LuaEntityPrototype - max_underground_distance

[aubergine18]

When looking at pipe-to-ground ("p-t-g") LuaEntityPrototype in control.lua, the `max_underground_distance` doesn't seem to be exposed - any chance it could be added?

Context: I'm using these entities for bridges, and when a segment (simple-entity) between two p-t-g's gets destroyed I search X tiles along relevant axis to find the "parent" p-t-g. To keep that search area small as possible, I've currently hard-coded the distance, but am at a point (remote interface) where it would really be better to pull it from LuaEntityPrototype rather than have two definitions of the value which could go out of sync.

[aubergine18]

bumping for great justice

if there's any way this could be added to LuaFluidBox, or LuaEntity or LuaEntityPrototype, etc., it would be really, really useful.

[orzelek]

Take a look at DistancePlus mod. It adds longer pipes and has underground distance tag in fluid boxes.

[aubergine18]

Take a look at DistancePlus mod. It adds longer pipes and has underground distance tag in fluid boxes.

Accessing the value from data.lua is trivial, it's accessing it from control.lua where I am having problem.

There are some workarounds, like I could iterate all the pipe-to-ground in data.lua, create a new fake entity and dump the underground lengths of all the p-t-g's in to it's .order property, but that's really hacky way to do things, hence wanting the max_underground_distance to be available in native Lua API via control.lua.

[Rseding91]

The property already exists for underground belts but I added support for underground pipes in 0.15.

[aubergine18]

<3 Thank you!!