Accept Factorio 2.1.17's exchange format - #386
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Factorio 2.1.17 moved the map-exchange format tag to `2.1.17.0`, so the app rejected every string copied out of the shipping game. This is the fifth version it has happened to and the fourth separate incident - 2.1.12, 2.1.14, then 2.1.15 and 2.1.16 on the same day, now 2.1.17. Import was the broken half, as always. Export was never affected: the app emits `2.1.9.3`, which every newer game still accepts. It was found by the gate rather than by a user or an audit. A noise fixture captured for #324 came from the 2.1.17 binary, and test/factorioTarget.spec.ts ties FACTORIO_TARGET_VERSION to the newest fixture provenance, so it failed with "expected '2.1.16' to be '2.1.17'". The tag itself is read off the binary rather than guessed - `factorio --version` prints `Map output version: 2.1.17-0`, and the fourth part neither increases nor tracks the patch. The payload did not move, read three independent ways: 1. `base/prototypes/map-settings.lua` is absent from the data diff. The whole of 2.1.16 -> 2.1.17 is four info.json bumps, the changelog, and elevated-rail-pictures.lua. 2. All five re-captured cases inflate to exactly their 2.1.16 byte counts - 711/711/750/711/711, controls-off's odd 750 included. 3. The game's own parse of the new default string is identical to the 2.1.16 parse on every leaf field. So 2.1.17 joins the 2.1.14 tail layout rather than getting one of its own, which is why it goes into TAIL_DISPATCH_COOLDOWN_VERSIONS as well as SUPPORTED_VERSIONS. The new LAYOUT_HEIRS row was checked for vacuity rather than assumed live: planting tag "2.1.16.0" on it fails with "expected '2.1.17.0' to be '2.1.16.0'", so the row is graded and the fixture carries the new tag. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SD6SkJApa65kCVnBBJGT8Z
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In `@test/fixtures/map-exchange-2.1.17.strings.json`:
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CodeRabbit caught the new fixture recording an empty `_exchangeFormatTag`. It is right, and the cause is older than this PR: the capture script read the tag from `process.env.EXCHANGE_TAG ?? ""` and nobody has ever set it, so map-exchange-2.1.15 and map-exchange-2.1.16 both shipped with `""` while 2.1.14 carries "2.1.14.1". An empty metadata field reads as "not applicable" rather than "the capture forgot", which is how two versions went by. The script derives it now, from the first four u16 LE of the inflated payload - the same bytes decodeExchangeString reads. Re-running the 2.1.17 capture changes exactly one line, the tag, and leaves all five strings and the parsed dump byte-identical, which also says the capture is deterministic. 2.1.15 and 2.1.16 are backfilled with "2.1.15.2" and "2.1.16.0". Those values are derived from strings already committed rather than invented, and mapExchangeVersions.spec.ts already asserted both independently in its LAYOUT_HEIRS table. Only the metadata line moves in each file; no captured string is touched. The new spec block asserts every fixture's recorded tag against the tag decoded from each of its own strings. The two sides are independent - the recorded value comes from the capture script's raw zlib + DataView read, the expected one from decodeExchangeString - so it is a cross-check rather than a tautology. It covers every fixture rather than only the ones with a value, because a guard that skips empty tags has a hole in exactly the shape of the bug it guards against. Both halves were checked by planting. An empty tag fails with "2.1.16 records no tag"; a wrong fourth part, which passes the version-prefix check, fails with "expected '2.1.16.0' to be '2.1.16.1'". Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SD6SkJApa65kCVnBBJGT8Z
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In `@scripts/probes/exchange-format/capture.ts`:
- Around line 110-112: Update the historical comment near the exchange-format
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CodeRabbit's second finding, and it is right. The doc comment on `formatTagOf`
said `map-exchange-2.1.15.strings.json` and `map-exchange-2.1.16.strings.json`
"both carry" an empty tag - present tense, in the very commit that backfilled
them. It now says they were committed carrying one, and states that both were
backfilled and that the spec fails if any fixture goes empty again.
The equivalent passages in `test/mapExchangeVersions.spec.ts`, the PR body and
the commit message were already past tense ("shipped with"), so this was the
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Finding 1 (empty _exchangeFormatTag): fixed at the cause. The capture script derives the tag from the inflated payload instead of an unset env var; 2.1.15 and 2.1.16 were backfilled from their own committed strings; a new spec block cross-checks every fixture against decodeExchangeString. CodeRabbit re-verified this independently and replied "verified".
