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Hello modders, i would like to change my starting items in my mod. I found a thread about this but it is 6 years old and would like to see if anyone can help me with this. So far i know i need a control.lua. This is what i have so far.

character.removeitem{name="iron-plate", count=40} -- remove 40 iron plates from the character, or less if character doesn't have 40
character.removeitem{name="coal", count=character.getitemcount("coal")} -- remove all coal from the character

but im getting this error after i try to create the game. not on launch.

control.lua:1: attempt to index global 'character' (a nil value) stack traceback:

Update: i figured out how to spawn items but still at a loss on how to remove the starting items.

script.on_event(defines.events.on_player_created, function(event)
local player = game.players[event.player_index]
player.insert({name="simple-printing-processor", count=8})
player.insert({name="assembling-machine-1", count=4})
end)

You may use remove_item to remove a specific item type, or clear_items_inside to remove all items from inventory.
Factorio API is the site you can find all (most?) Lua commands you can use, so bookmark this.

SOLVED
Awesome, thank you this worked out great!

On to the next problem, if you want to look at it here it is:
viewtopic.php?f=25&t=76095

Jarumba wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2019 6:08 pm SOLVED
Awesome, thank you this worked out great!

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