There seems to be a bug with handling deconstruction planner if one of the players is dead. Here is bug report that interested me: https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/4hx6zw/trains_kill_our_server/ . Basically if a player is dead LuaPlayer.cursor_stack is nil and the game crashes when trying ...

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I experimented with player deaths and keeping inventory for respawning a player after encounter with a train, you can check it out here: http://pastebin.com/xNi8k0jy. One issue I can see is that more complicated items like power armor or blueprints won't be preserved in your mod.

Type: Mod Name: Train knockback Description: Knocks player back instead of killing him if hit by a train. In MP player is stunned for 10s. License: MIT Version: 0.1.0 Release: 2016-04-17 Tested-With-Factorio-Version: 0.12.29 This is an initially simple mod which overrides deaths caused by a train by...