Upcoming features

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

Changes/additions

Artillery train
Mod portal improvement (rewrite)
Map generation improvement (related to the updated high res terrains and decoratives) [1] [2]
- Generation of iron on top of other resources
- Tweaking the resource density (average number of resources per tile)
- Making resources much more spread apart
- Reworking how the starting area works so that it always contains a predictable amount of resources. This means that every new map is feasible
- Making sure the starting area is not covered by trees
Buffer chest [3]
Passenger seat for vehicles [4]
- 1 extra seat per vehicle
- Passenger can have control of the weapons
Cliffs [5]

Train pathfinding and collision checking optimisations
Additional smoke related optimisations [6]
Lamp related optimisations [7]
Item stack optimisation
Optimisation of electric network update logic [8]
Optimisation of logistic robot movement
Group multiple item icons to one sprite in order to optimize rendering of saturated belts
Optimisation of blueprint preview rendering [9]

A train will no longer block its own path with chain signals [11]
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 [12]
Construction robots now immediately know when their target has been repaired (by hand etc), instead of realizing it when they arrive at the target [13]
Robots building things from personal roboports now count as being in the player's inventory while flying around [14]
Added a /server-save command [15]
Added automatic downloading of mods from multiplayer servers [16]
Added ability to reset achievements, including steam achievements [17]