Following our Megafactory Update (0.7.50), we're proud to present Update 0.7.53 with significant quality of life improvements, visual enhancements, and gameplay features to make your factory building experience even better!

• Less harsh light mode for improved visual comfort
  
• Added UI scaling slider to settings menu - adjust to your preference!
  
• Added option to toggle visual gradient on/off (affects performance on huge bases)
  
• Improved resource icons display at higher LOD levels
  
• Centered resource icons at higher LOD
  
• Refreshed color scheme with rounded edges for nodes
  

• Added hotkey modal with list of all available hotkeys (in settings)
  
• Added click-togglable resource per minute/per tick rate display
  
• Enhanced nuclear value display with improved tooltips
  
• Added text displaying base parcel throughput when hovering over parcels
  
• Multiple new guides to better orient new players
  
• New and improved research view!
  

• M - Toggle background grid with guide
  
• T/Y - Control z-index for parcels
  
• H - Force drones to prioritize selected parcels
  
• G - Disable/enable parcels (useful for low power situations)
  
• Ctrl+P - Take a full base screenshot (8k resolution)
  
• Shift+Click - Disables edge interaction
  
• Ctrl+Shift - Precision select (add to current selection)

• Parcel deletion now refunds building costs
  
• Resource efficiencies from excavators and beacons now reduce consumption of mined resources
  
• Speed beacons properly deduct resources and throttle input demand by boosted output
  
• General improvements to edge & node drag speed for large selections
  
• Added scheduler - nodes will be placed when CPU/GPU has resources in micro batches
  
• Restored functionality to FOV slider with improved performance
  
• Added masking to mapController to limit GPU load
  
• Slightly improved map load times
  
• More caching for better performance when power is at 100% and parcels I/O is fully utilized

• Fixed issue with military research not applying until reload
  
• Resolved military selection hierarchy not deselecting floors
  
• Military hotkey menu resets when navigating to prevent accidental deletes
  
• Wall & floor footprint size now adjusts with icon or R/T (up to max 25 tile footprint)
  
• Slight boost to damage multipliers for player
  
• Units that 'disappear' from bad collisions are now properly stashed

• Fixed coal energy visual bug
  
• Fixed excavator placement in military mode
  
• Fixed temporary edge issues when performing multi-edge operations
  
• Improved alt-drag guide to clear when multi alt-drag is complete
  
• Various other bug fixes and performance improvements

• Players reported that they never felt they were really „taking off", there we significantly reduced the cost scaling of parcels

• Added pinch-to-zoom feature for touchscreens & MacBook users

I love automation games.

I remember when I first picked up Factorio and looked at my base after 50 hours—this beautiful sprawling mess of belts, inserters, and smoke-belching assemblers. It felt alive, like a biological system pulsing with resources… or a computer chip humming with electrons, balancing bandwidth and throughput. That emergent complexity is magic.

Incremental Factory was born as a weekend experiment, trying to replicate that emergent complexity in the minimal shape of a text-based incremental game. While fun, dealing with logistics in that format was fundamentally annoying. Staying with that minimalism ethos, Incremental Factory went through it’s first major evolutionary transition, and we saw the dawn of graph-based network gameplay:Parcels (nodes) process resources, and connections (edges) shuttle them instantly across the map. No distance. No space. Just pure, elegant, JIT (just-in-time) logistics.


One of the most exciting challenges in any automation game is designing logistics that feel alive. Think about how trains in other games deliver resources in distinct, pulsing bursts over vast distances. That rhythmic arrival of cargo forces you to plan intricate routes, manage buffer storage, and deal with the delightful irregularities that make every factory feel like a living, breathing organism.

We thought about how we could add such a “distinct” logistic system, but nothing felt right and we quickly realized that without a notion of geography and distance, we simply could not come up with a satisfying design for such a new logistic system.

So the time had come to add the concept of space to Incremental Factory.


We looked into many directions, but at some point we fell in love with hexagons. We can not really put the finger down, but the moment we started playing with hexagons on a whiteboard, things just clicked into place.

So the new systems so far look something like this:

• We have a hex based grid map
  
• Hexes can have different terrain, e.g. plains, ocean or mountains.
  
