Make player unable to place an entity

[Diamonde123]

Please help, i want to make possible to place an entity only near another building (distibutor) . I made a script that destroys entity if it cant find the distributor nearby, but I want to do it properly, make player unable to place entity anywhere exept near ditributor

[eradicator]

Impossible. The engine doesn't support prototype based placement restrictions.

And in two years nobody has reacted to my initial proposal ;(.
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[darkfrei]

Hidden resource patch, you can build mining drills on the resource patches only. Pro: green rectangle about the right place.

Replace this placeholder with the entity that you need.