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How to change the max_health of a turret with many kills, for example?

There's no way to change the max health of an entity runtime.

If the max health could be changed runtime that means we would need to save the max health in the save file for every entity that has health and that would increase the save size for something that would virtually never be used but is on a *lot* of entities. All trees + all player buildings + all biters/nests.

I assume you want to make some promotion system for turrets. You could create different entity prototype for each rank and then promote the turret by fast replacing it with entity with higher rank.

Is there a programatical way to do a fast replace? (The only way I know of currently is to make a copy of entity settings in a table, delete entity, place new entity, apply the stored settings).

aubergine18 wrote:Is there a programatical way to do a fast replace? (The only way I know of currently is to make a copy of entity settings in a table, delete entity, place new entity, apply the stored settings).

Yes, http://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/LuaS ... ate_entity use the fast_replace=true option.

Perfect! That will make my code much nicer