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I can't seem to find in-game access to https://wiki.factorio.com/Prototype/Res ... rch_radius. Am I missing something or is it just not exposed in-game?

It's not exposed anywhere. What's the use-case for wanting to read a render-only value?

boskid wrote: Thu Apr 30, 2020 5:54 am Is it render-only value? It is used for computation of resource patch amount in case of a mining drill connected to circuit network.

No it's not.

I need it for https://mods.factorio.com/mod/sonaxaton ... ap-markers to be able to detect contiguous resource patches properly.

Any update on this?

I noticed that there are already some values in LuaEntityPrototype that are "render-only", like https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/Lua ... .map_color.

As a larger request, what my mod (and potentially others) would really like access to is some concept of "resource patches", which I'm trying to use resource_patch_search_radius to determine myself at the moment. Clearly the game has some concept of these because it highlights them in the map view. Could that be exposed to mods somehow? I know they're not real entities in the game, but an API to find all contiguous resource patches in an area would be super useful.