Upcoming features

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

Changes/additions

• Artillery wagon [1]
• 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]
  • Terrain [9]
  • Concrete [10]
  • Stone bricks [11]
• New alert icons [12]
• Map generation improvement (related to the updated high res terrains and decoratives) [13] [14]
  • Generation of iron on top of other resources
  • Tweaking the resource density (average number of resources per tile)
  • Making resources much more spread apart
  • Making sure the starting area is not covered by trees
• Buffer chest [15]
• Passenger seat for vehicles [16]
  • 1 extra seat per vehicle
  • Passenger can have control of the weapons
• Cliffs [17]
• Belts, underground belts and splitters can fast replace each other [18]
• Train block visualisation [19]
• All terrains, including stone path and concrete, have transitions with water [20]
  • Offshore pump placement changes

Optimisations

• Train pathfinding and collision checking optimisations
• Additional smoke related optimisations [21]
• Lamp related optimisations [22]
• Item stack optimisation
• Optimisation of electric network update logic [23]
• Group multiple item icons to one sprite in order to optimize rendering of saturated belts
• Optimisation of blueprint preview rendering [24]
• Belt optimisations [25]
• Saving and loading optimisations [26]

Overall tweaks

• Find a way to show connected walls + pipes in a blueprint [27]
• Map interaction improvements

Semi-bugs or small things

• A train will no longer block its own path with chain signals [28]
• 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 [29]
• Construction robots now immediately know when their target has been repaired (by hand etc), instead of realizing it when they arrive at the target [30]
• Robots building things from personal roboports now count as being in the player's inventory while flying around [31]
• Added a /server-save command [32]
• Added ability to reset achievements, including steam achievements [33]
• The blueprint library will no longer erase modded entites from blueprints if their mod is removed from the game [34]

See also

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