Factorio lost my login details

[Rhamphoryncus]

I was installing some mods and restarted the game. One mod failed to load so I disabled it and restarted again. Upon restarting I was prompted for username/password despite that I had already been using them.

• Factorio 0.15.2
• Windows 10
• No antivirus other than windows defender
• Installed directly from the website so steam cloud sync can't be a factor
• player-data.json contains plenty of other information so it wasn't simply deleted.

I've seen 5 or 10 instances of people complaining about factorio losing their login but I was only able to find one report: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=30251&p=191175

Edit: Mods are rso-mod, angelsinfiniteores, auto-research, bullet-trails, More signal color, More_Floors, nixie-tubes, GDIW. Failing mod is More_Floors. The bug is repeatable: every time I toggle on More_Floors and restart, then tell the game to disable it, it loses my login details.

[credomane]

I can confirm this. Happened to me as well last night after installing More_Floors!

• Win 7
• Factorio on Steam

Config settings weren't reset so like OP said only the factorio credentials were lost.

[Klonan]

Thanks for the report,

Do you have some reliable steps to reproduce the problem?
Does it still occur in 0.15

[bobingabout]

Since upgrading to 0.15, I've been getting this error pretty much constantly.

Basically... Install a mod (or in my case edit a mod) that causes a "Disable this mod to continue" error, and when you restart the game, there's a very good chance that the game forgets your log in details.

[HanziQ]

I wasn't able to reproduce this, but I found a possible culprit, so we'll see in the next version. If you find a way to reproduce this, I would appreciate it. I tried breaking mods so the game switches into minimal mode, where the bug should be happening, but it didn't. It probably needs to be broken in a specific way.