The newest news: https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-161

Title says it all. See at https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-156

Thanks for the report. This should be fixed now.

Weekly dose of Factorio news is here: http://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-150

This week's Friday report has been written by Albert and gives an overview of our gfx process and future outlook: http://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-144

This time we provide some information on the last piece in the puzzle for 0.13 MP improvements: https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-143

Thanks for the report. This is now fixed for 0.13.

Thanks for the details. That was it=) I managed to replicate the issue and fix it. In 0.13 the result is such that the game continues, but player receives a clear message that he is playing the local copy of the game (to give him a chance to save the game for instance before reconnect).

I tried to reproduce this (both in 0.13 and then in 0.12.x) but without success. What I did:

- create server
- connect client
- pause client
- minimise client
- kill server

and the client gets a notice box about server being disconnected ...

Thanks for the report. We changed the behaviour in 0.13 to always treat these arguments as system paths (either absolute or relative).

Learn about technical aspects of new multiplayer map transfer mechanism: http://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-136

Read about how we try to cope with slowly growing as a company: http://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-135

Ok, to avoid further confusion we have added a short "this is april fools' day" disclaimer at the bottom. Just one more remark. Even though, in reality there is no Factorio-X (while Robert is certainly here) working on secret projects, all the discussion here definitely got us thinking abo...

Read about a small side project we have been messing with: http://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-132

Read about some side effects of releasing a game on Steam: http://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-130

1) [...]But what kind of things do you get when you have a membership account ? Basically you can just download the game from the website. I think you can't do that if you bought the game on Steam at the moment. If you buy the game on the site => you can retrieve a Steam key If you buy the game on ...

We might send an email to people who haven't redeemed their steam key in a few days.

Unsticking the topic, because we haven't had complaints about it for a long time.

I have unsticked the post since pretty much all of it is now covered in the FAQ.

Thanks for the info. Should be fixed now.