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How can I dump a list of strings from a map and/or my personal blueprint-storage.dat file? It looks like serialized JSON but I'd like to know what metadata or headers, etc precede/delimit the blueprints so I can parse it or maybe there's another option. I have dozens of blueprint-storage.dat files and no way am I loading every old revision of the game and every blueprint-storage.dat file and all interesting maps and manually exporting every string using the in-game interface. This must be automate-able!

There was at least some discussion along these lines in a recent FFF topic, (quote below).

There is also a somewhat related topic in Ideas and Suggestions.

It seems that the more likely outcome of such a feature would be to change the storage format of the blueprint library on disk as opposed to creating an export tool/utility. However kovarex suggests below that "just making backups" should be sufficient in his eyes.

kovarex wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 15, 2019 9:21 pm

dee- wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 15, 2019 9:00 pm

Are blueprints and blueprint books automatically synced as individual files/directories from and to the disk?
Then I could init a Git repository there and version control all my blueprints...

They are not (just blueprint.dat). What you say makes sense, but I'm not sure what to do with that A super-user option to keep blueprints in directory structure instead of a file? Well, i believe, that just making backups of the file is enough for the typical geek.

Thanks to your comment, I found this https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/Lua ... port_stack

Not sure how to parse available blueprints whether in player's lib or game BPs or whatnot. Will keep digging.

I've written a tool to decode the blueprint-storage.dat format into JSON and from there into the standard import/export string.
If you are using Linux you can give it a try:

https://github.com/asheiduk/factorio-blueprint-decoder

asheiduk wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 21, 2020 10:22 pm

I've written a tool to decode the blueprint-storage.dat format into JSON and from there into the standard import/export string.
If you are using Linux you can give it a try:

https://github.com/asheiduk/factorio-blueprint-decoder

Unfortunately, this tool didn't work for me. Any existing alternatives?

Hares wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 25, 2023 1:05 pm

asheiduk wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 21, 2020 10:22 pm

I've written a tool to decode the blueprint-storage.dat format into JSON and from there into the standard import/export string.
If you are using Linux you can give it a try:

https://github.com/asheiduk/factorio-blueprint-decoder

Unfortunately, this tool didn't work for me. Any existing alternatives?

You can file a bug/issue in GitHub if you can provide a concise example.

asheiduk wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 02, 2024 8:44 am

Hares wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 25, 2023 1:05 pm

asheiduk wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 21, 2020 10:22 pm

I've written a tool to decode the blueprint-storage.dat format into JSON and from there into the standard import/export string.
If you are using Linux you can give it a try:

https://github.com/asheiduk/factorio-blueprint-decoder

Unfortunately, this tool didn't work for me. Any existing alternatives?

You can file a bug/issue in GitHub if you can provide a concise example.

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