Final Factory Revolution

Final Factory Being Reborn

Mobile Station Overview, Steam Deck Support, Reworked Tutorials and Much More

Hey guys, for those following, Final Factory is undergoing a revolution right now. We have made massive updates to the game to make it a more complete experience. Multiplayer was just released but that's only the beginning. Another major update is landing right now, with a lot more to come. Expect another big patch this weekend. See below for details and what's coming next!

Highlights

• Mobile Stations overview: press J (or Factory Information) to see every station's status, stops, cargo and automation, with jump-to buttons, search and a Landing Zones tab

• Reworked tutorials: new step order, narrator subtitles, steps that wait for the thing they ask for, and a card you can page back through

• Steam Deck: controller button prompts everywhere, Steam Input layouts, a tabbed full-screen hub for Inventory/Technology/Blueprints/Fleet/Map/Info, readable text at 1280x800 and a 0.80 UI scale

• New planet: the Gas Giant (ringed blue or plain brown) sometimes replaces a Terra World in newly explored space. Research drones earn 1.25x there

• Junction priorities, AND/OR stop conditions, Hull Lights and fair belt merging

• The host can load a save for everyone in multiplayer without anyone leaving

Logistics and Mobile Stations

• Requester Cargo Holds keep getting supplies until the request is filled, instead of stopping after one trip

• A stop's wait conditions can be joined with AND as well as OR, and item counts compare with <, ≤, =, ≠, ≥ or >. Rows show the current count and turn green when met

• Stations waiting at a busy landing zone line up in their own spots behind it. Hover a queued station to see its place in line

• Landing zones with the same name each face their own way. Turn one with R; ships still treat every zone of a name as one stop

• Landing zones are marked by a holo pad with an arrow showing where the station will face, and the pad never disappears

• A Move stop shows a waypoint in the world

• Click any building of a station at any range, even on the map, to use its station controls

• New Stay Separate switch on the Command Core: the station lands flush without joining what it touches

• Unbuilt ghosts on a mobile station fly and land with it, and bots build them where it lands

• Hold right-click on a landing zone to remove it from any distance

• Express Cargo Barges load and unload twice as fast as Fast ones

• Deconstruct Station asks before it starts

Factory

• Junctions can prioritize each side: click a side's arrow to set 1, 2 or 3

• Two full belts feeding one take turns instead of one side hogging it

• New Hull Light: a lamp that attaches like an armor block

• Colored lamps show their color in the middle, with a softer glow

• Batteries hold 24 kWh (96 kW charge, 120 kW discharge). Capacitors hold 25 Wh at up to 320 kW

• Deleting a connector or deconstructing storage no longer loses items: they go into an Inventory Box and your bots bring it home

• The upgrade tool can downgrade too, and upgraded buildings take their new tier's craft speed

• Placing, hovering or selecting a Comet Catcher shows its danger zone in red

• Ctrl+click on a crafter also takes its finished product from its connector slots

• Clicking a building you can't craft yet in the craft panel puts it in your hand as a blueprint ghost

• Blueprints: Duplicate makes the next version with the same title and description

Combat

• Enemies with straight shots aim ahead of your ship when you move

• Enemy weapons hit your ship 15% harder outside Haven and 30% harder far from the map centre. Your fleet and buildings take the same damage as before

• Your fleet keeps up through afterburner dashes and fights again as soon as it sees enemies

• A fleet ability short of ships shows a red have/need count

Interface

• Tech tree: cleaner connector lines, an amber frame on the selected tech, grey locked techs, smooth dragging, and Shift + mouse wheel pans it sideways

• Windows fade in, remember where you moved them, and Settings > Interface > Reset UI Layout puts them back

• The in-game Esc menu has Exit Game

• A more compact Station panel, and the Command Core panel docks at the left edge at full height so more stops show

• Hosting a game shows the connecting box the moment you press Play

• Display settings are regrouped, with a Max lamp lights slider

• The main menu shows the build number

• Help videos are gone from objectives, so the game is about 240 MB smaller

Steam Deck and Controllers

• Button prompts show the controller button you press: hotbar, abilities, hints, tutorial, tooltips and keybindings

• Official Steam Input layouts for the Deck and gamepads, and every command is a Steam Input action you can rebind

• Inventory, Technology, Blueprints, Factory info, Fleet, Map and Info open as tabs of one full-screen hub. L1/R1 switch tabs, B closes

• Readable text and panels that stay on screen at 1280x800, with a 0.80 UI scale

• Hold L4 to hide the panels and steer

• Steam's on-screen keyboard opens for every text field

• The game checks its saved screen size at launch, fixing the cropped, narrow picture some Decks had

• The Station Info box and hover card stay up beside a docked panel

Multiplayer

• Fixed desyncs on low frame rate hosts (like a Steam Deck) after deconstructing

• Fixed desyncs for players joining right after a building finished, or while the host held a blueprint

• A reconnecting player no longer sits at Synchronizing forever

• A host on a network that blocks the relay's UDP falls back to WebSocket instead of dropping to the menu

• A host whose connection dropped is told why

• Only the host can turn cheats on

Performance

• Windows and Mac prepare shaders on the title screen, so roaming and your first respawn stutter much less

• Far fewer log lines while exploring

Other Fixes

• Waiting in the menus for a couple of minutes no longer leaves the whole game without music

• Typing in a text field no longer moves your ship, and the mouse wheel over a list scrolls it

• Quick clicks in the quick craft panel no longer cancel your craft queue

• Command cores from some older saves no longer load turned around

• On Linux under Proton, the game no longer freezes on a dead relay connection

• Over 80 lines of translated text fixed across Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Korean, Ukrainian, German, French and Italian

Coming Next

Already done and waiting for the next build:

• Free Build mode crafts anything without resources, plus a new Instant Craft option in custom games

• Selecting a tech in the tech tree now lights up everything you still need to research all the way back, not just one step

• Copy and deconstruct show exactly what you've grabbed while you drag

• Mobile stations run smoother when you have a lot of them flying

• Pasted landing zones no longer shift a tile on the first landing

• Rejoining a multiplayer game no longer turns you into a new player

• Other players' build sounds play where they're building, not everywhere

• Narrator lines through the tutorial, more of them, and tighter writing

• A tidier Station Info box, and craft buttons that point you along with a moving orange outline instead of flashing yellow

In the works:

• A radial hotbar for Steam Deck and controllers: hold a button, flick to the slot, done

• Rail Gun: a long range gun with its own ammo and damage upgrades

• Construction bots that build from the closest tower, and your own bots building your stuff first

• Better map markers that scale with zoom

• Faster scrolling for long lists on Steam Deck

• A "Structures placed" stat in Factory Information

• Native Linux builds

• Better modding support

• Full logistics request

• More combat options

• More research

• Better UI

• More QOL

Thanks for all the reports and feedback. I am committing to making Final Factory a truly great indie Automation experience.

/Slims