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I would like to ask what does the "position" parameter of the LuaSurface::find_entities_filtered method actually does in the following cases:
-There is a position AND an area present in the table
-There is ONLY a position present in the table (this is the most important as I need to find all entities that cover a certain tile/position).
since on the documentation (http://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/LuaS ... s_filtered) it doesn't actually say.

Note that find_entity will not work since that requires a specific type of entity.

If both a position and an area are defined it uses the position.

If just the position is defined it returns anything that collides with that position.

Thanks. That's how I was going to use it, so it does follow the behaviour I expected (as well as making the code for the mod much simpler.)