Factorio that you can touch
by ibobev on 9/25/2026, 2:24:42 PM
https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-447
Comments
by: NelsonMinar
Wube is such a unique game studio. They do a lot of very solid technical work and look like they have fun doing it. I particularly appreciated their recent post about porting Factorio to ARM64. They had a business reason to do it but it's clear the team was mostly just curious about whether ARM64 was a viable gaming platform now. And then shared the results with us. They seem like fun hacker guys.<p><a href="https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-446" rel="nofollow">https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-446</a>
9/25/2026, 4:04:49 PM
by: mitxela
Remember that Factorio does not release its 3D models. Everything in the game is a 2D render of a 3D model, which is why the game uses so much VRAM.
9/25/2026, 4:01:28 PM
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9/25/2026, 4:41:56 PM
by: Cieric
I'm (hopefully) getting a G1X soon, so I think I'm going to put it to work printing this stuff out. I'm now excited for this as a use case and I kind of hope someone builds something to convert an existing factorio world into a 3d model, though it might be to big to actually print so maybe a way to take a section would be even better.
9/25/2026, 3:29:22 PM
by: thendrill
I love this <3 Wube should be the example the game industry follows
9/25/2026, 4:10:01 PM
by: breckenedge
The factory must grow.
9/25/2026, 4:16:28 PM
by: ill-ion
This project looks simple until you realize how much engineering went into it.<p>The original assets were never meant to be physical, so they had to completely re-engineer isometric tricks and floating geometry for 3D printing. Releasing the files instead of an expensive collector's edition is a classic Factorio move, and I personally love it. Now the community can remix these and build some awesome stuff that the original devs could never imagine. Awesome stuff!
9/25/2026, 3:45:29 PM
by: lastscattering
Fun thing about taking Factorio physical is that the game already has a real scale. A tile is a metre, that's what the km/h readouts for vehicles are based on. So a yellow belt moves at basically walking pace, and the engineer runs everywhere at about 30 km/h all day without getting tired. The mining drill that eats a whole ore patch is a 3x3m box.
9/25/2026, 4:16:56 PM