[2.0.77] Cliff Destructor removes unrelated ghosts

[TheDash]

1. Ghost-place some Foundations and a Roboport over lava.
2. Create a Deconstruction Planner with only Cliffs as the thing to remove.
3. Use planner on existing ghosts - they will be marked for destruction (BUG)

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If, instead, you use a Deconstruction Planner that only removes, say, Assembling Machines 3, then that planner will not remove the unrelated ghosts (CORRECT).

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Attached is a save with the ghosts in place and 2 Deconstruction Planners (1 configured for Cliffs only, 1 configured for Assembling Machines 3 only).
The bug occurs in Freeplay mode. The save is in sandbox mode for easier setup/testing.

[Rseding91]

Thanks for the report however this is working correctly. The tile ghosts get marked because the tile filters are not set to exclude them. As a result of removing those tile ghosts the roboport is also included to be removed.

[TheDash]

The deconstruction planner has no tiles listed and set to Whitelist.
If I change it to Blacklist it does not change the behavior.
If I add, say, Stone Bricks to the list and keep it as Whitelist then the Foundations no longer get removed.

If there is a Whitelist, anything not on the Whitelist should not get removed.

Note that the behavior is different for a planner that has a Cliff Entity on the list versus a building Entity - the latter works as expected, the former does not. This is a specific quirk of Cliffs in Deconstruction Planners, not Tiles.

It is presently impossible to create a Deconstruction Planner that only removes Cliffs and not ghosts of Tiles without also removing at least one tile type.

[eugenekay]

It is presently impossible to create a Deconstruction Planner that only removes Cliffs and not ghosts of Tiles without also removing at least one tile type.

Works for me:

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You need to set the tile_selection_mode property in the Deconstruction Planner:

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"Never" seems to be the default after adding Cliffs to the Entities selection anyway.....


Good Luck!

[TheDash]

Thanks eugenekay, that works for me. How very unintuitive though!