Friday Facts #282 - 0.17 in sight

[Klonan]

https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-282

[Yehn]

Never ceases to amaze me that there's still tons of new features that get me excited to play factorio again and again.

On a sidenote, highres accumulators worry me the most... since their animations are already the most prone to stuttering as base size increases..

edit: Oh, an idea. Since a number of people hunt for island start seeds, but don't necessarily want their island to be the only land - how about making an island start an option? Since it seems like you might already have a framework going.

[raiguard]

Holy crap that's a lot of info! Thank you devs for being so awesome!

I was planning on making a giant proposal for how I would have implemented the blueprint library, but it seems that almost everything I wanted has been implemented. The only thing I would want now is the ability to hide the Inventory panel, since I never ever plan on using my inventory to hold blueprints.

EDIT: One more thing that would make the library perfect: the ability to open it as a sidebar, with a more compact list view. This would allow one to quickly use blueprints from their library and dismiss them, all without having to fiddle with opening and closing the window.

The amount of effort going into QoL and the map generator is insane, thank you so much. I really disliked the 0.16 map generation (waaaayy too much water!) so hearing that it's back to the original elevation generation is amazing.

Looking forward to 0.17!

As a side note, I don't know why, but some of the more recent hi-res graphics look a bit too "smooth". There's not enough dents and rust on them to fit in with everything else. But hey, I'm not the artist, so what do I know?

EDIT 2: Wait, in the description of the moisture and bias sliders, you say "red-deserty". Does this mean... RED DESERT!?

EDIT 3: Ah nice, the new sound system is still a thing. I was getting kinda worried since you didn't mention it at all after the one artillery wagon demo...

[HornetSV]

0.17 is here!!!!!!!!!!!

[SootStack]

With the island terrain changes, will there be other islands on the map to expand to or is it just the one?

[liwers]

Meow, meow, Kitty want to know, will the new map generator compatible with Resource Spawner Overhaul mod where the preview function in present version is unavailable..?

Meow..!

[EnProsent]

Formal protest that the release date is on a Monday and not Friday, so we can play during the weekend hehe

Good job though, looking forward to this!

[animagus_kitty]

@EnProsent: To be fair, they said 'the week of the 25th', not the 25th itself. It may yet release later in the week. ^_^ Just keep your formal protests civil

[Jap2.0]

Nice!

[Brathahn]

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new ores?

[pleegwat]

Formal protest that the release date is on a Monday and not Friday, so we can play during the weekend hehe

Good job though, looking forward to this!

I think the devs have indicated in the past that they prefer a Monday release because they don't want players to have to deal with an annoying easily-fixed bug in the first weekend.

[J-H]

A starting island that can be bridged to a mainland (via landfill) sounds good. A starting island with nothing but water around it sounds like a recipe for a factory that dies because it can't get more resources.

I'd like some clarification on which one we're getting.

[Klonan]

A starting island that can be bridged to a mainland (via landfill) sounds good. A starting island with nothing but water around it sounds like a recipe for a factory that dies because it can't get more resources.

I'd like some clarification on which one we're getting.

A starting island with nothing but water around it,
It will be a somewhat 'challenge map', to launch a rocket with only the limited resources the Island provides

[Rebmes]

Remember when you had to hunt down all the different words used in the game, and consolidate into a bit more consistency?

In your previewed Map Generator, on the Terrain tab, you're using a multitude of different words that basically mean the same thing.

For water and trees, you have "Scale" and "Coverage".
For cliffs, you have "Frequency" and "Continuity".
For "moisture" and "terrain type" (which means grass and red desert?) you have "Scale" and "Bias".

To be honest, as I put this together, most of it sounds like gibberish, no offense; descriptors like "Coverage" and "Bias" don't mean anything to me. I'd be more comfortable with "Frequency" and "Size" that you had before, and it could be applied to everything on this list (even cliffs), which would look much neater.

I get that you're trying to give the player more options here, but it has to be approachable, it has to make sense.

[pleegwat]

So in a sense this island start is similar to limiting your map size to the starting area?

Since uranium isn't in the starting area, is uranium on the island? Is oil?

[EBhero]

You guys could also make a beta version of 0.17, so we can also look for the bugs if we want to, while also not disturbing other people who don't want to.

[Klonan]

So in a sense this island start is similar to limiting your map size to the starting area?

Since uranium isn't in the starting area, is uranium on the island? Is oil?

Yes, a 'nicer' way of playing on a limited map

There is oil and uranium on the map, just outside the small initial biter-free starting area (Which is distinct from the starting area terrain/plateau)

[Klonan]

You guys could also make a beta version of 0.17, so we can also look for the bugs if we want to, while also not disturbing other people who don't want to.

That is what we call our 'Experimental' version, which is a 'alpha/beta' of the next alpha release...

[GenBOOM]

With the island terrain changes, will there be other islands on the map to expand to or is it just the one?

yeah an archipelago option would be nice

also the ability to decide the size of islands relative to each other.

then you could have a giant island thats basically a continent on the map

this makes boat mods so much better now

[melind]

Just a few things:

- Yay .17

- Map generation looks incredible, way better then what I was hoping for of "make sure starting maps are viable". The island looks great too, I'm guessing once you use up the resources on the island you can't progress since its literally all water out there?

- And a kind of dumb suggestion, it would look cool if accumulators would arc electricity to other nearby accumulators.


Thanks! Looking forward to trying out .17 when its ready!