Have you tried to download 1.0 and update your save? 1.0 can load saves from as low version as 0.16.0 ... as 0.18.47 did. And it can load 0.18 versions of most mods as 0.18 did. Technically, 1.0.0 is just an alias for 0.18.48.

(Also, I think dropping compatibility with 0.17 saves from 1.1 was ...

Older releases of Factorio is available on the main site, all the way back to 0.6! On the download page simply click on "Download older releases...". I use it quite often to update old save files.

https://www.factorio.com/download/archive


If you look at carefully u see that there is a big ...

I was able to solve my 0.17.79 save file issue, by finding a pirated copy of factorio 0.18.8 on the web, and used that to upgrade the save file over 0.18.
After the newest version(1.1.36) loads it kinda ok. For some reason all the library gets deleted during this process, but that's a smaller ...

Klonan wrote: Wed Aug 04, 2021 8:37 am

leres wrote: Wed Aug 04, 2021 8:04 am The next version available on the archives is 1.0 which asks for a minimum of v0.18 savefiles.

1.0.0 can load 0.17 save games

I've tried to use 1.0 to load my 0.17.79 save. It doesn't reject it right away because of the version but gives the following error

I want to upgrade my old savefiles(0.17.79) to whatever current. I tried downloading older versions of the game.
I can open my saves with 0.17.79, no problem.
The next version available on the archives is 1.0 which asks for a minimum of v0.18 savefiles.

I guess i need to get a hold of a 0.18 ...