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How can i abort deconstruction tasks for construction bots? For example i want to remove a complete forest and then i want to keep the forest.

Kill the forest!!!

Im not sure I accidentally sended to deconstruct my whole factory (I was seeing how many entities I have) and I loaded an older save , so if there is no way... I think there should be.

I have the same problem, Would be nice to have a solution.

Some way to cancel a deconstruction order is needed. Many LP's indicate this in their commentary (like Arumba) and I agree.

Scanning the wiki (Lua/Entity) revealed a canceldeconstruction method.

The entity selected by mouse hover needs to be identified and passed to this method.
Just need to bind that to a key somehow. Anyone have a hint on how to do this?

If got far enough into scripting to identify entity that cursor is pointing at then there is a hint:
You can't bind keys, not yet in API at least. But you can create a dummy item that when held in hand/cursor will cancel deconstruction of anything that you hover over with it.

Like the deconstruction planner - just a green square instead - drag a box to cancel any deconstruction inside.

We totally need this!

Suggestion: If deconstruction is used on deconstructed plan with right click or shift, the plan gets deconstructed.

ssilk wrote:If deconstruction is used on deconstructed plan with right click or shift, the plan gets deconstructed.

Woah I never new this

Arglll... no, it's a suggestion!!!

ssilk wrote:Suggestion: If deconstruction is used on deconstructed plan with right click or shift, the plan gets deconstructed.

This is very good. No need for new items, just modify behaviour of existing. If I didn't know better I would think this would be very easy to implement.