Upcoming features: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 18:10, 17 May 2018

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

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

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 ** Improved quality
 ** Cover the rest of the game mechanics
-* Improved First Steps campaign and new main campaign
+* Improved First Steps campaign and new main campaign [https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-241]
 * GUI rewrite [https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-191] [https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-212] [https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-238]
 ** Improve the looks of the GUI