Hello, engineers! I'm a newer face at Wube and have been mainly working on expansion content for about one year now. Today, I'm here to share some exciting non-expansion news for our Mac players.
Factorio Runs on Apple Silicon
As of version 1.1.71, Factorio runs natively on Apple Silicon Macs! On these machines, the game should run faster and use less energy than in previous versions. You can see which binary version you are running in the top-left corner of the main menu.
x86_64 binary for Intel Macs
arm64 binary for Apple Silicon Macs 🥳
This has been a long time coming, but we were never in a good position to implement these improvements... until now.
Motivation
In February, I t...
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