What's considered a raw material is whatever you can't craft by hand, or can't be crafted by the machine you're currently interacting with. This is why it shows steel bars as raw material for a solar panel, despite those being made by iron plates.

Batteries can't be made by hand because they ...

Chances are one of your mods has disabled the biter egg research without removing it as a prerequisite for promethium research, though it also could've been some other tech one of the mods added as well.


You can try hitting Ctrl+Shift+E to open the prototype explorer , selecting 'technology' in ...

Presumably you could do this with the quality_indicator_shift attribute on the entity prototypes, though I've never messed with it.

Not sure on icons though.

So, from what I understand,...
WUBE always wanted to do SA, but didn't have time, and wanted to get 1.0 out. After they release 1.0, Earendel singlehandedly wrote his/her own enormous SE mod, ...


This still sounds a bit off in my opinion: Wube did 1.0 with no intention to have SA already ...

Autosaves should be shown in the load menu. You might want to move the corrupt save to another directory, to see if maybe it's preventing Factorio from reading the rest of the files properly.

Sounds like a problem with one of your mods. You should probably remove them.


Mods shouldn't be causing the game to crash regardless of what they're doing, only causing an error. Something else is going on.

And the first error message shows up after loading core, which is part of the game ...

Shoot, when I redid some of the wording in the post after testing I accidently left out one of the sentences, and said wagon when I meant train.

The WAGON itself seems to need to also be aligned to one of the cardinal directions, otherwise pumps will not connect to it. Tolerance is for if any other ...

Far as I'm aware, the rail itself still needs to be aligned to a cardinal direction in order for the pump to properly target the rail, regardless of tolerance. Adjusting the tolerance just means it doesn't matter if any other parts of the wagon train are on a curve.

You'll notice a pump won't show ...

You need to put basic tech cards in the crashed ship part that acts as a lab. You use it long enough to research the ability to make real labs (which are then replaced later too).

There's 4 or so crashed ship bits that act like assemblers, and one that acts as a generator. I'd toss up a screenshot ...

There is no normal and expensive modes anymore, so the game is ignoring everything in those sections. Instead those properties are just in the root of the recipe.

Its one of the changes mentioned in the thread.

Removed normal and expensive properties from TechnologyPrototype and RecipePrototype.

If your PC is crashing, you need to check your hardware and drivers to find the problem. The game can't cause that. Likely you've got some failing hardware.

You're going to need to go over all the breaking changes mentioned in viewtopic.php?t=70603 and look through the API pages https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/index-runtime.html as you find issues. Prototypes have their own global object now, they're not under game anymore.

Not familiar with metatables myself, but there is no global anymore. It was renamed storage in 2.0, so you'll need to change any references to the new name.

Generally you'll want to make those two items in your new category, then add your new category to the buildings that should be able to also burn those things.

Can you ustill drive the old way? The idea of having tte car 'snap' to one of 8 directions doesnt sound appealing to me.


The angle at which it snaps is part of every car prototype (which includes the tank) as rotation_snap_angle. Presumably setting that to 0 will turn it off, though it doesn't ...

I'm currently developing a mod and I spend an awful lot of time closing Factorio, then tabbing back over to Steam among my million windows and launching the game again. Having a shortcut for this would save me a lot of time overall. Hopefully it would be easy to implement (the game already has ...

A look through the data.raw dump of prototypes says the transport belt category is 'pressing', not the default one. Pressing is in the list of crafting categories for the foundry.

For things like that you want the API docs - there's a link on the top of the page. Modifiers have their own page where they're listed an explained: https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/types/Modifier.html

You can find most of the actual graphics for the cargo pod in Factorio\data\base\graphics\entity\cargo-pod but not sure the exact image they use in achievements will be pulled from there - most likely they just rendered something new for it.

You could try updating your GPU driver or lowering your graphics settings - all of the logs point to issues in the graphics, either with a sprite or rendering.

Most likely though is a failing card.