Hi, Can someone explain this part to me?

local resource_autoplace = require("resource-autoplace")
...
autoplace = resource_autoplace.resource_autoplace_settings({ ... etc ...})

where does that "resource-autoplace.lua" file come from?


It's part of the base game. There's a few lua scripts in ...

SaboteurKiev wrote: Fri Aug 08, 2025 6:00 pm It would be ok, if they just stop moving., but i want to say that they are swimming and grouping near some "vertical" lines.

Those are chunk boundaries. When they move into the chunk outside the radius where they're active, they stop moving, so many can pile up at the boundary.

Neat. Looks kind of like a miniature bastion fort.

Like how a single fish can be currently inserted into a space-age rocket to trigger special behavior


I got curious and so I launched a single fish into a rocket silo and launched the rocket to a stationary platform above Nauvis. I didn't notice anything unexpected. What is this special ...

I don't see anywhere in that code where you add it to the planet's autoplace's specification, to allow it to spawn on that planet.

for instance, for Homeworld the sand-source resource needs to be added to nauvis before it spawns there:
data.raw.planet.nauvis.map_gen_settings.autoplace_controls ...

Did you try a filtered deconstruction planner? Should be able to spread that over everything in your base and it'll get marked.

is this mod dead? i cant load the mod in 1.1 due the bob's mining needing 2.0.. i cant load both at the same time but i need them both, is there another way to play the mod


Needed versions are still on the mod portal. You can download the required version manually, or delete the installed one ...

Far as I'm aware it's not possible to make a gun that doesn't require ammo - presumably because some portions of it's attack is based on the ammo used.

You can make one that doesn't CONSUME ammo by setting the attack_parameters.ammo_consumption_modifier to 0. It still needs ammo in the gun but won ...

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.