What changed in Factorio in 2025

Fixed on_chart_tag_modified was not called when name/icon was modified by script.

Fixed that diagonal connected resources did not group in the map total-patch tooltip logic.

Fixed a crash on Intel Macs with Intel Iris Plus Graphics by disabling GPU timings for those cards.

Added CargoStationParameters::is_input_station and ::is_output_station to clarify tooltips.

Fixed turrets would clear 'read ammo' when migrating a save file.

Selector combinator energy usage reduced from 5kW to 1kW.

Fixed some OpenGL lighting issues when light occlusion was enabled.

Fixed 'Entity tooltip delay' causing entity tooltips to never show in controller input method.

Fixed tips and tricks item was unable to load layered icons.

Fixed a crash when robots try to charge at a roboport that only supports charging when using quality.

Fixed color saturation problems on some Intel Macs.

Fixed freeze with unknown cause when placing rails.

Fixed electric poles would connect when checking pole buildability by script.

Fixed electric turret suggesting it is possible to read ammo.

Fixed scripted technology trigger was unable to load layered icons.

Decider combinator, arithmetic combinator and selector combinator are now primary energy consumers with increased buffer size for reliability.

Fixed crashes on Intel Macs with AMD GPUs by disabling GPU timings for those cards.

Fixed a crash when a surface is deleted while viewing a ping tooltip for that surface.

Fixed a crash when using roboport requests with spoilable robots.

Fixed startup crashes on some Intel Macbook Pros.

Fixed changing player's character could cause equipment related events to not fire.

Fixed double space in fuel pollution tooltip lines.

Fixed stomper stomp sound playing too many times when dying by stomping in a mine field.

Fixed a crash when cloning trees/rocks marked for deconstruction.

Fixed asteroid collector navmesh would in rare cases be stuck computing forever.

Fixed upgrading programmable speaker would clear settings.

Fixed a crash when artillery turret didn't have rotating_sound defined.

Fixed LuaPlayer::can_build_from_cursor would play the not-allowed sound when out of reach.

Fixed a desync related to demolishers.

Fixed that picking rocket parts signal by pipette picked the item version of the signal, which wasn't compatible with the recipe version of the signal.

Fixed platforms list not updating after platform was renamed.

Fixed that canceling cliff deconstruction could break cliff deconstruction.

Gleba wetlands, lowlands, and water tiles now absorb 3 times as many spores as other tiles.

Fixed a crash when drawing combinator with activity_led_sprites missing.

Changed items to stop drawing health and spoilage bars when the player is zoomed too far out.

Fixed ghost (non-superforced) rotated fast replace of some fast replaceable entities that have rotation constraints after placement.

The swap-players command can now handle basic remote view and players in space platform hubs.

Fixed that manually placing a real entity on a ghost didn't set item requests properly.

Fixed a crash with rocket flying sound after a failed audio device switch.

Fixed unlimited building reach when train GUI was open from character view.

Fixed total raw item icons clipping out of the recipe tooltip.

Fixed the collision and selection boxes for many of the Gleba tree/fungi.

Fixed a performance issue with lightning on explored planets.

Fixed a potential stutter when stopping a variable music track.

Fixed vehicles with portable roboports not being able to insert/remove equipment from themselves.

Fixed that galaxy of fame wasn't available when player died after winning the game.

Trees no longer take damage from spores nor absorb spores as a result of taking pollution damage.

Fixed tile auto-filling logic would sometimes ignore listed entities' buildability rules.

Added support for volume and speed activity matching for persistent working sounds.

Fixed variable music track intermezzo not being played correctly for subsequent tracks.

Added AirbornePollutantPrototype::damages_trees.

Fixed that inserters could get stuck inserting items if the item spoiled into one of the crafting machines current recipe ingredients.

Fixed a crash when named logistic sections are removed when entities are removed due to mod removal.

Fixed cutscenes would reset player zoom level when finishing.

Added additional information to Landing pad, Platform Hub and Cargo bay in factoriopedia.

