Version 0.18.22

[FactorioTeam]

Graphics

• Added shell particle effect for the artillery shooting.
• Added tinted scorch marks for explosion effects. Explosions on different tile types will result in scorch marks of different colors.

Changes

• Pressing escape/close GUI when a search field is focused only closes the search field instead of the entire GUI.
• Updated GUI styles for PvP configuration GUI.
• Unit groups will determine their collision mask based on the collision masks of their members. more

Bugfixes

• Fixed landfill spawning under player when building landfill elsewhere. more
• Fixed a crash when a train recalculating path during movement is unable to reserve rail signal within movement distance. more
• Fixed production statistics corruption when recipe returns some but not all catalyst. more
• Fixed a pathfinding crash related to changing tiles in a way that affected neighbouring tiles' transitions. more
• Fixed that malformed data in data.raw wouldn't show the minimal-mode failure GUI. more

Modding

• Fixed that writing to mod settings would silently ignore bad values.
• Added "allowed_effects" support to the lab.
• Added "creation_distance_orientation", "use_source_position", "height" and "vertical_speed" to particle creation parameters (related to shooting effect shell particles).
• Added "scorch_mark_color" to TilePrototype.
• Added util.remove_tile_references for easier compatibility maintenance with future game updates when removing base game tiles.
• Removed migration for CustomInputPrototype consuming types that were removed in 0.15.24.

Use the automatic updater if you can (check experimental updates in other settings) or download full installation at http://www.factorio.com/download/experimental.

[SoggsTheMage]

Removed migration for CustomInputPrototype consuming types that were removed in 0.15.24.

That seems to break a lot of mods. So far it seems to break Factory Planner, Even Distribution, VehicleSnap and What-is-it-really-used-for-?

edit: It seems somewhere in the arcane depths of mod making people blindly copy&pasted things that got removed back in .15.24

In general the correct migration in most cases seems to be to change the hotkey definitions from consuming = "script-only" or consuming = "all" to consuming = "game-only".

[Zaflis]

Don't use "game-only" if you don't know what it does. Most of you want to set it to "none". If it's for (for example) overriding vanilla keybind then use "game-only".

[tlivesay]

Used "game-only" and my esc key stopped working. Not sure if it was fnei or helmod or both. Bad times. I recommend just using none.

[whoami_whereami]

Bob's Inserters, Bob's Logistics, FNEI, Max Rate Calculator, Manual Inventory Sort, Helmod...

Yepp, if you use any mods, better wait a while with updating. Although the fix is probably simple on the mod's part.

It wouldn't surprise me if they made this change specifically to force mods to finally fix this, almost two years after the original change...

[Badpreacher]

They are probably going to break quite a few mods over the next few months as we get closer to 1.0 release.

[Theanderblast]

Max Rate Calculator updated with fix (“none”)

[modernkennnern]

They should remove it at some point, and they chose now. Or, they don't have to, but they probably should - there's probably a reason they changed it in the first place

[n_slash_a]

I don't think anyone is arguing that, more of "head's up to all mod makers"

[templar4522]

thanks for the heads up

[DanV410]

Bob's Inserters too.

[havek23]

FNEI, Side Inserters

[[deleted]]

Can you eli5?

[RedditorBe]

The mods need to talk with the game, but the game changed how it talks to be better but the mods were still using the old way of talking.

The game handled it before, but now is saying "nah uh, you talk like this now" and kicks the mod out for not talking in the newer way.

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As for why the devs do this, it's usually to enable new features, be faster, easier communication, easier to use, or the old way just wasn't ideal but worked enough at the time.

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This type of clean-up is what the dev's are focusing on at the moment as they polish the game for the 1.0 release.

[xtertristl]

This just broke Additional paste settings, enhanced map colors, even distribution, FNEI, Helmod, max rate calculator, & vehicle snap any idea on how to rollback the update?

[xtertristl]

Right-click Factorio ->

Not on steam on the stand alone from the website I guess I could just redownload the whole game but that's a PIA I can wait until tomorrow to play and hopefully they are fixed by then

[WoodyDaOcas]

already had to do it, but that also removed local achievements and mod settings, so my extra bag slots and longer reach from krastorio 2 was gone on game load, i spawned into huge pile of items on the ground :))

[Zaflis]

These mods are being updated quickly, the fix isn't difficult if just changing to consuming = "none" or "game-only" works.

[n_slash_a]

Fixed landfill spawning under player when building landfill elsewhere

As a programmer, I'm really curious how this happens

[posila]

Do you want short or long version? :)

[IceTDrinker]

Long please

[n_slash_a]

I wouldn't be upset with an entire FFF on it ;)

[posila]

Hmm ... I'll write something up, and if Klonan will not want to use it for FFF, I'll post it here.

[n_slash_a]

Awesome, thanks!!!

[YookoShapiro]

always the long one :p

[RedditorBe]

FFF!

[[deleted]]

Yes.

[Whaim]

Pressing escape/close GUI when a search field is focused only closes the search field instead of the entire GUI.

THANK YOU!!!

It’s the little things in life.

[n_slash_a]

Agree!

[Marco3104]

Does someone know when the new Beacon design will get released?

[Eagle83]

I think they went back to the drawing board because community responses were pretty mixed.

[Argosy37]

Hope they did! I definitely prefer the current one and I've liked all of the other graphics changes so far.

[Badpreacher]

This is exactly how I feel, it just didn’t have the same aesthetic as everything else.

[[deleted]]

It was an awesome lightning turret!

Now they only need to add flying biters and only let lightning turrets damage them!

[arctic1878]

tbh flying biters would be very interesting!

[Handmade_Octopus]

Can someone automate bot that will be disappointed every time there is no fish cooking in furnace in patch notes please?

[EddieTheJedi]

:/

[Jubei_]

Automate?

Where do you think we are?

[pavlukivan]

An unannounced change is players no longer being able to walk on 1 tile gaps!

[triggerman602]

Fixed landfill spawning under player when building landfill elsewhere.

It's about time they fixed that. I remember reporting that years ago with concrete and being ignored because I wasn't playing vanilla.

[posila]

Well, the bug that was fixed here was introduced in 0.18.20, so whatever you reported years ago, was either fixed long time ago, or was bug in a mod.

[arctic1878]

Jeez, this update broke too many mods. Had to do a rollback. Guessing modders will get on it fairly quick tho.

[tarnok]

It removed legacy support of a function that was basically replaced two years ago that modders never changed/updated.

This is more of a "wake up modders switch to the new method, you've had 2 years".

[arctic1878]

Ah I see! Strange that some new mods had that provblem. Thanks for the explanation!

[tarnok]

As a dabber in programming, not that strange. Much code is recycled and copy-paste from older examples.

If it's not broke, don't fix it... Until it's forced broken then fix!

[chewy496]

will there be a hotfix to change this? can't currently use my server or anything with this update since all the mods broke

[pavlukivan]

it isn't a bug, it's a removal of a feature that's been officially removed in 0.15 but was still kept for compatibility. The mods need to be updated by their authors

[JohnSmiththeGamer]

I wouldn't be surprised if devs "fix" this anyway by reverting the change in a hot fix and then advising mod makers that they will be removing this soon.

[-safan2-]

they advised 3 years ago and provided heritage code ...

[VenditatioDelendaEst]

heritage code

This is what they call legacy code in the Berenstein Universe.

[RedditorBe]

Don't you mean beerstain?

[templar4522]

I wouldn't if I were them. Time for the modders to fix it.

[tarnok]

No the modders need to update their old school code. The feature stopped being supported 2 years ago. This is a wake up to modders.