- Steam users can now log in automatically through Steam without needing their Factorio account password.
- Steam users without a Factorio account can create one by providing only a username.
- Reworked main menu structure.
- Added a "Continue" button which quickly loads the latest save game.
- Added a "New Game" GUI that shows all the ways to play the game
- Added a setting to the map editor to show/hide the extra entity settings.
- Added a map editor GUI to edit force data modifiers.
- Added a PvP team option to create a moat around the starting area.
- Added animation to water.
- Added animation to trees.
- Added LUTs and color corrected the game sprites.
- Added sliders to the graphics settings to adjust brightness, contrast, and saturation.
- Added on damaged effects for most entities.
- Added specific dying explosions for most entities.
- New or updated sound effects include:
- Nuclear reactor, chemical plant, furnace, fire, burner mining drill.
- Tank.
- Mining by hand, chopping wood
- Roboport door, Combat robots
- Player footsteps.
- Biter and Spitter footsteps.
- Worm breathing, Spitters and Biters, idling and attacking.
- New sound features include:
- The ability to fade out sounds instead of a sudden stop, e.g. for the furnace.
- Varying the pitch of sounds to a min/max level, to add more variety.
- A 'Random, no repeat' feature to reduce repetition, especially on sounds that happen frequently, such as player steps.
- The sound for the game has also been rebalanced to highlight certain sounds and make others fade into the distance.
- The default sound settings have also been updated to improve this mix.
- Optimized particle logic.
- Improved performance when side-loading transport belts.
- Improved performance of inserters interacting with assembling machines and furnaces.
- Improved performance of inserters when the circuit network turns them off.
- Improved performance of mining drills and inserters in general.
- Improved performance of burner entities.
- Improved performance polluting entities.
- Improved performance of smoke producing entities.
- Improved performance logistic and construction robot performance when they're flying towards their target.
- Improved performance of furnaces and assembling machines that use fluids.
- Improved heat pipe performance by 3x.
- Improved item request proxy performance by turning them off in 99%+ of the cases.
- Improved locomotive, cargo wagon, and fluid wagon performance by turning them off in 99%+ of the cases.
- Electric networks, fluids, and heat pipes are updated in parallel if you have enough cores.
- Improved script rendering performance for text and lines.
- Improved performance of rotated bounding boxes.
- Fixed the recipe tooltip showing negative values for some complex recipes. (77512)
- Fixed graphical glitch when GUI element with blurred background got out of bounds of the screen. (78278)
- Fixed hard coded English string in NPE. (78203)
- Fixed potential crash in NPE when Compilatron is pointing at something that gets deleted. (77669)
- Fixed issue where sometimes you couldn't move to the second area in NPE. (77763)
- Fixed issue where Compilatron would sometimes tell you to build more boilers when that was not the problem. (77931)
- Fixed issue where Compilatron's speech bubbles could block you from interacting with the world behind him. (77616)
- Fixed items with excessively long names squashing the count label in the recipe tooltips. (78274)
- Fixed accumulator charge text in statistics bouncing around because of inconsistent number of digits. (78274)
- Fixed train path finding penalty when there are 2 or more trains in block. (78336)
- Fixed a crash when creating trains during the player moved event that was caused by the player getting ejected from a vehicle because the vehicle died. (78620)
- Fixed a crash when removing mods that had custom GUI elements. (78550)
- Fixed a crash when using Lua event filters when the thing to be filtered becomes invalid. (78559)
- Fixed that some turret sounds could be heard on other surfaces. (78503)
- Fixed that the tooltip for the generator would not show its efficiency correctly. (78226)
- Fixed a crash related to building tiles in multiplayer with some mods. (78552)
- Fixed that turrets would sometimes fail to attack things that are in range. (78789)
- Fixed follower robot lifetime tooltip property not taking into account following_robots_lifetime_modifier. (78842)
- Fixed cliffs sometimes getting marked for deconstruction when they shouldn't have been. (78504)
- Fixed inconsistent rounding in the statistics window. (78370)
- Fixed a desync when setting .active=false on beacons through script. (78469)
- The map will be re-charted when the mod configuration changes. (78868)
- Fixed inserters sometimes not being highlighted when selecting a large modded vehicle. (78633)
- Fixed a crash when entity grid would destroy itself during update. (78887)
- Fixed a crash with rich text tags and dynamic images. (78980)
- Fixed setting the held stack of an inserter didn't update the inserter state correctly. (79031)
- Fixed tooltip alignment in some specific cases. (77904)
- Fixed a crash when lua removes pipe-to-ground between entity revive and deferred pipe connection fix. (79113)
- Fixed a crash when setting infinity chest filters to legacy items. (79453)
- Fixed that splitters could be set to have invalid bounding boxes that would lead to corrupt saves. (78225)
- Fixed word wrapping of rich text containing tag that doesn't fit given width would duplicate the tag on multiple lines. (79174)
- Fixed if migrating old achievement data to Steam Cloud failed, the old file would not be deleted resulting in the same error on every startup. (79644)
- Fixed train pathfinding penalty for circuit network closed rail signal was not applied in some cases. (79640)
- Fixed a crash when mods would define construction robots without some sprites. (79697)
- Fixed that trying to do 0 damage would still trigger the entity-damaged event. (79579)
- Fixed a save corruption issue related to modded loaders with different belt_distance values. (79200)
- Fixed that train would forget amount of ticks waiting at signal when doing repath. (79640)
- Fixed that train pathfinder was not counting penalty of last segment length in path cost. (78821)
- Fixed PvP error on configuration changed. (79296)
- Fixed pump tooltip showing double pumped amount when pumping to fluid wagon. (79942)
- Fixed manual ghost revive of a loader in unload mode would not work in visually matching direction. (79124)
- Fixed calling LuaEntity::order_deconstruction() on item-request-proxy would corrupt the game state leading to crash. (80096)
- Landfill can be placed over shallow water.
