Make ghosted space platforms or bluprint them when destroyed

[Burrguy]

So I put all this work into a spaceplatform, at least 2 hours, sent it off to the edge of the solarsystem and it worked for a while. After a while it was set on autopilot and it got destroyed. Now I have no design to work from. There is also no way to know if a spaceplatform got destroyed, it should be in the menu indicating that it was destroyed.

TL;DR

Save space platforms designs or ghost them when they get destroyed. Having a blueprint would enable you to rebuid it at the planet of your choice.

What?

Either save the space platform with a blueprint or make a ghosted platform similar to

Why?

This increases the value of the game by decreasing frustration. It's really frustrating when you lose work, I've actually stopped playing factorio because this was so frustrating.

[mmmPI]

Sounds like the exact description of this : https://mods.factorio.com/mod/space-platform-graveyard

For that case when you didn't make a blueprint yourself when the ship was finished or put in auto mode and can't reload autosave to make one.

I know it's frustrating, don't let that happen to you again !

[SirSmuggler]

+1
Has happende to me and it is indeed frustrating. When something is destroyed on a planet, it's not permanently disapeared, it leaves a ghost. So it's very easy to not be used to having to manually create a BP in order to be sure "external threats" will not permanently disapear your designs.