How to destroy rocks in sandbox games?

[Schorty]

Hi there,

I started a game in sandbox, just to try it out. But after some time I realised, that there is no obvious way to get rid of those nasty rocks, because I don't have a shotgun to fire at them (obviously because I don't have a character). Is there any possibility to destroy them?
Thank you in advance.

Greetings,
Schorty

[Phillip_Lynx]

no character?

You always have a character or do I miss something?

[Schorty]

No, you don't have one, if you play sandbox. And therefor you can't destroy those rock. At least as far as I know

Is it possible to add a new character temporarely so I can shoot the rocks to hell and then delete the char afterwards?

[Phillip_Lynx]

So what is Sandbox here? I do not find such a thing.

I have only campaing, start game and load game (and own scenarios wich I did not use). And in every type I have a char (not knowing about own scenarios).

But this ist OT. Sorry I can not help ou

[n9103]

Under scenarios, there's freeplay, which is the same as start game, and there's sandbox, which is a character-less accelerated start, sorta like a limited god-mode.

[arl85]

back on topic...

edit: even simpler - center stone in your vision range (more or less...), open console and type

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for _, entity in ipairs(game.findentitiesfiltered{area={{game.player.position.x-32, game.player.position.y-32},{game.player.position.x+32, game.player.position.y+32}}, name="stone-rock"}) do entity.destroy() end

original post

well, you can do it using console.

1. press F4 - enter "always" tab and enable "detailed info"
   
   using following image, imagine X is the rock
2. put mouse on position 1 and take note of cursor values in detailed info (I'll call them P1x and P1y)
3. put mouse on position 2 and take note of cursor values in detailed info (I'll call them P2x and P2y)
   

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   1-------+
   |       |
   |   x   |
   |       |
   +-------2

4. open console (info here) and type (you can also copy paste it), replacing P1x, P1y, P2x and P2y with respective values:

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   game.findentities{{P1x, P1y}, {P2x, P2y}}[1].destroy()
   
   example:
   game.findentities{{48, 50}, {51, 54}}[1].destroy()

note: it works for any entities, not only rock

[Schorty]

Hell, yeah!
It works like a charm. Thank you very much =)

[n9103]

Oh Factorio. Why you require a Lua programming course just to work with console commands?

[Reygan]

Hell, yeah!
It works like a charm. Thank you very much =)

Another way - move mouse over any entity, then type game.player.selected.destroy()

[PROTOS]

if you use a mod called test mode i will let you switch betwen the 2

[Kuldrtorix]

Or use grenades?