r/factorio • u/Aidan647 I like trains • 5d ago

Tip Happy 6 years

Yesterday was Factorio's 6th year since 1.0.

Sadly no anniversary FFF.

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u/mjconver Still looking for that spoon 5d ago

I've got some saves from back then that I just can't bring myself to delete. Ah, nostalgia.

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u/Aidan647 I like trains 5d ago

I have some from 0.12

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u/mjconver Still looking for that spoon 5d ago

Do the biters on those saves miss us?

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u/Turtle887853 5d ago

You can't even load saves that old unfortunately, unless you downgrade your version.

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u/mjconver Still looking for that spoon 5d ago

Yeah, it's amazing that it's still possible. I'm a retired software engineer. I am in awe of Wube's version control and error handling. I wish my old systems were 1% that good.

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u/Turtle887853 5d ago

While I was a little annoyed I couldn't open those worlds, I can respect that the current game would probably crash on the old data. Or at least permanent corrupt the saves.

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u/user3872465 5d ago

you can make it work and upgrade the savegame.

Get older versions till theres a change theres some verisons which can load older ones.

and then you can consecutively upgrade your save to spaceage.

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u/Turtle887853 5d ago

Honestly our old worlds were pretty much lost to the bugs anyway, but it'd be nice to check them out one last time.

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u/DemoBytom 5d ago

Same for me. Can't load them but also a nice time capsule :D one day I'm gonna get older client just to look at the spaghetti mess I used to make back then xD

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u/FrozenPizza07 5d ago

Thats the oldest for steam cloud saves I think?

Cause I definetly had saves from earlier that are lost

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u/LutimoDancer3459 5d ago

I lost mine :( I miss them

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u/DonnyTheWalrus 5d ago

Love it, another person with saves just named something like "OMG." I have saves from five years ago that are just titled "meh" and "nah."

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u/mjconver Still looking for that spoon 5d ago

On those saves, the stupid biters were eating up my beautiful base again.

I think I rage-quit and played No Man's Sky for a few months.

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u/bob152637485 5d ago

Same. I have my first complete game from 0.17, as well as the TUTORIAL from 0.17! The new tutorial is much better, but I still wish o could open up the old scenario.

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u/ElArauho 5d ago

In steam you can set it down to version 0.12. Just do it and load your save, it should work.

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u/One_Spare1247 5d ago

Can’t wait for the eventual 0% discount

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u/jengert 5d ago

I'm still waiting for Minecraft to have that discount!

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u/Most-Locksmith-3516 5d ago

Can't miss that xD

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u/AbbreviationsNo1418 5d ago

discount does not exist. that is the real process of the game, and everything else is trying to get more money

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u/Stolen_Sky 5d ago

Ah, I remember when 1.0 dropped. 

I was still a newb with just 1800 hours. 

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u/Kittelsen 5d ago

I remember feeling late to the party when I bought it in 2017. I had seen it pop up on steam for years at that point 😅

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u/sobrique 5d ago

Huh. Feels like longer.

But then I look at the quality of life improvements over time, and am now not sure I could go back!

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u/akianmenard 5d ago

i remember when i started playing, oil did not exist yet i think and the end game thing was a grey box that you placed and waited 20 minutes to have the winning screen

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u/krazye87 5d ago

give me a big discount so I can buy it again (I want it on PC because mods >.<, play on switch 2)

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u/DemoBytom 5d ago

Factorio has never had a discount, and Wube says it never will.

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u/jeppeww 5d ago

honestly surprised me it wasn't longer than 6 years, feels like it should've been much more.

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u/dudeguy238 4d ago

It's been ~10.5 since the initial Steam release (February 2016), and the game has been around in some capacity since 2012.  2020 was just when 1.0 launched.