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I'm trying to extend chests and storage tank, storing extra data in the global. And I got to the point where my entities are blueprint-able, and I can copy/paste settings on chests using shift-clicks.

Then I realized that unlike other entities, copy/paste settings (shift-right-click & shift-left-click) does not work on storage-tank. When I press shift-right-click, tanks are not marked (green rectangle) as source at all.

Is this because storage-tank does not have portable settings like chest bar? But since filter is allowed (and I'm actually actively using it), shouldn't copy-settings work?

Anyways, is there any workaround - prototype/entity flag, intercepting certain event, etc.? Or should I overlap dummy entity that does allow copy/paste?

Since storage tanks have no paste-able settings in vanilla, they may simply not trigger any of the paste-settings events internally. The devs will have to either add it to that logic, or remove the settings that make it necessary (hopefully the former).

Try setting additional_pastable_entities on the storage tank prototype.

Bilka wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 07, 2024 9:33 am

Try setting additional_pastable_entities on the storage tank prototype.

That did the trick! Thank you very much!

Documentation puzzled me a bit b/c it sounded like it changes only the paste side logic. But this worked perfectly with copy-entity-setting input properly setting LuaPlayer.entity_copy_source to my storage tank.