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Posted: **Sun Apr 30, 2017 11:03 pm**

The situation is:

***NOTE When I say biter I mean a unit group with at least one unit.

A biter kills a chunk of rail, the on death fires with the entity

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  local repairPosition = entity.position
    local repairName = entity.name
    local repairForce = entity.force
    local repairDirection = entity.direction
    entity.destroy()
    local entityRepaired = surface.create_entity({position=repairPosition,
                    name=repairName,
                    direction=repairDirection,
                    force=repairForce})
    entityRepaired.destructible = false

The biter that killed the rail moves to the next rail until all in the area are gone, at which point the rails have all been remade with destructible=false.

The next unit group of biters passes by the indestructible rails and begins attacking them.

I control biter movement through attack area commands with distraction by_enemy or by_anything and never set individual targets.

Posted: **Wed May 17, 2017 2:12 pm**

Could you give me step by step description of how to reproduce the issue?

Posted: **Wed May 17, 2017 6:46 pm**

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    local playerPosition = game.players[1].position
    local chunkX = playerPosition.x
    local chunkY = playerPosition.y
    local entity = game.surfaces[1].create_entity({name="small-electric-pole", force="player", position={chunkX - 20, chunkY - 20}})
    entity.destructible = false

    local group = game.surfaces[1].create_unit_group({position={chunkX - 30, chunkY - 30}})

    for i=1,20,1 do
	entity = game.surfaces[1].create_entity({name="small-spitter", force="enemy", position={chunkX - 30 - i, chunkY - 30 - i}})
	group.add_member(entity)
    end

    group.set_command({type = defines.command.attack_area,
		       destination={chunkX, chunkY},
		       radius=48,
		       distraction=defines.distraction.by_anything})

The above code snippet can be dropped into the console and should reproduce the issue.

The group will run by the pole initially and then they will turn around and begin attacking the pole.

Posted: **Thu May 18, 2017 1:53 pm**

Thanks, fixed in 0.15.13.

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