Enable/Disable Autoplace For Surfaces

[Sauerkraut]

Currently all surfaces autogenerate similar "worlds". It would be nice if one could disable certain things on different surfaces. AFAIK tiles, trees, resources, biters(+spawner and worms) and doodads are autoplaced.

The specifications for a surface must be defined before the surface is generates, so I'd suggest an additional table as optional argument for the create_surface() function. I'd imagine something like this:

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game.create_surface("tatooine",game.surfaces["nauvis"].map_gen_settings,
{
    {
        to_set=game.tile_prototype["grass"]
        enable=false
    },
    {
        to_set=game.tile_prototype["grass-medium"]
        enable=false
    },
    {
        to_set=game.entity_prototype["tree-01"]
        enable=false
    },
    {
        to_set=game.entity_prototype["tree-02"]
        enable=false
    }
}    
)

So if I want to create a peaceful forest surface I'd disable desert-y tiles, enemies, dead trees, maybe even change resources.

I think the ability to change autoplace settings for different surfaces would be too much to ask for, but this should do it.

[Rseding91]

Kind of like how it does now? http://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/LuaG ... te_surface + http://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/Conc ... enSettings

[Sauerkraut]

Yes, but those autoplace controls only contain data about resources and enemies, not about tiles, trees and doodads.

[StevilKnevil]

It seems like a sensible extension would be to allow more types in the MapGenSettings autoplace_controls table so that you can include tile types and doodads.

[Rseding91]

OK, in 0.16 you can configure all of the autoplace settings for a given surface. You can also change map gen settings runtime for a surface if you want.