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]