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This is a list of known information about the upcoming expansion pack '''Factorio: Space Age''' and the upcoming 2.0 version.
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[https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?t=130918], implying that there is an active 2.1 dev branch.


* As of August 2023, development is at the end of step 5 "First pass of tweaking" out of 7 total steps until release. [https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-373]
== Factorio 2.1 ==
* The planned price is $30.00 because it is "as big an addition as the whole vanilla game.". [https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-367]
* The expected release date is around August 2024. [https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-373]


== Space Age expansion ==
* Space Logistics Improvements [https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-441]
[https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-367 Friday Facts #367] shows some concept art for the expansion. [https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-372 Friday Facts #372] shows some item icons from the expansion.
** 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 bay]]s before other materials.
** Mods are now able to modify a [[rocket silo]]'s weight capacity.


"Factorio: Space Age continues the player's journey after launching rockets into space. Discover new worlds with unique challenges, exploit their novel resources for advanced technological gains, and manage your fleet of interplanetary space platforms." [https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-373]
* 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.


Consists of 3 major mods which can be enabled and disabled at will: Space age, quality and elevated rails.
* New Building: [[Landing pad unloading bay]]{{SA}}
** A special type of [[Cargo bay]]{{SA}} that allows inserters to remove items from it.
** Can only be placed on planets, and within a certain radius of the [[Cargo landing pad]]{{SA}}
** 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.


=== Space Age ===
* 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.
*** [[Boiler]]s and [[Heat exchanger]]s, with the ability to enable on a condition
*** [[Land mine]]s, with the ability to explode on a condition.
*** [[Lab]]s and [[Biolab]]s{{SA}}, 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 pack]]s{{SA}}.


Relevant FFFs: [https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-373 FFF 373 - Factorio: Space Age], [https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-381 FFF 381 - Space Platforms], [https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-386 FFF 386 - Vulcanus], [https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-387 FFF 387 - Swimming in lava], [https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-398 FFF 398 - Fulgora], [https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-399 FFF 399 - Trash to Treasure]
* Visual Changes [https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-442]
** Environmental graphics for the [[Space Age]]{{SA}} planets have been improved
** The [[flamethrower turret]] can now be placed diagonally, similar to the [[railgun turret]]{{SA}}
** The Demolishers on [[Vulcanus]]{{SA}} 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 machine]]s have updated models


Space Age features 4 new planets (Vulcanus and Fulgora are the only ones to have been officially revealed, the others are thought to be named Bacchus and Aquilo) with their own "unique theme, resource, challenges, and gameplay mechanics", as well as new enemies to deal with.
* [[Quality]]{{SA}} Changes
** The "Quality" mod is no longer a hard dependency in order to play [[Space Age]]{{SA}}. Instead, Quality is listed as a "recommended" mod to playing Space Age
*** The [[Recycler]]{{SA}} is now included in its own, separate mod, as it is required to progress on [[Fulgora]]{{SA}}.
** [[Quality module]]s can no longer be placed in [[crusher]]s{{SA}} running any asteroid reprocessing recipes.
**  All train wagons and locomotives have effects with improved quality, beyond just increased health:
*** [[Locomotive]]s gain higher acceleration speed and a higher top speed
*** [[Cargo wagon]]s gain more item stacks, up to 100 stacks
*** [[Fluid wagon]]s gain more capacity, up to 125,000 units of fluid.
*** [[Artillery wagon]]s gain increased shooting range, similar to its [[artillery turret|stationary counterpart]].


[[Rocket silo | Rockets]] will be significantly cheaper. [[Chemical science pack | Chemical science]] unlocks rocket silo and access to space. [[Space science pack | Space science]] unlocks access to other planets. Some technologies have been moved to one of these planets; artillery, cliff explosives, spidertron, tier 3 modules, and some personal equipment are in this list.
* Miscellaneous Changes
** The [[pumpjack]] and [[burner mining drill]] can now be flipped
** Flipping [[inserters]], mining drills, and the Recycler{{SA}} 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.
** [[Pump]]s can now load/unload fluid from [[fluid wagon]]s 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.


Playthroughs of Space Age are expected to take approximately 60-100 hours, compared to 150-500+ hours for Space Exploration.


*New achievements:
** Lead developer Kovarex plans to add a "bunch of new achievements", which could make a 100% run "even more convoluted". [https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?p=669490#p669490]
** This may or may not include a special achievement that could only be acquired by getting all other achievements in a single playthrough.


