exfret's randomizer

by exfret

Randomizes every aspect of the game, including recipes, technologies, machines, and more. Download for the ultimate randomization experience that will force you to think in different new ways!

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g Oil Refinery Soft Lock

4 days ago

I believe I've run into a softlock in my game.
seed=69
mod settings=https://imgur.com/pN33uSH
mod list= https://imgur.com/z79f1m1 (most notably train supply manager adds items and Wood Depost creates minable wood, which then gets randomized by this mod)

In short, I'm unable to craft an oil refinery. It requires lubricant, which ultimately requires an oil refinery at some point to make heavy oil.
recipes:
https://imgur.com/eMu6jgZ

I checked to see if it was possible to complete the game without oil refineries, but this is not the case. the yellow science pack needs oil refineries:
https://imgur.com/9ywHn1p

Is this a bug or am I missing something?

4 days ago

Which infinite resources are you using? There are multiple mods called that. I think the most common one is by sonaxton.

4 days ago

Nevermind, I was able to discern that it was Sonaxton's from the version number.

4 days ago
(updated 4 days ago)

Okay, after much investigation, there appears to be a fundamental logic flow with item randomization. The randomizer even was able to report light oil barrels as suddenly becoming unreachable mid-way through in the log files (I'm not sure why I don't have that tied to a user-facing message rather than a random log message tbh). Honestly, I'm not too surprised given how intricate item randomization is, but I am definitely surprised it took this long to find. I did a run myself for space age until I unlocked all the planets and had no issues, so it seems to be an uncommon issue at least.

In the meantime, you can cheat yourself an oil refinery (I can explain how to do this) if you still want to continue the run.

Rest assured that there is a probability epsilon above 0% that this will not happen again. Maybe it's 1% though, idk.

4 days ago

I DID IT

5 hours later, I finally found 3 lines of code that actually needed a minor change to prevent these complete game-breaking softlocks. I also found another bug in that your game has two beacon recipes and no way of getting coal, but you have other sources of fuel so... I'm just going to pretend I didn't see that.

3 days ago

yeah squash that bug!

Glad to hear that I helped :). I'm aware of how to cheat in things with the map editor, but honestly i think i'll start a new random run after downloading your update. thanks a bunch!

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