How to make a list of MonoBehavior classes

Questions & Answers
1

I’ve been trying to make a list of classes for making each class/factory have it’s unique level. I can’t, because it says that I can’t use “new” to add a MonoBehavior class to the list. I can’t understand how to use the alternative, AddComponent(), either.

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class Spawning : MonoBehaviour
{
    public static Vector3 trueMousePos;
    private int id;

    List<Factory> factories = new List<Factory>();

    void Update()
    {
        Vector3 worldPoint = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition, Camera.MonoOrStereoscopicEye.Mono);
        trueMousePos = new Vector3(worldPoint.x, worldPoint.y, transform.position.z);//this is for finding the position of the mouse in the game world
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Alpha1)) { id++; factories.Add(new Factory(id)); }//the error is here
    }
}

public class Factory : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject factory;
    private int id;
    private int level;

    public Factory(int id)
    {
        this.id = id;
    }

    void Start()
    {
        Instantiate(factory).transform.position = Spawning.trueMousePos;
    }

    void OnMouseDown()
    {
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Mouse0)) { this.level++; variables.tac--; }
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Mouse1)) { this.level--; variables.tac++; }
    }
}
2

You are supposed to use Instantiate instead of new for monoBehaiours, you can instead instantiate it and set it to a reference so you can set the id.