I've been wanting to make a more mechanically-impressive mod for a while now, but I keep running into the problem that there's no examples, documentation, or, well, ANY information about the inner workings of the LUA/scripting API, nor the Behaviors system, which the game supports through XML files.

What's worse is that the editor that comes with the game itself has no menus for editing creature data, scripts, or any other such features, and scripts/event callbacks and behavior settings aren't shown as an editable property on the few items/blocks/creatures that actually use them, such as the cannons in the Heart of Evil DLC (which extensively use different behaviors to work), or the rat-spawning-from-destroyed-furniture mechanic in the Lonely Mountain DLC (which uses a LUA script to spawn them, fired from an event when a special helper item is dropped).

Maybe I'm just blind, but I've looked everywhere and there's no explanation as to how you're supposed to use these tools in a mod beyond the few usecases in the base game, despite how powerful/useful they seem, from making custom AIs to more advanced blocks/buildables, maybe even entirely new game mechanics...

So, does anyone know where more information on how to work with them can be found, like event callbacks and provided helper functions for the LUA API, or a lookup for what behaviors are available/what they do, and how to apply them to entities?