Factorio – 0.16.17 has been released!

• Spectator fog of war
• starting chests
• chest item multiplier
• team areas turrets
• automatic round time
• base exclusion time

A full list of bug fixes as well as modding and scripting changes:

Bugfixes

• Fixed that rail chain signals didn’t work with copy-paste. more[forums.factorio.com]
• Fixed that double clicking the empty space in scroll bars on the load/save map GUIs would trigger the load/save. more[forums.factorio.com]
• Fixed that walking near the edge of water could result in no footstep sounds. more[forums.factorio.com]
• Fixed building belts over splitters marked for deconstruction while a ghost belt was under the splitter didn’t work. more[forums.factorio.com]
• Fixed that ghost solar panels would show as having energy. more[forums.factorio.com]
• Fixed that the bonus GUI didn’t show correct numbers for some bonuses. more[forums.factorio.com]
• Fixed that a single water tile that separates two terrain types would become invisible. more[forums.factorio.com]
• Added graphics option “Separate lower object atlas” to address performance issue when rendering lot of decoratives on some PCs. The option will put sprites drawn under shadows in a separate sprite atlas with mipmaps enabled. This should reduce GPU load, but slightly increase CPU load and VRAM usage. more[forums.factorio.com]
• Added a command-line option –executable-path to allow launching Factorio through a custom ld.so on Linux. more[forums.factorio.com]
• Fixed a crash when setting invalid prototype values for vehicle type entities through mods. more[forums.factorio.com]
• Fixed that you couldn’t attack nests with your pickaxe.
• Additional fix of the rail block visualization for high res. more[forums.factorio.com]
• Fixed jittering when running against entities with connected bounding boxes (for example pipes). more[forums.factorio.com]
• Fixed that entities with multiple items to build them wouldn’t fire mod events in some cases. more[forums.factorio.com]
• Fixed recipe tooltip with many raw materials showing incorrectly. more[forums.factorio.com]
• Fixed invisible GUI when assembling machine with no recipe is opened. more[forums.factorio.com]
• Fixed a crash on Linux that would happen after dragging a UI element outside the game window. more[forums.factorio.com]
• Fixed inconvenient drag-placing of electric poles around large entities. more[forums.factorio.com]
• Fixed un-setting controls wouldn’t work correctly for key bindings with default modifiers. more[forums.factorio.com]
• Fixed artillery projectile shadow was not aligned with artillery cannon shadow. more[forums.factorio.com]
• Fixed line breaks in changelog with UI scale. more[forums.factorio.com]
• Fixed that too many biters trying to return to a spawner could make all other biters inactive. more[forums.factorio.com]
• Fixed robots deconstructing artillery turrets could lose ammo. more[forums.factorio.com]
• Improved scroll behaviour in server list. more[forums.factorio.com]
• Fixed possibility of receiving the previous rounds input items in Team production. more[forums.factorio.com]
• Fixed that the game could create many enemy unit groups resulting in poor performance. more[forums.factorio.com]
• Fixed pasting entity settings would not disable connection to logistic network. more[forums.factorio.com]
• Fixed blueprint containing rocket silo could result in broken silo if placed before rocketry was researched. more[forums.factorio.com]
• Fixed rail chain signal ghost would emit light. more[forums.factorio.com]
• Fixed that blueprint strings wouldn’t retain storage chest filters. more[forums.factorio.com]
• Fixed passing LuaObjects through the remote interface wouldn’t always work correctly. more[forums.factorio.com]
• Fixed that LuaSurface::create_entity wouldn’t work to create walls on top of ghost walls. more[forums.factorio.com]
• Fixed that a furnace or assembling machine with > 100% productivity with a <= 1 tick crafting time recipe wouldn’t work correctly. more[forums.factorio.com]
• Fixed building blueprint rails on rails marked for deconstruction didn’t work correctly in some cases. more[forums.factorio.com]
• Fixed a migration issue related to logistic entities and inventory resizing. more[forums.factorio.com]

Modding

• Removed terrain_collision_box from fish prototype. To prevent fish with non-zero collision box from blocking offshore pump placement, default collision mask of fish has flag ‘colliding-with-tiles-only’. more[forums.factorio.com]
• Disabled recipes won’t be cleared from an assembling machine ghost, if the assembling machine prototype has fixed_recipe set.
• Entity of type offshore pump can be rotated on ground if flag ‘filter-directions’ is not set. more[forums.factorio.com]

Scripting

• Changed the tile related events to include the old tiles and positions instead of just positions.
• Added on_pre_player_crafted_item and on_player_cancelled_crafting events.
• Added on_entity_damaged event.
• Added on_chunk_charted event.
• Added LuaEntity::splitter_filter, splitter_input_priority and splitter_output_priority read/write.
• Added ghost_name and ghost_type to LuaSurface::find/count entities filtered.
• Fixed recursive call in util.merge(). more[forums.factorio.com]

 

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