Fixed pipe connection sprites of some machines not working together with storage tanks and pumps.

Fixed that blueprint parametrisation number value edit didn't accept unit postfixes and formulas.

Added ExplosionPrototype::explosion_effect which triggers after the delay has passed instead of when the explosion entity is created.

Fixed decider combinator gui conditions highlighting.

Fixed spoil to trigger was not spawning correct amount of entities.

Fixed blueprints being able to rotate entities that are not rotatable based on their prototypes.

Fixed consistency issue related to downgrading blueprints that contain assemblers that when downgraded can no longer craft the recipe.

Fixed lamps with color set by control behavior would not use color for one tick after loading a save.

Added more context to blueprint parameters in trains.

Fixed items on splitters were changing sides when rotating.

Changed working_visualisations to enforce that the provided array is contiguous.

Fixed that blueprint building parametrisation gui didn't accept unit postfixes and formulas.

Fixed that space platform hubs would not auto-trash items correctly.

Added ExplosionPrototype::delay and ExplosionPrototype::delay_deviation for adding an artificial delay to an explosion effect.

Agricultural Tower soil fertility visualisations now renders 'growable with different soil' even when acceptable tile is covered by deconstructible tile.

Fixed that blueprint parametrisation was able to change number in a storage chest filter.

Fixed selector combinator gui was showing input value in the output count signal slot.

Added 'spoil-result' and 'plant-result' filter to ItemPrototypeFilters.

LuaEntity::infinity_inventory_filters and remove_unfiltered_items now support infinity-cargo-wagon.

Fixed a crash when asteroid collector tried to mine an unminable asteroid chunk.

Fixed trains station tutorial would crash when adding a schedule record.

Fixed tooltip for recipe parameters to not show 'made in'.

When placing growable tile, Agricultural tower growing spot is highlighted even in a case where tile is placeable as replacement of non-growable tile.

Fixed deconstruction planner with quality entities selected would not show quality on the icon.

Added more variations to small explosion to improve the visuals when many small entities explode at the same time.

Fixed that fusion generators were highly sensitive to entity update order.

Fixed a crash and some other zoom-related problems if the window size is exceptionally large.

Fixed demolishers were unable to destroy open gates.

Fixed modded technologies with finite amount of levels could fail to show levels info.

Fixed that display panel text wasn't parametrisable by blueprint parametrisation.

Fixed some tooltip lines would clip outside the tooltip frame.

Fixed changing space platform hub's inventory bar was not waking up input inserters.

Fixed a crash related to drag building ghost belts and script reviving entities.

Fixed that switching to remote view while shooting would keep shooting.

Fixed equipment grid ghost interaction for entities that move in some cases.

Fixed display panel text was not showing up on screenshots.

Fixed a proxy container attached to mining drill module inventory would not wake up inserters when modules are inserted or removed.

Fixed migrating logistic containers into storage chest could leave them inconsistent.

Fixed a crash when upgrade-reviving ghost entities that have gui open.

Fixed wire distance checks when entity uses rotated selection boxes.

Fixed that the character would keep mining when entering remote view.

Fixed following robots lifetime modifier was not working with fractions.

LuaControl::walking_state now reads and writes spider-vehicle walking state if the player is driving one.

Fixed that rockets might not launch if there were manual filled rockets and multiple platforms wanting the same items with at least 1 being full.

Added TechnologyPrototype::show_levels_info.

Added FluidBoxPrototype::volume_reservation_fraction.

Fixed that finite infinite levels would show wrong in the technology GUI in some cases.

Added LuaEntity::cargo_pod_origin which stores which station entity the pod departed from.

Crash with positional GuiEffect sounds with aggregation when dedicated UI sound resources were exhausted is now resolved.

Crash when interacting with GUIs while auto-save runs is now resolved.

Crash when writing LuaItem::entity_filters is now resolved.

Blueprint parameter fields no longer auto-focus when using a controller.

