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Hello

After loading a save game and my friend joined in multiplayer my belts are gone


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edit: i restarted my PC and before my frind joined i chose a research and the bug with disappearing belts is gone

This happened to me after I put my computer on standby during the game startup. Game version = 0.12.30
When the system woke up, the loading screen had changed. Only a purple bar (instead of the usual orange) and the percentage remained, the Factorio logo had disappeared.
When I loaded my game after that, my belts had disappeared:

I'm guessing the log file, along with any mods you may be using, could be helpful...

Are the actual entities gone or are they just not being rendered?

prg wrote:Are the actual entities gone or are they just not being rendered?

The items on the belts still moved across the field, so the belts were there, but just invisible.

sillyfly wrote:I'm guessing the log file, along with any mods you may be using, could be helpful...

Where do I find the log file?
Haven't installed any mods.

See https://wiki.factorio.com/index.php?title=Log_File and https://wiki.factorio.com/index.php?tit ... _directory

prg wrote:Are the actual entities gone or are they just not being rendered?

They are just not rendered, they are working as normal, just not displayed.

Possible steps to reproduce the bug (i dont know if this is the cause)

Start Facotio.exe->Put computer to sleep->Wake up computer->Load game for multiplayer->Join player 2

boksiora wrote:

prg wrote:Are the actual entities gone or are they just not being rendered?

They are just not rendered, they are working as normal, just not displayed.

Possible steps to reproduce the bug (i dont know if this is the cause)

Start Facotio.exe->Put computer to sleep->Wake up computer->Load game for multiplayer->Join player 2

That 2nd step is the issue - don't put the computer to sleep with a game running and expect the game to not have issues.

My PC went to sleep automatically overnight while game was minimized.

Maybe if you can detect that you can show a message in factorio that it needs restart.
This "sleep thing" can happen without people realizing it.

For example if i am playing on a laptop and close the laptop, it goes to sleep.
If the game is running i can get a message when i get back to the game.

I had the same exact thing happen to me, but I plugged my second monitor in with a vga cable.

and it have also happened to different degrees of invisible-ness like one time only the rail-tracks was invisible.

if you want I can test it some more.