And here's a minimal save that has the same problem.

Stone Brick in inventory.

Two for two so far, plus a previous crash that was probably (but not certainly) this plus running out of RAM.

Just load the save and try placing some stone path.

Any other info that would help?

Mods installed that are possibly relevant: Dectorio, RampantAI (with the option that increases RAM usage turned on), full AngelBobMadclownSpaceEX, AAI Vehicles, Coverup, Clean Concrete. Game running happily, if a little RAM-hungry. Then I go to place a stone path under my bus, so I can walk faster, ...

Yep, turning off parallel sprite loading looks like it would also have fixed the issue. (Memory usage only increased, instead of spiking and dropping) I kinda wish there was a way to say "only use X threads for sprite loading" though. I get that same system-wide freeze at 85%, and I probab...

And some more info from me having a poke around: The crash is caused by my machine running out of RAM at the "Loading Sprites" stage where factorio uses all my processors (I have 16 logical processors, and only 16GB RAM, with a system resting RAM of about 4GB, so each thread is using ~0.75...

Game loaded fine yesterday. Haven't changed any settings since last good load. OS is Gentoo Linux, Factorio is launched via Steam. Game goes into loading screen (the black one with the Factorio logo and orange progress bar, "loading mods", "loading sprites", etc...) At 80-90% the...

Going back to the main point of the OP, I tend to think of every base's purpose as to accelerate my next base's production. So the purpose of Base1 is to build everything you need for Base2 (including researching any relevant techs), Base2's purpose is to build everything needed for Base3, and so on...

Found a crash:

Changing the powered state of a vehicle (on/off/auto) while you are in it crashes the game.

I'm wanting to write a simple mod to let you say "this turret shoots the thing farthest away, this one shoots the thing nearest" and looking through the documentation I can't see how to do it. Is there a mod that already does this, or is it something we can't do? Why: I want to set up a co...