'''New Buildings:'''
2.1 is planned to release in experimental towards the end of June 2026, with a stable release by the end of summer 2026. [https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-440]


* Crusher, assembler-like building for breaking down asteroids
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.
* Asteroid Collector, sends out tentacle-like grabbers to collect asteroids
* Space Platform Hub, central unit for space platforms
* Foundry, processes molten materials
* Electromagnetic Plan, builds electricity-based items
* Big mining drill, upgraded electric mining drill
 
'''Space Platforms:'''
 
Space platforms are player-created surfaces that function both as factories and as transport to other planets.
 
Platforms are created by launching a "starter pack" on a rocket, which creates the surface with a hub on it with a small amount of flooring. More flooring can be placed, but can't contain any holes. The entire platform is lost if the hub is destroyed.
 
The hub counts as a construction and logistics handler (as the player is confined to the hub) as well as a train-like entity (for moving between planets).
 
Rocket silos now act as a requester chest and can request all items needed by a connected hub in orbit, including ghost entities. Silos can also be manually filled.
 
A number of buildings can't be built on platforms, including construction and logistics robots, chests, vehicles, and burner entities.
 
Storage within the hub can be expanded with cargo bays, which is important as you can't place chests on platforms. Cargo bays can also attach to other cargo bays.
 
Platforms act as a power transmitter, removing the need for power poles entirely.
 
Asteroids appear around space platforms and act as a renewable way to obtain iron, ice, and carbon. All three are required to produce fuel and oxidiser to move between planets. Moving causes larger, hazardous asteroids to appear that can be shot down into the smaller, collectible form. All asteroid types are collected and then crushed.
 
* Metallic asteroids are crushed into iron ore
* Carbonic asteroids are crushed into carbon
* Oxide asteroids are crushed into ice, which can be melted into water
 
Excess items can be dumped by "inserting" them into a space with no flooring.
 
All three asteroid types are also required to produce space science efficiently, as the satellite method now only produces 10 science packs, as well as needing some enriched uranium. Enrichment was moved to space science to compensate for enriched uranium being a required resource. Tier 2 modules were also moved to space science.
 
'''Vulcanus:'''
 
Vulcanus is a new volcanic planet. Its surface is divided between three distinct biomes: mountains, ashlands and lava basins.
 
Mountains are large volcanoes, covered in cliffs and with a large lava pool at their center. They are home to sulfuric acid vents where sulfuric acid can be directly obtained, and a new material, calcite, which is used as a cleansing agent in recipes.
 
Ashlands are plateaus speckled with sparse vegetation and deposits of coal. They are home to leafless alien trees, presumably a source of wood.  They are relatively free of cliffs and lava, making them ideal for building.
 
Lava basins are filled with winding lava rivers. Within them are deposits of a new material, tungsten, which can only be mined using the new big mining drill.
 
The foundry, a new building for crafting with molten materials, can be researched here. It is used to process lava and calcite into molten iron and molten copper, with a byproduct of stone. It can also be used to melt iron and copper and cast molten metals into items such as iron gear wheels, copper wire, steel, and low density structures more quickly than other methods.
 
Lava can be used to destroy items by placing items over it with an inserter.
 
Big mining drills have a range of 13x13 tiles, harvest materials at 2.5/s, have 4 module slots, and have a 50% chance not to reduce resource richness, which can be further decreased at higher qualities.
 
Sulfuric acid and calcite can be obtained to create water, which is the only local source of water on the planet.
 
Coal liquefaction is now only obtainable on Vulcanus. A simplified liquefaction process is also available, wherein coal can be processed into oil without the need for heavy oil.
 
Tungsten is used in a foundry to create the Metallurgic science pack.
 
'''Fulgora:'''
 
Fulgora is a new barren desert planet. Its surface is split between island-like plateaus, and deep oilsands.
 
Oilsands can be walked through, but only elevated rail supports and offshore pumps can be built in them. Offshore pumps will produce an unlimited supply of Heavy Oil.
 
Factory buildings can only be built on plateaus. The only way to bridge the gaps will be with elevated rails, but you will be able to landfill the oilsands in the late game.
 
Fulgora is prone to lightning storms at night. Lightning will damage buildings not protected by the new lightning rods.
 
Lightning rods will also take energy from lightning and turn it into electricity for the power network. A bank of accumulators is needed to store it through the daytime.
 
The plateaus are far enough apart for power poles, so each island will need its own electric network.
 
