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I noticed SnapOn when I was researching to make AutoLink and did notice it say it had crashes at random times. So if they're directly connected, that may just be something the game can't handle. Still looking

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SMSatisfactory Modding

•Created by Joey Joel on 11/2/2024 in #help-using-mods

Inventory tick crash debugger triggered

It wasn't an intended scenario but stuff tends to slip through

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SMSatisfactory Modding

•Created by Joey Joel on 11/2/2024 in #help-using-mods

Inventory tick crash debugger triggered

That is theoretically possible with AutoLink - I'm looking at it now.

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SMSatisfactory Modding

•Created by Joey Joel on 11/2/2024 in #help-using-mods

Inventory tick crash debugger triggered

Do you know/remember how you built that one?

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SMSatisfactory Modding

•Created by Joey Joel on 11/2/2024 in #help-using-mods

Inventory tick crash debugger triggered

AutoLink doesn't touch inventories and just uses the game's high-level APIs to trigger its built-in chain actor rebuilding. There could theoretically be a race condition that leaves something corrupt... It would help to know how you built the specific merger that's causing the crash. You're also using a pretty old version of AutoLink and I'd recommend you upgrade, though I know of no reproducible corruption cases in any version.

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SMSatisfactory Modding

•Created by Rdc74656 on 10/28/2024 in #help-using-mods

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x00000000000 crash happens randomly

Honestly, keep a lot of auto-saves anyway. My friends and I have hit corruption issues playing on a dedicated server with no mods, as well.

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SMSatisfactory Modding

•Created by Rdc74656 on 10/28/2024 in #help-using-mods

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x00000000000 crash happens randomly

It's also important to know that improperly-interracting mods can permanently corrupt things. When I was testing, I had a bug where I accidentally added belts twice and was hitting weird crashes when I deconstructed, seemingly at random. I had to revert to an earlier save to keep testing because the errors of the past were cemented into the game with no real way to undo it. If you're playing with mods, keep a LOT of auto-saves.

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SMSatisfactory Modding

•Created by Rdc74656 on 10/28/2024 in #help-using-mods

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x00000000000 crash happens randomly

^That said, if anybody's ever reading this and has ideas, I'm always open to hearing I should be hooking into different places in the code. Right now, I just have after hooks into AFGBuildableHologram::ConfigureComponents (and some child classes) to handle individual construction and AFGBlueprintHologram::Construct to handle blueprint construction.

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SMSatisfactory Modding

•Created by Rdc74656 on 10/28/2024 in #help-using-mods

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x00000000000 crash happens randomly

The unfortunate thing about writing mods like this is you have to find a place in the control flow to add your behavior and the intuitive or documented places don't always work (like, I found multiple places where I was handed partially-complete belts). So there could very easily be timing issues based on when each mod does its thing. What AutoLink does with belts is actually pretty straightforward - it just finds a good connector, (if necessary) removes the belt from the AFGBuildableSubsystem, calls connect, then (if necessary) re-adds it to the subsystem to rebuild the chain actor. It feels a little bit nonstandard in that it can remove and re-add a belt in the same frame and I obviously can't promise it's fool-proof, but it also feels about as close to standard as it can be without being integrated into the native game.

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SMSatisfactory Modding

•Created by Rdc74656 on 10/28/2024 in #help-using-mods

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x00000000000 crash happens randomly

It's definitely conceivable but, if that debug info is correct, there are over 100 mods installed and I'd lean more towards a mod conflict than any one particular mod.

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SMSatisfactory Modding

•Created by Epp on 9/30/2024 in #help-developing-mods

How do I test my 1.0 mod on Windows dedicated server?

Thank you, super helpful - that worked!

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