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Right now I have some custom entities that use filters. The filters don't exist as part of any normal prototype's behavior. They're set by a custom GUI and indicated by manually drawing a sprite. The state of each filter is tracked in storage.my_cool_entity_filters[my_entity.unit_number] . And there are other custom variables in storage, associated with various custom entities.

This method of storing entity info doesn't cooperate with copy/paste, or blueprints, or shift-right-click. And there's probably other ways entity info is copied that I'm forgetting.

Is there a natural way to store custom status info about an entity? I can see LuaEntity has custom_status but that seems clunky, and it displays the info to the player. What do people use?

Paste is an event that you can use.
Blueprints can store tags in their entities which can be accessed in the built event
Shift-right can be assigned a custom input event

Appreciate the feedback!