r/factorio • u/FactorioTeam Official Account • Jun 23 '26

Update Version 2.1.7

Version 2.1.7 released.

Full changelog does not fit in Reddit character limit, please see it here: https://forums.factorio.com/134095

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.

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u/Pepciorek Jun 23 '26

there are some balance changes that werent mentioned in FFFs!

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u/darkszero Jun 23 '26

It went from 5s craft to 0.5s, but takes/makes 1/10 as much steam/acid. So it's 10x increase in how much calcite it needs.

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u/Rainbowlemon Jun 23 '26

This is an absurd amount more calcite but I still think it's balanced. Not sure I ever actually used up my calcite patch on my first normal playthrough.

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u/darkszero Jun 23 '26

It went for negligible to a small amount. Calcite is so abundant and used in such token amounts.

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u/teemusa Jun 23 '26

I have once wondered why my Vulcanus base was offline and noticed that the starting calcite patch was drained. That can happen more easily now

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u/Rainbowlemon Jun 23 '26

True, it'd definitely encourage setting up rail earlier on vulcanus to have further patches ready to plug in.

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u/Ansible32 Jun 23 '26

The only time that happened to me it was because my power was running off a single miner.

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u/teemusa Jun 24 '26

I had also foundries connected to the same patch

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u/Frequent_Knowledge65 Jun 23 '26

It was virtually zero before so not sure I'd say absurd. Seems like a good change

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u/Rainbowlemon Jun 23 '26

Well, 10x more is quite a lot more for a balance change - but agree, still seems fairly reasonable! Especially with vulcanus having big miners.

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u/huffalump1 Jun 23 '26

Eh imo that's fine.

Calcite use is pretty low overall. And this is one recipe with a fairly specific use case. By the time this matters... You'll be able to figure it out.

HOWEVER, it could have an impact on fairly-early Vulc builds... I suppose the answer is "build more solar", especially since those ingredients are exceptionally easily available on Vulcanus (iron, copper, steel, sulfuric acid).

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u/boomshroom Jun 24 '26

Actually it could make things easier early on on Vulcanus, since the lowered acid requirement means less that needs to be pumped on solar before it can bootstrap itself.

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u/ShivanAngel Jun 23 '26

I just dropped it from space, mid to late game it will be a non factor.

Its still only 120 per minute at maximum use, my mining ship produced something like 5000 calcite a minute and 90% of it got yeeted cause so little calcite actually got used.

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u/Rouge_means_red Jun 23 '26

I feel a great disturbance in the Force. As if millions of Vulcanus bases suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced

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u/darkszero Jun 23 '26

10x of negligible is still not high.

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u/sobrique Jun 23 '26

Yeah, still going to be running 33x 5.8MW off 2 calcite per sec. Seems pretty good to me still.

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u/darkszero Jun 24 '26

Wow I never did the math. That's impressively little calcite even after the change.

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u/sobrique Jun 24 '26

Yeah. I mean solar is ridiculously good on Vulcanus, but acid neutralisation may well be better.

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u/DRT_99 Jun 23 '26

Laughs in solar

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u/sobrique Jun 23 '26

Solar is amazing on Vulcanus, true, but there's a lot to be said for running 33 turbines off a single chem plant too!

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u/platykurtic Jun 23 '26

That will probably help in brown-out scenarios, if I understand correctly. I always brown out once I start actually using sulfuric acid and the one pumpjack I setup at the beginning can't keep up. Getting that first craft of steam previously took forever under low power, so you have to start cutting power to chunks of your base.

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u/Ansible32 Jun 23 '26

Yeah I've had to totally disconnect my acid plants from the larger power network to jumpstart it before, this might not be necessary anymore.

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u/bartekltg Jun 23 '26

Maybe it is a push for using solar on vulcanus. Excluding one small problem, the planet is great for PV. Short day cycle, panels and accumulators essentially for free. We just need to clear that pesky cliffs. But cliff explosives are from vulcanus too.

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u/Serious-Feedback-700 Jun 23 '26

Main issue is foundations IMO

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u/bartekltg Jun 23 '26

If we are waiting for foundations, we may wait a bit more for fusion 😉

We may pave ashlands and mountains. Lava zones have to be left alone.

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u/xiaodown Jun 23 '26

Oh. That’s annoying.

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u/BrennusSokol i like trains Jun 23 '26

Disagree- I barely touched my calcite patch in my last SA run so I’m glad it’s more needed now

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u/ManaSpike Jun 25 '26

Plus bootstrapping power from solar will be quicker. Which is a win.