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So after receiving a response to a modding interface request: viewtopic.php?f=221&t=67648

I'm still trying to figure out the best way to calculate an entity's (near-real-time, e.g. previous tick) power consumption. How does the game provide power consumption statistics if each entity does not report back what its power consumption is?

There's a lot that the game does that it doesn't give modders access to. so it will be reporting back, you just don't have access to read that report.

Do you think my modding interface request was too narrow then? The explanation seemed to indicate that what I asked for wasn't possible, so maybe I didn't ask for exactly the right thing? I'm pretty new to this.