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It seems you can't create projectile with surface.create_entity() unless you provide it some entity with health to target. Yet quite a few projectiles normally target ground and some others just have a direction and deviations set (when created without scripts).

It'd be nice if we could create projectiles that target position by scripts too.

It is fairly trivial to also create a dummy-target entity with invisible graphics...

I do that currently, but it's just silly.