I'm running into this whilst making a mod and it is a bit strange and annoying. Even when the entity is not mineable (set through prototype or control), if you try to right click on it while at a distance it says "Cannot reach" even though it wouldn't do anything if you were close to it.
EDIT: I actually don't care about this anymore, my mod has gone in a different direction.
[1.1.32] Non-minable entities still emit "Cannot reach" when trying to mine them out of range
[1.1.32] Non-minable entities still emit "Cannot reach" when trying to mine them out of range
My mods
Content: Freight Forwarding | Spidertron Patrols | Spidertron Enhancements | Power Overload
QoL: Factory Search | Remote Configuration | Module Inserter Simplified | Wire Shortcuts X | Ghost Warnings
Content: Freight Forwarding | Spidertron Patrols | Spidertron Enhancements | Power Overload
QoL: Factory Search | Remote Configuration | Module Inserter Simplified | Wire Shortcuts X | Ghost Warnings
Re: [1.1.32] Non-minable entities still emit "Cannot reach" when trying to mine them out of range
Thanks for the report. This is something I've known about but we don't have a nice solution. The logic doesn't do all of the minability checks at the point where you start interacting with a thing and instead just says "well you can't reach it; skip all the sending of actions for now".
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