[0.15.12] on_entity_died and friends never give any info

[CruelCow]

I'm trying to make a mod that reacts to certain player deaths. However, I cannot extract any information about deaths.

Here is my current code

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on_entity_died = function ( entity, cause, force )
	s = ""
	
	if ((not entity == nil) and (entity.valid)) then
		s = s .. entity.name
	else
		s = s .. "Unknown entity"
	end
		
	s = s .. " died because of "
	
	if ((not cause == nil) and (cause.valid)) then
		s = s .. cause.name
	else	
		s = s .. " unknown cause "
	end
	
	s = s .. " in faction "
	
	if ((not force == nil) and (force.valid)) then
		s = s .. force.name
	else	
		s = s .. " unknown force"
	end
	game.print(s);
end

on_player_died = function ( player_index , cause )
	s = "Player " .. tostring(player_index) .. " died because of "
	
	if ((not cause == nil) and (cause.valid)) then
		s = s .. cause.name
	else	
		s = s .. " unknown cause"
	end

	game.print(s);
end

script.on_event(defines.events.on_entity_died, on_entity_died)
script.on_event(defines.events.on_player_died, on_player_died)
script.on_event(defines.events.on_pre_player_died, on_player_died)

As you can see, I use on_entity_died, on_player_died and on_pre_player_died and simply print if the parameters exist.

However, whenever I kill myself the only printouts I get are

I've tried killing myself via biters, nukes and trains: same result.
I've tried killing biters via turrets, smg, personal laser defence and nuke: same result (except that only on_entity_died fired of course).


I understand that the additional info is optional, but there never seems to be any info. So either I'm missing something or these events are broken

[Rseding91]

It seems like you're not understanding how events work. Every event passes a table with the event data and you're treating each event as if it passes the parameters directly.

I'm going to move this to modding help.

[CruelCow]

You are right, thanks for the help and sorry for the false report