It ain't the first time I'm reporting this bug , apparently it was fixed at some point but I couldn't help myself from testin' it anyway. Similar to the first post, playing only vanilla Factorio.


What did you do?

Singleplayer -> New Game -> Freeplay
Preview
Randomise seed OR Update OR ...

For reference, only base game is enabled.

What did you do?

Singleplayer -> New Game -> Freeplay
[In quick succession] Preview -> Play

I attached a downscaled recording to demonstrate the issue.
What happened?
Upon pressing "Play" after pressing "Preview", game crashed but produced a ...