But the thing I can't do without some fragile binary spelunking I'm trying to avoid is tell what mods I should have active to load a map. The GUI will show me that, after loading a possibly-wrong set. Any chance of getting a `--show-metadata` startup option to quickly show the same map and mod versions and maybe scenario name info the Load Game screen shows?
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$ factorio --show-metadata FILE # same FILE search the other map-loading options use, with the negligible startup overhead of the `--benchmark` option.
{
map_version = "1.1.37",
scenario = "freeplay",
mods = { base = "1.1.37", HallOfFame = "1.9.0" },
}
$
or json instead of lua might be more to taste.
I've got this feeling I'm not the first to ask for something like this, but searching for map metadata showed nothing similar in the first maybe couple dozen hits so here it is again I guess.