Posted the update, finally! Added example of a working changelog file and a short description of the syntax rules at the top Added note on the contents of VERSION fields, regarding multiple version numbers/text add-ons (section "Structure of a changelog file") Added note on the difference ...

also note: this i my first post ever. I just noticed the fact there are more people on this forum looking for this. I have no idea how to make a fancy forumpost or something ;) It would help immensely if you placed the blueprint string between [bp] and [/bp] tags. When you edit your post, there's a...

Wouldn't it be awesome if tracks tracked how many locomotives have passed? Do you really mean "how many locomotives have passed" or rather "how many times did some locomotive pass"? I always find numbers like these irritating. One example from real life: The company responsible ...

As a sidenote, some of the errors have already been improved a bit. I changed the "no colon after category error" to instead say "category line does not end in colon", because that is what it is actually checking - a space after the colon will throw this error. The "duplica...

OK, I'll update it over the weekend.

Muppet9010 wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 11, 2019 9:25 am

Hmm if date can't be duplicate does that mean somehow the "base" mod ignores the parsing?

Are you sure the Date lines are exactly the same? The value is a string, and white space at the end of the line wouldn't throw an error here, but could make the strings different.

As a sidenote, some of the errors have already been improved a bit. I changed the "no colon after category error" to instead say "category line does not end in colon", because that is what it is actually checking - a space after the colon will throw this error. The "duplica...

badtouchatr wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 11, 2019 7:32 am

Pi-C: I agree 99.9999993% (sorry, rounding error )

I'm going to reserve judgment until I make the next update, but I'm leaning towards one of these possibilities:

- something doesn't work right for the very first time you upload a new mod, or
- the parser is just acting moody.

I've been actively replying to your thread, I know that! I've immediately included (rather, linked to) the list of category names you provided, and I've also acknowledged your contribution in the original post of this thread. :-) I hope I'm enough to be your official guy :p I'm sorry if I made a wr...

And, thanks for the tip on the date format (including time) for same-day submissions. I will keep that in mind. There is date and time standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 Following Blue Templar's suggestion , I added a note recommending the use of UTC in changelogs. Actually, it was th...

Factorio doesn't do "it's close, so I'll fix it" logic - the thing is either correct or incorrect - and in the case of changlog files they're incorrect if they don't match the exact formatting required by the changlog system. Others have already taken issue with this, and rightly so. To q...

Last time I checked "date" could be any string. It is not parsed at all and displayed as-is. My guess is that by changing the date you fixed another mistake. You're right, it doesn't matter to the game what format the date is in. But the thing is, his changelog was parsed correctly by the...

Found the "culprit": disabling "press Control twice to locate pointer" in Gnome Tweak Tool allows Factorio to see Control key presses again. Wow, thank you so much, that works for me, too! The funny thing is,I had left this option deliberately on so I could check whether the CTR...

I began playing only at 0.16.51. CTRL was sometimes recognized when I changed the keyboard mapping -- but completely unpredictable. Restarting the computer, or even just the X session, would cause CTRL to break, even if the key mapping was still the same and the key CTRL was mapped to worked in all ...

Did it actually work for you until now? I've the same issue ( reported here ). For me, CTRL stopped working with 0.17.15, so I now have installed 0.17.14 (with experimental updates disabled) for playing -- and another instance that I regularly update just to check whether CTRL works again. It really...

So I moved on, and did something else, like add more features. :-) The latest versions of the mod do actually have change logs in them now, but they only go back to 0.15.0, and only 3 mods have been released since then. Power, Warfare and Logistics. Well, that's a starting point! Would be nice to h...

For the longest time, I just didn't bother having a change log in the mod, because the changelog file is way too brutal, This post I've completely failed to notice before. :-) I'd assumed your mods didn't have changelogs because you have so many of them that required too much time to take care of …...

The devs gave us filtered splitters as way to separate the ores into their own belts. They work great... as long as the more frequent ore keeps being consumed, but if it stops... the less frequent (and often more needed) ore can't reach the splitter, so it can't be separated. The result is that you...

According to my browser history from yesterday, the 0.17.27 thread used to be located at https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=69269 . Exactly: releasenotes_0.17.27.png Knowing for sure now that I've not been imagining things. Apart from that, I guess it's quite pointless to draw out ...

i think that if 0.17.27 wasn't released publicly […] But it was! I distinctly remember seeing the announcement on the forum, just before I went over to the super market to grab some beer for the evening. About half an hour later, I fired up my non-working version of Factorio to check out whether up...