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The explanation of what the flag "hidden" does on entities appears to be incomplete on the wiki. It just says:

wiki[/url wrote:Hides the entity from the bonus GUI (button above the map) and from the made in property of recipe tooltips.

See https://wiki.factorio.com/Types/EntityP ... 2hidden.22

But as Rseding91 confirmed here 89383 in also makes the entity immune to selection tools just like the flag "not-blueprintable". I made a modding interface requests here 89397 to change that, or at least give another option.

(A few other flags also have no explanation, but I don't know if they would be even necessary to a more experienced modder than me.)

Cannot reproduce, I can blueprint hidden entities:


I'll move this to modding help, so figuring out why your entity isn't blueprintable can happen in a more appropriate place.

Well, by looking at your picture I figured it out. My entity was missing the "player-creation" flag Didn't realize you had to apply this. I thought this was the default behaviour. Thanks a lot and sorry for the waste of time!