Getting the name of a item on the ground.

[ficolas]

I want to make a container to pick up the small artifacts laying arround everywhere with my mod, so I used game.findentities to search for the items on the ground near the artifact collector, and I used this:

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if artifacts[z].name=="item-on-ground" and artifacts[z].stack.name=="small-alien-artifact" then

But the item on the ground scanned doesnt have the field "stack", how can I do it?

And if I cant, move this to modding interface request plz

[kovarex]

And if I cant, move this to modding interface request plz

Done

[ficolas]

ok thanx , hope I can do it for the next factorio update, because small alien artifacts everywhere are really annoying.

[Dakkanor]

ok thanx , hope I can do it for the next factorio update, because small alien artifacts everywhere are really annoying.

what about building a belt system where the small artifacts drop the most frequently and feed all of them into a set of chests? its not a mod function but it should work if you plan ahead.....

[ficolas]

did this get added? (not trying to push), but I checked with "stack" and it doesnt work, idk if because it havent been added or because is another key

[slpwnd]

I think the "done" was meant for moving it into the modding interface requests:)

Anyway I have put it on the list for things for 0.6.x.

[slpwnd]

Done for the 0.6.0.

[n9103]

neat, should work well to help the wood harvesting bots that were in the works as well