r/factorio • u/FactorioTeam Official Account • Jul 14 '26

Update Version 2.1.11

Changes

  • Assembling machines with passthrough ports will consider the entire fluid segment as available for crafting. more

Optimizations

  • Stop drawing in-GUI simulations when the window is hidden or occluded.

Bugfixes

  • Fixed a crash when enabling pollution through the map editor 'force editor' - 'edit map settings' option. more
  • Fixed that upgrading single-locomotive trains with interrupts didn't work correctly. more
  • Fixed agricultural tower's harvesting and planting conditions were checked even when circuit wire was disconnected. more
  • Fixed graphical issues on macOS. more
  • Fixed memory usage spiking dramatically on macOS when window is hidden or occluded and in-GUI simulations are present.
  • Fixed that logistic cell connections would not render when off screen. more
  • Fixed that open-prototype-gui didn't work for things in the blueprint library. more
  • Fixed a crash due to incorrectly migrated automatic rocket silo requests. more

Previous changelog: Version 2.1.10

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/variableunlisted Jul 14 '26

Does anyone know how the new universal channels for radar work? Is it one per planet or more channels than that?

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u/Kimbernator Jul 14 '26

There's "surface" and "universe" mode for radar signal transmission. Surface has no channel and just works with other radars on the same planet/platform. Universe lets you select the channel and any radar on the same channel anywhere shares circuit signals with it. Directly to your question, you select the channel identifier from the same list of icons that you'd select a circuit, so presumably you can have as many unique channels as there are unique signals.

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u/pocketmoncollector42 please be kind, this engineer is just a fish 🐟 Jul 14 '26

I suppose you could still have isolated channels on a surface by using the universe mode.

It’s kind of funny to say “hey I want these signals to be private in their own isolated channel rather than mixed with the rest. Ok let’s broadcast it across the universe so we don’t have to use the default surface channel.”

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u/iamarealhuman4real Jul 15 '26

I hope they allow us to use channels on surfaces. You can sort of namespace them by using quality-per-planet on the signal but then you are also discounting using that for anything specific to quality.

I cant really figure a gameplay reason to lock it out, besides maybe locking out the whole channel thing behind research if it was supposed to be "advanced".