Upcoming features

This is a list of planned additions and changes for Factorio's next major release 0.17.

Planned features

• Mini tutorials
  • Improved quality
  • Cover the rest of the game mechanics
• Improved First Steps campaign and new main campaign [1] [2] [3]
• GUI rewrite [4] [5] [6]
  • Improve the looks of the GUI [7]
  • Change the way it works
    • Location of cancel and OK buttons [8]
    • Map generator GUI [9]
    • Blueprint library [10] [11] [12]
  • Research queue [13] [14] [15]
• New graphics back-end, SDL, OpenGL, DX11, v-sync fix, texture streaming, VRAM usage optimizations, shaders [16]
  • New font rendering [17]
  • Better rendering performance (CPU side) [18] [19]
  • Uses OpenGL 3.3 Core and DirectX 11 feature level 10.0 [20]
• Recipe tree GUI
  • Foundation of some kind of in-game "factoriopedia"
  • Should provide the player fast ways to get the answer to questions like:
    • "What is this item used in?"
    • "What is the graph of recipe dependencies for this?"
• Mod integration improvements
  • Syncing mods with multiplayer game [21]
  • Mod browsing improvements
    • Show the mod picture and more smaller things
• Map editor improvements, both technical and usability wise [22]
• Map generator improvements and fixes, autoplace specification improvements and documentation
• High-resolution sprites for the rest of the game, including a few changes to some entities
  • New laser turret textures, new laser beams [23]
  • Spawners redesign in HR [24]
  • HR defensive structures [25]
• Final game balancing
  • Science pack technologies [26]
  • Separation of nuclear energy and nuclear processing [27]
  • Changing low density structures to its own tech and requiring it for various recipes [28]
  • Changing rocket control units to its own tech and replacing it for nuclear bombs [29]
  • Changing rocket fuel to its own tech and locking it behind rocketry and engines [30]
  • Changing satalites to its own tech and removing the previous win condition [31]
  • Adding a new item: “rocket excape pod” [32]
  • Better separation of technologies between high tech and production science [33]
• Upgrade planner [34] [35]
• Rich text editing [36]
  • Different fonts, color, and icons
  • Possibly: Item/recipe/technology references, map positions, and blueprint strings
• Fast pipe replacing [37]
• Better plural form localisations [38]
• More modding support [39] [40]
  • Infinity pipe (above link)
  • Cloning entities/areas (above link)
  • Lua function to generate a full tech tree (above link) [41]
• Better sounds [42]
• Train out of fuel alert [43]
• Copy, paste and cut functionality [44]
• Ability to undo building, mining, blueprinting and deconstruction [45]
• Small quality-of-life improvements [46]
  • Better recipe catalyst mechanics
  • Items no longer spill onto belts
  • Separate construction queue for tile ghosts
  • Belt immunity equipment

Possible features

• Spidertron [47] [48]
• Better car handling and car in latency state
• Better fluid physics [49]

See also

• Friday Facts #235
• 0.17 Mod/Script changelog as of July 22 2018
• Planned releases
• Version history