if I come up with the solution I will, but as of right now it was an issue with the internet kill switch on my VPN client. They haven't responded with an explanation yet, but enabling this setting has recently started causing some issues like this one to come up after a recent update. This wasn't an...

nevermind, figured it all out. Turns out, just as I suspected it had nothing to do with my DNS settings.

and I would do this how, exactly? As the matrix doesn't actually exist yet, I cannot simply download network technician knowledge to understand how to proceed with this information.

So recently I've started to receive this error message when I launch Factorio factorio failed.png This error message started popping up just out of no where, I hadn't changed anything settings wise both inside and outside the game, no new mods had been downloaded, everything was performing normally ...

so that worked, and it seems now it's enabled even in a new game. Still confused as to how this happened, don't recall ever typing in that command but it's certainly possible I just forgot. Thanks!

I'm going to be completely honest with you, I don't know what any of this means. What's a json file? And if you are referring to the shortcuts on the right side of the toolbar, that is where the problem is.

So I've been playing Factorio for about a month now, and I've always had the ability to make use of the cut/copy/paste option as well as blueprints even in early game situations. I had to do a system reset recently which required reinstalling Factorio and when I fired the game up and loaded my save ...