[2.0.20] Neutral chests can't be upgraded or bot removed

[Lix]

When playing the PVP mode with neutral chests = true any non logic network chest tested can not:
- be replaced by a equal or higher tier chest
- be interacted with using construction bots after placement

This could be reproduced with both the steel chest and iron chest, didn't try the wooden box.
Maybe this works as designed in the way that construction bots can only interact with chests of their own faction and logic network chests always have a set faction even with neutral chests on? Either way I'd say that from a players perspective this behaviour is very much unexpected and undesired.
We just wanted chess access to not be restricted, since we're not actually playing PVP, just freeplay with personal technology progress and separate spawn areas (no steam achievement progress ). Players should 100% be able to manually upgrade neutral steel chests to eg. passive provider chests though, or iron chests to steel chests, without having to empty and remove it first though.

SteelChest.mp4

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I was able to workaround this by setting neutral chests to "false" and setting the faction to the last user force:

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/c storage.pvp.config.game_config.neutral_chests = false

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/c for k, chest in pairs (game.player.surface.find_entities_filtered{type = "container"}) do if chest.last_user then chest.force = chest.last_user.force end end

https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comme ... _mid_game/

[Rseding91]

Thanks for the report however I don't' see any bug here. Other forces things can't be deconstructed - which is an engine limitation.