Ah. what I hadn't tried was restarting my computer. That, of all things, helped the uncaught null pointer exception (ahem).

Factorio crashes whenever I try to start a game. Everything works fine up to the point where the actual game loads, I see about a second of the game, then it crashes This started suddenly: I played fora while, then I stopped for a few hours, then tried playing again and it won't work. the debugger(M...

I also very strongly agree that this mission is too hard. Not only that, it's completely out of the spirit of the game for me. I bought Factorio (and had been enjoying it) because it's a building, optimization, automation game in a tense, somewhat-dangerous environment. This mission is not about bui...