Hello,
You may have noticed we launched Space Age earlier this week :)

Space Age reception

The reaction to the Space Age launch has rocketed past our wildest expectations. We had almost 100,000 concurrent players, and as of writing this post, we have passed 400,000 copies sold!

Needless to say, from all of us here, thank you. Factorio would not be possible without the support of our fans and players. We are working hard to address all the feedback and issues you've reported to us on the forums, Reddit, and Discord.

Galaxy of Fame

This week, kovarex, Lucas and Vinzenz finished off our last little surprise for Space Age, the Galaxy of Fame.

When players finish Space Age and reach interstellar space, they will be invited to upload a snapshot of their game to the Galaxy of Fame.

Once uploaded you can find your star in the Galaxy of Fame, where you can see details such as:

• General map info - Title, comment, time played, etc.
• Chart view of planets and platforms.
• Item, Energy and Kill statistics.

You can browse around and see other peoples factories and see how they work. You might notice that some of the maps look a bit suspicious, well at this time we aren't blocking saves that use cheats/commands/editor, as we don't want to be overly restrictive, but we will add some filtering options soon.

There is only a single Galaxy of Fame entry per player account, uploading a new one will overwrite the previous one, and the option will be in the in-game menu after completing Space Age. Since the feature is quite new there are some other details worth sharing:

• The location, size, color and shape of each star is random and assigned at the first upload.
• Zooming issues on mobile are known and will be fixed soon.
• Error 100 when uploading is known, in most cases the upload actually succeeded.
• We support uploading modded saves.
• Galaxy of Fame will receive more updates in the future.

As you can see, there aren't that many stars lighting up the Galaxy of Fame at the moment, but as more people play and finish, we hope to see it fill out to a full bright sparkling Galaxy.

Factorio 2.0 and Nintendo SwitchTwinsen

Since the Space Age launch on Monday, we've had a few questions about our plans regarding support for the Nintendo Switch Platform.

Factorio Space Age is not coming to Nintendo Switch.

Space Age factories are much bigger compared to vanilla, as they span 5 planets. There's simply not enough RAM to fit them and not enough CPU power to run all of it at 60 UPS. Not to mention all the new sprites that were added that will not fit in VRAM.

Factorio 2.0 is coming to Nintendo Switch.

I am currently working on bringing the 2.0 free update to Switch and making sure it's optimized well enough. Since the release process on consoles takes a long time, I prefer to not to give you a conservative release date, and instead just release it as soon as possible, when it's ready. My estimate is that the update will come to Nintendo Switch in 1-2 months.

Meanwhile I recommend you finish your current playthrough if you are almost finishing your save game, as the 2.0 update comes with some updates to rails, fluids, recipes and technologies that might break parts of your base and on Switch you will not be able to downgrade once you update.

As always, let us know what you think at the usual places.