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FactorioHow to Update Factorio to the Latest Version (Guide)(9 posts)(9 posts)
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Posted April 07, 2018
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I've seen a few threads asking how to get the latest experimental version of Factorio, and it's not explained clearly anywhere. So here is a quick guide on how to get the latest updates for Factorio.

1. Go to 'My Account>Games>Factorio>More' & select 'Serial Keys'.
2. Copy your serial Key.
3. Go to Factorio.com & make an account (or login if you have one already). Click on your username in the top right. Then click on 'Upgrade' & enter your serial key.
4.Launch Factorio and go to 'Options>Other' ensure that both 'Check for updates' & 'Enable experimental updates are checked.
5.Login using the same username & password you used of Factorio.com.
6.Next time you run the game, it'll ask you if you want to update (if there are new updates avaliable), click 'Update Now'. It might take a while, but afterwards, Factorio will have updated itself.

If you're using Galaxy, see gourgouilloult's post below for step 7.
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Post edited April 18, 2018 by T.Hodd
Posted April 18, 2018
If I may add a 7: once the latest version you've upgraded to through the game itself hits GOG, just run a "check / repair" from the game page in Galaxy. Otherwise Galaxy will try to upgrade your game, realize it's not installed as it's supposed to (since you upgraded earlier from within the game), then complain and fail to "upgrade" and, quite possibly, not even allow you to launch it.

The "check/repair" step will just allow Galaxy to verify that your files are already in line with the new version and it'll settle to leave everything as is, just checking another box under "currently installed version" ;-)

Alternatively, you can also prevent Galaxy from trying to upgrade the game at all, but you might not get some new stuff along the road, like e.g. achievements, if they are some day added to the game in Galaxy.

PS: this should get a sticky ^^
Post edited April 18, 2018 by gourgouilloult
Posted April 18, 2018
Same here, can't access the disk for update, I manually check & repair and wokred to upgrade the game in client (GOG) for version 0.16.36.
Post edited April 18, 2018 by adryanusboy
Posted April 25, 2018
Thank you. This post was very helpful.
Posted May 01, 2019
Is this guide still needed? At least in galaxy, I can just activate beta channels and it will give me... I'm new to this game so I don't know what to expect inside, but the version numbers and uploaded date look quite recent (see attachment).
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Post edited May 01, 2019 by huan
Posted May 06, 2019
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huan: Is this guide still needed? At least in galaxy, I can just activate beta channels and it will give me... I'm new to this game so I don't know what to expect inside, but the version numbers and uploaded date look quite recent (see attachment).
It's not needed for updates, but a factorio.com account is required for multiplayer (steps 1,2,3,5)
Post edited May 06, 2019 by dominikr86
Posted July 05, 2020
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gourgouilloult: If I may add a 7: once the latest version you've upgraded to through the game itself hits GOG, just run a "check / repair" from the game page in Galaxy. Otherwise Galaxy will try to upgrade your game, realize it's not installed as it's supposed to (since you upgraded earlier from within the game), then complain and fail to "upgrade" and, quite possibly, not even allow you to launch it.

The "check/repair" step will just allow Galaxy to verify that your files are already in line with the new version and it'll settle to leave everything as is, just checking another box under "currently installed version" ;-)

Alternatively, you can also prevent Galaxy from trying to upgrade the game at all, but you might not get some new stuff along the road, like e.g. achievements, if they are some day added to the game in Galaxy.

PS: this should get a sticky ^^
Hmm right now that does not work for me. GOG Galaxy always resets the version to the version of the store. I guess I disable auto update in gog then.
Posted August 17, 2020
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conscienc3: Hmm right now that does not work for me. GOG Galaxy always resets the version to the version of the store. I guess I disable auto update in gog then.
I'm not absolutely sure I understand what your situation was. If I were to take a guess, I'd venture that maybe you had auto-update in the game, but not "experimental updates" in Galaxy? Anyhoo, since 1.0 has been released, there's gonna be a bit of time before the next experimental release (maybe!)

Also, I'd like to clarify: the steps above applied to the first version of GOG Galaxy. Some slight variations might occur in Galaxy 2. I haven't had particular issues, however I wasn't discovering the "factorio account on wube's website" stuff — which I have forgotten _all_ about since ^^'

Nevertheless, I confirm that I had a gog-0.17 installed, auto-updated (ie in-game) to 0.18, and Galaxy 2 tried to upgrade to 1.0 but that failed after donwloading ~1GB. I caught it (during third pass :facepalm: ) launched a check/repair instead et voila : all set with a ~250MB download.

Now if you'll excuse me… that base won't expand itself! X-)
Posted November 02, 2022
Is there going to be an update channel to keep current with the switch console version, like there is on steam?
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