special-info.md

Please, always do this:

local DESTROY_SETTINGS = {raise_destroy=true}
entity.destroy(DESTROY_SETTINGS)

Instead of this:

entity.destroy()

Otherwise, you'll break many mods.

This is faster than

/measured-command
local tiles = {}
local c = 0
for i = -1000, 1000 do
    for j = -1000, 1000 do
        c = c + 1
        tiles[c] = {position = {i, j}, name = "refined-concrete"}
        if c > 1024 then
            game.player.surface.set_tiles(tiles, false, false, false)
            c = 0
        end
    end
end
game.player.surface.set_tiles(tiles, false, false, false)

this

/measured-command
local tiles = {}
local c = 0
for i = -1000, 1000 do
    for j = -1000, 1000 do
        c = c + 1
        tiles[c] = {position = {i, j}, name = "refined-concrete"}
    end
end
game.player.surface.set_tiles(tiles, false, false, false)

So could use it with surface.clone_area() to make things even faster (it takes a lot of time).