The Electromagnetic Plant, Fulgora's equivalent to the Foundry, is found here. It is used for crafting electrical-based items such as lightning rods, supercapacitors, and modules. It has an inherent productivity bonus of 50%, which, unlike modules, is not restricted to just intermediate items.
 
The main resource on Fulgora is Scrap, which can be processed in the Recycler to create 12 different basic and intermediate products.
 
These products include the new Holmium Ore, which can be used to create the Electromagnetic Science Pack.
 
=== Quality ===
Relevant FFFs: [https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-375 FFF 375 - Quality], [https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-376 FFF 376 - Research and Technology]
 
Quality offers "vertical" growth for factories and influences a variety of building and item stats.
 
Quality tiers are Normal (0), Uncommon (1), Rare (2), Epic (3), and Legendary (5). Note that legendary quality has a doubled level increase to 5 instead of 4.
 
Known effects per level increase:
 
* +30% health
* +30% energy output
* +30% crafting speed
* +10% turret range
* +30% robot limit (rounded down)
* +30% robot recharge rate (both number and speed, rounded down)
* +1 tile reach for power poles
* +30% positive module effects
* +1 equipment grid size (both dimensions)
* Larger inventory (unknown boost size)
* Increased ammo damage (30%?)
* Faster inserters
* Reduced resource depletion on miners
* Larger capacity on accumulators
* Increased output rate on nuclear reactors, boilers, and steam engines/turbines
* Reduced power consumption on beacons
* Larger scan range on radars
* +100% durability on consumable items (repair packs, science packs)
 
Quality items above Normal are created via quality modules. Quality modules have a strength of 10%/15%/25% in line with the 2/3/5 system other modules use, as well as a speed penalty.
 
When crafting an item, each step up applies a 10% (moddable per quality) multiplier to the quality strength to the chance of receiving at least that quality. With four tier 3 quality modules providing a 100% quality strength, this results in 10% odds of at least +1 quality, 1% of at least +2, and so on. The base quality of a craft is the lowest input quality, ignoring fluids; it's impossible to get a Normal iron gear from two Uncommon iron plates.
 
Quality modules can be used on any recipe, unlike productivity modules which can only be used on intermediates. Quality is also random, whereas productivity is a cumulative effect.
 
New building: [[Recycler]], gives a 25% chance of returning items created from recipes.
 
=== Elevated Rails ===
Relevant FFF: [https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-378 FFF 378 - Trains on another level]
 
New buildings:
 
* Rail ramp, to change layers
* Rail support, to support elevated rails
 
Elevated rails offer a second layer of rail planning, including curved rails and signals. Elevated rails require periodic supports which can be placed on water.
 
== Known free changes for 2.0 ==
 
* [[Crafting#Recipe_difficulties|Expensive mode]] gets turned into a mod. [https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?p=577191#p577191]
* [[Train_stop#Circuit_Network|Train stop disabling]] will be removed. [https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?p=574563#p574563]
* Improvements to controlling [[Spidertron|spidertrons]]. [https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/6e6tkw/im_the_founder_of_factorio_kovarex_ama/jnncw10/]
* Added the ability to use the pipette anywhere, including the crafting menu. [https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?p=567550#p567550]
* Added the ability to automatically remove fuel from [[Locomotive|locomotives]]. [https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?p=577389#p577389]
* [[Ghost]] [[Pipe|pipes]] will visually connect to each other. [https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?p=578549#p578549]
* Improvements to control of [[train]] systems. [https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-373]
** Likely including logic for going to or skipping stations depending on [[fuel]] inventory [https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/160w331/comment/jxqaauz/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3]
* Better [[blueprint]] building. [https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-373]
* Improved [[Robots | flying robot]] behaviour. [https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-374]
* Mods can create more than 255 tiles. [https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?p=589483#p589483]


== See also ==
== See also ==
* [https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-365 Friday Facts #365 - Future plans]
* [[:Category:Upcoming]] - Pages for specific upcoming features
* [https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-367 Friday Facts #367 - Expansion news]
* [[Space Age]]{{SA}} - The previous major release
* [https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-370 Friday Facts #370 - The journey to Nintendo Switch]
* [https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-373 Friday Facts #373 - Factorio: Space Age]
* [https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-374 Friday Facts #374 - Smarter Robots]
* [https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-375 Friday Facts #375 - Quality]
* [[Roadmap|Planned releases]]
* [[Roadmap|Planned releases]]


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Latest revision as of 05:18, 28 August 2026

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
      • Land mines, 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.
  • 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:
  • 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

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