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Posted: **Sat Dec 29, 2018 2:52 am**

Hey all!

I run an OARC server and once in a while it would be nice for the admin to be able to change the Force ("Main Force", etc.) of all of objects of a given force. The use case is when someone is banned, the admin can go in and change the force of all the objects that the banned player placed, making clean up easier, or to give that base to another player on another force.

Anyone know how to do this in LUA? For example, if the person who was banned was named "imatroll", and he had his own force (in OARC it would be "imatroll"), then loop through all objects and if they are owned by "imatroll" or belong to his force, change it to "Main Force".

Thoughts?

Posted: **Sat Dec 29, 2018 9:18 am**

Not tested, but see https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/LuaSurface.html
https://wiki.factorio.com/Console
https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/Lua ... trol.force

Get surface and force of player

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/c
local my_force_name = "Main Force"
local player = game.players["imatroll"]
local surface = player.surface
local force_name = player.force.name
local entities = surface.find_entities_filtered{force=force_name}
for i, entity in pairs (entities) do
  entity.force = my_force_name
end

Posted: **Sat Dec 29, 2018 12:37 pm**

There is also:

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game.merge_forces(source, destination)

https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/Lua ... rge_forces

Posted: **Sun Jan 13, 2019 2:11 pm**

Thanks all! Sorry it took so long for me to get back here to respond!

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