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What did you do?

After unlocking the "Train Stops" tech in my free play game, I got a "tip" for how to use them. In the tip panel, there was a button that said "Play Tutorial". I clicked that button.

What happened?

An error message popped up saying "Map version 0.15.24-1 cannot be loaded because it is lower than the minimum input version (0.18.0-0)" (attached screenshot).

What did you expect to happen instead?

I would be brought to the train tutorial.

Things that might be relevant:

• I haven't played any of the campaigns or tutorials yet.
• I've had this game installed on my computer for a very long time, and probably have not played in ~2 years.
• I haven't tried to load the tutorial through the New Game menu because I can't without completing the other 4 tutorials first (and I'd rather not do that)
• Logs and save file included as requested.

Also, since I'm here, I just want to say how much I'm enjoying getting back into Factorio! Thanks for making such a wonderful thing, and congrats on the 1.0 release!

Hello, thanks for the report.
I can't reproduce this issue. Can you please try to open Factorio properties in Steam Library and use "Verify integrity of game files" in "Local Files" tab?

Also try to delete Factorio's temp folder. Press Win + R on your keyboard, type %APPDATA%\Factorio and click OK. File Explorer should open and you should see folders like saves, mods, config, temp ... delete temp folder.

Hi!

Unfortunately, neither of those worked, but I did manage to figure it out!

Inside the "steamapps\common\Factorio\data\base\tutorials" folder, each subfolder had a blueprint.zip and a blueprint.dat file, the .dat being years out of date. Looks like whatever update process was supposed to overwrite the dat from the zip failed, but by manually unzipping it and overwriting the dat fixed the issue I was having.