Also unhappy with Oil changes. But I don't agree with Heavy Oil + Cracking from the start either! If they exactly and precisely want to help pure beginners, just add even simpler processing recipes for refinery on its first research: 1 Input → any 1 Output. Just break up Basic Oil Processing! Recipe...

Seems to work so far. I loaded up an old 0.16 save with HC + tons of other mods, hundreds of hours in; no problems anymore. However I had one strange startup error with HC (game traced it back to the 'data-final-fixes.lua' file), but only once and I can't replicate it anymore. I then deactivated all...

Well, dang it.

That one download was me and I can confirm problems with autoplace. If we could only get around this last obstacle we'd have Hardcrafting working again on 0.17. Sadly I have no experience with Factorio modding.

I would love a 0.17 version.

I can't start a real game without this anymore - I need it. Please be so kind!