Sound::audible_distance_modifier and SoundPrototype::audible_distance_modifier are now applied correctly.

Desync related to cliffs and deleting multiple chunks in the same tick is now resolved.

Plants are now correctly destroyed when (super)force building entities that autofill tiles that collide with them.

Achievements 'It stinks and they don't like it', 'It stinks and they do like it', and 'Get off my lawn' are now disabled in peaceful mode and no enemies mode.

Inventory rendering now works correctly even if part of it is off the left or right side of the screen.

Rocket silo GUI now fits correctly on small screens.

Crash when clicking a shortcut rich text link in controller input method is now fixed.

Inserters can no longer grab items from belts that crafting machines no longer want.

Mouse cursor no longer shows up when exiting Steam Big Picture in controller input method.

Pentapod eggs now have the correct default import surface.

Rendering items on belts now works correctly when a belt is also rendered through a camera widget.

Going back in browse history now correctly returns to player location if the character was in space platform hub.

Quality icon is no longer shown twice in in-world icons for blacklist quality filter (without entity).

Clicking space connections in Factoriopedia now updates selected items.

player.render_mode now correctly reports chart_zoomed_in for the remote controller.

Infinity container parametrization no longer sets empty filters causing crash on saving.

Performance improved by 60% when removing roboports in large active networks.

Crash in assembling machine GUI when the output was full and a recipe containing a research progress product was being crafted is now resolved.

Biters and pentapods no longer freeze mid-attack.

Worm shooting at fast moving target no longer creates multiple acid puddles with single spit and outside of its range.

Belts under elevated rails are now correctly removed when building a pair of undergrounds.

Audible click at certain zoom levels when playing positional sounds with custom zoom attenuation and aggregation is now resolved.

Upgraded blueprint entities no longer have their flip reverted.

Offshore pump underwater patch is now rendered correctly under water.

Blueprint of storage chest with filters no longer incorrectly overbuilds over non-storage logistic chests.

Upgrading a blueprint now correctly upgrades preview icons if the upgrade only changed quality.

Upgrading pairs of underground belts no longer transforms one end of the belt.

Assembler input slots no longer exceed stack limits.

UI sounds will now play even when dedicated UI sound resources are exhausted.

Writing 'nil' to storage_filter now works correctly.

Specific tree trunk no longer flickers when moving while zoomed out.

Blueprint preview rendering now works correctly.

Crash when building entities with linked pipe connections in multiplayer latency is now resolved.

on_equipment_removed now fires for robots removing equipment.

Display panel text and player names are now covered by onboard rocket/cargo pod flight cutscene.

Old save files created from a freeplay custom scenario now load correctly.

Hotkeys for 'Open character logistics/info/crafting' now close the character GUI correctly.

Tile transitions to lava now use the foam channel instead to maintain appearance.

Added more effect info to yumako, mash, jellynut, jelly, bioflux and slowdown capsule tooltips.

Labs no longer try to research trigger based technologies.

Map rendering no longer incorrectly shows your player as on the map when paused.

Some hidden items no longer show in Factoriopedia.

Visualization of asteroid collector range is now drawn correctly.

LuaEntity::get_logistic_sections now works correctly with entity ghosts.

Loading of scenarios when entities were configured with difficulty settings is now resolved.

FluidStream::target_initial_position_only added, used by worm acid spit.

Reset technology effects no longer clear in-progress research triggers.

Taking a screenshot no longer crashes the game in certain cases.

Added connection_category to LuaFluidboxPrototype::pipe_connections.

Manually launching items to space platforms no longer incorrectly states some combination of items wouldn't fit.

Remote item requests no longer leave a visual deconstruction/ghost mark when inserters interact with the slot.

Select list background drawing is now correct for the first row.

ItemPrototype::spoil_result and spoil_to_trigger_result can now be used at the same time.

Steam 'low steam remote storage' warning no longer shows if all steam remote storage options are disabled.

Selector combinator now uses the correct open and close sounds.

Shooting actions now have vibrations when playing with a controller.