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Can we spawn items on the floor by the code? I think this was added in 0.3, but im not sure how or if we can do it.

I will work on the documentation for a whole day after the 0.4 release I promise

haha thanx

In my opinion, the best way to documentate things, is to write them in a note on your desktop while you are making it, because I allways forget something.

game.findentities doesnt find droped items
This makes transport belts be stuck when the code places more than one item at the same place

ficolas wrote:game.findentities doesnt find droped items
This makes transport belts be stuck when the code places more than one item at the same place

I can check later, but I doubt it.
To avoid collisions, it is better (and faster) to use game.canplaceentity

kovarex wrote:

ficolas wrote:game.findentities doesnt find droped items
This makes transport belts be stuck when the code places more than one item at the same place

I can check later, but I doubt it.
To avoid collisions, it is better (and faster) to use game.canplaceentity

But will that work with transport belts?

Also, how do I use canplaceentity? I tried by using a table ({x,y}) and it says string expected, got nil.

How can you tell if you can place an entity with just a string? dont you need a table with the position and the name of the entity? :S

Same way you create entity.