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Resetting mini-tutorial popups?

Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2020 8:01 pm
by TheEnemy42
I've tried searching but so far no cigar. As part of my translation process I've been playing through the newly updated campaign to see how the translated texts read in-game. I noticed however a lot of lacking infomation (like trains was never explained at all) and I realised that the mini-tutorials were probably supposed to popup to fix the missing pieces. How can I reactivate them so that they will pop up again?

I'd like to play through the campaign again but with all information available to the new player so I'm sure it's coherent.

Re: Resetting mini-tutorial popups?

Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2020 8:04 pm
by valneq
There is a button in the top right corner above the minimap with an academic hat icon on it. Clicking it should show the list of available mini tutorials.
[edit] Having said that, I don't konw how and when the game decides to show a "New Mini Tutorial Available" popup. I do remember that I had that when I first played through this game. But no idea how to reset it, to check for the correct timing, and whether it happens correctly during the tutorial.

Re: Resetting mini-tutorial popups?

Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2020 8:15 pm
by TheEnemy42
Oh, thanks, I forgot to add that I do know about the tutorial button but I havn't been able to find anything in that menu or any of the game menus to reset those popups. I remember when they were first added that they showed up automatically and I can only hope that they still do, otherwise a new player would be very confused about some things. I don't even think the campaign mentions the tutorial menu button.

Re: Resetting mini-tutorial popups?

Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2020 8:34 pm
by TheEnemy42
I've tried digging in the config files and I believe I've found what I was looking for in player-data.json. There is a tutorial list with a value for each of the mini-tutorials. Currently most of them have the value "suggested", except one I've just played that has the value "completed". So I guess I need to find the value for the initial state somehow. I've tried looking at the wiki but havn't found anything yet.

Re: Resetting mini-tutorial popups?

Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 12:09 pm
by TheEnemy42
I'm taking the liberty to bump this post as it's needed to aid my translation work. What value should these tutorial settings be set to in the config file to reset them? Or should it just be removed?

Re: Resetting mini-tutorial popups?

Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 4:05 pm
by orzelek
Search for player-data.json and in it there is a section for tutorials.
I think it should be safe to just delete that section (don't delete whole file there are more useful things in it).

For me this file is in mainFactorio direcotry - I'm using standalone version.

Re: Resetting mini-tutorial popups?

Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2020 10:13 am
by Zavian
If you use the portable .zip version, you can reset everything (including the tutorials) by just extracting a the zip file to a clean directory.

Re: Resetting mini-tutorial popups?

Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2020 11:37 am
by TheEnemy42
I just use the Steam version. For the record I tried editing player-data.json and removed the relevant tutorial section but it didn't work. When I looked at the file after I had run Factorio it had re-added the same values again so I guess it's controlled from somewhere else. I ended up just playing through the mini tutorials separately and hope that the devs have testet it themselves :)

Re: Resetting mini-tutorial popups?

Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2020 4:02 pm
by SWSe
For those using Steam on Windows, the player-data.json file exists twice.
In case someone finds this useful (for this, or unlocking all tutoral levels etc.):

It works for me by setting the relevant values in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\[user number]\427520\remote\player-data.json
Such as "status": "not-suggested-yet" for mini-tutorials.

This location is mentioned on the wiki, and it seems this copy always replaces the one in AppData.

Re: Resetting mini-tutorial popups?

Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2020 10:57 am
by TheEnemy42
Ah, that was the reason. Nice to know, thanks.

Was the value "not-suggested-yet" a lucky guess or did you find it somewhere?

Re: Resetting mini-tutorial popups?

Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2020 11:58 am
by SWSe
I found it on a second device, where the tutorial progress had not yet been synchronised.
And also, as Zavian mentioned, the zip download from the website should contain all default values. So that's an option to look them up too. :)