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Hello everyone.
As you can see in the title my mods show zero downloads ingame for some unknown reason.
I have four mods in total but all of them shows zero downloads on the mod section ingame even though I can see the downloads in the browser.
Does anyone know anything about this and help me with it?

This data is heavily cached so it might take a few hours to update.

It has been over a week; this being purely a Caching issue seems unlikely.

In-Game and Mod Search both show "0" Downloads:
Visiting the mod page itself shows "208" Downloads:

It appears singular that those 4 mods only have 1 version, that's not common in the mod portal, maybe it is related ?

It's some peculiarity to the search results, since the mod pages show the number of downloads.

Maybe what's meant by the caching is that the search results are cached.

Maybe the search result updating is stuck somehow.

mmmPI wrote: Thu Dec 04, 2025 4:19 pm It appears singular that those 4 mods only have 1 version, that's not common in the mod portal, maybe it is related ?

Unlikely. There are other mods with only 1 version, and the Downloads count works just fine.

Mods by this author do not appear in the last 2 pages of the Most Downloaded results at all; so it certainly seems like something odd with the Search engine.

thanks a lot for the replies.
Im the author of the mods and the downloads still show zero ingame.
Am I going crazy ?? Why is this only about my mods? Two of them are from 4 months ago.

The mods themselves work as intended and I tried them on different pcs too.
I could understand if other people also had this problem but I found nothing.
Am I doing something wrong here and why is this happening only on my mods? Did I commit a sin or something?
help me ...

eugenekay wrote: Thu Dec 04, 2025 4:58 pm

mmmPI wrote: Thu Dec 04, 2025 4:19 pm It appears singular that those 4 mods only have 1 version, that's not common in the mod portal, maybe it is related ?

Unlikely. There are other mods with only 1 version, and the Downloads count works just fine.

Mods by this author do not appear in the last 2 pages of the Most Downloaded results at all; so it certainly seems like something odd with the Search engine.

I don't know, the mod you linked doesn't appear either in the "most downloaded last pages" at the number of 5 download. I believe because it's only 4 days old indicating a cache related thing imo.

I made an (older ) mod myself that has only 1 version, it shows 13 download if you search by the name of the mod : https://mods.factorio.com/search?query= ... =relevancy
but if you try to search for it in the "least downloaded mod" it won't show at 13 but instead at 32, the number of download visible on the mod page. It doesn't show 0 download, but it seem to be a discrepency that is there for a while, because the mod has very few download, it's easy to spot that "13" is a value that wasn't updated for several month.

Note that it is the same for OP's mod where you can find the mod with 81 download at the page 262 with the other mod, https://mods.factorio.com/browse/downlo ... e&page=262

I still find it singular that this happens when OP has only mod with 1 version, but understand maybe it's just a coincidence

blen2 wrote: Thu Dec 04, 2025 7:31 pm Am I going crazy ?? Why is this only about my mods? Two of them are from 4 months ago.

I don't know about the first question, i hope it's not driving you crazy, there seem to be something weird with your mods for sure, those that were published 4 month ago shoud not show 0 download, it's way too long for cache update imo, compared to other mods that have had their numbers updated in the meantime.

Thank you all for taking a deeper look. I‘ll investigate the case of the missing download counts next week

Forced a full sync over to meilisearch and will do some more investigations.