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young cliff Oct 22, 2024, 7:16 PM

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I've been playing a FreightForwarding run for the past several weeks. I logged on now to find that it's broken. Does anyone else have this same issue, or do you know how to fix it? I opened the game no problem earlier today, got off a bit later. Then I got on again and for some reason I updated "Plutonium Energy," and clicked confirm.
I got this error and I figured Plutonium Energy updated to 2.0 and that was maybe causing an issue, so I downgraded and the problem persists. I uninstalled every mod I had and then reinstalled only the Freightf Forwarding mod packs, and I'm still getting the error. I'm running a Factorio 1.1 installation from the Factorio website on Windows. If anyone has any advice, it would be greatly appreciated.

torn scarab Oct 22, 2024, 7:17 PM

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1.1 will not install mod updates for 2.0, so that won't have been the issue

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Sounds like the Plutonium Energy mod just got an update which broke compatibility

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@prisma yarrow

young cliff Oct 22, 2024, 7:20 PM

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That is what I would have thought but I tried downgrading just in case and it didn't work. Although I don't think I understand how to manually install/uninstall mods very well. Is deleting the zip folder in [game directory]/mods/ enough to uninstall? When I tried it the game still seemed to remember that those mods existed on my computer

torn scarab Oct 22, 2024, 7:21 PM

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It should be, though sometimes multiple versions may be present

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The save always keeps track of what mods it was last saved with, and will ask you to sync mods before loading if the loaded mods don't match

young cliff Oct 22, 2024, 7:22 PM

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Okay maybe that explains it. I still don't understand why downgrading Plutonium Energy didn't fix the problem though. Very weird

torn scarab Oct 22, 2024, 7:27 PM

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How did you downgrade it?

young cliff Oct 22, 2024, 7:27 PM

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Now I'm very confused because I reinstalled some mods to try and figure this out but the mod folder is still empty

torn scarab Oct 22, 2024, 7:27 PM

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Also, did you save the game with the newer version enabled?

young cliff Oct 22, 2024, 7:28 PM

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I downgraded by deleting the zip file in the mods folder and replacing it with the older version which I got off the mod portal

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I never started the game with the new version enabled because the error gets thrown whenever I have the two mods enabled at the same time

torn scarab Oct 22, 2024, 7:28 PM

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torn scarab Also, did you save the game with the newer version enabled?

Actually nvm, this isn't possible if it doesn't load trianglepupper

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Not sure what's going on then

young cliff Oct 22, 2024, 7:30 PM

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Is it possible that the installation from the website is interacting with the mods installed on the steam version? I haven't updated to 2.0 on Steam and only recently got a manual download and moved my saves over to preserve my 1.1 installation

prisma yarrow Oct 22, 2024, 7:32 PM

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young cliff I've been playing a FreightForwarding run for the past several weeks. I logged o...

There was a 1.1 update to Plutonium Energy that broke compat with FF

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Either revert to an older version of Plutonium Energy or delete it

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1.6.4 is ok, 1.7.0 isn’t

young cliff Oct 22, 2024, 7:33 PM

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Yes I tried to do this and it didn't work

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so I think I didn't do it right

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Do I need to do anything more than just swapping the zip files in the mods folder?

prisma yarrow Oct 22, 2024, 7:34 PM

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young cliff Do I need to do anything more than just swapping the zip files in the mods folde...

No

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You can just delete Plutonium mod though. It isn’t at all required

young cliff Oct 22, 2024, 7:35 PM

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Okay, is it possible that my manual install is somehow interacting with the steam install and detecting the mods on there? Because that's the only way I can make sense of this

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When I delete mods from the folder they still show up on the mods page in the game and I currently have mods installed on there yet the mods folder is empty

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So I am very confused

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The value in the config-path.cfg is set to false which I think is what I want for a manual install

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and that's the only thing I know that would cause an issue like this

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To be clear, there is a mods folder in Users[me]\AppData\Roaming\Factorio that I am pretty sure steam uses and there is a mods folder that came with the game when I installed it manually

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and it seems the manual installation is using the \AppData\Roaming\Factorio directory instead of the one I would like

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I'm not sure how to change that

torn scarab Oct 22, 2024, 7:49 PM

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young cliff When I delete mods from the folder they still show up on the mods page in the ga...

Sounds like you're in the wrong location

torn scarab Oct 22, 2024, 7:51 PM

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young cliff I'm not sure how to change that

In config/config.ini of your standalone install set read-data=__PATH__executable__/../../data

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Also see the note on that variable you changed:

#Note, that once the values in config are generated, this value has no effects (unless you delete config, or the path.read-data/path.write-data values)

young cliff Oct 22, 2024, 7:57 PM

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Well when I downloaded the game that value was already set to false. I didn't change it. I did see it when I initially downloaded though and I thought that it would do what I wanted. I didn't see the config.ini file however and I guess that generated with the wrong values. I replaced the path.read-data and path.write data with the line from the cfg file and that fixed it

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So the problem was that my game was using a different folder than intended to manage mods and that is resolved now I think

#Freight Forwarding broken.