on_entity_died - killer

[henke37]

There seems to be no way to get the actual entity responsible for killing another entity. Only the force they belong to.

[Rseding91]

Correct. Because that's not known and in a lot of cases doesn't exist.

[Earendel]

It would be useful information to have. If turrets track kill counts then presumably there is some kill information in there somewhere. If it would need to be triggered at a different point in the code to work then maybe an on_entity_killed event could return the killed and the killer? From that perspective an on_entity_deal_damage would also be useful.

[daniel34]

From that perspective an on_entity_deal_damage would also be useful.

See also this: on_entity_damaged event and on_entity_died author [Modding interface requests]
and as Rseding91 said there:

Such an event is unlikely to be added due to performance reasons.

Such an event would be fired hundreds/thousands of times per second during normal combat while not adding a lot of value for the few times it was used.

[Chocolatetthunder]

Instead of posting my on topic, what about on_player_died adding who or what killed the player? especially now that PVP is going to be officially part of the game (if you already haven't added this)

[Rseding91]

Instead of posting my on topic, what about on_player_died adding who or what killed the player? especially now that PVP is going to be officially part of the game (if you already haven't added this)

http://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/even ... layer_died

[Articulating]

Instead of posting my on topic, what about on_player_died adding who or what killed the player? especially now that PVP is going to be officially part of the game (if you already haven't added this)

http://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/even ... layer_died

What was the point of that link except to show that what he requested is in fact not in the on_player_died event?

[DaveMcW]

That's what you get for posting in the wrong topic - no one understands what you want.

[Rseding91]

Added for 0.15. It's an optional field as it's not always available.