Factorio’s 0.17 update brings a tutorial and map editor to the mechanical time-sink

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Despite being in development for a fifth of my lifetime, Factorio has somehow only reached version 0.17. Crikey, software development terms, eh? Whenever I’ve developed a game, I just make ’em up. Still, I wager the folk behind the mechanical monstrosity that is Factorio have everything scheduled out nicely, laid out on complex spreadsheets which work themselves out without human input. But still, their assembly line continues to self-construct. Nerds.

This week’s latest stable release brings in new content for construction nerds old and new with a new tutorial and world-construction tools.

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John Jason Fallows

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