[0.17.15] Error while loading a savegame after death

[Aryos]

I died while attacking an biter base. After my death i loaded one of the last quicksaves and this error occured:

Error while running event level::on_load()
...Data/Roaming/Factorio/temp/currently-playing/control.lua:395: attempt to index field 'story' (a nil value)
stack traceback:
...Data/Roaming/Factorio/temp/currently-playing/control.lua:395: in function <...Data/Roaming/Factorio/temp/currently-playing/control.lua:394>


The same message appears when i load all the other quicksaves and the previous save of the game.

[jotun]

I ran into a similar problem today. Fixed it thanks to IronCartographer's advice in Discord

Take the control.lua file from Factorio/data/base/scenarios/freeplay and use it to replace the one in your save file

What happened for me was that the control.lua file from a tutorial (chain train signals) somehow replaced the freeplay one in the save

[Aryos]

Thank you for your help. I tried your solution and it works

[TruePikachu]

Related to 68046 (said to be fixed in next release, but not in that subforum for some reason).

[Aryos]

Related to 68046 (said to be fixed in next release, but not in that subforum for some reason).

The death might be not related to this issue. I remember also doing the inventory tutorial and not being able to complete it. I didnt load the savegame between the tutorial and my death, so I think I had the same issue as in the related post.

I wasn't aware this problem already exists, so im sorry if I caused confusion regarding this issue.

[posila]

Thanks for the report.
The bug that corrupted the save is fixed, and we decided to not implement special logic to recover affected saves, so people will need to recover them manually (or send them to us).