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