Grab a coffee — here’s your roundup of what’s moving through the factory this week. 📦 Patch Notes & News Factorio 2.1 is in experimental — and it’s the last big one. Wube pushed 2.1 to the experimental branch with a graphics and audio overhaul, quality-of-life
Shapez 2 has one of the gentlest on-ramps in the genre. No enemies, no power grid to babysit, no pollution creeping toward your base — just belts, shapes, and the quiet dopamine of a factory that finally lines up. But that friendliness hides how much depth is sitting one layer
Welcome back to the Conveyor Belt — your roundup of everything spinning in the factory, automation, and idle world this week. Grab your coffee; this is a two-minute read. 📦 Patch Notes & News Sandustry hits Early Access August 13. Hooded Horse and Lantto Games locked in a date for their
Fluid Trucks finally let you skip the pipe spaghetti. Here's when to truck, when to pipe, and the head-lift rules that keep tripping people up.
The final Factorio update just hit experimental — and it quietly kills the legendary asteroid farm. Here's how to rebuild your late-game around it.
Happy Friday, factory friends. Here’s your roundup of what’s worth your attention this week. 📦 Patch Notes & News Shapez 2 just shipped its 1.1 update, aimed squarely at anyone who found Manufacture Mode too cozy. The new Manufacture Hard Mode ratchets up the shape-conversion demands so
Factorio with a countdown clock - and after three years, the campaign finally teaches you instead of throwing you off a cliff.
Welcome back to the Conveyor Belt — your roundup of everything factory, automation, and idle, served quick enough to read before your coffee goes cold. 📦 Patch Notes & News Factorio 2.1 enters experimental — and it’s the last big one. Wube has slated 2.1 for an experimental release toward
TEXTORIO turns the whole genre into living ASCII — and it's out today for under four bucks.
Five years in, your ILS network is the only thing still bottlenecking your sphere. Here's how to scale to white science without crashing your power grid.
Update 1.2 lands on PC, PS5 and Xbox the same day, plus Factorio's farewell update arrives end of June.
Wube just announced that update 2.1 will be Factorio's final content patch. Eight months in development, dropping in experimental at the end of June, stable by summer's end — and then the studio moves on to new projects. If you're like most of us,
Tideward Dev Log
Plus a Dyson Sphere Program anniversary patch, a Factorio module-swap trick most players never learn, and this week's confessional poll.
The Deep Dive
What to build first in Shapez 2 1.0's new progression mode — and the copy-paste mistake that wrecks beginner factories.
Patch Notes Roundup
A new procedurally-generated factory game lands later this month, plus today's Satisfactory hotfix and a Factorio filter trick most players miss.
The Deep Dive
Update 4.1's auto-dispatch turns rail logistics from a manual scheduling chore into a job board that mostly runs itself. Here's how to build your first network — and the five rookie mistakes that'll cost you hours.
The Deep Dive
Tanker Trucks and Fluid Truck Stations finally fix the pipe physics Satisfactory's been fighting since launch. Here's how the system works, what it breaks, and when it hits stable.
Patch Notes Roundup
Shapez 2 hits 1.0 next week + a belt-routing tip that'll save you an embarrassing rebuild
The Deep Dive
Plus: Foundry Update 4, Captain of Industry trains, Melvor Idle 2 incoming, and a sad farewell to Techtonica.
Your weekly dispatch from the world of factory games, idle games, and everything in between.