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Game details

  • Description Plan, build and optimize sprawling automated factories in a 2D world—mine resources, design production lines and logistics, research technologies, and defend installations while scaling toward highly efficient industrial systems.
  • Genre Automation, Base Building, Resource Management, Sandbox, Crafting, Strategy
  • Developer Wube Software LTD.
  • Publisher Wube Software LTD.
  • Release Date Aug 14, 2020

Latest updates

Version 2.1.12

Changes
  • Changed rocket silo circuit 'Read orbital requests' to not include platform only requests.
  • Changed platform requests importing from platforms to allow providing the item to cargo landing pads.
Bugfixes
  • Fixed that the browse games GUI wouldn't show the vertical scroll bar in some cases. [134607]
  • Fixed that ghost fuel requests could exceed the fuel stack size. [134841] ...

Version 2.1.11

Changes
  • Assembling machines with passthrough ports will consider the entire fluid segment as available for crafting. [134309]
Optimizations
  • Stop drawing in-GUI simulations when the window is hidden or occluded.
Bugfixes
  • Fixed a crash when enabling pollution through the map editor 'force editor' - 'edit map settings' option. [134994] ...

Version 2.1.10

Changes
  • Added several new notes to Miscellaneous Programmable speaker instrument. [134325]
  • Renamed Global Programmable speaker playback mode to Universe. [134370]
  • Blueprint parametrisation allows selecting recipe product as dependant parameter.
  • Merging and renaming various tiles in Factoriopedia. [134045]
Optimizations

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Version 2.1.9

Minor Features
  • Factoriopedia "show unresearched" state is preserved separately per save file. [134114]
  • Decider combinator supports else-output.
Changes
  • Blueprint parameter numbers with variable names that are referenced by other formulas are kept if the other formula is used by the blueprint.
  • Trains on elevated rails are treated as "tall" for the purpose of "hide tall entities". ...

Version 2.1.8

Changes
  • Changed the technology price multiplier limit from 1000 to 100000.
  • Changed spoil result tooltips to show the result entities as the quality of the item-to-spoil. [133602]
Minor Features
  • Added per-entity timings to the benchmark-verbose command line option when using "all" or "entities".
GUI
  • Hovering fixed item slot highlights items in inventory. [134199]
Bugfixes

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Version 2.1.7

Features
  • Added pumpjack and burner mining drill flipping.
  • Inserters can be flipped to make blueprint flipping reliable.
  • Circuit connectable entities with control gui on side now have settings groupped into "Input" and "Output" section.
  • Added option to select which wires (red, green or both) should be used by a circuit connectable entity for input, and separately for output.
  • Requester and buffers chests can now set requests and read contents at the same time. ...