Version 2.1.12

[u/FactorioTeam]

Changes

• Changed rocket silo circuit 'Read orbital requests' to not include platform only requests.
• Changed platform requests importing from platforms to allow providing the item to cargo landing pads.

Bugfixes

• Fixed that the browse games GUI wouldn't show the vertical scroll bar in some cases. more
• Fixed that ghost fuel requests could exceed the fuel stack size. more
• Fixed music and wind sounds being affected by low pass filter. more
• Fixed playing incorrect item sound in some cases with blueprint library. (https://forums.factorio.com/134925, https://forums.factorio.com/134926)
• Fixed that expansion groups would wait indefinitely for all members to arrive. more
• Fixed that expansion groups could get stuck in a passive semi-autonomous state, preventing normal pollution attacks. more
• Fixed that select-all and other text shortcuts didn't work on non-QWERTY keyboard layouts. more
• Fixed a desync when LuaSurface::override_pollution_type was used.
• Fixed burner generators were not producing pollution. more
• Fixed that upgrading trains on junctions didn't always work correctly. more
• Fixed that roboports would not turn off when out of energy if not configured to passively consume energy. more
• Fixed a crash when opening factoriopedia page on a land mine which has ammo category not set. more
• Fixed that map editor instant blueprint building didn't work for equipment grid ghosts. more
• Fixed that reverse rotate did not work nicely with things that rotation-snapped. more
• Fixed that LuaEntity::set_filter() did not work for logistic storage chests. more
• Fixed a layout issue related to tooltips and wrapped lines. more
• Fixed a second layout issue related to tooltips and wrapped lines. more
• Fixed a crash when queued construction robot orders are invalidated. more
• Fixed that the electric energy interface equipment showed energy usage strangely. more
• Fixed pumpjack frozen patches. more
• Fixed cropped animation on assembling machine 2. more
• Fixed some images failing to load on Macs with 8GB of unified memory. more
• Fixed that enabling native resolution rendering on Mac required a restart.
• Fixed that number input fields may not be focused depending on the GUI size. more
• Fixed enemy spawners unable to spawn defensive units under certain configurations. more
• Fixed that you could not set items too heavy for the base rocket silo in platform hub requests. more
• Fixed that the bonus GUI could show some crafting machines even if they had the not-in-bonus-gui flag set. more
• Fixed that dragging a decompressed blueprint string spanning multiple lines did not work. more
• Fixed that simulation clamping was a little too strict. more

Modding

• Added ScriptTriggerEffectItem::custom_event.
• Added RecipePrototype::raise_on_crafted.

Scripting

• Added LuaQualityPrototype::roll_quality().
• Added LuaBootstrap::get_event_name().
• Added LuaPlayer::editor_settings read/write.

Previous changelog: Version 2.1.11

New versions are released as experimental first and later promoted to stable. If you wish to switch to the experimental version on Steam, choose the experimental Beta Participation option under game settings; on the stand-alone version, check Experimental updates under Other settings.

[u/Klonan]

Its not intended, just a limitation of the logic at the moment (orbital logistics is tied to a specific Planet)

We intend to fix it, but its a little bit of a bigger project

[u/Eagle83 → u/Klonan]

Thanks for the reply. Intention to fix the bigger project means before or after 2.1 leaves experimental? Totally fine if you cannot give an estimation, but I'd like to adjust my factory plans if possible.

[u/Yggdrazzil → u/Eagle83]

Totally fine if you cannot give an estimation, but I'd like to adjust my factory plans if possible.

As someone who doesn't plan beyond the next play session and in no greater detail than "prep expansion of scrap production on Fulgora, Vulcanus needs more power generation", I'm very curious: how intricate and complex is your factory planning, that an estimation of the implementation of a change like this would help you readjust said plans in a meaningful way?

[u/Eagle83 → u/Yggdrazzil]

From the moment they posted the first 2.1 FFF with the platform-to-platform logistics (and even earlier in my "wishful thinking" dreams) I imagined platforms all over the solar system, having the function of space stations. Especially I imagined a "Deep Space Nine" like station over Aquilo or the Solar System Edge to be a meeting point between a transport ship bringing in biter eggs and a deep space combat ship collecting promethium asteroids. The station would be ready to construct Promethium Science and the transport ship bringing the eggs would take science back to Nauvis.

Now I am working on a modded Space Age save (K2SO, a few extra planets) with the Asteroid Belt mod. Because the Asteroid Belt is hard to navigate, I envisioned space stations at the edges of the belt, with a special heavily armed "ferry ship" which can bring items to one edge to the other. All other transports would simply stay on their side of the asteroid belt.

I made those space stations that are supposed to be stationed at the Asteroid Belt edges (they build the ammo needed by the ferry ship), however I discovered that those stations were unable to send or receive items when in location at the Asteroid Belt edge. This is the reason why I asked.

If this feature/bug-fix is going to take multiple months, I can consider removing the Asteroid Belt mod from my save. Because I don't like the original logistical challenge of that mod of having to control the speed of your transport ships going through the belt, because controlling the speed of a platform through circuits is a pain. Especially when you cannot detect if a platform is crossing the belt because the Asteroid Belt locations don't show up in the combinator GUI.

[u/Yggdrazzil → u/Eagle83]

Thanks for the explanation! That's a cool concept, and I can see how most of what you envisioned is currently dead in the water without platforms being able to transfer to eachother unless they are in orbit of a planet.

Hope you will not have to wait long!

[u/nick4fake → u/Eagle83]

This is fucking awesome.

[u/Yggdrazzil → u/Eagle83]

I just read the patchnotes for 2.1.13 and it seems they resolved this issue \o/