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So I'm trying to use game.canplaceentity to check whether an item-on-ground entity can be placed. It uses the name and position arguments, but when I test it, I always get this error: No such node (stack)

Which is confusing to me, since stack is never specified for canplaceentity (though it is for createentity on the next line). The name parameter is simply "item-on-ground", and the position table I pass to it is just a pair of xy coordinates. Even when I put a pair of coordinates directly into the table, like so: It still gives me that error. I'm at a loss here, the release notes and the wiki say nothing about a stack parameter for canplaceentity. Can anyone shed light on this?

And should I mark the item-on-ground as player/neutral force when it's created? Would it affect anything if I left it as the default (enemy) value?

Here's what i use to drop one piece of raw wood on the ground (item being "raw-wood" and count = 1) Maybe canplaceentity needs to know the itemname even for item-on-ground?

As for the force, i guess enemy is fine

Turns out you were right, it wanted to know the stack data as well. I've run into my old foe, however - a bug that for some reason reports true even when another item-on-ground is already occupying the space it's checking.

Degraine wrote:Turns out you were right, it wanted to know the stack data as well. I've run into my old foe, however - a bug that for some reason reports true even when another item-on-ground is already occupying the space it's checking.

If that's true, then you should report it as that's a bug.

Posted, thank you for the reminder.