Crash "Satellite" Cannot send any Rockets

[hummer1997]

hi,
Im not able to send any Rockets, game crashes immediately:


Error while running event level::on_rocket_launched (ID 10)
Unknown item name: satellite
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'get_item_count'
_level/control.lua:22: in function <level_/control.lua:20>



Also i have a "old" field: Unknown Key (this field exists since release 1.0) and yes i play this map since 2016

this happens since i bought Space Age
Can someone maybe Help?

[hummer1997]

Fixed the Crash myself, changed some things in the Lua file.


but theres still the "unknown Key" window

[Zaflis]

but theres still the "unknown Key" window

That's a missing locale (translation files).

[hummer1997]

but theres still the "unknown Key" window

That's a missing locale (translation files).

how can i fix this? i have this since years

[Zaflis]

how can i fix this? i have this since years

The GUI says Unknown key: "gui-silo-script.frame-caption".
The "gui-silo-script" is a category, and "frame-caption" is a key that needs value.

I don't know if you use english language ingame, but look (inside the scenario) for a \locale\en\locale.cfg (maybe yours is folder \de\ ?)
Then there should be something like:

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[gui-silo-script]
frame-caption=This is what the frame should say
sent-label=Another text

If these don't exist then create them.

[hummer1997]

how can i fix this? i have this since years

The GUI says Unknown key: "gui-silo-script.frame-caption".
The "gui-silo-script" is a category, and "frame-caption" is a key that needs value.

I don't know if you use english language ingame, but look (inside the scenario) for a \locale\en\locale.cfg (maybe yours is folder \de\ ?)
Then there should be something like:

Code: Select all

[gui-silo-script]
frame-caption=This is what the frame should say
sent-label=Another text

If these don't exist then create them.

i tried it, its not gone. now, since version 2.0.20 my game crashes again. last working version was 2.0.15 Same error as i posted a sceenshot. any ideas?

I think the Unknown Keys do i need to remove in the Savegame somewhere, they are old relicts from old, very old versions...

[Silari]

Your save has an old version of the scenario control.lua/freeplay.lua files. It's supposed to get updated by the game when it loads the save in a new version, but sometimes that fails. Fixing it isn't difficult, but you need to alter your save file to fix it.

1) back up your save game somewhere safe, in case the fix fails.
2) open up the .zip file and delete the control.lua and freeplay.lua files. You may need to unzip it first, then rezip it after.
3) Load the save in Factorio and save it to a new save.
4) Open up the zip of the new save - it should have new control.lua and freeplay.lua files.

That's usually enough to resolve the issue.

Sometimes you need to manually replace the files with the correct versions - in that case you'd need to make a brand new game and save it, then copy the control.lua and freeplay.lua files from that new save into your old save.