• Players can build several types of hubs on empty hexagons, e.g. Production Hubs, Extraction Hubs, Ports
  
  • Extraction hubs extract resources
    
  • The parcel based gameplay happens inside Production Hubs
    
  • Port Hubs allow Ships to load and unload resources
    
  • We are also experimenting with more niche / specialized hubs, e.g. we introduced an Electrolysis hub that produces O2 and the output is based on how many Water Tiles are adjacent.
• Connect hubs via direct connections
  
• Spend resources on military and defeat enemy bases to unlock new hexes
  
• Create Ports next to oceans, buy ships, explore and transport resources between ports via shipping routes
  

The initial spark for this update was to introduce a new logistic system (which we have in its infancy: ships) but the actual outcome touches every single aspect. The game starts to feel more complex (the good kind of complex), with its open map allowing for more decision making and it feels that when I hit a wall in one direction, there always seems to be something else to do that feels meaningful.

And at least for us this feels like a step in the right direction. Personally, I got addicted to my own game again, which means something, as I have been playtesting it in every shape and form almost daily for the past two years now).

But what ultimately counts is what you, the players, think. We are strongly committed (as always, but this time especially), to work hand-in-hand with our incredible community - to make this the best update Incremental Factory has ever seen.

Join us on Discord to get access to the development version (beware, this is very early):
https://discord.gg/BGEeTKYyTh

P.S. I also recorded a 12min Preview Video walking through the early game in case this is interesting for some:

Engineers, get ready for something truly extraordinary! We've pushed every aspect of Incremental Factory to enable what you've been asking for - true megafactories. From groundbreaking performance improvements to streamlined building tools and new power systems, everything in this update is designed to help you build bigger than ever before. Remember when we celebrated reaching 2,000 parcels? Well, hold onto your hardhats, because we're about to enter a whole new dimension of factory building!


We've achieved what seemed impossible just months ago: Our reference machine (MacBook Pro M2) can now handle factories with 100,000 parcels! Yes, you read that right - that's a 20x increase in scale compared to our previous update. The doors are now wide open for truly massive factories, and this is genuinely only the beginning!

This breakthrough comes from two major improvements:

• Introducing a new LOD (Level of Detail), that groups parcels into clusters to reduce the number of draw calls significantly for large factories
  
• Massive performance optimization in all interactions with the map, including adding new parcels, deletes, pastes, and drone task operations

We've completely reimagined how you interact with the map, optimizing every interaction to align with your natural building flow. The new interface eliminates menu diving and streamlines construction so effectively that we often found ourselves happily lost in the rhythm of expanding our factory for hours. Welcome to truly fluid factory building!
(there is still a lot of work to do here, but we are very proud of the progress we made)


The star of the show is our new radial menu. Here's what makes it special:

• Lightning-fast resource and building selection
  
• Minimizes mouse movement
  
• Alt-click to auto-build buildings directly from the radial menu!
  
• Build entire factories without ever entering the parcel menu!

Fun Fact: The radial menu is based on Fitts Law, which states that the time to acquire a target is a function of the distance to the target and the width of the target.


Simple, yet powerful: Smart, predictive handles that anticipate your next move:

• Ghost handles appear automatically for required inputs/outputs
  
• Skip the menus entirely - just drag and connect
  
• The game flows with your thought process, not against it

Building and managing large factories just got a whole lot easier:

• Select multiple nodes and create edges from all of them simultaneously
  
• Move bundled edges together - just grab them where they converge
  
• Delete multiple edges in one swift action
  
• Perfect for large-scale factory reorganization

Bigger factories need bigger power solutions. Enter nuclear power - our most sophisticated system yet. This isn't just another energy source; it's a whole new engineering challenge:

• Complex reactor design space with non-trivial optimization challenges
  
• Multiple approaches to efficiency and safety
  
• A deeper layer of strategy for powering those massive 100k+ parcel factories
  
• The perfect companion to your megafactory ambitions

Nuclear Plant This system has taught us so much about what's possible in factory games, and we can't wait to see what you'll build with it!


This is a massive step forward, but we're not done yet.
There's more cooking in our development kitchen that we can't wait to share with you.
Stay tuned!


If you notice anything that needs attention, hop onto our Discord[discord.gg]

The Factory Must Grow! 🏭

We are so excited to share this update with you.
It's still experimental but it turned out way better than we expected.
After the 0.7 release we sat down and thought what the direciton of this game should be.
Why waste time on words if a video speaks more than a thousand.
(Actually, multiple orders of magnitude more).
So here it is:

• Multi-edge dragging from nodes. Just select the nodes, click a handle and it will pull edges from all the nodes.
  
