... I was watching an ore patch dry up in map mode. It resulted in granting the achievement in game and in steam as well. After the achievement triggered it locked up, and didn't seem to respond to signals. The music continued to play though. ... Adding up to this, this is exactly what happened to ...

For me the game did not crash, but froze instead, I had to open gdb and find where the executable was stuck: Thread 1 (Thread 0x7f611b3bb0c0 (LWP 432287) "factorio"): #0 0x00007f611b7c762b in __recvmsg_syscall (fd=33, msg=0x7ffeb6bd3370, flags=0) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/recvmsg.c:27 ...