Upcoming features

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

Changes/additions

• Artillery wagon [1]
• Mod portal improvement (rewrite)
• High resolution textures for almost everything:
  • Lab [2]
  • Radar [3]
  • Worker robots (construction and logistic), combat robots (defender, distractor and destroyer) [4]
  • Combinators [5]
  • Electric & circuit wires, lamp [6]
  • Pumpjack, storage tank [7]
  • Player, tank [8]
• New alert icons [9]
• Map generation improvement (related to the updated high res terrains and decoratives) [10] [11]
  • 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 [12]
• Passenger seat for vehicles [13]
  • 1 extra seat per vehicle
  • Passenger can have control of the weapons
• Cliffs [14]
• Belts, underground belts and splitters can fast replace each other [15]
• Train block visualisation [16]
• All terrains, including stone path and concrete, have transitions with water [17]

Optimisations

• Train pathfinding and collision checking optimisations
• Additional smoke related optimisations [18]
• Lamp related optimisations [19]
• Item stack optimisation
• Optimisation of electric network update logic [20]
• 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 [21]
• Belt optimisations [22]
• Saving and loading optimisations [23]

Overall tweaks

• Find a way to show connected walls + pipes in a blueprint [24]
• 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 [25]
• 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 [26]
• Construction robots now immediately know when their target has been repaired (by hand etc), instead of realizing it when they arrive at the target [27]
• Robots building things from personal roboports now count as being in the player's inventory while flying around [28]
• Added a /server-save command [29]
• Added automatic downloading of mods from multiplayer servers [30]
• Added ability to reset achievements, including steam achievements [31]
• The blueprint library will no longer erase modded entites from blueprints if their mod is removed from the game [32]

See also

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