Factorio News

• Fixed Mods gui showing a dependency warning even for mods to be deleted.
  
• Fixed Space Map sometimes not using free cursor in controller input method.
  
• Fixed a consistency issue with cargo pods and variable result rocket-launch-products. https://forums.factorio.com/132687
  
• Fixed a crash when loading a save file where electric pole removal due to missing mods causes circuit wires rewiring between assemblers that are also being removed. https://forums.factorio.com/132605
  
• Fixed a crash when modded furnaces are configured with fluid output and no result inventory.
  
• Fixed a crash with agricultural towers and some graphics definitions. https://forums.factorio.com/132450
  
• Fixed an ordering issue with ghost trains being built. https://forums.factorio.com/132730
  
• Fixed another case of cargo wagon door sound stuck playing on deconstruction order. https://forums.factorio.com/132752
  
• Fixed cargo wagon door sound stuck playing on deconstruction order. https://forums.factorio.com/132623
  
• Fixed flying text spam when a multiplayer peer was obstructed from building an underground belt. https://forums.factorio.com/132373
  
• Fixed that LuaItemCommon::get/set_blueprint_entities() did not include rolling stock connections. https://forums.factorio.com/132626
  
• Fixed that asteroid collectors could get stuck computing. https://forums.factorio.com/132625
  
• Fixed that blueprint built locomotive ghosts with fuel requests would not switch to automatic mode when the fuel was delivered. https://forums.factorio.com/132428
  
• Fixed that changing the quality in the cheat crafting GUI would scroll the view to the top. https://forums.factorio.com/132607
  
• Fixed that cloning resource entities would remove some trees at the destination. https://forums.factorio.com/132405
  
• Fixed that creating blueprints from rolling stock ghosts would not preserve rolling stock ghost connections. https://forums.factorio.com/132626
  
• Fixed that fast-replacing inserters with held items could result in the items being removed. https://forums.factorio.com/132635
  
• Fixed that items with no rocket launch products couldn't be launched manually to orbit. https://forums.factorio.com/132739
  
• Fixed that items with rocket launch products didn't give any products in modded Space Age when the rocket was launched manually. https://forums.factorio.com/132527
  
• Fixed that platform auto construction requests could request 1 too many items. https://forums.factorio.com/132787
  
• Fixed that you could put items into ghost rocket silos. https://forums.factorio.com/132552
  

• Added LuaEntityPrototype::inserter_max_belt_stack_size read.
  
• Added LuaEntityPrototype::reversing_power_modifier read.
  
• Changed LuaEntityPrototype::automated_ammo_count read to also work for artillery wagons.
  

• Mods GUI will show an error instead of restarting the game when trying to confirm it while mod dependencies are not met.
  

• Fixed rocket silo could launch satellites even when cargo landing pad will not be able to hold launch products. more
  
• Fixed fluid boxes with underground pipe connection and non default flow direction could cause unrelated fluid boxes to disconnect. more
  
• Fixed a crash when reading LuaPlayer::blueprints in a simulation.
  
• Fixed a crash related to give-item modifier not rejecting count of 0. more
  
• Fixed that the default config.ini file would not be written on first startup. more
  
• Fixed that mod dependency links in the mod updates GUI did not work correctly when not default sorted. more
  
• Fixed that LuaPlayer::build_from_cursor() checked reach in forced and super-forced build modes. more
  
• Fixed that pipe connections of different connection categories could cause entity to flip incorrectly. more
  
• Fixed a crash with PlaySoundTriggerEffectItem with distance limits when destroyed due to previous dying trigger effect. more
  
• Fixed inserter would incorrectly consider some assemblers as full when a recipe was changed while assembler had fluid product overload. more
  
• Fixed that trains with a temporary station in their schedule showed in "Trains with this stop" list of an unnamed train stop ghost. more
  
• Fixed inserter control behavior not updating stack size when selecting different signal. more
  
• Fixed that environment sounds could get stuck at lower volume when switching to remote view while travelling to/from a space platform. more
  
• Fixed a crash when ammo spoils in cars or spider vehicles. more
  
• Fixed a crash when mods would create surfaces during built events on space platforms. more
  
• Fixed technologies with craft fluid trigger would queue themselves while dependencies are not met and fluid is produced. more
  
• Fixed a crash when migrations remove a lighting attractor. more
  
• Fixed a crash when mods error during ghost revival. more
  
• Fixed transparent tile sprites on aquilo.
  
• Added missing Lua defines for cargo landing pad logistic points. more
  

• Added LuaEntity::send_to_orbit_automatically read/write.
  

You can get experimental releases by selecting the 'experimental' beta branch under Factorio's properties in Steam.

• Decider combinator, arithmetic combinator and selector combinator are now primary energy consumers and have buffer size increased to make them more reliable in case of low power.
  
• Reduced selector combinator energy usage from 5kW to 1kW.
  
• When using "Entity tooltip delay", the timer is also reset when moving the camera or the character. Fixes blinking entity tooltip when moving.
  

• Fixed scripted technology trigger was unable to load layered icons. more
  
• Fixed tips and tricks item was unable to load layered icons.
  
• Fixed stomper stomp sound playing way too many times when dying by stomping in a mine field. more
  
• Fixed electric turret was suggesting it is possible to read ammo. more
  
• Fixed a crash when artillery turret didn't have rotating_sound defined even though it's optional. more
  
• Fixed startup crashes on some Intel Macbook Pros. more
  
• Fixed that changing player's character could cause equipment related events to not fire. more
  
• Fixed upgrading programmable speaker would clear settings. more
  
• Fixed that LuaPlayer::can_build_from_cursor would play the not-allowed sound when out of reach. more
  
• Fixed that on_chart_tag_modified was not called when name/icon was modified by script. more
  
• Fixed a crash when a surface is deleted while viewing a ping tooltip for that surface. more
  
• Fixed some OpenGL lighting issues when light occlusion was enabled.
  
• Fixed color saturation problems on some Intel Macs. more
  
• Fixed crashes on Intel Macs with AMD GPUs by disabling GPU timings for those cards.
  
• Fixed a crash when robots try to charge at a roboport that only supports charging when using quality. more
  
• Fixed asteroid collector navmesh would in rare cases be stuck computing forever. more
  
• Fixed crash on Intel Macs with Intel Iris Plus Graphics by disabling GPU timings for those cards.
  
• Fixed freeze with unknown cause when placing rails. more
  
• Fixed "Entity tooltip delay" causing entity tooltips to never show in controller input method.
  
• Fixed turrets would clear "read ammo" when migrating a save file. more
  
• Fixed that diagonal connected resources did not group in the map total-patch tooltip logic. more
  
• Fixed a crash when cloning trees/rocks marked for deconstruction.
  
• Fixed a crash when using roboport requests with spoilable robots. more
  
• Fixed electric poles would connect when checking pole buildability by script. more
  
• Fixed double space in fuel pollution tooltip lines. more
  

• Added CargoStationParameters::is_input_station and ::is_output_station to mainly clarify tooltips. more
  

You can get experimental releases by selecting the 'experimental' beta branch under Factorio's properties in Steam.

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Hello,
today we have a nice stable version for you

• Fixed (super)forcing entity requiring tile would sometimes not trigger deconstruction of an obstacle despite said obstacle blocking revival of autofilled tileghost. https://forums.factorio.com/130907
  
• Fixed LuaRendering rich text in game render mode being drawn above fog of war. https://forums.factorio.com/131066
  
• Fixed LuaSegmentedUnit::acceleration calculations in some situations. https://forums.factorio.com/130515
  
• Fixed LuaSplitterControlBehavior was missing fields from LuaControlBehavior. https://forums.factorio.com/130978
  
• Fixed UI scaling and alignment issues when the window content scale is changed during loading. https://forums.factorio.com/130689
  
• Fixed a charting issue with pentapods. https://forums.factorio.com/130543
  
• Fixed a consistency issue when copying settings between loaders in some cases. https://forums.factorio.com/130707
  
• Fixed a crash after migrating a frozen assembling machine fluidbox that has fluid contents. https://forums.factorio.com/130973
  
• Fixed a crash and the back button in map generator GUI when map width or height were out of range. https://forums.factorio.com/130880
  
• Fixed a crash when a modded character entity without a character corpse defined dies. https://forums.factorio.com/131022
  
• Fixed a crash when editing decider combinator constants in some cases. https://forums.factorio.com/130798
  
• Fixed a crash when editing interrupts on space platforms. https://forums.factorio.com/130600
  
• Fixed a crash when entities are removed while their GUI is being interacted with. https://forums.factorio.com/130852
  
• Fixed a crash when migrating agricultural towers. https://forums.factorio.com/130746
  
• Fixed a crash when migrating linked containers. https://forums.factorio.com/130815
  
• Fixed a crash when minimap GUI elements would try to view deleted surfaces. https://forums.factorio.com/130606
  
• Fixed a crash when script checks if a space platform can leave when it was not yet built. https://forums.factorio.com/131015
  
• Fixed a crash when selecting an underground belt without an underground_sprite.
  
