Not sure if I should attach to this... bug I have the same kind of crash without using "Laser Bot"... My crash happens in Stable and Experimental (even though mod versions differ) and is kinda random. If I load an older save, it might go on without crashing for a while longer. It crashed a...

[...] Guys. It's time. RIP 32-bit computers. Won't happen ;) Not for a while at least. Probably never on x86(_64) [...] THIRTEEN YEARS. That is a **very** long time in the gaming industry. [...] (Starcraft added support for 64bit a few months ago) You shouldn't compare the situation with how old 64...

[...] (since ipv6 guarantees only 1280, and also has no fragmentation support ) [...] Just to clarify some things so others might not get the wrong idea... IPv6 guarantees that the MTU is at least 1280 (IPv4 supported at least 68.... yep that's right.. 68 but with a minimum datagram size of 576) an...

[...] Except that in practice – at least in Factorio practice – there are subtle differences [...] I would like to know which ones... The related changelog mentioned floating point arithmetic which can't be used anyway... since floating points have different implementations even on the same platfor...

[...] Actually, this is not true. My PC still has a 32-bit processor, an AMD Sempron 140 and still is able to play factorio with bobs mods. So that is really just not true. Sempron 140 is a 64bit CPU: http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K10/AMD-Sempron%20140%20-%20SDX140HBK13GQ%20%28SDX140HBGQBOX%29.html...

Just in case someone finds this through Google...
It's possible to keep using the Steam version and still have a console.
Use "SET LAUNCH OPTIONS..." from Factorio's properties in Steam and set them to: