Version history/0.7.0

0.7.5

Bugfixes

• Fixed that the train didn't stop in front of red signal in special circumstances.
• Fixed the resistance->damage calculation for damage amount near the resistance.
• Fixed bug causing crash with one specific rail setup.
• Fix of loading save with non empty modular armor in secondary quickbar.
• Fixed loading game with the armor GUI opened.
• Fixed that logistic robots brought wrong item to requester chest occasionally.
• Fixed bug when enemies would attack neutral objects after distraction (rails, poles, buildings, etc.)
• Enemies will now attack neutral objects only after pollution attack or close to their spawner.
• Resources no longer disappear when enemy bases are built on top of them.
• Fixed rail collision boxes, tight double rail turns don't act as single block.
• Fixed some missing prerequisites in the technology tree.
• Fixed crash when setting recipe of assembling machine in map editor.
• Fixed too high select item list in game with lot of items (added by mods).
• Added Inserters/Assembling machines/Furnaces to player placeable in map editor. When placed as neutral, upgrades/technologies of player will not affect these machines when placed as neutral.

Graphics

• Removed reference dots in rail pictures.

Balancing

• Slightly larger resource deposits.
• Halved the price of rails (Rails are crafted in pairs now).
• Increased stack sizes of walls (32->64) and logistic robots (16->32).
• Increased character inventory size (56->60).
• Moved big electric pole from electric energy distribution 2->1 (no blue science packs needed).
• Removed the iron working research
• Decreased the unit count for automation research (15->10).

Scripting

• Deactivated beacon will stop giving bonuses.
• Fixed crash in train destructor when there is an syntactic error in the Lua script.
• Fixed crash when reading held stack of inserter with an empty hand.
• Fixed error when parsing the compound command for unit / group.

0.7.4

Bugfixes

• Fixed loading of filters of smart inserters.
• Fixed crash when loading a game from the new hope campaign.
• Disallowed deleting rails under the train in the map editor.
• Fixed bug with moving trains in the map editor.
• Fixed missing name of stations built in map editor.

Balancing

• Decreased explosive resistance of medium/big biter from 20/30% to 10%.

0.7.3

Features

• Show the mining area of electric mining drill when building/selected.
• Logistic robots delivery is evenly distributed between provider/requester chests.
• Mining drill evenly distributes the selection of resource to be mined in its radius.
• Radar explores one unexplored chunk when the sector scanning progress finishes up to distance of 14 chunks.

Bugfixes

• Fixed the bug of map not showing entities on the right/bottom side of the map.
• Fixed the bug of the mining resource slot of mining drill being in the left top corner when no resource was available.
• Fix of crash when getting recipe info of item with cyclic recipes.
• Game ignores non-save directories in the save folder.
• Keep modules in assembling machine when fast rebuilding.
• Fix of crash when using save with removed/changed items in the filter slot of filter inserter.
• Fixed crash when building rolling stocks immediately connected to other rolling stocks.
• Disabled enemy expansion in campaign levels.
• Fixed bug of research window having two texts over each other when the research window is open.
• Fixed that radar was working without electricity.
• Bonus production of assembling machine is reset when the player changes the recipe.
• Fixed bug of strange behavior when efficiency modules inserted into machine.

Balancing

• Faster mining speed of burner mining drills (66% speed and consumption boost).
• Restricted usage of productivity modules in beacons.
• Resource richness increased by approximately 20%.
• Discharge defense damages only enemies, has increased damage (300%), smaller cooldown and smaller power consumption.
• Increased the damage radius of explosive rocket from 4 to 6.
• Increased the effect range of the slowdown capsule from 7 to 9.

Scripting

• Fixed that item created by game.createentity didn't start moving on transport belt.

Modding

• Allowed to limit type of modules insertable to beacon/assembling machine.

0.7.2

Features

• Added low graphics option for cards with lower amount of video memory.
• Better error reporting for some updater error states.

BugFixes

• Fixed bug when engine was not able to load map with removed tiles (loading save with active tile mod that is not present now).
• Fixed bug with evolution factor being > 1.
• Fixed bug with car being damaged by shooting shotgun while driving it.
• Fixed crashes in editor (related to unzooming and exploring new areas).
• Inserter putting coal in the furnace that has already picked the coal up will put it there even when there is over 5 items in the furnace. This will avoid stuck inserter when there are more than one feeder at the same time.
• Fixed "all technologies" button in the sandbox mode.
• Fixed unpredictable behavior of "None" and "Very Big" starting area settings.
• Fix bug of loading map that contains removed/migrated items in logistic request slots or in logistic robots on the way.
• Fixed bug with "teleporting" enemy expansion groups.
• Tweaked small enemy and group movement bugs.
• Fixed bug of burner mining drill accepting more than 5 coal (up to full stack) by inserters.
• Fixed bug with the double click in list dialogues Game was loaded even when clicked on two different items in the short period of time.
• Fixed bug when settings to not use item groups in character crafting GUI were not working.
• Fixed bug of active window not being always on top (minimap was over it).
• Fixed bug of the mining drill consuming resource even when executing the bonus production (given by productivity modules).
• Fixed crash when spawning on the player port.
• Fix in the recipe requirements calculations.
• Total raw calculates requirements per one item with float numbers (circuit needs 1.5 copper for example)
• Fixed crash when opening the modular armor in the container.
• Fixed inconsistency in GUI opening state when destroying entity (chest) that contains currently opened armor.
• Fixed crash when inventory with currently opened armor was destroyed.
• Fixed bug that caused production modules make lab work faster.
• Fixed bug that caused remaining pollution in inactive chunks.
• Fixed bug in GUI opening after switching controllers.
• Fixed crash when trying to manipulate armor with paused game.
• Remnants are buildable/selectable in the map editor.
• Biters are getting stuck less now.
• Fixed bug crash when loading save with two trains next to each other.

Changes

• Changed the recipe for lab to require 4 transport belts instead of 5.

Scripting

• Added write access to energy property of entity.
• Added read/write access to the peacefulmode Boolean (game.peacefulmode)

0.7.1

Features

• kovarex's 1000th forum post :)
• Toolbelt technology adds second quickbar.
• Gun turret damage upgrades.
• Added late game destroyer robots that follow the player and shoot powerful blue laser.
• Added middle game defender robots that follow the player and shoot bullets.
• Research screen shows current or last completed research.
• Walls, machines and railroads leave remnants when destroyed.
• Peaceful mode in freeplay. Biters don't attack unless attacked. Worms still shoot on sight.

Changes

• Slowed down the enemy evolution to 1/3.
• Enemy spawning cooldown depend on evolution level.
• Less expensive and faster crafting of the piercing bullet magazine (5 copper instead of 10)
• Less expensive capsules
• Increased armor resistances.
• 1/2 crafting time of all modules, all 10/10 advanced circuit /normal circuit requirements changed to 5/5.
• Advanced circuit requirements 5/5 circuits/cable changed to 4/4
• Express transport belt iron gear wheels requirement 15->10
• Transport belt to ground craftable in pairs (price is doubled, time kept the same)
• Faster extension and rotation speed of the gun turret.
• First 2 levels of research effectivity don't require blue science packs.
• Automobilism doesn't require blue science pack and prerequisite change from logistics-3 to logistics-2.
• Basic accumulator capacity increased from 2.5kJ to 5kJ, input/output flow increased to 300W.
• More effective logistic robot speed upgrades (25% of basic speed cumulative)
• Slow down capsule effect time increased from 20 to 30 seconds.
• Gun turret range extended from 15 to 17.
• Damage increases: Grenade 10->25, Rocket 40->60, Explosive rocket 20->40
• Lowered initial natives evolution further away from the start.
• Fast Inserter has now the same speed as Smart Inserter.
• One time migration that replaces all the smart inserters without the cable connection or filter by Fast Inserters.
• Iron gear wheel stack size increased from 64 to 128
• Decreased resting energy consumption of laser turret to 1/3.
• Removed the blue potion prerequisite for solar panels.
• Removed the limit of one logistic robot order per tick.
• Speed module doesn't produce additional pollution (except for pollution increase from speed)

BugFixes

• Fixed memory leak created when any text on the screen was printed (including GUI).
• Fixed crash on shift + space after using a capsule.
• Fixed map editor crash on zoom out.
• Fixed missing English locales.
• Fixed bug with smelting single resource in the furnace.
• Added missing pollution descriptions.
• Enemy bases should no longer appear on water.
• Fixed crash when opening production and character GUI together.
• Fixed bug with off armor equipment placing.
• Entity info panel is shown over armor GUI.
• Fixed that game.mapsettings.pollution.enabled didn't have any effect on the game.
• Mining Mining drills/Labs with modules will give the modules back as well.
• Pollution on the minimap shown only in the alt mode.
• Fixed infinite item bug when holding item while crafting.
• Fixed crash in god mode when editing armor contents.
• Fixed crash when loading a game where the player is in the car.
• Fixed crash when loading a game with ghost view.
• Fixed showing damage alert when no actual damage is done.
• Fixed that the electric network info didn't fit in 1280X1024 (and more square like resolutions).
• Fixed bug with enemy spawners appearing in the player's starting area.
• Alert notifications are visible on the minimap as well.

Graphics

• New underground indication for belts / pipes.
• Added creeper spawner graphics.
• Added remnants for destroyed buildings and railroads.
• Particle based stickers on slowed down enemies.

Modding

• Added attack_reaction field for every entity with health.

Scripting

• The current interface of Lua scripting is up to date on factorio wiki.
• Orientation read only field works for vehicle, fish and unit.
• Added read/write field accelerationperenergymodifier, consumptionmodifier and frictionmodifier to LuaEntity(LuaCar).
• Changed isvalid() method of LuaEntity to valid property.
• Changed set/get methods to read/write property for active, destructible, minable, rotatable and operable of Lua entity.
• Changed getdroptarget/getdropposition to read property droptarget/dropposition
• Changed set/get methods of alwaysday, gametime, darkness to read/write property of Lua game.
• Removed the connectcharacter/disconnectcharacter, it is done by assigning the player.character directly (nil disconnects).
• All functions/properties accessible by player.controller are now accessible directly by player
• getenergy method of Lua entity changed to energy read only field.
• disable/enable methods of Lua recipe changed to read/write property enabled
• set/get researched/enabled methods of Lua technology changed to read/write property researched/enabled
• added game.killallenemies() API call

0.7.0

Features

• The factory now produces pollution. Pollution is visible on the map after pressing ALT key. Pollution is mostly produced by mining drills, things that burn coal, assembling machines and modules.
• Enemy creepers were replaced by small, medium and big biters.
• Enemy turrets were replaced by small, medium and big shooting worms.
• Enemy attacks are triggered by pollution accumulated around their base (no time based attacks from the script anymore).
• Enemies move and attack in groups.
• Enemies wander around their base when they have nothing to do.
• Enemies call for help when attacked.
• Enemies can create new bases.
• Added new weapons/ammos: shotgun, combat shotgun, explosive rockets.
• Added upgrades (research) for all types of ammo and for laser turrets as well.
• Added concept of capsules (usable items). Capsules are used from quickbar. Quickbar shortcut (1-5 shift 1-5) applies the capsule at mouse position. Current capsules: basic grenade, poison cloud capsule (doesn't damage buildings), slowdown capsule (doesn't work on buildings), combat robot capsules (spawns robot(s) that fight the enemies)
• The player movement is slower when he is shooting (differs per weapon).
• Added Modular armors with placeable equipment. The armor is opened by right clicking it. Equipment can be: night vision, speedup exoskeleton, energy sources, batteries, energy shields, laser defense, discharge defense
• Weapons have different damage types, entities have different resistances.
• Added production statistics similar to the electricity statistics. (on the P key by default)
• "Shift-build" - when building with shift the settings of the last built entity of that type are applied. This works for assembling machine, smart/logistics chest and inserter, includes circuit network wiring and internal settings.
• Laboratories and mining drills are module compatible.
• Logistic robots try to not mix different items in storage chests if possible.
• Placing resources now uses the "autoplace" mechanism as well (see Lua data files).
• Better labeling of map generation parameters (swapped frequency and size), frequency and size are less dependent on each other.
• Automatic updates can use proxy server.

