causes loading times up to 2 hours and beyond

how so?

have multiple loot adding mods... also alien ore and stuff

mind to share a save?

Can confirm that it causes extended load times. Only relevant mod is Bob's Enemies.

If you have no loot chests, your global.lootChestPos just continues accumulating forever,

Resulting in like 1.8 million lines in global being stored

Wow, bummer... now how to stop this madness?

I can confirm this report: https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=84794&p=494712#p494712

Also, tried using your beta-release but it didn't work, it throws me an error right after game load. The game did load btw!

Good news everyone! With latest version 1.4.3 this should be fixed.

wow it took you about 7 months, can you explain how your mod did cause such trouble?

What Klonan wrote some posts above explains it pretty good.

the mod was first written by PeggyWhiskey, it used a global table with an inefficient structure that grew every time a loot was detected:

{
    [ x: foo, y: bar ],
    [ x: foo2, y: bar2],
    n
}

the new version uses an optimised structure like so:

{
    ['artifact-name'] = count,
    ['another-artifact-name'] = count
}

which only grows to as many types of artifacts as you've added to your game. it also greatly improved the performance for parsing the list, but it removed the guarantee that you'll eventually collect all the loot. this is worth it, and to exceed the collection rate takes great effort.. like a plague capsule in Space Exploration.

If someone urgently has to collect ALL the loot, there is always the possibility to activate the mod after you've researched logistic-robotics. That way no loot gets lost and can be collected normally by picking it up.

you could also put an option for number of slots in the chest, since the reason the items are lost is merely to save CPU by not subtracting what can fit from what's there, to leave the number of what's left in the queue. a larger chest would ameliorate the issue.

Setting is added. Merry christmas to all the hoarders. :)