In the Manage tab of the Mods menu, there are two buttons above the area where the mod description appears: Changelog and a delete button. The buttons are enabled when there isn't a mod selected, but they don't do anything.

The way the changelogs for the game itself are shown, with the changenotes from every version since the one you just upgraded from shown in order, is very convenient. I usually view the changelogs for mods before I update them, so I'm aware if my factory is about to break, and it's much less ...

The new icons look amazing, particularly the way you adapted roboports, laser turrets, etc. into their portable versions.

However, I think the engine icon is one of the "problematic cases" you were asking about. It doesn't look at all like an engine, which could still be ok, except that it does ...

py Petroleum's changelog isn't recognized by the game because the file has tabs instead of spaces. The file format is very restrictive, see this post.

The pathfinding improvements are super interesting!

Will mods be able to query the heuristic value between two arbitrary points? If not, would that be likely to be added if someone requests it?

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I do indeed have some bad RAM. I never even thought to check that. It explains some other issues that I assumed was just linux being linux.

Thanks for your debugging help, and I'm sorry it wasn't actually Factorio-related.

I just had a whole bunch of errors and crashes, most of which happened while I was trying to reproduce the first. I assume at least some of them are related (I doubt I just happened to encounter 4 bugs at once) so I'm putting them in the same report.

Running Factorio 0.17.69 on Ubuntu 18.04.1, and ...

I have a save with a small number of mods, including the Construction Drones mod (by Klonan). When I try to load the game with that mod disabled, I get a crash every time. The save, mods folder, and two logs from two seemingly-identical crashes are attached.

In case it's relevant: MacOS 10.14.3 ...

Steps to reproduce:


In the research screen, search for something, e.g. "mining"
Click a technology, then click "Start Research"
List of technologies is reset to showing everything, although the search box is not cleared.


Expected behavior: The search filter is still applied until I change ...

This crash has happened somewhere around 6 times within a few hours. I haven't been able to identify anything that causes it. At the time of the most recent crash I was driving a train while robots were on their way back from placing rail, but it happens when bots and rail aren't involved too. Three ...

Thanks for the explanation. I can see how that wouldn't be worth fixing.

Perhaps one day pipe ghosts will connect, and that will fix this issue.

I've only seen this issue in one specific case. The save is attached.

Steps to reproduce:


Load the attached save
Try to place a pipe at the output of the pumpjack next to the character. It fails (correctly) with the reason "Tree is in the way"
Place a ghost pipe in the same location. Ghost ...

I use a windows-layout keyboard on a Mac, and use the MacOS modifier key remapping to swap the windows key (recognized as command key on mac) and alt key (recognized as option key on mac). The remapping settings are in System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard section -> Modifier Keys…

Option ...

Steps to reproduce:


Go to Start New Game screen
Show preview
Select ribbon world preset
Under "Advanced", change map height to 80
Preview refreshes. The 80 tiles worth of land is rendered correctly. Below it is a black bar of void (as expected), but below that you can still see the land from ...

Thanks!

Btw, I'm a big fan of the script rendering API. Thanks for that too!

I have a few ideas that would benefit from a way to open the map view for a specific player at a specific location. Suggested API:

player.open_map(location, scale)

Location is the coordinates of the position that will be centered in map view
Scale is an optional parameter for the map scale, with ...

Once an empty fluid system (connected network of fluidboxes - pipes, crafting machines etc.) touches either a fluid or a fluid filter, the system is locked onto that fluid. It is then not possible to connect it to another system with a different fluid. There are quite a few actions which can ...

I’m aware this might be difficult, depending on pathfinder implementation, but I’d love to be able to get paths that obey the constraints of vehicles — specifically the limited turning radius.

Chiming in on the water placement issue — in every single map I’ve played in 0.16, water frequency increases with distance from spawn until pretty soon, landfilling huge lakes is the only option. It completely eliminates water as a constraint to building, because there’s just not enough space. It ...

I attached a simplified version of the mod and a save game with too many cars (spawned by command). When I load this save and hit enter, I get the crash whose log is also in that zip file.