• Fixed a crash when showing modded technology effects. https://forums.factorio.com/130741
  
• Fixed a crash when teleporting or changing the direction of asteroid collectors. https://forums.factorio.com/128604
  
• Fixed a crash when tile-effect texture filename is invalid. https://forums.factorio.com/130678
  
• Fixed a crash when writing LuaStyle::clicked_font_color on labels. https://forums.factorio.com/130727
  
• Fixed a crash with some menu simulations and mods. https://forums.factorio.com/130910
  
• Fixed a desync when a car or spidertron with toolbelt equipment is destroyed. https://forums.factorio.com/130665
  
• Fixed a style issue with labels in buttons when changing the enabled state of the button. https://forums.factorio.com/130818
  
• Fixed biters could be distracted when told not to be distracted in some cases. https://forums.factorio.com/130801
  
• Fixed cancelling deconstruction of entity colliding with both an entity ghost and a tile ghost supporting said entity ghost sometimes crashing. https://forums.factorio.com/130859
  
• Fixed combinator's red and green wires would overlap when built vertically. https://forums.factorio.com/130464
  
• Fixed copying train stop settings would send trains to a train stop in some cases. https://forums.factorio.com/130751
  
• Fixed custom tooltip fields were not showing for modded recipes. https://forums.factorio.com/131044
  
• Fixed demolisher kills being counted twice in the kill statistics. https://forums.factorio.com/130721
  
• Fixed entities with tile_buildability_rules crashing the game when rotated to non-cardinal direction.
  
• Fixed heat flow between heat pipes that have different default temperature. https://forums.factorio.com/129438
  
• Fixed issue with selector combinator random interval and formulas is gui. https://forums.factorio.com/130492
  
  
• Fixed multisample noise operation not working properly for LuaSurface.calculate_tile_properties(). https://forums.factorio.com/130575
  
• Fixed personal laser equipment was not showing under ammo category in facotriopedia. https://forums.factorio.com/130959
  
• Fixed proxy container interaction with agricultural tower. https://forums.factorio.com/131057
  
• Fixed rail support drawing box in GUI widgets.
  
• Fixed selection tool could select tile ghosts when it was not configured for selecting tiles. https://forums.factorio.com/118072
  
• Fixed selector combinator's update interval was not covered by blueprint parametrisation. https://forums.factorio.com/128999
  
• Fixed some alert icons were using wrong colors. https://forums.factorio.com/130118
  
• Fixed some combinations of surface properties would cause robots to consume NaN amount of energy. https://forums.factorio.com/130989
  
• Fixed some gui widgets were not selectable when inside of a long table that is scrolled to only show last row. https://forums.factorio.com/130970
  
• Fixed sound of a machine with its GUI opened not fading out on game pause. https://forums.factorio.com/130780
  
• Fixed spoil products of recipe products were not listed as possible recipe trash. https://forums.factorio.com/131072
  
• Fixed technology slots drawing ingredients when research trigger is also specified. https://forums.factorio.com/130499
  
• Fixed that LuaPlayer::can_build_from_cursor() did not check build distance. https://forums.factorio.com/130805
  
• Fixed that blueprint book LuaRecords in a preview state could not be read. https://forums.factorio.com/130790
  
• Fixed that blueprint parametrisation could cause splitter filter to be cleared causing mode of operation to change. https://forums.factorio.com/130826
  
• Fixed that car light animation with apply_runtime_tint enabled was always black. https://forums.factorio.com/130810
  
• Fixed that custom inputs would not fire if there were game GUI controls with the same key bindings. https://forums.factorio.com/130789
  
• Fixed that disabled trigger technologies were still researchable. https://forums.factorio.com/130832
  
• Fixed that fast replacing a train stop could fail to preserve train stop limit. https://forums.factorio.com/129801
  
• Fixed that fluid could pass through frozen machines. https://forums.factorio.com/129185
  
• Fixed that hiding an autoplace control did not remove it from the map generator GUI.
  
• Fixed that players could enter vehicles marked for deconstruction. https://forums.factorio.com/130879
  
• Fixed that rail signals did not rotate automatically to a valid direction in forced and super-forced build modes when they collided with tiles. https://forums.factorio.com/127962
  
• Fixed that remote view dragging wasn't cancelled when the game was paused. https://forums.factorio.com/130076
  
• Fixed that resource entities were not protected from tile removal even if set that they should be. https://forums.factorio.com/130609
  
• Fixed that super-force-building would not generate a player-rotated event. https://forums.factorio.com/128978
  
• Fixed that the too-many-trees achievement check was backwards. https://forums.factorio.com/130658
  
• Fixed that tips and tricks simulations could show the "game finished" screen when mods didn't rewind them to the beginning. https://forums.factorio.com/129357
  
• Fixed that upgrading fuel in blueprints could result in invalid fuel requests. https://forums.factorio.com/130958
  
• Fixed the surfaces list in remote view not scrolling when using the "Select next/previous surface" hotkeys. https://forums.factorio.com/127402
  
• Fixed thruster tooltip was not showing quality indicator on the thrust line. https://forums.factorio.com/130572
  
• Fixed undo actions for removed entities would not keep underground belt type. https://forums.factorio.com/130977
  
• Fixed undoing after manually mining tile that had cover ghost tile on it would not restored said cover tile ghost. https://forums.factorio.com/130612
  
  
• Fixed upgrading underground belts in a blueprint would not preserve underground belt type. https://forums.factorio.com/130994
  
• Robots with construction task of elevated entity will not queue more tasks - fixes some cases of some jobs never getting done. https://forums.factorio.com/130710
  

• Added absorbed pollutant name to tile description in Factoriopedia.
  
