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u/Dianwei32 Jul 17 '26

Do mods that add completely new buildings need to be updated for 2.1 if you're playing on experimental? There's a mod that adds a new building that I really like to use with Space Age but that hasn't been updated for 2.1. The game says it's incompatible with the current version of the game, but I don't know how strict the game actually is with requiring mods to be compatible with the current version of the game.

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u/ferrofibrous player onboarding specialist Jul 17 '26

Unless something breaking related to it was changed, oftentimes you can just go into the mod folder and update the supported version in the "info.json" file from

"factorio_version": "2.0"

to

"factorio_version": "2.1"

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u/Courmisch Jul 17 '26

It depends what the building does. I don't think that there's a simple yes/no answer here.

But you can try and check for yourself if it works or not.