2.0 is in development and will be released next year. As far as I know, Steam updates automatically to the version which is listed as stable on https://factorio.com and was bumped to 1.1.100 this week (mine installation has already updated). Previous one was 1.1.94.

It has 2x Xeon E5-2667 V2s (16-cores/32-threads @ 3.60Ghz, 128GB ECC RAM, 12 SAS harddrives (it is also my backup centre) As well as many game servers. Well.. that's 10 years old hardware with DDR3 from the era when 8 cores was a lot. You will probably get >2x the Factorio performance on mid-range ...

TheKillerChicken wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 07, 2023 10:51 am

I would love to see an ARM server support as my current game server is 700-watt power-hungry server and would like an alternative to a mainframe server.

Out of curiosity: what's the spec of the server and on what scale do you serve?

This is a pretty early Ryzen. Whenever I do upgrades I usually spend quite a bit of time deciding what to get. It was still near the top at the time and it would last me for a good while. I'll dig into AMD's current gens and look at their AM4 offerings. Next major upgrade will be going back to Inte...

Increasingly, cloud/infrastructure providers are offering Arm server types (Graviton, Ampere). I think the demand for Arm builds of Factorio is only going to continue to increase. My hope is that the next iteration of Steam Deck is some kind of AArch64-based monster, thus forcing the game industry ...

Without a max underground length you can design an end game factory from the beginning instead of waiting to unlock blue belts to design your end game factory. I mean... that's the whole point of different max-lengths. You unlock new things, redesign, adapt, discover. That's the thing not only with...

(it's additional work to ensure such compatibility, so I suspect they wouldn't do that here if they don't plan to do this in other places) Is it? Or is it simply a matter of not deleting the original entities (and only updating the rail planner)? We don't know how deep the engine changes had to be ...

Today's FFF says that loading old saves with an old-style rail system will be allowed, you just won't be able to build old-style rails. If they made rail systems compatible, they will probably do the same with other things (it's additional work to ensure such compatibility, so I suspect they wouldn'...

Waiting for new episodes of the new season of the FFF, I started to read some older ones and stumbled upon #315 https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-315 I wonder what the infrastructure side of Wube looks like nowadays. How many and what kind of servers do you run, how long does it take to build F...