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I'm trying to make entities that only last a given time, but am assuming that keeping track of it using script would cause a lot more lag than letting the engine do it natively would. I'd like for production_health_effect to be moved to EntityWithOwner / EntityWithHealth and the properties changed to 'active' and 'inactive'.

Specifically, I am interested in this for inserters and pumps. I am trying to model wear on the entities that are most likely to be affected by it.

Sorry, but no. This logic on assembling machines already forces them to be active at all times and has a negative performance cost to exist. It's also ripe for crashes due to mod errors/mod interference.