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Hi, i'd like to use lua to spawn an item, two options :
Either spawn it in water, or directly spawn it in an inserter's hand.

Is it possible ?

Thanks

Wrong forum
https://forums.factorio.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=25
and yea it is, same as you can spawn any entity, with game.placeentity, the name is item-on-the-ground and the table should have another var, stack.

Oh yeah wrong forum, posted too fast
Anyway, i figured out myself, but thanks for the info

Know if I can spawn an item in an inserter's hand ? (And fail if the inserter is full / out of power) ?

Nirahiel wrote:Oh yeah wrong forum, posted too fast
Anyway, i figured out myself, but thanks for the info

Know if I can spawn an item in an inserter's hand ? (And fail if the inserter is full / out of power) ?

I dont think you can spawn it in the inserter hand but you can spawn it for sure on the inserter pick up area.

I know but if there is already some items / a belt, it could not work the way I want

You can remove the item from the inserter hand by calling inserter.clearitemsinside().
But there is no way to put something to the arm using script, we might add it.

kovarex wrote:You can remove the item from the inserter hand by calling inserter.clearitemsinside().
But there is no way to put something to the arm using script, we might add it.

Oh yeah please add this, I'll need it for my mod !

Ok, added the interface for item in inserter hand for 0.7.1
https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/inde ... a/Inserter

Yay kovarex, you rock