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There is an event for when the player (not a bot) builds an entity. Is there a way to detect when a player places a ghost? Not a blueprint, but a single entity ghost. My LD Circuit mod automatically adds circuit wires when the player places a long-distance power pole with a small supply range. I would like to be able to do this on ghost placement as well.

Thank you in advance (and likely afterwards too).

Ghosts are just another type of Entity so all the standard events should apply. When you build a ghost of electric pole you will get `on_built_entity` event with created_entity pointing to the entity-ghost for which ghost_name=<pole name>.

boskid wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 04, 2021 9:24 am

Ghosts are just another type of Entity so all the standard events should apply. When you build a ghost of electric pole you will get `on_built_entity` event with created_entity pointing to the entity-ghost for which ghost_name=<pole name>.

Oh, nifty! Thank you. That definitely solves my problem.