- Fixed that LuaEntity::color wouldn't accept "nil" to reset the color. (80172)
- Fixed that train pathfinder was not counting penalty of opposite train stop at last segment.
- Fixed that train pathfinder was counting penalty of whole starting segment instead of only part in front of locomotive. (79951)
- Fixed that train pathfinder would return single segment path even if there are shorter, multi segment ones. (79951)
- Fixed technology screen not showing modifier tooltips when tooltip descriptions are disabled. (79499)
- Fixed belt tooltips sometimes showing their speed in exponent format. (79100)
- Added UnitPrototype::light.
- Removed the "particle" prototype type.
- Added the "optimized-particle" prototype type.
- Added the "burner-generator" prototype type.
- Removed GeneratorPrototype::burner.
- Added the "pass_through_mouse" option to speech bubble styles. This lets mouse interactions fall through to interact with the world behind.
- Added optional "radius_color" property to capsule prototype.
- Removed EntityPrototype::emissions_per_tick, it is replaced by emissions_per_second.
- Removed EnergySourcePrototype::emissions_per_second_per_watt and emissions, they are replaced by emissions_per_minute.
- Removed TilePrototype::ageing, it is replaced by pollution_absorption_per_second.
- Removed ItemPrototype::stackable, primary_place_result_item and can_be_mod_opened, they were replaced by ItemPrototypeFlags "not-stackable", "primary-place-result" and "mod-openable".
- Added "probability" to trigger items and trigger effect items.
- Added "script" trigger effect item. It will call the "on_script_trigger_effect" when triggered.
- Added AttackParameters::rotate_penalty and AttackParameters::health_penalty.
- Added generic support for rendering radius visualisations on entities through radius_visualisation_specification.
- Changed construction robots and logistic robots sprites to be optional.
- Changed the loader prototype type so it has a fixed belt_distance of 0.5.
- Added the prototype type "loader-1x1" that has a fixed belt_distance of 0.
- Changed render layer of belt structures (underground belt, splitter, circuit connector) to object layer. They now have special sorting logic, so they are not rendered over player or cars.
- Horizontal directions of splitter sprites were separated to two sprites (for purposes of the special sorting logic).
- Added AttackParameters::ammo_categories.
- Added optional artillery projectile property "rotatable".
- Scenarios can now contain a description.json file. In the file "order" determines the sorting in the New Game gui; "multiplayer-compatible" determines weather the scenario is shown for multiplayer games.
- Added "multiplayer-compatible" to description.json file of campaigns also.
- Added on_unit_group_finished_gathering and on_build_base_arrived events.
- Added LuaRendering::bring_to_front().
- Changed LuaGameScript::particle_prototypes to reference the optimized-particle type.
- Added LuaGuiElement::scroll_to_item() function.
- Renamed LuaInventory::hasbar(), getbar() and setbar() to supports_bar(), get_bar() and set_bar().
- Added LuaEquipmentPrototype::attack_parameters read.
- Added on_script_trigger_effect event.
- Set lower limit of zoom parameter of LuaGameScript::take_screenshot to be 0.0315 (1 pixel per tile) instead of allowing any value greater than 0.
- Added LuaPlayer::get_infinity_inventory_filter(), set_infinity_inventory_filter() functions.
- Added LuaPlayer::remove_unfiltered_items, infinity_inventory_filters read/write.
- Added LuaSurface::get_entities_with_force().
- Added optional "dealer" parameter to LuaEntity::damage().
- Added "force" filters to the on_built_entity and on_robot_built_entity event filters.
- LuaSurface::min_brightness doesn't have any effect on rendering as brightness of night depends only on color LUT of night.
