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]
  • Addition of shallow water as a natural barries that the player can walk on, but not build on [4]
• GUI rewrite [5] [6] [7]
  • Improve the looks of the GUI [8]
  • Change the way it works
    • Location of cancel and OK buttons [9]
    • Map generator GUI [10]
    • Blueprint library [11] [12] [13]
  • Research queue [14] [15] [16]
• New graphics back-end, SDL, OpenGL, DX11, v-sync fix, texture streaming, VRAM usage optimizations, shaders [17]
  • New font rendering [18]
  • Better rendering performance (CPU side) [19] [20]
  • Uses OpenGL 3.3 Core and DirectX 11 feature level 10.0 [21]
• 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 [22]
  • Mod browsing improvements
    • Show the mod picture and more smaller things
• Map editor improvements, both technical and usability wise [23]
• 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 [24]
  • Spawners redesign in HR [25]
  • HR defensive structures [26]
• Final game balancing
  • Science pack technologies [27]
  • Separation of nuclear energy and nuclear processing [28]
  • The rocket parts have their own technologies and are used in more recipes besides the rocket [29]
  • Launching a satellite no longer ends the game, instead the newly added "rocket escape pod" must be launched into space [30]
  • Better separation of technologies between high tech and production science [31]
• Upgrade planner [32] [33]
• Rich text editing [34]
  • Different fonts, color, and icons
  • Possibly: Item/recipe/technology references, map positions, and blueprint strings
• Fast pipe replacing [35]
• Better plural form localisations [36]
• More modding support [37] [38]
  • Infinity pipe (above link)
  • Cloning entities/areas (above link)
  • Lua function to generate a full tech tree (above link) [39]
• Better sounds [40]
• Train out of fuel alert [41]
• Copy, paste and cut functionality [42]
• Ability to undo building, mining, blueprinting and deconstruction [43]
• Small quality-of-life improvements [44]
  • Better recipe catalyst mechanics
  • Items no longer spill onto belts
  • Separate construction queue for tile ghosts
  • Belt immunity equipment

Possible features

• Spidertron [45] [46]
• Better car handling and car in latency state
• Better fluid physics [47]

See also

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