Upcoming features

This is a list of planned additions and changes for Factorio's next major release 0.16.

Changes/additions

• Artillery train
• GUI/UX improvements
• Mod portal improvement (rewrite)
• Map generation improvement (related to the updated high res terrains and decoratives)

Optimisations

• Train pathfinding and collision checking optimisations
• Additional smoke related optimisations
• Lamp related optimisations
• Item stack optimisation
• Optimisation of electric network update logic
• Optimisation of logistic robot movement
• Group multiple item icons to one sprite in order to optimize rendering of saturated belts

Overall tweaks

• Find a way to show connected walls + pipes in a blueprint
• Confirm blueprint deletion
• Fluid squashing in pipes
• Map interaction improvements

Semi-bugs or small things

• A train will no longer block its own path with chain signals
• Make programmable speaker 'Global playback' only apply for people on that force
• Make electric network UI less weird with lots of accumulators.
• In the future, construction robots will stop following their repair target when the target leaves the construction zone. [1]
• Construction robots now immediately know when their target has been repaired (by hand etc), instead of realizing it when they arrive at the target. [2]

See also

• Friday Facts #200 - Plans for 0.16
• Planned releases
• Version history