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Is there a way, without using events, to prevent construction robots from building or mining a specific entity?

I can see a way by using events, but was wondering if there's a flag that prevents logistic robots working with a specific type (or more correctly: prototype) of entity, as I'd prefer to avoid using events for such a rare situation.

The entity prototype flags "not-deconstructable" and "not-blueprintable". Although I don't think that prevents ghosts from being created when an entity is killed or if the player built manually using shift click.

I can handle the player placement without too much pain, so those flags above should solve all the other issues I was facing, thanks!

Out of interest, does the `can_be_part_of_blueprint` prototype setting do something different to the `not-blueprintable` flag?

aubergine18 wrote:I can handle the player placement without too much pain, so those flags above should solve all the other issues I was facing, thanks!

Out of interest, does the `can_be_part_of_blueprint` prototype setting do something different to the `not-blueprintable` flag?

That's for tiles not entities.

Just finished testing "not-deconstructable" and "not-blueprintable" - they worked like a charm! Many thanks as always!