This is the final piece of the puzzle to allow mods to define custom entity settings that behave the same as base game entity settings.
I believe it's currently possible to detect cloning, bot placement, blueprints, setting pasting, etc, but not this event.
[2.0.28] Event to detect when a blueprint entity is pasted on an identical entity
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[2.0.28] Event to detect when a blueprint entity is pasted on an identical entity
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Re: [2.0.28] Event to detect when a blueprint entity is pasted on an identical entity
This is possible to do via scripting actually, it's just kinda hacky. The gist of it is:
1. Detect on_pre_build and check if the cursor stack contains a blueprint item.
2. If yes, then you get the blueprint entities of this blueprint.
3. Then, find the bounding box of the blueprint (I think flib has something for this, but I didn't bother) by checking each entities position (as the position is relative to the blueprint) and their selection boxes combined.
4. From this, you can find the center position of where the blueprint was taken from on your surface
5. With the center of the blueprint on the surface, the relative positions from the center of the entities pasted, you can find the positions of the entities got pasted.
5a. If the blueprint was rotated, you can detect this from on_pre_build and just swap the coordinates.
6. For each entity, check if the type/name is the same at the pasted position
I do this in my mod promethium crafting rework if you are interested in seeing how I did it for my use case
1. Detect on_pre_build and check if the cursor stack contains a blueprint item.
2. If yes, then you get the blueprint entities of this blueprint.
3. Then, find the bounding box of the blueprint (I think flib has something for this, but I didn't bother) by checking each entities position (as the position is relative to the blueprint) and their selection boxes combined.
4. From this, you can find the center position of where the blueprint was taken from on your surface
5. With the center of the blueprint on the surface, the relative positions from the center of the entities pasted, you can find the positions of the entities got pasted.
5a. If the blueprint was rotated, you can detect this from on_pre_build and just swap the coordinates.
6. For each entity, check if the type/name is the same at the pasted position
I do this in my mod promethium crafting rework if you are interested in seeing how I did it for my use case