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I am trying to update Multiple Unit Train Control to use the new fallback groups with entity description keys.

I created a locale structure in data-updates.lua: For entities where entity-decription exists, this worked fine. For entities without entity-description, it populated "template.mu-description" with "Unknown key..." in place of the "__1__" field. I expected the fallback group to take effect when the nested entity-description string could not be found.

I then created a different locale structure based on the example in the forum post: This correctly detected when entity-description and item-description were invalid, and used "template.plain-mu-description". For entities with description, it returned the concatenated string, with "__1__" still in the string (as expected).

Therefore, it seems the fallback group logic is only checking for existence of the template locale string, and not the entries that should be substituted into it. Or is there a different syntax that should be used?

Edit: In my application, I could do what I wanted by converting it to just concatenation. But it could be a problem in other situations.

Thanks, it's fixed for the next release. LocalisedString won't ignore 'correct' translation status of its parameters, so if one of them has unknown translation, the parent string will also be marked as not being correctly translated.

This could be considered as a breaking change which is why I hesitated with this fix for so long (and because a workaround existed).