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How do I read the contents of tiles near the player?

Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2020 9:00 pm

by Assembling_machine_2

I was wondering if there was a way to see the contents of each tile in a radius around the player so I can teach an ANN to play
thanks.

Re: How do I read the contents of tiles near the player?

Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2020 9:34 pm

by Klonan

You can use find entities fitered:
https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/Lua ... s_filtered

You can give it a position and radius, and it will return all entities in that circle

Re: How do I read the contents of tiles near the player?

Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2020 8:54 pm

by Assembling_machine_2

thanks