Factorio 0.15 partial changelog

- new science packs
- space science pack
- infinite researches
  - example: logistics robot speed
- nuclear power
- blueprint library
- map interaction improvements
  - overlays w/ different information
    - logistics overlay
    - pollution overlay
    - electric overlay
    - turret range overlay
  - can click trains & stations from the map, instead of from the train menu
  - zoom in to world view (only near radar or other players)
  - custom map markers
- fluid wagon
  - special pump to load/unload fluid wagons
- dying in mp leaves a corpse w/ items, which slowly degrades
- infinite mining productivity research, +2% per tier
- fuel type affects vehicle acceleration & top speed
  - wood: slower
  - rocket fuel: fastest
- coal liquification (coal -> oil)
- pipette tool
  - click an assembler with pipette, it instantly switches your selected (hand)
    item to assembler
  - can click resources (ores?) to choose the "fastest available resource
    extracter" (best mine?)
  - see Klonan's Pipette mod
- mini tutorials
  - testing sample
  - train tutorials
- high-quality graphics
  - it's an option in the settings
  - can enable/disable by entity type (rails, engines, etc.), see 11:15 for the
    full list
  - new ore graphics
  - new gui graphics
  - decreased recipe icons in assemblers by 23%

- fast in-game interaction (fast item insert/extraction & copy-paste) can be
  done with drag-and-drop instead of clicking one at a time
  - sounds like you can (for example) paste machine settings by shift-clicking
    and dragging over a whole row of assemblers
- "build while moving" for electric poles now covers unpowered entities
  automatically along the way
- upgrading one end of an underground belt will try to replace the other end as
  well (Klonan's "Quick UG" mod? or "upgrade planner"?)
- /color command accepts custom RGBA colors in addition to names
- logistic network gives a warning when robots don't have storage space to
  place items into a logistics network (14:16)
- pumps show direction in alt-view
- belts & pipes show correct connections when building from blueprint
- research screen now shows which science packs are required for each tech on
  the list
  - techs are also sorted by science pack requirements
- new /screenshot command
- map editor now supports equipment grids
- "the build rotation of each blueprint is remembered independently of the
  general item build rotation" (15:50)
- oil well minimum yield is based on its initial yield
- added optional filters to the deconstruction planner
- copy-paste from assembler to filter inserter sets the filters to the
  ingredients in the assembler's recipe
- combat + construction robots are maintained between sessions in MP, and when
  changing surfaces (as
- added hotkey for reverse rotation
- offshore pump and generator show pumping speed / water consumption rates
- shift-selecting a blueprint skips the blueprint setup GUI
- mining rails is disabled if mining starts with trains or gates
  - holding rightclick on a train until it's destroyed will no longer start
    mining the rails underneath
- can now toggle fullscreen with alt-enter
- added /force option to /players command to see what force each player is on
- added logistic network gui containing list of all networks and contents of
  each ("L" key)
- /open command opens another player's inventory (admin only)
- /alert command configures alerts for your player
- /muteprogram command disables sounds made by the programmable speaker entity
- /seed gives the map seed
- added fluids to production GUI
- added kill stats GUI
- added "enable/disable all mods" button to mod manager GUI
- added automatic barrelling support for all fluids
- cargo wagons can have settings copied from any distance, like locomotives
- auto-launch for rockets
- train stops can be colored just like trains
- fish can be collected by robots
- new scenarios: PVP and Wave Defense
- advanced map generator settings and map generator presets
- show fog of war and radar radius when holding radar in cursor
- allow setting seed for map creation on headless server
- damaged items will now merge into one stack
  - health of the stack will be the average of the items
- added server whitelist support
- added /banlist(?) command to operate on the ban list
- added favorite feature to public game list
- added /permissions command for MP games
- ability to change inserter stack size through GUI or circuit network (21:35)
- ability to import/export blueprints, blueprint books, and deconstruction
  planners as strings
- server console prints join and leave messages
- server log messages that aren't part of the main log can be logged separately
  (?) (22:25)
- translatable energy units and SI prefixes
- furnaces and assembly machines show total number of products finished

