Storage and copy/paste

[wizmut]

Right now I have some custom entities that use filters. The filters don't exist as part of any normal prototype's behavior. They're set by a custom GUI and indicated by manually drawing a sprite. The state of each filter is tracked in storage.my_cool_entity_filters[my_entity.unit_number] . And there are other custom variables in storage, associated with various custom entities.

This method of storing entity info doesn't cooperate with copy/paste, or blueprints, or shift-right-click. And there's probably other ways entity info is copied that I'm forgetting.

Is there a natural way to store custom status info about an entity? I can see LuaEntity has custom_status but that seems clunky, and it displays the info to the player. What do people use?

[Natha]

Paste is an event that you can use.
Blueprints can store tags in their entities which can be accessed in the built event
Shift-right can be assigned a custom input event

[wizmut]

Appreciate the feedback!