Fantastic detail and explanation! Thank you very much!

I'm working to update older mods for 2.1, and have found a number of instances of warnings in luacheck like:

mutating non-standard global variable data
accessing undefined variable data

In both cases, the relevant lines look like:


data.raw["cargo-pod"]["cargo-pod"].created_effect = {
...
data ...

This solved it for me!

I added:
local resource_autoplace = require("resource-autoplace")
data.raw.planet.nauvis.map_gen_settings.autoplace_controls["geothermal-vent"] = {}
data.raw.planet.nauvis.map_gen_settings.autoplace_settings.entity.settings["geothermal-vent"] = {}
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To create my first mod, I've chosen to update/migrate an existing (older) mod from 1.1 to 2.0: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/geothermalpower-yalda

I've managed to update the code to "run", but the resources (geothermal vents) do not place during a new game map gen, and does not show in preview.

I ...