• Radial menu, resource selector and IMPORTANT: alt click to auto populate buildings with the radial menu. This allows you to build entire factories without entering the parcel menu.
  
• Predictive handles, now if you have a building requiring inputs/ outputting a resource, that resource will show as a ghost handle for convenient edge dragging!
  
• Massive performance increase to way nodes are handled, deletes, pastes, and drones are vastly improved performance wise.
  
• Huge LOD update allowing truly massive 100k factories. Tests were also done at 500k and it chugs but is playable, doors are open for truly massive factories and this is genuinely only the beginning!
  
• Nucelar Energy - You somehow need to power those large factories, don't you?

This is now live on the "experimental" beta branch. To get access, just right click on "Incremental Factory" in your Library and select the "experimental" branch in the Beta section.
Make a backup just to be save.
If you notice anything, ideally submit it on discord: https://discord.gg/BGEeTKYyTh

We are hyped to get this ready for live.
There is also more to come, this is not all we have been working on in the past months, so stay tuned :)
The Factory Must Grow 🫶

Hello Everyone,

after the v0.7 Update we are seeing a large wave of new players coming in. This is super exciting. We are looking forward to learn from all your feedback & see the factories you will build!

We have released v0.7.41 yesterday and v0.7.42 today. Here is what's new:



Until now, when you wanted to paste something, be it from your clipboard or from a blueprint, you had to have enough resources to pay all the parcel costs upfront. This inherently limited the size of pasting you could do and also lead to a loop where you would need to wait for resources to paste and then wait again, which is not fun.

We solved this issue by introducing a new drone task: "Build Parcel"
Now, when you want to paste, we don't have to check if you have all the resources. You can just paste. And the parcel will be bought and built after.

This should significantly change the flow of the game, boosting both, active and passive play:
- Passive Players can now paste a bunch of parcels down and let it run in the background
- Active Players can paste any sized blueprints which makes scaling so much more enjoyable

Especially in combination with Alt+Dragging to copy parcels, factory building can get really flowy:

It's faster now. About 30% 🏎️

And there is more potential. Lets see how large we can get 🤓

We reworked the tutorial to now guide you through all important elements & shortcuts.
This might be too much for some, we will add the option to hide the tutorial as well for those.

If you haven't seen certain tutorials you will see them, just do the tasks and they will be hidden. And you might even learn a trick or two you haven't been aware of :)

Lots of bugs have been fixed. Notably:
- Dark screen issues in relation to renaming blueprints
- Failed tasks that got stuck
- Hotkeys not registering
- Lots of small issues


Again, thank you everybody who is joining in on the fun & playing with us. We are seeing new record numbers of players which is extremely exciting & makes us really grateful that we are allowed to serve you guys in building this unique and wacky factory builder :)

Next Steps:
- First we will keep polishing and improving the current version --> please send all the feedback on our discord or the discussions here on steam
- Then we will work on new content. There is lots that wants to be added. There are a few possible options. In any case, rest assured, the factory will grow!

Hello Everybody,

we are so happy how the launch of 0.7 went and that it got received well!

Our Discord is the most alive it has ever been[discord.gg] and we are getting significantly more feedback than in the beta phase. So if we haven't answered you yet, rest assured, we are reading & acting on everything 🙌

This is a hotfix to take care of urgent issues. There will be another update soon that improves gameplay, guiding and UI and will have a high impact on how the game flows start to finish. So keep a look out for that one!

- Fixed an issue where users got a black screen after working with blueprints --> If you still get the issue report it on our Discord (or make a new post in the Discussions)
- Fixed lots of small issues, e.g. hotkeys work better now (and are not perfect yet, we need to refactor how we handle keys to make it really clean)
- Performance -> We found more performance gains. Large factories should be more stable now. We tested factories up to 10k parcels (!) on a MacBook Pro M2+ and it was still _somewhat_ playable (~60 FPS with heavy frame drops and short term freezes, but still, the factory kept running). --> I'd say 1k should work for everyone, and 2-5k should work on most good machines and still be playable. --> Try to see how far you can get and post it on discord :)


- Drone Blueprints are still functionally buggy in this version. Just FYI, this will be fully fixed soon
- If your drone tasks / min are too fast, that can impact the performance. So if you are wondering why the game is lagging after pasting --> maybe reduce the speed a bit
- If you have issues with a hotkey, opening a parcel and then pressing "ESC" often solves the issue. Alternativley, tab in and out of the window can help as well.
- If you generally have issues, a restart often solves them. (But make sure to still report them, we want to fix all of them)


P.S.
Here are just a few factories that players have built so far:

User: conkerer

User: B4D2J0

User: Shuzo_

User: mikipiton

We are beyond excited to launch the yet biggest update Incremental Factory has ever received.

