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To newcomers if you have just purchased the game and found out that the game is not updated. Please do the following step :

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- Right click steam in your library
- Go to properties
- Go to "Betas" tab
- Under the "Select the beta you would like to opt in into :" choose the latest version

One thing i'm not sure is whether if v0.16 released it will be automatically updated or have to force update like the step above.

Have a nice day

If you are on the stable branch it will always automatically update to the latest stable build. (Which is when you select "None - Opt-out of all beta programs") (Which currently is 0.14.3)

If you are on the experimental branch it will always automatically update to the latest experimental build. (Which is when you select "0.15.x - Factorio 0.15 Experimental"), meaning it updates to whatever 0.15 build is the latest) (Which currently is 0.15.5)

Only if you select a specific build (like if you don't want to update or want to backroll to a previous build) then it will never update on its own and instead you have to do it manually.


And I'm pretty sure that it will be handled the same with 0.16 at the end of the year or next year (more likely).

To change to experimental(0.15) go onto steam:
in your library right click on "Factorio" in the left list of all your games.
Select properties.
Now you get a new small window up.
Select betas.
In the dropdown menu that most likely shows: "none" select experimental 0.15.x