Disabling recovery of chunks that player builds in and then removes buildings from. Too niche for the complicated logic. Not worth the performance hit.

Bumping up the regrowth buffer around new buildings.

control.lua

@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ script.on_event(defines.events.on_built_entity, function(event)
     end
 
     if global.ocfg.enable_regrowth then
-        OarcRegrowthOffLimits(event.created_entity.position, 1)
+        OarcRegrowthOffLimits(event.created_entity.position, 2)
     end
 
     if ENABLE_ANTI_GRIEFING then
@@ -245,23 +245,25 @@ end)
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 script.on_event(defines.events.on_robot_built_entity, function (event)
     if global.ocfg.enable_regrowth then
-        OarcRegrowthOffLimits(event.created_entity.position, 1)
-    end
-end)
-script.on_event(defines.events.on_player_mined_entity, function(event)
-    if global.ocfg.enable_regrowth then
-        OarcRegrowthCheckChunkEmpty(event)
-    end
-end)
-script.on_event(defines.events.on_robot_mined_entity, function(event)
-    if global.ocfg.enable_regrowth then
-        OarcRegrowthCheckChunkEmpty(event)
+        OarcRegrowthOffLimits(event.created_entity.position, 2)
     end
 end)
+-- I disabled this because it's too much overhead for too little gain!
+-- script.on_event(defines.events.on_player_mined_entity, function(event)
+--     if global.ocfg.enable_regrowth then
+--         OarcRegrowthCheckChunkEmpty(event)
+--     end
+-- end)
+-- script.on_event(defines.events.on_robot_mined_entity, function(event)
+--     if global.ocfg.enable_regrowth then
+--         OarcRegrowthCheckChunkEmpty(event)
+--     end
+-- end)
 
 
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 -- Shared chat, so you don't have to type /s
+-- But you do lose your player colors across forces.
 ----------------------------------------
 script.on_event(defines.events.on_console_chat, function(event)
     if (global.ocfg.enable_shared_chat) then