I played space age multiplayer on version 2.0.14, got to Gleba. Then I saved it to do spend 10+ hours to build some quite large and nifty combinator logic in single player editor mode. The combinator network effectively allows having a power-like plot for any circuit signal, with a logarithmic x-axis and autoscaling y-axis.
My design incorporates many combinators and legendary items such as substations as they're easy to get in editor mode.
In the editor settings, I changed robot worker speed to 12 and made nauvis biters friendly.
I saved the game and leave the it running. I want to show the design off to a friend on my multiplayer server but after uploading the save, the server printed this error while loading that save:
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2.720 Warning Map.cpp:358: Map loading failed: Invalid bool loaded from input file. File could be corrupted.
2.817 Error ServerMultiplayerManager.cpp:84: MultiplayerManager failed: "Invalid bool loaded from input file. File could be corrupted."
Then I did something that I now regret - without first saving the cool designs as blueprints, I restart my game client.
> What happened?
Turns out my game can't load the save file it created and prints the same error in the log! I try to load each of the three autosaves, but no dice.
Trying to load them with 2.0.15 also claims they are invalid in the same manner.
Update: I've re-tested it on 2.0.16, resulting in the same error.
> What did you expect to happen instead? It might be obvious to you, but do it anyway!
I can load the save.
Alternatively, the game pausing or crashing after writing an invalid save may be preferable because then there will be at lease 2 autosaves that are not corrupted and I have better info to give to you on which in-game action cause the state of the save to be invalid.
> Does it happen always, once, or sometimes?
This happens every time I load these saves.
Could you please help me recover my combinator network on Gleba that took many hours to build? The rest of the save is not important to me as I have a working copy before I switched to editor mode.
Thank you for making this awesome game which I've enjoyed for over 2000 hours before hitting a bug as significant as this one.