How do I use game methods? or destroy?

[ficolas]

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	if glob.playerdiedtick==true then
		glob.playerdiedtick=false
		local entities = game.findentities{ topleft = {x = game.getplayer().position.x - 1, y = game.getplayer().position.y - 1}, bottomright = {x = game.getplayer().position.x + 1 ,y = game.getplayer().position.y + 1} }
		for i,entity in ipairs(entities) do
			if (entity.name== "Spawn") then
				entity.destroy()
				break
			end
		end
	end

Um this doesnt seem to work for me, do somebody know why D:

[kovarex]

The entity name is not "Spawn", but "player-port"

[ficolas]

The entity name is not "Spawn", but "player-port"

No, the entity type is player-port, the entity name is Spawn, because to apply new graphics without modifying vanilla files I made a new entity calles Spawn

[FreeER]

this seems to do the job fairly well:

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  if event.name == "ontick" then
  if game.getplayer().health<10 then glob.playerdiedtick=maybe end
  if glob.playerdiedtick==maybe then if game.getplayer().health==100 then glob.playerdiedtick=true end end
  if glob.playerdiedtick==true then
  game.getplayer().print("health")
      glob.playerdiedtick=false
      entities = game.findentities{ topleft = {x = game.getplayer().position.x - 10, y = game.getplayer().position.y - 10}, bottomright = {x = game.getplayer().position.x + 10, y = game.getplayer().position.y + 10} }
      for i,entity in ipairs(entities) do
      game.getplayer().print("checking entities")
         if (entity.name=="Spawn") then
            entity.destroy()
            break
         end
      end
   end

of course you can ignore the game.getplayer().print statements, they were for debugging
I think a slightly better way would be to have glob.playerdiedtick be set to false after a five seconds or so, that way if a player happens to get down below 10 health and actually live, it won't punish him once he is back to 100 health and walks over his spawn lol.

[ficolas]

I thought about doing that, but I didnt do it because what you said at the end, and if the player gets overkilled (with a rocket, for example, rockets do 20 dmg so the player port wont be removed.
maybe if I use <=0 it would work

[FreeER]

It should be easy enough to reset the glob.playerdiedtick, something like (didn't test btw):

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if event.name == "ontick" then
  if glob.playerdiedtick == maybe then
    if event.tick % 300 == 0 then glob.playerdiedtick = false
    end
  end
end

or you could have glob.playerdiedtick a table and have a tick counter built into it, so

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if event.name == "ontick" then
  if game.getplayer().health<10 then
    glob.playerdiedtick[dead]=maybe
    glob.playerdiedtick[tick]=1
    end
  if  glob.playerdiedtick[dead]==maybe then
    if glob.playerdiedtick[tick]<301 then glob.playerdiedtick[tick]=glob.playerdiedtick[tick]+1 end
  else glob.playerdiedtick[tick]=glob.playerdiedtick[tick]+1
  end
end

[ficolas]

But I like things to be exact D:

[FreeER]

well, just have to wait until an onplayersrespawned event then lol

[ficolas]

if that happends some day, becausw I dont think it is prioritary

[FreeER]

if we're lucky maybe it will be rolled into onunitdied, like with onplayerdied or have 'self-destruct-after' simply be a json config option which would be much easier lol