Controlled Crashes

Stabilize Your Colony with Controlled Crashes for Oxygen Not Included

Are unexpected game-ending crashes disrupting your carefully managed asteroid base? The “Controlled Crashes” mod for Oxygen Not Included is designed to keep your duplicants working and your game running smoothly by intercepting and logging potential issues before they lead to a full shutdown.

Preventing Catastrophic Failures

This essential mod acts as a safety net, identifying and catching exceptions within numerous core game systems. Instead of a jarring crash to desktop, “Controlled Crashes” gracefully handles these errors, preventing data loss and allowing you to continue your gameplay. It doesn’t magically fix the underlying problem, but it does stop the game from collapsing entirely, giving you the opportunity to diagnose and resolve the issue.

Key Features for a Stable Game

• Robust Crash Protection: Safeguards over a dozen critical game systems, including AI routines, animation playback, plant growth calculations, and critter feeding logic, preventing common CTD triggers.
• Detailed Diagnostic Logging: Provides timestamps, frequency counts of specific errors, and crucial diagnostic information directly within your game’s output log file, making troubleshooting easier than ever.
• Mod Conflict Identification: Analyzes stack traces to help pinpoint if a specific mod is the root cause of recurring errors, streamlining the process of identifying problematic add-ons.
• Actionable Recommendations: Offers practical advice for resolving persistent errors after they’ve occurred a few times, often suggesting simple in-game actions like rebuilding a structure.
• Error Tracking: Monitors the frequency of specific errors, helping you understand which parts of your base are experiencing the most instability.

How It Works

Simply subscribe to the mod and enable it through the game’s mods menu. Once active, “Controlled Crashes” works silently in the background. When a protected system encounters an error, the mod intervenes, logs the event, and allows the game to continue. You can then consult the output log for detailed information and recommendations on how to address the situation, ensuring your colony’s long-term survival.

Broad Compatibility

“Controlled Crashes” is compatible with the base Oxygen Not Included game and all its DLCs. It’s designed to work alongside most other mods, and in fact, it can assist in identifying which of your other modifications might be contributing to instability.