Roadmap/History

< Roadmap | History

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Refer to the Roadmap/Coming Releases for the future. Please refer also to the Version History, which include also much more details about the changes.

Factorio 0.10 (June 2014)

• Finish the trailer. This is a #1 priority now :) Together with this we will work on presentation (finish new logo, new forum skin, new screenshots on web, credits page in the game)
• Functional replays. This will be a side-effect of multiplayer efforts.

" Factory sound background". Entities in the game will have specific sounds that play when player is near.

Factorio 0.9 (February 2013)

• Blueprints.
• Oil/Chemicals industry.
• Biomes and doodads.

Factorio 0.8 (released at the beginning of December 2013)

• Standard Campaign rework.
• New terrain.
• Repairing robots (can reconstruct buildings as well)
• Roboport
• Map Editor rework

Factorio 0.7 (released in september 2013)

• Improved Combat mechanics and modular armors.
• Pollution.
• More enemy variety and intelligent enemy behavior.
• Moddable weapons and attacks.

Factorio 0.6 (released in august 2013)

• Better looking terrain.
• Improvements to the map generator.
• Map of discovered part of the world.
• Speed improvements (multithreading).

Factorio 0.5 (released in June 2013)

• Automatic Factorio updater
  • no need for manual download anymore
• Usability improvements
  • better visualisation for building railroads
  • electricity statistics
  • fixes of ongoing bugs
  • loads of small improvements (things like alt info for wagons, easier semaphore building, etc.)
• Graphics Gui rework
  • the design for the new gui is ready and now it will be implemented
• Railroads improvements
  • Train path finding uses signals for path recalculation
  • Train can go backwards (when having locomotives on both ends)
  • different Train stops can be merged into one station
• God mode
  • play without the character

Factorio 0.4 (released in May 2013)

• Game determinism and replay
  • This is a first step towards the multiplayer
  • Involves the replay functionality improvements (pause, fast forward, etc.)
• First version of the scenario pack
  • There will be three scenarios to start with
• Trains
  • Originally a stretch goal however we got a lot of requests for this
  • There is already some functionality for the trains in the game and we want to finish it
• Electricity improvements
  • Accumulator entity
  • Large electric pole
  • Electric substation