What did you do?

Run Factorio 2.0.34, base game without mods and without Space age DLC
Single Player > New Game > Freeplay
Set seed to 2953497924 (any seed will work, but you need to find an ore patch with trees over it outside pre-generated area and teleport to it instead)
Start the game ...

Pi-C wrote: Thu Dec 19, 2024 8:28 am I'd say you can't, you have to work around it. The events on_pre_player_left_game/on_player_joined_game and on_pre_player_toggled_map_editor are your friends …

Well, that's just disappointing.
Thanks for the clever workaround, might try to apply it

Currently the way to access inventory of a connected player is (ignoring nil checks):
-- we access inventory on the character, not the player since player has no inventory while being in remote view
if player.character then
-- player is alive
local inventory = player.character.get_main_inventory ...