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The documentation under LuaGameScript for map_settings states it is read only. However it appears it can be changed in a test of pathing settings. Also under Concepts for MapSettings it states they can be changed.

Thanks for the report however the API documentation is correct.

You can't write directly to map_settings:
Will produce an error.

You can write to things *on* map settings - but you can't write the map_settings value itself.

Posila explained it to me this way: viewtopic.php?f=23&t=59647&p=356996#p357001

could the documentation be amended to specify this Rseding to make it clearer?
that the game.map_settings references a table of editable values, but the table itself is not editable.

I know it seems minor, but for those of us not intricately familiar with Factorio the API documentation is our best direction on how to approach things. It took me a while to find the references that said the values of the table could be changed after seeing that game.map_settings itslef is read only.

sorry for late reply, missed the notification of reply.

At the moment it's not a simple change to make the documentation script mark things that work that way as working that way. From the scripts perspective something is read, write, read/write, or a method. It doesn't understand that something can be read and then have values on it written. It just documents the immediate property/method as to how the immediate class its on exposes it.