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Tutorial May 28: GIF mini tutorials. Factorio explained in mini-animations. Thanks to user mpstark!
Release May 26: Release for v0.11 planned for next Friday.
FFF May 23: FFF #35. Kovarex is keeping the lighthouse.
Tutorial May 23: Lars plays Factorio. Recommend tutorial for beginners.
News May 20: Buying Pay-safe card available.
FFF May 16: FFF #34.
Cheatsheet May 13: Interactive Tech Tree. Thanks to DaveMcW.
FFF May 09: FFF #33.
Chat May 09: Factorio IRC changes from ##factorio to #factorio. Webchat also possible.

Press Apr 29: A German article about Factorio.
FFF Apr 25: FFF #31. Trailer comes out at 1st of May!
Cheatsheet Apr 25: A technology tree cheatsheet (and item-cheat-sheet). Thanks to Ehzar.
Blog Apr 21: Let's try factorio by quill18. Also 10,000 copies of factorio sold.
FFF Apr 18: FFF #30. V0.9.8 is marked as stable now. (But a v0.9.9 will be still released because of small bugs)
FFF Apr 11: FFF #29. "So many ideas." About voting game content.
v0.9.8 release Apr 11: Changelog.
Mods Apr 07: DyTech v2.
FFF Apr 04: FFF #28. The pack is back.
v0.9.7 release Apr 04: Changelog.
Mods Apr 03: DyTech v1.5.4.
Interview Apr 01: Interview of Michal Kovařík in CanardPC. Thanks to Rwn.
Cheatsheet Apr 01: A very nice looking cheatsheet. Thanks to Ehzar.

FFF Mar 29: FFF #27. Going for Steam?!?! Factorio version of 2048
v0.9.6 release Mar 28: Changelog.
Roadmap Mar 26: Actualized roadmap. Trailer is coming...
v0.9.5 release Mar 25: Changelog
Roadmap Mar 24 Statement about roadmap.
FFF Mar 21: FFF #26. Different player types.
v0.9.4 release Mar 21: Changelog
Roadmap Mar 20: Some definitely planned stuff. Composeable vehicles, valves, fuel stations....
FFF Mar 14: FFF #25. Own sections for the modders in the forum.
v0.9.3 release Mar 14: Changelog
v0.9.2 Mar 10: Loading saves with mods crashes: Any mod that has new GUI elements causes crashing on load with 0.9.2. This bug is acknowledged and will be fixed in 0.9.3
v0.9.2 Mar 08: Changelog for v0.9.2. Don't forget to remove the hotfix from v0.9.1!
FFF Mar 08: FFF #24. New inserter design.
Roadmap Mar 08: Multiplayer: will be developed in a separated branch, so for v0.10 there are only minor changes.
v0.9.2 Mar 07: Hopefully release of v0.9.2.
v0.9.2 Mar 06: Announcing longer underground pipes for v0.9.2. See also here.
v0.9.2 Mar 06: Assemeblies will have a pipe output if needed
v0.9.2 Mar 06: New chest: active and passive provider chests.
Roadmap Mar 06: Announcing work for multiplayer for v0.10 and later: "There is big possibility we might have 0.10 without multiplayer with just some tweaks and graphical updates + some small content additions."
Guide Mar 06: About the usages of weapons. Thanks to Sir Nick.
Guide Mar 01: Factorio Item Recipes - All recipes in graphical form. Thanks to sparr.

Guide Feb 25: Blue print explained - A "Power base" concept by Lee_newsum. Discuss here.
v0.9.1 Feb 24: Hotfix-mod for 0.9.1 - see Changelog v0.9.1 for explanations (Update)
v0.9.1 Feb 21: Changelog v0.9.1
v0.9.1 Feb 23: Rays step by step guide for a compact factory - how to get from nothing to blue science pack production. Recommended!
v0.9.0 A first overview is here this nice video' by Malkasphia. Recommend to watch this! Discuss here.
v0.9.0 Please read the Changelog. Most things are very self-explaining.
v0.9.0 liquid system is also described at Liquid network/0.9.
v0.9.0 Forum: Big Z's Guide to Big Oil - nice text