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It would great if there was a "Restart" button in the mods menu, so when making changes / developing mods, you can quickly restart the game and see the changes. Right now I current made a mod that I load that errors out when it's enabled so I can enable it cause a restart and then disable it again. Using this method I have to restart twice.

I know it'd be nice for me personally, and I assume it'd be helpful for others as well.


Thanks in advance for looking over this suggestion.

I'm not sure what exactly you are asking for. On the mod manager screen, there is a button labeled 'Confirm'. When you press this button, the game installs any new or updated mods you've selected, then quits and restarts. What does your proposed button do differently?

It would restart the game without needing to make any changes to the mod list. So when developing mods you'd have a quick way to restart after making changes to your mod. Without needing to enable/disable any other mods. It'd be useful for mod developers and most if not all the functionality is already in the game, it would just be a new button that directly calls the restart function that's already in the game.

What about https://mods.factorio.com/mod/ReloadModsRedux ?

Fox536 wrote: Wed Jun 10, 2026 12:53 am It would restart the game without needing to make any changes to the mod list. So when developing mods you'd have a quick way to restart after making changes to your mod. Without needing to enable/disable any other mods. It'd be useful for mod developers and most if not all the functionality is already in the game, it would just be a new button that directly calls the restart function that's already in the game.

What is the advantage over just hitting quit and launching the game again? You're literally only saving one double-click.