Version: 0.18.0
Date: 21. 01. 2020

Features:
- Steam users can now log in automatically through Steam without needing their Factorio account password.
- Steam users without a Factorio account can create one by providing only a username.
- Reworked main menu structure.
  - Added a "Continue" button which quickly loads the latest save game.
  - Added a "New Game" GUI that shows all the ways to play the game
- Added a setting to the map editor to show/hide the extra entity settings.
- Added a map editor GUI to edit force data modifiers.
- Added a PvP team option to create a moat around the starting area.

Graphics:
- Added animation to water.
- Added animation to trees.
- Added LUTs and color corrected the game sprites.
- Added sliders to the graphics settings to adjust brightness, contrast, and saturation.
- Added on damaged effects for most entities.
- Added specific dying explosions for most entities.

Sounds:
- New or updated sound effects include:
  - Nuclear reactor, chemical plant, furnace, fire, burner mining drill.
  - Tank.
  - Mining by hand, chopping wood
  - Roboport door, Combat robots
  - Player footsteps.
  - Biter and Spitter footsteps.
  - Worm breathing, Spitters and Biters, idling and attacking.
- New sound features include:
  - The ability to fade out sounds instead of a sudden stop, e.g. for the furnace.
  - Varying the pitch of sounds to a min/max level, to add more variety.
  - A 'Random, no repeat' feature to reduce repetition, especially on sounds that happen frequently, such as player steps.
- The sound for the game has also been rebalanced to highlight certain sounds and make others fade into the distance.
- The default sound settings have also been updated to improve this mix.

Optimizations:
- Optimized particle logic.
- Improved performance when side-loading transport belts.
- Improved performance of inserters interacting with assembling machines and furnaces.
- Improved performance of inserters when the circuit network turns them off.
- Improved performance of mining drills and inserters in general.
- Improved performance of burner entities.
- Improved performance polluting entities.
- Improved performance of smoke producing entities.
- Improved performance logistic and construction robot performance when they're flying towards their target.
- Improved performance of furnaces and assembling machines that use fluids.
- Improved heat pipe performance by 3x.
- Improved item request proxy performance by turning them off in 99%+ of the cases.
- Improved locomotive, cargo wagon, and fluid wagon performance by turning them off in 99%+ of the cases.
- Electric networks, fluids, and heat pipes are updated in parallel if you have enough cores.
- Improved script rendering performance for text and lines.
- Improved performance of rotated bounding boxes.