What changed in Factorio in 2024

Will now contain fewer units.

Dragging and dropping a blueprint file into the game window will import the file contents as a blueprint string.

Changed to be the same as wire reach of other combinators.

Changed graphics setting turret-overdraw-scale-threshold to turret-overdraw-estimated-pixel-overdraw-threshold.

Improves the frequency of trickling space science and material drops.

Changed rocket fuel from ammonia recipe to require the same amount of solid fuel as the main rocket fuel recipes to prevent a recycling loop.

Factoriopedia now shows recycling recipes for each item.

Fixed a crash at startup when mods would define fluid with no fuel value as a fluid energy source fuel.

Aquilo icebergs have longer shadows to integrate with the world better.

Fixed Space platform position indicator not updating in some cases.

Fixed robots looking for charging places overcrowding roboports closer to their target.

Added hidden sound setting for controlling music transition stage durations.

Fixed toggle menu (escape) leaving remote driving.

Slider for minimum payload in orbital logistic requests now enforces a minimum of 1.

Fixed spidertrons shooting extra capture robot during tick of projectile creation.

Introduced a graphics option to disable 2.0 light rendering for improved performance.

Fixed agricultural tower showing all Nauvis tiles as unplantable; specific tiles are now plantable.

Fixed use of slow GPU timer query operation on macOS.

Fixed a sound instance leak related to sound priority.

Volcanic cracks are no longer coverable by foundation.

Fixed that paste-settings could happen when not desired in some situations.

Fixed a crash when removing a station from a train schedule while another train in the same group used the final stop as waypoint.

Fixed reloading specific technologies leaving the dead technology trigger pointer in the trigger processor.

Removed music_transition_* utility constants.

Fixed technology slot showing research progress for finished trigger technologies.

Fixed a crash when destroying segmented units during chunk generation.

Fixed that portable solar panels and power armor tooltips did not report correct power generation.

Fixed robots failing to cross Aquilo lake due to high energy usage and being stuck in a loop.

Added distance_from_nearest_point_x and distance_from_nearest_point_y noise expressions.

Added a delay before music switches when changing surfaces.

Fixed that mobile logistic networks could generate useless alerts in some situations.

Added LuaEntityPrototype::heating_energy read.

Fixed changing Vulcanus map gen settings preventing ashlands trees from spawning.

Fixed Space age map generation not respecting custom starting locations.

Fixed condition highlights in decider combinator GUI not always updating.

Added LuaForce::circuit_network_enabled and other new reads.

Fixed a crash when attempting to connect trains parked at specific positions.

Added an option to disable puddles and global terrain tint to enhance performance.

Fixed incorrect consistency check when trash not requested is used inside a blueprint with mods.

Fixed energy sources not updating their buffer sizes when prototype value changes.

Fixed dragging sliders with gamepad in free cursor mode.

Moved SpiderVehiclePrototype::chunk_exploration_radius to VehiclePrototype.

Fixed additional invalid state of collector navmesh.

Fixed double parameter selection in signal selection list.

Changed CraftItemTechnologyTrigger::item into ItemIDFilter; removed item_quality.

Agricultural Tower now respects allied ghosts blocking planting spots.

Changed ProducePerHourAchievementPrototype::item_product into ItemIDFilter.

Fixed that equipment ghost tooltips did not show quality.

Fixed that opening ghost power poles would leave the GUI in a broken state.

Added drag-to-reorder functionality to the research queue.

Changed ProduceAchievementPrototype::item_product into ItemIDFilter; removed quality.

Replaced move buttons on technologies in the research queue with a draggable handle.

Added optional build_check_type to LuaControl::teleport.

Added a hidden sound setting to base music selection on character's physical location.

Allowed blueprint parameters to be ingredients of other parameters even if not present in an assembling machine.

Fixed selection tool highlighting showing incorrectly in chart view for 1 frame.

Fixed asteroids calculating damage to entities with resistances incorrectly.

Fixed tutorial missions 4 and 5 missing access to radars and repair packs.

Fixed a crash after deconstructing cargo bays with editor.

Fixed 'Make it better' achievement not obtained when dropping modules in.

Improved performance of superforced blueprint preview that autofills tiles.

Removed limit of 64 unique PipeConnectionDefinitions's connection categories.

Improved logic for choosing which schedule to keep if trains get connected.

Added a consistency check for overlapping blueprint tiles to remove inconsistencies on load.

When hovering over slots of spawned asteroids.

Added ghost_shader_tint and ghost_shaderless_tint.

Instead of the connected fluid segment.

To ghost-cars without equipment grids.

Would not show until visiting at least 1 other planet.

In cases where shorter range attractor is close to longer ranged one.

Wasn't possible to set to any quality.

