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What did you do?
Create a mod to have to have the mech-suit without needing to have space_age required.
Mod has feature flag "space_travel_required": true defined in info.json as required in order to enable flying armor.
No "empty-space" tile was defined, as I was unaware that this was required for the "space_travel_required" feature flag.

What happened?

Game pops up an error box 'tile prototype "empty-space" (tile) is missing.', and clicking OK immediately closes the game.


What did you expect to happen instead? It might be obvious to you, but do it anyway!

For the game to list the error, show all mods that have feature_flag "space_travel_required" to be shown, giving context as to the error, and to offer to disable the listed mods.


Does it happen always, once, or sometimes?

Always.


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Ideally, flying armor should have its own feature flag rather than be lumped in with the "space_travel_required" feature flag.

Thanks for the report however this is outside of what the mods startup error GUI was designed to handle.

That feels inconsistent with everything else that triggers you to disable the mods that cause errors, instead of outright closing the game and leaving you to figure out exactly what mod caused the error on your own, if for example, somebody were to publish something to the mod portal blindly, and someone else downloads the mod.