Dectorio items do not get re-initialized after disabling/re-enabling this mod and game save. (Tested with Space Age only)

[SactoBob]

After a critical mistake turning the mod off (not realizing concrete walls were dectorio!) the game was saved and of course all those walls removed. Months of activity lost, so trying to recover by enabling dectorio and then re-adding walls in edit mode. However, now when exiting edit mode, dectorio items do not show up in the menus, but the walls I added are there(but I can't copy sections/paste, a copy gives unrendered items). Laying down a blueprint, built in edit mode, will produce the items not available warning since the live game appears to not have the mod enabled, but edit mode does. Also, the walls that were put down in edit mode also have concrete gates. The gates do not work in live mode, it's as if these are not 'my' gates.

Also, maybe related, lasers that I lay down in edit mode are foreign to other lasers and treated like hostile. If I go into live mode, they attack me(quick death). The walls, when in edit mode and zoomed out are grey. But in the live map and zoomed out they're red. Something is very off after editing and switching deco on and off.

I can go back to a month old save, with deco on, and everything is fine in live and edit modes.

Any ideas how to recover this game and get deco up and running on my live map?

[SactoBob]

From spending a few more hours trying all kinds of things, it seems that even though all the research is in place the dectorio recipes are no longer enabled for live mode.

Confirmed. This two were false, enabling them fix the recipes. Likely there are many others..

/c game.forces.player.recipes["dect-concrete-wall"].enabled = true
/c game.forces.player.recipes["dect-concrete-gate"].enabled = true

And annoyingly the wall with the gates that I put down in edit mode still don't open for me! I'd guess still something is false or didn't get setup when deco was reenabled, but I laid these out on the map when they weren't active according to the recipes.

And the issue with the gates... If I try and put them back into my pack.. "Enemy structures can not be mined". So that's the next issue.. Slowly working through this royal cluster f... Caused completely by me and disabling deco. :(

Last edit:

All fixed!!!!!

/c for _, surface in pairs(game.surfaces) do for _, entity in pairs(surface.find_entities_filtered{}) do if string.find(entity.name, "dect") then entity.force = game.forces.player end end end

[SactoBob]

Personal "Force' from lab and fixing walls caused the "enemy issue".. But, according to a comparison, all these settings were not turned on after re-enabling deco and loading a previous save (synced and loaded), when they should have been since concrete had been researched.

Seems like a bug in deco when enabling and disabling mid-game?

Claude:

What's MISSING in broken save:
Paint/Decorative (Image 1 vs Working Save Image 5):

❌ Missing ALL the basic paint recipes: dect-paint-danger, dect-paint-emergency, dect-paint-caution, etc.
❌ Missing ALL the refined paint recipes: dect-paint-refined-danger, etc.
✅ Only has the recycling versions enabled

Concrete (Image 2 vs Working Save Image 4):

❌ Missing ALL the basic refined concrete: dect-acid-refined-concrete, dect-black-refined-concrete, etc.
❌ Missing dect-concrete-wall, dect-concrete-gate
❌ Missing dect-concrete-wall-from-stone-wall, dect-concrete-gate-from-stone-gate
✅ Only has recycling versions and dect-concrete-grid

Walls/Gates (Image 3 vs Working Save Images 3-4):

❌ Missing dect-chain-wall, dect-concrete-wall, dect-concrete-gate
❌ Missing conversion recipes (from-stone-wall, from-stone-gate)
✅ Only has wood walls and recycling recipes

[SactoBob]

Made a work-around to avoid console command to enable Deco recipes. In my working version, all deco recipes are enabled (regardless of research), which I'd guess other code enables that. A console command fixed it, but instead I also modified control.lua and bumped my version, and all my deco stuff is back.

Under
local function on_configuration_changed(data)

And just below:

-- Reset tech and recipes
for _, force in pairs(game.forces) do
force.reset_recipes()
force.reset_technologies()
end

Added this: Basically it detects a change, checks for and reenables any dect recipes that should of been enabled.

-- Fix: Re-enable all disabled Dectorio recipes
local count = 0
for _, force in pairs(game.forces) do
for name, recipe in pairs(force.recipes) do
if string.find(name, "dect") and not recipe.enabled then
recipe.enabled = true
count = count + 1
end
end
end

And bumped info.json and zip file to 0.13.2

{
"name": "Dectorio",
"version": "0.13.2",
"title": "Dectorio",
"author": "PantherX",
"contact": "",
"homepage": "https://github.com/jpanther/Dectorio",
"factorio_version": "2.0",
"dependencies": [
"base >= 2.0",
"? alien-biomes >= 0.7.1",
"(?) aai-industry >= 0.6.4"
],
"license": "GNU GPLv3"
}

[SactoBob]

One last note, while I think there's some sort of issue with Space Age, deleting and re-adding in this mod, my thread should not be considered a patch or anything except a work-around I came up with to get dect recipes back without forcing a console command. I did test with a new game to make sure dect/concrete stuff was not pre-maturely added (it wasn't).