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Image for incompatibility report to a mod

You should find the author of the mod, this is just a generally modding help forum

Klonan wrote: Mon Dec 14, 2020 3:26 pm You should find the author of the mod, this is just a generally modding help forum

Oh, sorry, I posted on the specific mods page. I just used the forum as an image host.

AlveKatt wrote: Mon Dec 14, 2020 4:33 pm Oh, sorry, I posted on the specific mods page. I just used the forum as an image host.

Why do you need to post an image at all? Sure, there's the old saying that an image can tell more than a thousand words -- but that's not true if you just want to post an error message! If there is a crash, it will be in the log file. Find that file (it's called "factorio-current.log"), scroll down to the bottom, and copy/paste the error message + stack trace! This way, the mod author doesn't have to download an image and can copy/paste text directly from the error message when searching the code, without having to type anything.

If you want to paste the error message on the mod portal, please keep in mind that Markdown is used there. You should indent each line of the error message by at least 4 spaces to make sure that the code isn't garbled. (For example, two underscores represent an emphasis in Markdown, so a pathname like "__MODNAME__/prototypes/entity.lua" would be displayed as "MODNAME/prototypes/entity.lua" without indention.)

Yea, that dialogue is still missing the obvious copy button i requested long ago. Until then you just have to left click the message and press Ctrl+A and then CTRL+C to copy the message.