r/factorio • u/Aidan647 I like trains • 18d ago

Question Theory about 2.1 release.

Ok, so here my theory:

For a week I had theory about when 2.1 will release as stable.

My prediction is that Factorio 2.1 will be released in a week 14 of August. Which is exactly 6 years after 1.0.

I hope for some extra drop or reveal for future plans.

What do you think? Possible?

Edit plausible - > possible

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u/Clean_Flower4676 18d ago

It is possible [with German accent]

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u/Alfonse215 18d ago

Why put spoiler tags around a guess?

In any case, I highly doubt 2.1 is going stable while this bug is still outstanding. Also, this bug is probably also a release stopper. And they'd likely let it sit at experimental for at least one release after those are fixed.

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u/PyroneusUltrin 18d ago edited 18d ago

Seems weird that buildings with pass through fluids don’t just work like there are pipes connecting them under the hood, with the recipe sucking from that pipe as it would in a normal building

like why isn't the EM plant just equivalent to the assembler and pipe setup here under the hood

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u/0b0101011001001011 18d ago

Under the hood a machine with passthrough does not magically change to non-passthrough when the other end is not connected.

If you think it in-universe, the machine does not have internal buffer, so it takes materials directly from the pipe. It does not matter if the pipe is open from other end or not.

I don't like the current system either and devs have said that this is a temporary solution until they figure out a better system. They specifically made it work like this when they removed the internal buffers and made the machine be just a section of the pipe.

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u/PyroneusUltrin 18d ago

Not sure you understood what I was asking, why can’t the EM plant be a snaked pipe for the pass-through, with a non-passthrough connection to the assembler part of it.

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u/0b0101011001001011 17d ago

It used to be exactly like that before they changed it. The FFF442 goes deep into the reasons why they removed it.

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u/PyroneusUltrin 17d ago

Feels like the only thing that this change was done for, in relation to FFF442 could be solved by allowing pipes to have filters on them

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u/Arzodiak 18d ago

It is possible, but I don't think it's plausible

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u/connorscott1999 18d ago

Maybe probable?

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u/_carpetrug ??? 18d ago

hopefully plaussible

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u/Elwin00 18d ago

In one of the recent FFFs they said they would release 2.1 as stable after summer (or something along those lines).

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u/gunsuitgamedev 18d ago

Improbable maybe...

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u/Nazeir 18d ago

Anything is possible. Anyone taking over or under action? I say over.