balancing:
- +50% to rate at which resource density grows as you move away from the center
- crude oil rebalance
  - 50% fewer crude oil wells
  - increased min yield from 10% to 20%
  - halved rate of depletion
  - doubled starting yield
  - fixed mechanics of increasing richness with distance from the center
- increased module inventory size of chem plant and refinery from 2 to 3
- increased logistics trash slot count from 5 per level to 6 per level
- removed processing unit from modular armor and portable solar panel recipes
- pump (which?) pumping speed has been increased 4x (24:15)
- reduced petroleum requirement of plastic bar recipe from 30 to 20
- electric engine uses less lubricant (20 -> 15)
- electric furnace uses less steel (15 -> 10)
- steel furnace uses less steel (8 -> 6)
- pumpjack uses less steel (10 -> 5)
- reduced crafting times for:
  - engine unit
  - electric engine unit
  - pumpjack
  - advanced circuit
  - processing unit
  - oil cracking recipes
- increased stack sizes for stone wall, pipes, and belts from 50 to 100
- increased max power production of steam engine from 510 kW to 800 kW
- raised heat capacity of water from 0.1 kJ / degree / liter to 0.2
- increased substation supply area from 16x16 to 18x18 (wire reach is 18 now as
  well)
- combat balancing:
  - player regains health at much higher rate, but only after being out of
    combat for 10s
  - discharge defense equipment pushes back, damages, and stuns enemies when
    activated by the remote
  - greatly increased damage of personal laser defense
  - flamethrower now has a minimum range of 3
  - flames on the ground significantly increase in duration and damage when
    more fuel is added by firing at the same spot
  - increased fire resistance of biter bases
  - increased health of player non-combat buildings
  - increased player health from 100 to 250
  - increased collection amount and effectiveness of fish
  - increased damage, health, and range of worms
  - decreased health and resistance of behemoths
  - doubled stack size of all ammos
  - decreased cost & crafting time for some ammos
  - increased damage of most player ammos
  - greatly increased damage and fire rate of rockets and cannon shells
  - increased collision box of cannon shells
  - tank has increased health and resistances
  - added research for tank cannon shell damage and shooting speed
  - tweaked research bonuses and added more endgame research for military
    upgrades
  - increased damage of mines; they also stun enemies when they explode
  - added uranium round magazine and uranium cannon shells
  - can now use flamethrower from your tank

- circuit network: up to 25x less CPU usage
- programmable speaker can show alerts and play sounds based on circuit
  network, and can be used to play simple songs
- train stop can now output the contents of the train cargo to the circuit
  network
- train stop can be disabled using the circuit network; trains will skip
  disabled stops
- mining drills can be turned on and off using circuits
- mining drills can output remaining expected resources to circuit network
- pumpjacks can be turned on/off & can output remaining resources, like drills
- added modulo, power, bitwise and/or/xor to arithmetic combinator
- added >=, <=, and != to decider combinator and circuit conditions

- boilers are more powerful, bigger, and have a dedicated output for steam
- default boilers output steam at a fixed temperature of 165 degrees

- removed support for 64-bit systems
- removed alien artifacts and alien science packs
- changed bounding box of mining drills and pumpjacks, so you can walk between
  them
- disabled loading of saves from before 0.12
- changed "small pump" to "pump"
  - migrated pumps in old saves will be misaligned and disconnected from pipes
- train stations add 2000 tile penalty for pathfinding (so trains will try to
  avoid driving through train stations unnecessarily)

- skipped over modding and scripting changes

- the map seed is used to generate unique maps, instead of just shifting the
  starting position
- the decorative entity type has been deprecated, and will be replaced with a
  prototype optimized decorative
- all fluid amounts are now multiplied by 10
- all default map editor actions are now on left-click
- "the fluid box height and base level of the boiler has been moved ??? the
  pump to improve fluid flow" (33:50)
- when an active train stop is removed, trains will immediately leave the
  station if they're waiting there
- changed the default comparison type for train conditions from "and" to "or"
- fast-replacing splitters maintains the contents on the new splitter instead
  of returning it to the player
- research start/change notifications are only shown in multiplayer
- (hand) crafting is paused if the results can't be given to the player
- changed evolution factor from global to per-force
- disabled mining of vehicles other players are driving
- decreased biter sound volumes
- laser turret projectiles now move much faster
- construction areas for roboports increased from 50 to 51
- the restart button now uses map generation settings from the currently loaded
  save
- new rocket silo GUI and visibility button for freeplay and sandbox
- unified internal name for flamethrower
- "??? building will mark trees and rocks for deconstruction" (36:20)
- trains are now always visible on the map, not only in chunks ...?
- increased blueprint book to hold 1000 blueprints
- blueprints, blueprint books, and deconstruction planners are obtainable from
  the library GUI with no crafting cost
- "??? now make sounds" (37:00)


Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVEO1ssqXo8