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Posted: **Sat Oct 04, 2025 1:03 am**

What you expected:
1) Multiple equipment gets inserted into armor
2) Changing the character during on_player_placed_equipment does not "cancel" the rest of the events

What happens:
1) Multiple equipment gets inserted into armor
2) Changing the character during on_player_placed_equipment "cancels" the rest of the events

Code: Select all

/c
local player = game.player
local surface = player.surface
local character = player.character
character.insert("power-armor-mk2")
character.insert({name = "solar-panel-equipment", count = 10})

local position = character.position
position.x = position.x + 1
character = surface.create_entity{
	name = "character",
	position = position,
	force = player.force
}



local event_trigger_count = 0
script.on_event(defines.events.on_player_placed_equipment, function(event)
	local player = game.get_player(event.player_index)
	event_trigger_count = event_trigger_count + 1
	game.print("event_trigger_count: "..event_trigger_count)
	local cancel_events_bug = true
	if cancel_events_bug then
		player.character = character
	end
end)

Start a new game, run command, open your armor and fast-transfer solar panels. if cancel_events_bug is true, only one event is raised. If false, all 10 get raised.

Why this matters:
Someone was making a mod where the character entity changes, if certain equipment is inserted into armor. This behavior is quite unexpected.

Posted: **Sat Oct 04, 2025 7:55 am**

Since the event does not contain character that seems like a reasonable expectation. It looks like changing a character causes player's controller to be invalidated and this causes the code that raises those events to stop sending events since that code uses a controller reference to obtain a player and when controller is invalidated then the events are no longer being raised since player cannot be obtained from an invalid controller and a player is a required field of that event.

-- edit:

There is a workaround available: since there are 2 events raised, on_player_placed_equipment and on_equipment_inserted, if a controller gets invalidated then this first event is no longer fires, but you should be able to use the second one since it is still possible to be raised as it does not need a player field inside.

Posted: **Sat Oct 04, 2025 9:42 am**

Thanks for the report. Issue is now fixed for the next release.

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