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]

Optimisations

• 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]

Overall tweaks

• Find a way to show connected walls + pipes in a blueprint [10]
• 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 [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]

See also

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