Factorio News

It's been over a year since the reveal of a new Factorio expansion, which developer Wube Software opted to do instead of smaller DLC packs, and fans haven't heard anything since. Now, the team has finally provided an update, confirming that it will be a full-priced release as big as the original game - although it might still be a ways off a release.

The Factorio expansion was announced in February 2021, along with the news that the Steam release would mark the end of updates for the game - so the expansion would be Wube Software's focus from that point on. It also said that the expansion wouldn't "take less than a year to develop".

That statement was correct, as a year later the Factorio DLC still isn't out - but Wube has released a blog post to update fans on its status. The developer plans to make the expansion $30, the same as the main game, and "put in enough content to make it well worth the price". "The general goal," the blog post states, "is to make the expansion feel like as big an addition as the whole vanilla game".

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• Improve performance of querying if an entity is registered for deconstruction from O(N) to O(1).
  
• Adjusted default music volume.
  

• Fixed that if biters took damage from a forest fire, they would path toward the player who started it, no matter the distance. more
  
• Fixed that replacing a tile between a colliding hidden tile (with check_collision_with_entities set to true) and an entity would not yield an item.
  
• Fixed that LuaGameScript::ban_player would incorrectly use reason as a player name when given player was never in game. more
  
• Fixed that the saving progress bar and other popups were placed behind the transparent pause overlay. more
  
• Fixed a scenario could be created with temporary-state trains which were not properly deleted. more
  
• Fixed a crash when using --map-settings while loading a multiplayer map. more
  
• Fixed that trying to manually mine a resource that needs a mining fluid would sometimes produce sound of mining. more
  
• Fixed script rendered arcs could be considered invisible when they were visible. more
  
• Fixed that LuaEntity::belt_neighbours would return LuaEntity based on EntityGhost's inner entity, not the EntityGhost itself. more
  
• Fixed fish preventing tiles building with check_collision_with_entities enabled.
  
• Fixed that trains would not account for the train stop snap distance when already at the train stop with the back of a train. more
  
• Fixed the intro music volume being set incorrectly.
  
• Fixed that --start-server-load-latest when given an empty saves folder wouldn't work correctly. more
  
• Fixed missing efficiency tooltip and incorrect fuel consumption tooltip value in generator equipment with burner energy source.
  
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• Fixed that biters would sometimes prefer running away over choosing another target. more
  
• Fixed trains pathfinder would crash when a train is in a loop next to segment end and was requested to go to rail target in the middle of a loop. more
  
• Fixed multi-level technologies showing the same saved progress in technology GUI. more
  
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• Fixed a crash when defining too many icon variations. more
  
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• Fixed LuaBurner::inventory did not work correctly for some burner-energy-source entities. more
  
• Fixed a crash caused by undoing an entity deconstruction which another player already cancelled. more
  

• Added EntityPrototype::protected_from_tile_building, true by default. If set to false - entity won't block tile mining/building (with `TilePrototype::check_collision_with_entities` enabled).
  
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• Fixed that biters could get stuck trying to attack an entity they were standing on. more
  
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• Fixed a crash related to units and mod events. more
  
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