Update 0.7 has been in the works for more than 4 months now and is the result of listening & working together with an outstanding community! (Join the Discord if you haven't yet![discord.gg])

We did big changes and took some risks. This is a almost a new game.

Don't worry. The old version will continue to be available under Steam > Game Settings > Beta > "0.5.7". But we highly recommend to try the new one ;)

Let's give you a bit of an overview of what changed.

Spoilers ahead!


Way better visual representation of what is happening (& huge potential to improve that going forward):

• Color Coded Edges & Rate Indicators
  
• Simplified view when zooming out
  
• Different Shapes for different Parcel Types

• Just drag & drop edges
  
• Quick Create Parcels
  
• Alt-Drag to Copy Parcels with connections!
  
• Intent Recognition & Smart Sorting
  
• Better rates & tooltips

Alt-Drag for Smart Copy:

• Previous versions had issues with 70-100 Parcels
  
• In our playlets we could get to over 2.000 parcels with decent performance (120 FPS with some frame drops on a MacBook Pro M2)
  
• 1k+ parcels should work on most machines smoothly. Curious to see where the limits are for you
  
• This is still far from optimised. The Factory Must Grow! :)

• Production, 32 Building Slots, 3-8 Connections, Inputs & Outputs
  
• Excavation, 16 Building Slots, 1-3 Connections, Output Only, Bonus to Extraction
  
• Warehouse, 0 Building Slots, Global Storage, Input Only
  
• Node, 0 Building Slots, 20 Connections, Input & Output, Unlimited Throughput when connected to Nodes or Extraction, Upgradable Output Throughput Limit

• Removed the Hardcap and replaced it with an increasing costs
  
• This is great because the limit to how big your factory can get is how well your factory is producing certain resources :)

• An entirely new system, built from scratch.
  
• Dig Deeper to Unlock New Base Resources (e.g. Copper on Level 1)
  
• Face Enemy Waves as you dig deeper
  
• Spend your resources to build up your defence

• Yield is a multiplier for your extraction resources (stone, coal, iron, copper, etc.)
  
• Yield increases as you dig deeper
  
• Yield decreases as you extract more resources
  
• Beating Excavation Levels Increases Min Yield
  
• While still being unlimited, resources are now also semi-scarce & one has to work with fluctuating inputs

• Previous system was flat, every building increase energy consumption regardless if it was active or not and coal power plants consumed & produced full energy regardless if it was needed or not
  
• As coal is now semi-scarce, it was clear we needed to rework energy:
  
• Demand: only active buildings consume energy
  
• Supply: Power Planst only use as much coal as needed.
  
• Solar now serves a distinct purpose: energy that does not draw down your coal

We reworked & streamlined the recipes

• We wanted to focus on designing a game that can be enjoyable finished without having to rebuild your factory over and over again so we made the decision to remove the entire prestige system and skill tree (for now!)
  
• This was not an easy decision but we think in the long run it will make the game so much better. And we might bring it back with the lessons learned from v0.4 - v0.6.
  
• That does not mean that meta-progression is gone entirely. There is a new Meta Progression system that will unlock once you beat the main game. This is a starting point for further explorations, so let us know what you think!

It is amazing to develop a game together with such a fantastic community. Without you guys this would not be possible! 🙌

We now fully integrated our Discord into our development processes. Tickets that get created on Discord land in our development ticketing system & users get automatically notified when changes get implemented. In the past weeks we have solved many issues from reporting to playable many times within 24h and usually within a few days. We want to keep & improve on this level of developer-community relationship.

So come join the official Discord[discord.gg]. Building a Factory is Fun. But Building a Game about Building a Factory together with Friends is even better :)

Engineers!

We’ve been holding onto something big, and today, we’re beyond thrilled to finally pull back the curtain on what we've been tirelessly working on over the last four months.

