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Posted: **Wed Jul 17, 2019 12:07 am**

Hello.

Short time lurker, first time poster.

I dipped my toes into the beta to play with a friend on Linux (evidently 17 is much more stable in the upcoming version, which is great!), but when I try to go back to 16, the blueprints appear to be incompatible. I've haven't lost any data (but it was a near thing) but my prints are now locked into the 17 format. Is there a way back?

Thanks!

Posted: **Wed Jul 17, 2019 1:43 am**

rossum wrote: Wed Jul 17, 2019 12:07 am Hello.

Short time lurker, first time poster.

I dipped my toes into the beta to play with a friend on Linux (evidently 17 is much more stable in the upcoming version, which is great!), but when I try to go back to 16, the blueprints appear to be incompatible. I've haven't lost any data (but it was a near thing) but my prints are now locked into the 17 format. Is there a way back?

Thanks!

It is theoretically possible (I believe the format of blueprint strings is public somewhere), but not supported in the base game and I don't know of any third-party tools that will do it. Factorio in general doesn't have much by way of forward compatibility.

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