Thank you, I didn't know this!

Hi, I've noticed an issue when copy/pasting a setup with red or green wires. You can copy paste circuit information onto existing entities, and they will not be consumed. Let's walk through an example

Steps to reproduce:

First, put down some boxes, and connect them with green wire

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Interesting, I tried something similar to that and it didn't work for me, I got an error message in game. Maybe I fat fingered something. I did find a way to make it work, here's what I did:


function new_network_id(entity)
local lamp1 = entity.surface.create_entity{
name = 'small-lamp ...

Hi, I'm trying to programmatically create a circuit network for a combinator based mod I'm working on. I've found the connect_neighbour method here:

https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/LuaEntity.html#LuaEntity.connect_neighbour

However, it requires providing a circuit network id, and I need to ...