Upcoming features

This is a list of planned additions and changes for Factorio's next major release 0.17.

Planned major features

• Mini tutorials
  • Improved quality
  • Cover the rest of the game mechanics
• Improved First Steps campaign and new main campaign [1] [2]
• GUI rewrite [3] [4] [5]
  • Improve the looks of the GUI [6]
  • Change the way it works
  • Research queue [7] [8]
• New graphics back-end, SDL, OpenGL, DX11, v-sync fix, texture streaming, VRAM usage optimizations, shaders [9]
  • New font rendering [10]
• 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
  • Mod browsing improvements
    • Show the mod picture and more smaller things
• Map editor improvements, both technical and usability wise
• 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 [11]
• Final game balancing
• Upgrade planner [12]
• Rich text editing [13]
  • Different fonts, color, and icons
  • Possibly: Item/recipe/technology references, map positions, and blueprint strings
• Fast pipe replacing [14]

Possible features

• Spidertron [15]
• Better car handling and car in latency state
• Better fluid physics [16]

See also

• Friday Facts #235
• Planned releases
• Version history