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self.surface.find_entities{self.pos-{10,10},self.pos+{10,10}} works.
self.surface.find_units {area= {self.pos-{10,10},self.pos+{10,10}},force="player",condition="same"} doesn't.

And some eneity even return a "userdata" when I look into its .force.name

code:
local result = self.surface.find_units {area= {self.pos-{10,10},self.pos+{10,10}},force="player",condition="all"}

log(serpent.block(#result))
for k,v in pairs(result) do
log(k)
log(serpent.block(v))
log(serpent.block(v.name))
log(serpent.block(v.force.name))
end

What kind of units are you looking for?
Can you provide a screenshot of the test setup?

Klonan wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 12, 2020 9:39 am

What kind of units are you looking for?
Can you provide a screenshot of the test setup?

character. OK, I'll paste as much useful info and code here tomorrow.

Characters aren't units. They're, well, `character`s.

`find_units` specifically looks for entities of type `unit`, not of type `character`.

PFQNiet wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 12, 2020 12:18 pm

Thanks. I actually guessed this possibility. But I didn't want it to be the answer, since I didn't find any function named find_character.

If you want to search only for player you can use the find entity filtered variant:
https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/Lua ... s_filtered
Players are of type character so it will grab only them easily.