Factorio Forums

I would like for LuaEntity.clone() to exist or for LuaSurface.create_entity(LuaEntity) to create a copy of the entity in question or some other similar functionality.

There exists no such logic in the game. The best you can get is to create an entity of the same name and then use copy_settings to copy the settings from the old entity.

Rseding91 wrote:There exists no such logic in the game. The best you can get is to create an entity of the same name and then use copy_settings to copy the settings from the old entity.

That's unfortunate. That leaves a lot of un-copyable attributes

sparr wrote:

Rseding91 wrote:There exists no such logic in the game. The best you can get is to create an entity of the same name and then use copy_settings to copy the settings from the old entity.

That's unfortunate. That leaves a lot of un-copyable attributes

That's how it works. The game never needs to clone things to that extent so we never built a system to do it. You'll need to build your own if you want such a thing.

Looks like LuaEntity::clone() is going into 0.17. Hooray!