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• Add a "show_on_Map" option for vehicles. a new mod of mine is about to fill the game with hidden vehicles.
• "As of 0.12.0 this event is also fired when a ghost is placed down either via blueprint or manually." either make this a different event or an easy way to tell, maybe "isGhost = true" ... I didn't see an easy way to tell, Entities don't have a is_ghost option...
• I would like the ability to get the item used to place the entity as well, since "on_put_item" doesn't fire for robo buddies (construction robots build it) or a "on_robot_put_item" event. I could be adding 2^24 entities otherwise.

Rseding91 wrote:event.created_entity.type == "entity-ghost"/"tile-ghost" - true if the entity is a entity ghost or a tile ghost.

vzybilly wrote:

• Add a "show_on_Map" option for vehicles. a new mod of mine is about to fill the game with hidden vehicles.
• "As of 0.12.0 this event is also fired when a ghost is placed down either via blueprint or manually." either make this a different event or an easy way to tell, maybe "isGhost = true" ... I didn't see an easy way to tell, Entities don't have a is_ghost option...
• I would like the ability to get the item used to place the entity as well, since "on_put_item" doesn't fire for robo buddies (construction robots build it) or a "on_robot_put_item" event. I could be adding 2^24 entities otherwise.

Also, I couldn't tell from the wiki, does "on_put_item" only fire if "on_built_entity" would also fire?

Sorry if things seem abit jumbled, I'm in a rush and didn't have time to really do anything. I'll hopefully be here tomorrow to actually work on things.

game.on_event(defines.events.on_put_item, function(event)
    local player = game.players[event.player_index]
    local itemStack = player.cursor_stack
    local name = itemStack.name -- item name
end)

Outsider wrote:there is kinda a roundabout way to get the item form the on_put_item event.. you can do something like this :

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game.on_event(defines.events.on_put_item, function(event)
    local player = game.players[event.player_index]
    local itemStack = player.cursor_stack
    local name = itemStack.name -- item name
end)

it'd be nice however if this was actually returned in the event itself but this can be used for now.

vzybilly wrote:is it possible to make it so ghosts can't be placed for my tile? limiting it to only a player placing it by hand?

vzybilly wrote:I could be adding 2^24 entities otherwise.

Adil wrote:

vzybilly wrote:is it possible to make it so ghosts can't be placed for my tile? limiting it to only a player placing it by hand?

You can make your placement item a capsule and have the entity placed as an effect of capsule.
Also, does

vzybilly wrote:I could be adding 2^24 entities otherwise.

mean that there are already 2^24 items in your mod?