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What did I do?

I was placing the belt with smart belt, using building on edge of reach area when mouse is outside of reach area. While moving mouse more towards left edge of the monitor.

What Happened?

The belt stopped being built

What did you expect to happen?

The belt continues being built



Currently when placing belt if your mouse goes outside of build area, the belt will be placed on the edge of the build area as long as mouse button is held. However if the mouse is further away from the player character this behaviour stops. This happened on high zoom out levels and with ultrawide monitor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ehIRApcnUw

Version: 1.1.41 (build 58972, win64)
Release: steam

The video was recorded in modded version of factorio, but was able to recreate the issue when all mods are unloaded

I am not considering this to be a bug.

Drag building is heavily based around the gap filler logic which tries to build entities between recently placed entity and the cursor position. Because every entity built here will send an input action there was a safeguard implemented that will disable gap filler when the distance to "fill the gaps" is greater than 50 tiles. From what i remember it was already increased from 10* tiles limit to 20 and then to 50.