Upcoming features

This is a list of publicized information about the upcoming 2.1 update. As of September 19, 2025, a "Fixed for 2.1" section was created on the official forums[1], implying that there is an active 2.1 dev branch.

Factorio 2.1

• Space Logistics Improvements [2]
  • When a space platform is requesting construction materials from the planet, a rocket silo will request the number of items actually needed for construction, instead of a rocketful of each item requested.
  • When a space platform requests many different items for construction (such as when the player pastes a complex space platform blueprint), the space platform will prioritize requesting space platform foundation and cargo bays before other materials.
  • Mods are now able to modify a rocket silo's weight capacity.

• Space Platform Improvements
  • When requesting an item from a planet, space platforms will now attempt to request it from all planets by default. There is now an optional filter to request an item from one specific planet.
  • Space platforms will now always wait until all of its orbital drop slots are empty before leaving a planet.
  • Platforms can now request items from the planet they are orbiting and/or other platforms in orbit around the same planet. All platforms have a checkbox in their UI to specify if they can deliver to other platforms or not.

• New Building: Landing Pad Unloading Bay
  • A special type of Cargo bay that allows inserters to remove items from it.
  • Can only be placed on planets, and within a certain radius of the Cargo landing pad
  • It is 4x5 tiles in size, specifically to allow for direct insertion from itself to a waiting train.
  • Elevated rails can now be placed over it and ordinary cargo bays.

• Circuit network additions
  • Space platform requests can now be set by the circuit network
  • Radar can now specify a "universe" channel to transmit to. Signals passed to the radar can be picked up by all other radars set to the same channel, even if they are located on a different planet or space platform.
  • All entities connected to the circuit network can toggle whether to input and output to connected green and/or red wire channels.
  • New connections:
    • Pipes, with options to read the contents of the pipe, pipeline, or the fluid's temperature.
    • Boilers and Heat exchangers, with the ability to enable on a condition
    • Landmines, with the ability to explode on a condition.
    • Labs and Biolabs, with the ability to read contents, read research costs & levels, and to research a particular technology on a condition. This is especially useful in order to prioritize Agricultural science packs.

• Visual Changes [3]
  • Environmental graphics for the Space Age planets have been improved
  • The flamethrower turret can now be placed diagonally, similar to the railgun turret
  • The Demolishers on Vulcanus have had their model slightly tweaked to be more intimidating.
  • Planets can now be seen in the background of a space platform when they are stopped in orbit
  • The Rocket silo, oil refinery, and assembly machines have updated models

• Quality Changes
  • The "Quality" mod is no longer a hard dependency in order to play Space Age. Instead, Quality is listed as a "recommended" mod to playing Space Age
    • The Recycler is now included in its own, separate mod, as it is required to progress on Fulgora.
  • Quality modules can no longer be placed in crushers running any asteroid reprocessing recipes.
  • All train wagons and locomotives have effects with improved quality, beyond just increased health:
    • Locomotives gain higher acceleration speed and a higher top speed
    • Cargo wagons gain more item stacks, up to 100 stacks
    • Fluid wagons gain more capacity, up to 125,000 units of fluid.
    • Artillery wagons gain increased shooting range, similar to its stationary counterpart.

• Miscellaneous Changes
  • The pumpjack and burner mining drill can now be flipped
  • Flipping inserters, mining drills, and the Recycler will change which side of a transport belt the inserter drops to, when the belt is travelling perpendicular to the entity.
  • The fluid system has been written upon further to prevent fluid mixing within entities with multiple fluid input and outputs.
  • Pumps can now load/unload fluid from fluid wagons when it is on a curve, as well as transfer fluids between two adjacent fluid wagons
  • The upgrade planner now works on locomotives and train wagons. This is especially useful when replacing them with higher quality tiers. If a train is marked for upgrade, and a robot has been assigned to upgrade it, the train will wait at its current stop until the upgrade is complete, overriding any wait conditions it may have.

• New achievements:
  • Lead developer Kovarex plans to add a "bunch of new achievements", which could make a 100% run "even more convoluted". [4]
  • This may or may not include a special achievement that could only be acquired by getting all other achievements in a single playthrough.

2.1 is planned to release in experimental towards the end of June 2026, with a stable release by the end of summer 2026. [5]

2.1 will be the final update, with a shift afterwards to bug-fixing, platform compatibility, and modding features, while Wube begins to turn its focus to new, non-Factorio projects.

See also

• Category:Upcoming - Pages for specific upcoming features
• Space Age - The previous major release
• Planned releases