Aids performance on integrated GPUs.

Used by default when playback speed is changed.

This caused crashes.

Sometimes arced to friendly entities.

When building close to a demolisher.

Still allowed being toggled.

Occurred when temperature was < 100 degrees.

Caused a crash when aligned with chunk border.

Even if another rocket wasn't ready yet.

Because it crashed the game.

Now read/write.

And other non-building entities.

Did not work correctly between spiders of different quality.

Issue occurred when using roboports in the tank.

Fixed a crash when construction robots attempt to deliver modules in the same tick the target entity is destroyed.

Fixed modules technology icon when quality mod is disabled.

Fulgora ruins now also drop iron sticks when mined, allowing for electric poles to be crafted without recyclers at the start.

Fixed a crash when reading cursor record of a character not assigned to a player.

Added removal_plan parameter to LuaSurface::create_entity for item request proxies.

Fixed crashes caused by calling missing library symbols on older macOS versions.

Fixed that blueprinted containers would lose their settings when overbuilt over a container without those settings.

Added AssemblingMachinePrototype::disabled_when_recipe_not_researched.

Fixed achievement nuclear-power to require building a nuclear reactor.

Fixed PVP scenario not having starting area protection enabled when the last player of that force logged out.

Improved performance of technology GUI when viewing only essential technologies.

The 'Custom minimum payload' slider for orbital logistics now offers more sensible values.

Fixed rail description would suggest toggle rail layer binding when elevated-rails mod was disabled.

Cargo bays will show a warning icon when they are not connected to a Hub or Landing Pad.

Fixed RecipePrototype::maximum_productivity was allowed to be negative.

Fixed a possible exploit of using parametrised blueprint to set unlocked recipes in assemblers.

Fixed a crash when setting roboport requests to a negative value.

Fixed that inserters could get stuck if the crafting machine they're interacting with dies and is rebuilt.

Fixed that zooming with buttons (keyboard or controller) would not zoom to pixel-perfect values.

Fixed that pumps could not pump into a fluid wagon at full speed.

Fixed turrets sometimes being marked for deconstruction and rebuild if trying to upgrade through overbuilding.

Added LuaEntity::insert_plan and LuaEntity::removal_plan read/write.

Fixed that the game would hang when closing the load game menu if the number of mods in the mods directory was too large on Linux.

Fixed blueprints being able to produce two overlaying ghosts of tiles with the same placing item (like hazard-concrete-left/right).

Fixed MapGeneratorGui would not enable reset to defaults button when changing technology price multiplier.

Fixed that biter base menu simulation had more decoratives over the Wube logo than desired.

Fixed that the map editor couldn't change the spawn point of a force after it was set.

Fixed a performance issue with ghost building.

Fixed use-item-groups had no effects.

Fixed a crash related to rocket silos when adding and removing mods.

Fixed a crash when merging forces related to chart tags.

Fixed position of car driven by local player would be delayed on minimap in multiplayer.

Asteroid collector filters and programmable speakers can now be modified by blueprint parametrisation.

Fixed reading LuaTechnologyPrototype::research_trigger could throw an error.

When an imported blueprint is placed, assembling machines will be configured with the recipe even if the recipe is not yet researched.

Fixed that building with modded items did not work correctly in all cases.

Fixed a crash when trying to render a surface which doesn't exist in a simulation.

Fixed that players in remote view were unable to open menu when the game was paused.

Fixed technology GUI not updating technology cost label if the technology didn't have any science packs.

Fixed incorrect pump speed reporting when pumping into a fluid wagon.

Tips simulation fixed with minor changes to texts.

Orbital logistics 'Custom minimum payload' is now checked against the largest possible payload before setting the filter.

Fixed that some fluid-only recipes would allow quality modules.

Fixed dying enemy would not randomize direction of its dying animation.

Fixed a crash in the space platform hub GUI when the inventory size changes at the same time as the limit is changed.

Fixed that movement speed bonus equipment would show garbage values when low on energy.

Fixed that it wasn't possible to parametrise entities, virtual signals and space locations contained in text.

Non-blocking saving setting is no longer synced over the Steam cloud.

Fixed LogisticContainerControlBehavior exclusive mode could get out of sync from the ContainerControlBehavior it derives from.

Fixed that the 'kill with artillery' achievement did not work with artillery wagons.

Fixed that continue host menu option didn't respect the port from the config.

Offered when the game is finished.

Fixed crashes when using LuaEntity fluid methods when the entity's fluidboxes were not part of a segment.

Fixed that blueprint book tooltips did not look correct when in the quickbar.

Fixed that LuaEntity::insert_fluid would not work on the output FluidBoxes of a crafting machine.