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Factorio 2.1.17 moved the map-exchange format tag to
2.1.17.0, so the apprejected every string copied out of the shipping game. This is the fifth time
that has happened and the fourth separate incident - 2.1.12, 2.1.14, then
2.1.15 and 2.1.16 on the same day, now 2.1.17.
Import was the broken half, as always. Export was never affected: the app emits
2.1.9.3, which every newer game still accepts.How it was found
Not by a user, and not by an audit this time - by the gate. A noise fixture
captured for #324 came from the 2.1.17 binary, and
test/factorioTarget.spec.tsties
FACTORIO_TARGET_VERSIONto the newest fixture provenance:That is the guard doing exactly its job. The tag itself is read off the binary
rather than guessed -
factorio --versionprintsMap output version: 2.1.17-0, and the fourth part is not monotonic and doesnot track the patch, so it cannot be inferred.
The payload did not move, read three independent ways
2.1.17 joins the 2.1.14 tail layout rather than getting its own. None of these
three readings is "it looked the same":
base/prototypes/map-settings.luais absent from the data diff. Thewhole of
2.1.16 -> 2.1.17infactorio-datais fourinfo.jsonversionbumps, the changelog, and
elevated-rail-pictures.lua.711 / 711 / 750 / 711 / 711, with
controls-off's odd 750 included.parse on every leaf field.
Changes
SUPPORTED_VERSIONSandTAIL_DISPATCH_COOLDOWN_VERSIONSboth gain[2, 1, 17, 0]. Two lists, because the second is what selects the taillayout, and it is matched on the exact tag rather than a
>=range.FACTORIO_TARGET_VERSION->"2.1.17". The UI reads both constants, so thetitlebar and its tooltip update with them.
test/fixtures/map-exchange-2.1.17.strings.jsonandmap-exchange-parsed.2.1.17-default.dump.json, captured byscripts/probes/exchange-format/capture.ts 2.1.17, plus theirPROVENANCE.jsonentries.test/mapExchangeVersions.spec.tsgains aLAYOUT_HEIRSrow, which is whatmakes the five captures round-trip byte-for-byte and pins the tail-layout
claim.
Verification
pnpm run verifypasses. The five 2.1.17 captures decode and re-encodebyte-for-byte,
opaqueTailis length 0 for all of them, andbuild_base_unit_dispatch_cooldownreads where the game's own parse puts it.The new table row was checked for vacuity rather than assumed live: planting
tag: "2.1.16.0"on the 2.1.17 entry fails withexpected '2.1.17.0' to be '2.1.16.0', so the row really is graded and thefixture really does carry the new tag.
No fixture or frozen value was edited to make anything pass.
A second, older bug this turned up
CodeRabbit flagged the new fixture recording an empty
_exchangeFormatTag. Itwas right, and the cause predates this PR: the capture script read the tag from
process.env.EXCHANGE_TAG ?? ""and nobody has ever set it, somap-exchange-2.1.15andmap-exchange-2.1.16both shipped with""while2.1.14 carries
"2.1.14.1". An empty metadata field reads as "not applicable"rather than "the capture forgot", which is how two versions went by unnoticed.
u16LE of the inflatedpayload. Re-running the 2.1.17 capture changes exactly one line and leaves all
five strings and the parsed dump byte-identical - which also says the capture
is deterministic.
"2.1.15.2"and"2.1.16.0". Thoseare derived from strings already committed, not invented, and this spec
already asserted both independently in
LAYOUT_HEIRS. Only the metadata linemoves in each file; no captured string is touched.
from its own strings. The two sides are independent - recorded comes from the
script's raw zlib +
DataViewread, expected fromdecodeExchangeString- soit is a cross-check, not a tautology. It covers every fixture rather than only
the ones with a value, because a guard that skips empty tags has a hole in
exactly the shape of the bug it guards against.
Both halves were checked by planting: an empty tag fails with
2.1.16 records no tag, and a wrong fourth part, which passes theversion-prefix check, fails with
expected '2.1.16.0' to be '2.1.16.1'.Not in scope
The preview container is still pinned at
factoriotools/factorio:2.1.16, and a2.1.17tag has been available since 2026-08-26. Leaving it is deliberate, andthe reason is measured rather than assumed: the map-gen data Lua is
byte-identical from 2.1.14 through 2.1.17, so the container renders the same
preview bytes either way. The pin is not stale in any way that reaches output,
and it tracks a registry tag independently of any local Steam binary.
Bumping it is its own change anyway - it touches four places, and the fourth
bites silently:
FACTORIO_VERSIONis the R2 cache key, so moving the imagewithout it serves a mix of two Factorio versions forever.
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