Making trees stronger the farther they are from the spawn point

[Eylrid]

I'm trying to make a mod that makes trees stronger the further they are from the spawn point. Ideally it would change `max_health`, but that's not available on the fly. The next approach I thought of is to set `max_health` to a high amount and scale `health` with distance. I don't want the trees to heal, so I tried to use this code in data-updates.lua:

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for _, tree in pairs(data.raw.tree) do
    --make trees stonger
    tree.max_health = 1000000
    tree.healing_per_tick = 0
end

But it didn't seem to have any effect. The trees still heal. I tried setting `healing_per_tick` to other values to see what would happen. Nothing I set it to had any effect on the healing speed.

Is there something I'm doing wrong?

Is there a better way to do what I want to do?

[Ranakastrasz]

I can't give much more than sanity checks. That looks like it should work.

Mod is enabled.
Data is actually running. The include file thing.
Correct entity table.
Correct field names.

Past that, find a similar mod (adjusts all entities of a type) and copy from that before making changes.

[Eylrid]

It successfully changes the max_health so the file is loading and the code is running, but it doesn't change the heal rate.

[darkfrei]

It successfully changes the max_health so the file is loading and the code is running, but it doesn't change the heal rate.

Use the info-mod viewtopic.php?f=135&t=45107
You an check what your mod has changed.

[mrvn]

Wouldn't setting the health to a fraction of max also make the health bar appear below every single tree on the map? I would be rather annoyed by that.