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slpwnd wrote:In this case you are probably looking for something like this (not tested - check the freeplay.lua for the interface definition):

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    local attackdata = remote.call("freeplay", "getattackdata")
    attackdata.enabled = false
    remote.call("freeplay", "setattackdata", attackdata)

    if data.raw["unit-spawner"] then
          data.raw["unit-spawner"].maximum_count_of_owned_units = 0
    end

creepers_destroyed=creepers_destroyed or game.findentities{{game.player.character.position.x,game.player.character.position.y},{game.player.character.position.x,game.player.character.position.y}} --I've had issues with oninit sometimes

game.onevent(defines.events.onchunkgenerated, function(event)
    creepers_destroyed=game.findentities{{event.area.x,event.area.y},{event.area.x,event.area.y}}
end)

for k,v in pairs(creepers_destroyed) do
    if v.type == "unit-spawner" or v.type == "unit" or not v.force.equals(game.player.force) then if v.health v.die() else v.destroy() end end --probably don't need the v.health test but better safe than sorry
end

FreeER wrote: Since I tried something like this last night (but wasn't sure I wasn't making a silly mistake from being tired) I figured I'd test this but I got the same error as before which is

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slpwnd wrote:So I tried it as well. I was getting the same error as long as I had the code for changing attackdata in the global scope. Once moved to the onload function it works just fine. That makes sense because in the freeplay.lua script the glob.attackdata is nil in the global scope. It "comes to existence" only in the oninit / onload function. So it works well but can be a bit confusing.

As for the solutions to eliminating existing creepers. Good job - they are nice workarounds. I haven't thought of that.

FreeER wrote:

slpwnd wrote:So I tried it as well. I was getting the same error as long as I had the code for changing attackdata in the global scope. Once moved to the onload function it works just fine. That makes sense because in the freeplay.lua script the glob.attackdata is nil in the global scope. It "comes to existence" only in the oninit / onload function. So it works well but can be a bit confusing.

I guess this means it would be difficut to create a mod that would allow you to become 'friendly' with the creepers by turning the waves off midgame (though i suppose you could have the oninit code check the glob table for an isfriendly value before turning the wave off and then simply telling the player to save the game and reload it to give the creepers time to spread the word lol)