States

States

Instances have a state machine to control their lifecycle.

Built-in States

1. ACTIVE: The default working state. Ticks run normally.
2. INACTIVE: Ticks still run (to allow checking conditions), but logic is usually paused by convention.
3. DISABLED: Ticks do not run. Hard stop.
4. DAMAGED: Automatically set if part of the structure is broken (if partial-break logic is enabled, otherwise structure is destroyed).
5. OVERLOADED: Custom state often used for error conditions.

Custom States

You can use set_state to set any custom string, but these 5 are handled specially by the engine.