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FreeER wrote:Here you go: Drills Anywhere
There is a 'feature' to it that allows you to place drills at any distance and a couple bugs:
You can place drills on top of other entities (including yourself) if you are not careful but not other drills (that much was easy enough to check for), and at times it may be placed next to where you actually intended (you can pick it up and move your cursor a bit try again to place it properly).

to fix these would require a decent amount of work to check for exactly what is at that position (the little 'doodads' show in game.findentities not just player built entities) and the positioning would require checking exactly which cursor positions are causing the placed position to be off by one (and then doing some math to correct for it) and the feature would require looking at the source code to see the player's building reach and then check that the cursor position is not further away from the player than that building limit, it's just not worth it to spend that amount of time on this sort of mod

Oh, and it should work for any drill (including mod added drills, as long as they are drill entities and not containers with fancy coding )
Hope you find it helpful regardless of those little bugs

require "defines"

function distance(position1, position2)
  return ((position1.x - position2.x)^2 + (position1.y - position2.y)^2)^0.5
end

game.onevent(defines.events.onputitem, function(event)
  if distance(game.player.position, event.position) < 7 then
    if game.player.cursorstack.name == "basic-mining-drill" then
      if (game.canplaceentity{name="electric-furnace", position=event.position}) then
        game.createentity{name=game.player.cursorstack.name, position=event.position}
        game.player.removeitem{name="basic-mining-drill", count=1}
      end
    elseif game.player.cursorstack.name == "burner-mining-drill" then
      if (game.canplaceentity{name="stone-furnace", position=event.position}) then
        game.createentity{name=game.player.cursorstack.name, position={event.position.x + 0.5, event.position.y + 0.5}}
        game.player.removeitem{name="burner-mining-drill", count=1}
      end
    end
  end
end)

BurnHard wrote:I hope the devs let us place miners wherever we want.

SilverWarior wrote:I would rather see that developers change the way how blueprints work so that even if some specific structures like miners can't be built the blueprint itself will still be valid and the building of incorectly placed miners will be just skipped. This way you won't be needlessly spending resources for placing of non working buildings.