliff prototype definition (__base__/prototypes/entity/entities.lua), or by writing a small mod to do the same, so that LuaControl.selected will interact as desired with the now-selectable cliffs.