Allow option in mining-drill prototype to place anywhere

[kiwiwikikwi]

Just a small request-- I'm trying to make a farming mod and this would be a really useful feature. Ideally my custom miner would work on "plant" resource categories, but not "seed" resource categories, but I'd like to allow the user to set up their farming operation before waiting for their seeds to turn into plants. I could do this through control, but I also think it would be a reasonable option for the prototype in general for more complicated setups where resources may be dynamic .

Thank you!

[Rseding91]

I could add a flag to allow this but the mining drill won't start working when a resource is placed under it because we would have to do an entity search every time a resource entity is created and that would be a lot of wasted CPU time.

[DaveMcW]

we would have to do an entity search every time a resource entity is created and that would be a lot of wasted CPU time.

How about an update_mining_drills flag in LuaSurface.create_entity{} to do the search only when needed?

[darkfrei]

I could add a flag to allow this but the mining drill won't start working when a resource is placed under it because we would have to do an entity search every time a resource entity is created and that would be a lot of wasted CPU time.

Is here some mining_drill_entity.working_state? How to get if the mining drill goes to unlimited idle state?

[Boodals]

Maybe make update_connections or whatever its called work on mining drills? Then just let modders worry about updating miners. I assume its already a problem if you spawn some resources under existing mining drills that have ran out of resources.

[Rseding91]

OK, I've added this for 2.1.

[protocol_1903]

Maybe make update_connections or whatever its called work on mining drills? Then just let modders worry about updating miners. I assume its already a problem if you spawn some resources under existing mining drills that have ran out of resources.

For future reference, update_connections works on mining drills (I do not know if/when this changed but it's worked since 1.1)