GUI

• Extended tips and tricks.
• Mark missing elemental ingredients in the recipe tooltip as red.
• Show cooldown of weapons/usable items in the slot.
• Debug settings can be changed in game (F4 triggers the GUI).
• Flying text notification when a train has no path.
• Automatically connect rolling stocks into trains when placed nearby with indication.
• Show direction of train stop when to be built/selected.
• Show connected/to be connected rails that are selected/to be build
• Double click in load/save dialog opens/saves the game.
• Technologies in the technology GUI are sorted (using order string)

Graphics

• Replaced enemy placeholders (units, turrets).
• New selection boxes.
• New arrows for inserters / mining drills.

Changes

• Removed the filter inserter (merged with smart inserter), all filter inserters are transformed into smart inserters.
• Land mine has bigger damage radius and trigger.
• Disabled loading of saves before 0.3.0 version (You can use 0.6.4 to load any old saves and re-save them).
• Enemies can destroy all player creations they find (not only labs, turrets, logistic robots, train and player as it was now)
• Long hand inserter puts the item into the distance 2 (instead of 1).
• Decreased the car health from 2000 to 500, laser from 350 to 250.
• Increased the wall health bar from 200 to 350 and increased health of most of the player structures.
• Enemy spawners and turrets slowly regenerate health.
• Electric pole connects to all poles in the reach with no common neighbor. The limit of 5 connection per pole stays. Building electric poles with shift pressed builds it without any connections.

BugFixes

• Straight belt pushes items from the center to one of the sides, so randomly inserted items on belt shouldn't cause sticks in the U turns.
• Indestructible objects are now handled properly in the path finding.
• Fix of game being very slow with lots of logistic robots with no place to put items (no free storage chests).
• Fixed several critical bugs in the map editor.
• Fixed of confused logistic system when rebuilding logistic chests
• Shortened number format works properly for large negative numbers.
• Fixed script crashes when using god mode in freeplay.
• Fixed armor relative protection (It was inverted and 10% protection made 90% instead)
• Player inventory didn't get autosorted when item was crafted or delivered by logistic robot.
• Player crafting GUI didn't get updated (number of items craftable), when player received items from logistic robots or dropped item on ground.
• Fixed sharp edges in new maps.
• Fixed crash when player hovers ammo placed in quickbar.
• Fixed bug of losing bonus production in furnace/assembling machine when the output slot is full (the production will stop instead).
• Item tooltip is updated when the item on selected slot changes and closed when the slot is cleared.

Optimisations

• Mining drills deactivate when the resources run out.
• Speedups in the path finding (though path finding around very big lakes is still slow).
• Speedups in enemy movement.

Scripting

• Fixed Lua GUI element#isvalid function, it threw error when the element was invalid.
• Added Lua object for entity/item prototype. All prototypes can be acquired by game.(entity/item)prototypes.
• Added (readonly now) way to access tiles by game.gettile(x.y) (provides name property and collideswith method)
• getenergy method additionally works for Lamp, Lab, Electric turret, Accumulator, Car, Locomotive and Solar panel.
• The onchunkgenerated event is now called for all chunks, even for the starting area and for chunks created in map editor.

Modding

• Result of shooting, projectiles, capsules and items used in general, is now specified by our small but powerful effect framework.
• Added way to migrate/rename entity/item prototypes.
• Introduced moddable game wide map settings in data/base/prototypes/map-settings.lua.