Fixed a crash when a segmented unit entity causes the entire segmented unit to die.

Fixed removal of transport belts under cursor which would be normally fast-replaceable while drag traversing underground gap by belt rebuilding.

Fixed that on_entity_logistic_slot_changed did not fire for constant combinators.

Fixed that failed achievement wasn't gettable again without restarting the game.

Fixed a crash when switching preferred audio output device while a variable music track is playing.

Fixed using a custom surface in PvP was preventing Space Age progression.

Fixed that the debug settings GUI could get stuck behind the normal game logic.

Fixed brightness and contrast sliders being reset to 0 when setting the text field to a negative value.

Fixed train stop GUI being too wide at some smaller resolutions.

Fixed fluid conditions not showing fluid amounts.

From now on, we won't save blueprint-storage to a file when it was not used yet.

Fixed a crash when defining planet prototypes that don't contain any resources.

Instead of aborting when SDL_DXGIGetOutputInfo call fails, the game will try to initialize D3D device using adapter 0.

Fixed turbo underground belts simulation in factoriopedia.

Fixed a crash when a platform was traveling to the shattered planet using a temporary stop which expired.

Fixed a crash when showing some modded GUI tables.

Fixed an issue where entity flagged as not mineable could be marked for deconstruction using undo.

Fixed the elem_tooltip type of 'signal' did not work correctly.

Fixed invalid package name in sprite path definition would result in OS error message dialog instead of loading into minimal mode.

Fixed arithmetic combinator's first constant would not be proposed as parameter.

Fixed that the blueprint setup GUI would always confirm to discard changes even if nothing changed when the blueprint had a description.

Added flying text for more cases of unsuccessful resource mining.

Leaked D3D device and swap chain in attempt to avoid AMD driver crash when closing the game.

Fixed logistic section active state was not preserved in a blueprint string.

Fixed driven car being drawn on all surfaces in latency.

Fixed pumpjacks with low yield would show 0 output rate in the tooltip.

Fixed Nauvis elevation dropdown missing in map generator GUI, causing incorrect previews from map exchange strings.

Fixed that it wasn't possible to parametrise virtual signals and space locations contained in text.

Updated with different condition for base game and space age.

Continues the player's journey after launching rockets into space with new worlds and challenges.

Manage your fleet of interplanetary space platforms with novel resources.

The Factorio: Space Age expansion is set to release on October 21st, 2024.

Includes a wide range of game changes, optimizations, and improvements.

Resolved an issue where the electric furnace shadow was missing on some configurations.

Corrected a bonus productivity exploit that occurred when crafting machine ingredients were force returned.

Addressed a crash that occurred when using weak tables in the lua global table.

Two entirely new enemies have been announced for Factorio: Space Age.

Due to security issues.

From controller to keyboard and mouse.

After drill is set in quickbar.

From keyboard and mouse to controller.

Introduction of a new Whole Belt Reader feature in version 2.0.

A new logistics GUI has been implemented to enhance user experience.

The first planet you arrive on is called 'Nauvis', featuring rich resources and a fertile environment.

Surprise! There are 5 new planets in the expansion, including a fertile land rich with resources.

Fixed several potential deadlocking issues with non-blocking saving.

Fixed that the delete save confirm could delete the wrong save if a different one was selected while it was showing.

Fixed that empty locale would cause things to not show in GUIs.

Trying to close a window will first close any opened drop-down, enhancing navigation with controllers.

Fixed partial item transfer not preserving inventory hand location.

Fixed controller relative driving mode steering left and right repeatedly in multiplayer.

Fixed that item health bars didn't render correctly at some scales.

Fixed that selecting a group in the chat icon selector GUI would occasionally select a random result.

Fixed tank not consuming fuel when turning while braking.

Resolved crash issue when placing linked chest with hotkey suggestions enabled.

Fixed that migration_applied was always false in the on_configuration_changed event.

Fixed that the custom camera widget wouldn't render entity status icons correctly.

Resolved crash when the server disconnected while setting quickbar slots.

Fixed train could not advance from destination full state when a train stop placed from blueprint was built before a rail next to it.

Fixed transport belt would keep saying 'Disabled by control behavior' after circuit wires were removed.

Fixed that LuaGameScript::auto_save() wouldn't work if the root saves folder didn't already exist.

Fixed controller relative driving mode causing jittery movement when driving backwards.

Added show_generated_chunks debug option which shows uncharted yet generated chunks on the map.

Fixed that LuaFluidBox::get_fluid_system_contents() did not behave correctly when the fluid box was not part of a fluid system.

Fixed a crash when searching in certain icon selector GUIs.

Fixed intro sound being treated as GUI effect instead of music.

Fixed an error when scenario or blueprint library files are read-only on Linux.