This journey was ignited by seeing how much fun people had with our minimalist factory-building game*. Even in its early, rough-around-the-edges stage, we saw the potential for something truly extraordinary.*
Your enthusiasm lit a fire, and we knew we had to go all in to build this game into something that could stand the test of time.

And so, we rolled up our sleeves and got to work. The past 4 months have been a whirlwind of development and playtesting, pushing the game to its limits and beyond. There were times when I was so deep in the game, testing every nook and cranny, that I thought I’d never want to see another factory floor again. But last week, something incredible happened during the final round of playtesting—I got hooked. I found myself lost in the game, time slipping away as I built, refined, and expanded. Proper automation game addict behaviour.

This isn’t just an update. It’s the culmination of countless hours, sleepless nights, and a burning passion to create something truly special.

Stay tuned, because this is only the beginning!

⚠️ Some Spoilers Ahead ⚠️

If you want to jump straight in: go to the settings for Incremental Factory and change the Beta Branche to "test - test".

• Color Coded Edges & Rate Indicators
  
• Simplified view when zooming out
  
• Different Shapes for different Parcel Types

• Drag & Drop edges
  
• Quick Create Parcels
  
• Intent Recognition & Smart Sorting
  
• Better rate display & tooltips

Quick Parcel Creation in Action


Subsection of 2k Parcel Factory Running at ~120 FPS on a MacBook Pro M2

• Previous versions had issues with 70-100 Parcels
  
• In our playlets we could get to over 2.000 parcels with decent performance (120 FPS with some frame drops on a MacBook Pro M2)
  
• 1k+ parcels should work on most machines smoothly. Curious to see where the limits are for you
  
• This is still far from optimised. The Factory Must Grow! :)

• Production, 32 Building Slots, 3-8 Connections, Inputs & Outputs
  
• Excavation, 16 Building Slots, 1-3 Connections, Output Only, Bonus to Extraction
  
• Warehouse, 0 Building Slots, Global Storage, Input Only
  
• Node, 0 Building Slots, 20 Connections, Input & Output, Unlimited Throughput when connected to Nodes or Extraction, Upgradable Output Throughput Limit

Extraction, Node, Production & Warehouse (Left to Right)

• Removed the Hardcap and replaced it with an increasing costs
  
• This is great because the limit to how big your factory can get is how well your factory is producing certain resources :)

• An entirely new system, built from scratch.
  
• Dig Deeper to Unlock New Base Resources (e.g. Copper on Level 1)
  
• Face Enemy Waves as you dig deeper
  
• Spend your resources to build up your defence

Pew Pew Pew

• Yield is a multiplier for your extraction resources (stone, coal, iron, copper, etc.)
  
• Yield increases as you dig deeper
  
• Yield decreases as you extract more resources
  
• Yield will never go below 50% (at least in the default difficulty)
  
• While still being unlimited, resources are now also semi-scarce & one has to work with fluctuating inputs

• Previous system was flat, every building increase energy consumption regardless if it was active or not and coal power plants consumed & produced full energy regardless if it was needed or not
  
• As coal is now semi-scarce, it was clear we needed to rework energy:
  
• Demand: only active buildings consume energy
  
• Supply: Power Planst only use as much coal as needed.
  
• Solar now serves a distinct purpose: energy that does not draw down your coal

Streamlined Recipes

• We reworked & streamlined the recipes

No more Prestige Resets

• We wanted to focus on designing a game that can be enjoyable finished without having to rebuild your factory over and over again so we made the decision to remove the entire prestige system and skill tree (for now)
  
• This was not an easy decision but we think in the long run it will make the game so much better. And we might bring it back with the lessons learned from v0.4 - v0.6.
  
• That does not mean that meta-progression is gone entirely. More on that soon :)

And a whole bunch of other stuff, waiting to be discovered by you 🤗

The beta is available to everyone who has the Steam Version of Incremental Factory. All you have to do is, in your steam library, go to the settings for Incremental Factory and change the Beta Branche to:
"test - test"

Ideally on our Discord: https://discord.gg/BGEeTKYyTh, we have a dedicated feedback channel (& awesome community!)

If you don't have Discord but still want to send feedback, you can post here on Steam.

This game has been built for you, and will always be guided by your input. Every feedback matters & is appreciated, no matter how small or big!

Thank you for reading & always remember, the Factory Must Grow :)

Quick Update:
- Fixed a translation bug
- Added Spanish, French & (Brazilian) Portuguese