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Posted: **Sat Jul 20, 2019 10:03 pm**

Hi,

I can't seem to load a save file or even create a new save.
I'm trying to use the `factorio-init` scripts from github as recommended by the wiki.

I somehow got this to work with one save file that had a few hours on it. That one had mods. I changed the mods-list.json to disable a few of them so I could start a new map. I tried to load another save with only a few minutes played and ran into an error about "no map settings instance". Now I run into that error even when trying to create a new map.

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   0.000 2019-07-20 22:01:21; Factorio 0.17.58 (build 46193, linux64, headless)
   0.047 Operating system: Linux (Ubuntu 18.04)
   0.047 Program arguments: "/opt/factorio/bin/x64/factorio" "--create" "/opt/factorio/bin/x64/../../saves/z04.zip" "--map-gen-settings=/opt/factorio/bin/x64/../../data/map-gen-settings.example.json" "--map-settings=/opt/factorio/bin/x64/../../data/map-settings.json"
   0.047 Read data path: /opt/factorio/data
   0.047 Write data path: /opt/factorio [17681/19673MB]
   0.047 Binaries path: /opt/factorio/bin
   0.054 System info: [CPU:            Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU @ 2.30GHz, 1 core, RAM: 3693 MB]
   0.055 Environment: DISPLAY=<unset> WAYLAND_DISPLAY=<unset> DESKTOP_SESSION=<unset> XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=<unset> XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=<unset> __GL_FSAA_MODE=<unset> __GL_LOG_MAX_ANISO=<unset> __GL_SYNC_TO_VBLANK=<unset> __GL_SORT_FBCONFIGS=<unset> __GL_YIELD=<unset>
   0.055 Running in headless mode
   0.205 Loading mod core 0.0.0 (data.lua)
   0.268 Checksum for core: 716058110
   0.344 Error Util.cpp:83: No map settings instance.

Posted: **Sun Jul 21, 2019 11:13 am**

That's a mod error, one of your mods removes the map-settings prototype. Or rather, it's never added to the game - the base mod isn't being loaded. You should check if you accidentally disabled it in the mod list json.

Posted: **Tue Jul 23, 2019 1:37 pm**

I vaguely remember running `s/true/false/` in my mods-list.json so I could select a subset of the large ./mods/ directory I uploaded to the server. I must have forgotten the base-mod. Thanks. Issue closed.

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