How do I read the contents of tiles near the player?

[Assembling_machine_2]

I was wondering if there was a way to see the contents of each tile in a radius around the player so I can teach an ANN to play
thanks.

[Klonan]

You can use find entities fitered:
https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/Lua ... s_filtered

You can give it a position and radius, and it will return all entities in that circle

[Assembling_machine_2]

thanks