Droped items?

[ficolas]

Can we spawn items on the floor by the code? I think this was added in 0.3, but im not sure how or if we can do it.

[kovarex]

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game.createentity{name="item-on-ground", position=game.player.character.position, stack={name="iron-plate"}}

I will work on the documentation for a whole day after the 0.4 release I promise

[ficolas]

haha thanx

In my opinion, the best way to documentate things, is to write them in a note on your desktop while you are making it, because I allways forget something.

[ficolas]

game.findentities doesnt find droped items
This makes transport belts be stuck when the code places more than one item at the same place

[kovarex]

game.findentities doesnt find droped items
This makes transport belts be stuck when the code places more than one item at the same place

I can check later, but I doubt it.
To avoid collisions, it is better (and faster) to use game.canplaceentity

[ficolas]

game.findentities doesnt find droped items
This makes transport belts be stuck when the code places more than one item at the same place

I can check later, but I doubt it.
To avoid collisions, it is better (and faster) to use game.canplaceentity

But will that work with transport belts?

[ficolas]

Also, how do I use canplaceentity? I tried by using a table ({x,y}) and it says string expected, got nil.

How can you tell if you can place an entity with just a string? dont you need a table with the position and the name of the entity? :S

[rk84]

Same way you create entity.

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if game.canplaceentity({ name = "iron-chest", position = {0,0}}) then
	game.createentity({ name = "iron-chest", position = {0,0}, force=game.player.force})
end