Event for Deconstruction an Entity

[Rumo]

Hello,
is there any Event triggering when i deconstruct/remove an entity?

Thanks for your help.

[Stringweasel]

Yes, there are. It would help reading the docs https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/def ... nes.events

For example you typically listen to these events

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script.on_event(defines.events.on_player_mined_entity, your_function)
script.on_event(defines.events.on_robot_mined_entity, your_function)
script.on_event(defines.events.on_entity_died, your_function)
script.on_event(defines.events.script_raised_destroy, your_function)

[Rumo]

Hey,
thanks for the help.

I read the docs and tried some trigger but nothing happens

But then i will try it again.

[Pi-C]

I read the docs and tried some trigger but nothing happens

Are you sure that the event handler is really active? Add this to your control.lua:

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  local c_name = "show-active-events"
  if not commands.commands[c_name] then
    commands.add_command(c_name, c_name, function(command)

      local player = game.players[command.player_index]
      local events = {}
      for event_name, event in pairs(defines.events) do
        if script.get_event_handler(event) then
          events[event] = event_name
        end
      end
      local msg = serpent.block(events)
      player.print(msg)
      log(msg)

    end
  else
    error("Command \""..c_name.."\" already exists, change c_name!")
  end

It will add a command that you can run from the chat console with {code]/show-active-events[/code] to get the list of events your mod is listening to.

[Stringweasel]

Or it could be that you code isn't running

Does Factorio recognise your mod? Are you placing your code in `control.lua`? How are you testing if it's running or not?