TL;DR: Not a Factorio bug - seems like a new "feature" of steam / pressure-vessel
Workaround:
Replace the Steam Launch command with something like
<PATH TO FACTORIO>/bin/x64/factorio # "%command%"
The trailing # "%command%" comment is required to replace the whole command and not only append to ...

Beside the obvious excitement for the Space Age Expansion and its release date i'd like to highlight another important gem in this FFF:
But thats not all. Factorio: Space Age will also coincide with the release of Factorio version 2.0 which will be a free upgrade for all users.
This is a quite ...

First of all: Thank you very much for the excellent Linux support !

Not sure if it was already mentioned or considered, but running the async-save fork with an adjusted oom score (see proc(5) oom_score_adj) should prevent at least some memory related crashes. By sacrificing (=eg. adj +500) the fork ...

Thanks for replying !

I tried something similar in Jun. 18. It did not work well and i decided that i'm not familiar enough with the Factorio Modding API to see all side effects like:

Performance (especially with many recipes)
Multiplayer (imagine player A opens a assembling machine. While the ...

Dear Dev's

i also would request such a feature in Factorio for a mod quite similar to Avacado's one.
It uses the same techniques and offers support for DeadLockStacking Belts which brings currently around 12+12 additional recipes included in different crafting categories. None of these should be ...

Unfortunately, Factorio seems to fix this in a way that it quits resp. shutdowns directly instead of showing the Error to the user resp. modder.

0.000 2017-12-15 18:00:40; Factorio 0.16.3 (build 34357, linux64, steam)
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1.862 Checksum of Vehicle_Radar: 3657150715
2.096 Loading sounds...
2 ...

Optimizations are always welcome ;)

As already mentioned, UPS-Efficient Robots would be very nice for Mega Bases but would unbalance the combat side of the game.

Assumed that it would be possible to have entity and smoke robots at the same time in the game, a new late game technology like "High ...