• Changed manual mining when the inventory is full to not drop the mined result on the ground.
  
• Improved the mod API search to find union literals, define leaf nodes, and more.
  

• Deprecated OpenGL support on Macs. It will still exist for older versions of macOS, but may not receive future updates.
  
• Fixed Metal graphics backend throttling the FPS when the display refresh rate isn't a multiple of 60 Hz. https://forums.factorio.com/129946
  
• Made Metal the default graphics rendering API for Macs.
  
• Removed Graphics backend user setting.
  

• Partially fulfilled wait conditions use different background color to indicate progress.
  
• Splitters can be connected to circuit network.
  

• Added "scripted" technology trigger.
  
• Added FluidWagonPrototype::connection_category.
  
• Added FusionGeneratorPrototype::burns_fluid.
  
• Added FusionGeneratorPrototype::effectivity.
  
• Added LightningPrototype::attractor_hit_effect.
  
• Added MiningDrillPrototype::resource_searching_offset.
  
• Added RoboportPrototype::render_recharge_icon.
  
• Added RobotWithLogisticInterfacePrototype::max_payload_size_after_bonus.
  
• Added __TECHNOLOGY__ and __RECIPE__ built-in locale parameters.
  
• Added recipe_icon_scale chart utility constant.
  
• Added support for heating_energy to FusionGeneratorPrototype and ThrusterPrototype.
  
• Changed CargoWagonPrototype to use EntityPrototype::icon_draw_specification when drawing cargo wagon content.
  
• Changed DisplayPanelPrototype to use render_layer from icon_draw_specification when drawing icon.
  
• Changed Generator and FusionGenenerator tooltips to not show temperatures when in burns_fluid mode.
  
• Removed "research-progress" product type from RecipePrototype.
  

• Added LuaCustomChartTag::position and surface write.
  
• Added LuaEntity::get_movement() and set_movement().
  
• Added LuaEntity::mining_area read.
  
• Added LuaEntity::rail_length read.
  
• Added LuaEntity::transitional_request_target read.
  
• Added LuaEntityPrototype::fluid_buffer_size, activation_buffer_ratio and fluid_buffer_input_flow read.
  
• Added LuaEntityPrototype::get_attraction_range_elongation() and get_energy_distribution_efficiency().
  
• Added LuaEntityPrototype::range_from_player, combat_robot_friction, destroy_action and follows_player read.
  
• Added LuaEntityPrototype::spider_engine read.
  
• Added LuaEntityPrototype::strike_effect, attractor_hit_effect, damage and energy read.
  
• Added LuaEntityPrototype::support_range read.
  
• Added LuaFluidBox::get_fluid_segment_extent_bounding_box().
  
• Added LuaForce::script_trigger_research().
  
• Added LuaGuiElement::icon_selector read.
  
• Added LuaHelpers::multilingual_to_lower().
  
• Added LuaInventory::get_item_count_filtered().
  
• Added LuaInventory::get_item_quality_counts().
  
• Added LuaItemCommon::entity_driver_is_gunner, entity_auto_target_without_gunner and entity_auto_target_with_gunner read/write.
  
• Added LuaItemCommon::entity_logistic_sections and entity_request_from_buffers read/write.
  
• Added LuaItemCommon::entity_logistics_enabled and entity_enable_logistics_while_moving read/write.
  
• Added LuaItemPrototype::get_module_effects().
  
• Added LuaLogisticNetwork::custom_name read/write.
  
• Added LuaPlayer::get_recipe_notifications().
  
• Added LuaPlayer::swap_characters().
  
• Added LuaRecord::export_record().
  
• Added LuaRecord::get_selected_record().
  
• Added LuaSplitterControlBehavior.
  
• Added custom_tooltip_fields reads to all LuaPrototypes that support it.
  
• Added flip_horizontal and flip_vertical parameters to LuaPlayer::build_from_cursor().
  
• Added in_gui to custom input events.
  
• Added maximum_quality_jump utility constant.
  
• Added on_cargo_pod_started_ascending event.
  
• Added on_player_dropped_item_into_entity event.
  
• Added previous_target and previous_quality to on_marked_for_upgrade event.
  
• Added skip_fog_of_war to LuaPlayer::can_build_from_cursor().
  
• Added surface_index to all UndoRedoActions.
  
• Changed LuaEntity::color read/write to also work for character corpses.
  
• Changed LuaSpacePlatform::destroy_asteroid_chunks() to return the number of destroyed chunks.