Reach up to the skies or dig deep below, expand your base vertically... If you're into that kind of thing. Original by Simcra, ported to 0.14-0.16 by Erdbeerbaer. Port to 0.17 started by DeltaNedas and continued by Danacus.
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The character disappears, if I change the to an surface the first time.
I can move over the map like in map editor. I can craft, but inventory is empty.
Factorio 1.1.11 Mods: Krastorio2, Space Exploration and some other.
This is a known issue that occurs where the player moves too quickly when going through a shaft. It's because this mod currently fills the surface with entities after map generation (so after the player spawns) instead of using newer built-in map generation features to build walls.
as quick workoround: why don't you just generate the surface when setting the first ladder? then you have an break bevor the player enters the surface.
That could be a solution, I might try it. It's possible to request the generation of specific chunks of a surface with scripting, so I could just add a call to such function and see if it helps.