Factory Town

Released: Nov 17, 2021
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Last updated: 13 Sep 2026, 00:23 GMT

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13 Jul 2026Developer post
Steepest Discount ever on Factory Town - and Factory Town 2 launch!
Because of a very exciting event this week, I have given Factory Town its biggest discount ever - it is currently 75% off. Factory Town Idle is also 75% off. You can get both of them together with an ADDITIONAL 15% discount in the Factory Town Bundle (link below). The reason for
15 Jun 2026Developer post
Factory Town 2 demo available in Steam Next Fest!
Hello! Factory Town 2 is launching in just under a month (July 14) and I have made a free demo available for Steam Next Fest which is happening RIGHT NOW! So give it a try - and don't forget to wishlist if you'd like a notification when it's released! View game page
14 May 2026Developer post
Factory Town 2 Launch Date Announcement
Hello! I've been hard at work on Factory Town 2: Paradise. It is finally time to move it into Early Access and will be launching this July 14! It will also have a demo in the upcoming Steam Next Fest. So make sure you wishlist it if you want to be notified when it's available! If
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Hello! I've been hard at work on Factory Town 2: Paradise. It is finally time to move it into Early Access and will be launching this July 14! It will also have a demo in the upcoming Steam Next Fest.
So make sure you wishlist it if you want to be notified when it's available!
If this is the first you're hearing about it, here are some key highlights about what is new & improved in the sequel:
An avatar you can control, which means you can manually harvest items, deposit ingredients into production buildings, or move outputs around. You can even hop in a little boat and go for a ride in the ocean!
Villagers are more autonomous. They perform jobs, have homes they use for sleeping, and visit markets to buy items they need. They do not become obsolete like in FT1 - your end game town will be full of townspeople going about their day.
Villagers can equip items they purchase, which provides stat boosts. They'll also gain levels and get better at their jobs.
There is a Day/Night cycle & dynamic weather, which affects wind & solar power generation as well as rain collection.
Instead of awkward chunks, you can now summon entire new islands from the surrounding ocean
Ships are useful for moving items among harbors
Zip lines help villagers move around, and catapults can fling items a long distance
Volumetric rivers you can redirect, to get fresh water where you need it
Actual animals in the pastures, which require food and water
A real end-game goal, and a story to go along with it
Master items by producing them or feeding them to the volcano, which makes the items more valuable
Pipes can be built underground in full 3D space
Automatic transfer of items between buildings
Trains can be programmed with destinations, instead of just following track directions
Check out the store page if you want to see the trailer or read more info!
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04 Oct 2025Developer post
Patch Notes 2.2.10
Updated Unity version to address issue CVE-2025-59489
25 Mar 2025Developer post
2.2.8 Patch Notes + Factory Town 2 Announcement!
- Updated home page to include button that opens Steam Overlay for Factory Town 2 and Factory Town Idle - Added button to minimize these additional game buttons on the home page I wanted a way in-game to let players know that I'm working on a sequel. (You can permanently minimize
21 Mar 2025Developer post
Announcing Factory Town 2: Paradise!
Hello again! I've been secretly working hard on a true sequel to Factory Town. It takes place on a series of tropical islands, where you're building up a town at the foot of a giant (but friendly) volcano. There's more items, buildings, transportation gadgets, a day/night cycle,
21 Nov 2024Developer post
2.2.7 Patch Notes
- Fixed bug: Selecting an item from the build menu with the Enter key would sometimes also construct the building wherever the cursor was - Fixed bug: game becomes unresponsive if you built an overground pipe connector on the same tile as a road, had no pipes coming out of the co
20 Nov 2024Developer post
2.2.6 Patch Notes
- Fixed bug: Menus would sometimes not appear for players - Fixed bug: Timer logic blocks would not properly save and restore the ‘repeat’ parameter - Added extra protection against unwanted screen scrolling that might be occurring from other plugged-in input devices
16 Sep 2024Developer post
2.2.5 Patch Notes
Fixed bug: Clicking to create blocks would sometimes create two with a single cursor click Can use the Rotate key (Default: R) to change the orientation when drawing an L-shaped path Fixed bug: Some text input fields (e.g. custom rule set parameters) would not update the stored v
Fixed bug: Clicking to create blocks would sometimes create two with a single cursor click
Can use the Rotate key (Default: R) to change the orientation when drawing an L-shaped path
Fixed bug: Some text input fields (e.g. custom rule set parameters) would not update the stored value immediately upon exiting the text field, causing changes to be lost/ignored in some cases
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26 Jul 2024Developer post
2.2.4 Patch Notes
Fixed bug where primary action button would stop responding when using a hybrid-input setup like Steam Deck Allowed smoother transition between gamepad and mouse input devices Added fix that should stop Airships from disappearing on certain systems with non-English locale setting
Fixed bug where primary action button would stop responding when using a hybrid-input setup like Steam Deck
Allowed smoother transition between gamepad and mouse input devices
Added fix that should stop Airships from disappearing on certain systems with non-English locale settings
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23 Jul 2024Developer post
2.2.3 Patch Notes
Misc Improvements Selection panel for all rail cars now combines Rail Control, Signal Tags, and Inventory on a single menu tab when selected, to avoid excess clicking Steam Locomotives now have the ‘Add Boxcar’ (and similar buttons) moved from Rail Control onto a dedicated menu t
Misc Improvements

Selection panel for all rail cars now combines Rail Control, Signal Tags, and Inventory on a single menu tab when selected, to avoid excess clicking
Steam Locomotives now have the ‘Add Boxcar’ (and similar buttons) moved from Rail Control onto a dedicated menu tab
Reorganized selection panel: ‘Name’ property moved from 'Status' tab to ‘Misc’ tab. This allows the Status tab to be hidden in most cases. For Sign Posts and Message Boards, this text property is called ‘Label’ and appears on the main configuration tab.
Bug Fixes

Top-left menus were overlapping for some players
Underground resources that were underneath a water tile would have a yield of zero and never regenerate
‘Grow Grass’ and ‘Cut Grass’ commands did not display the 'Increase' and 'Decrease' cursor tool size buttons
Placement direction arrow would not appear when moving or copy/pasting worker units or rail cars
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18 Jul 2024Developer post
2.2.2 Patch Notes
Fixed bug: files saved in version 2.2 with certain non-English system locale settings would become unable to be loaded. This fixes both the save issue, and can also load any files broken by the bug. (thanks to NemoStein for reporting and also helping fix the bug!)
17 Jul 2024Developer post
2.2.1 Patch Notes
- Fixed bug: Certain 'utility' recipes would not progress (OmniTemple construction, OmniTemple offerings, Farm supply water / fertilizer, and Mine supply pickaxe) - OmniTemple default selection tab is now ‘Construction’, until construction has been completed - then it is the ‘Off
17 Jul 2024Developer post
2.2 Patch Notes
Hello again! I've been working on a big set of improvements for Factory Town in preparation for some cool future project . It's taken several months but the patch has now been released! Performance Improvements The rendering system has gotten a major rewrite, allowing for massive
Hello again! I've been working on a big set of improvements for Factory Town in preparation for some cool future project. It's taken several months but the patch has now been released!
Performance Improvements
The rendering system has gotten a major rewrite, allowing for massive framerate speed-ups. This especially affects end-game towns where players had hundreds or thousands of buildings, vehicles, rails, and conveyor belts.
This also greatly improves performance for the green 'preview' blocks that appear when players are copying and pasting large groups of objects, or dragging the cursor to plan out long pathways.
Improvements to Airships
Instead of navigating the sky as if it were a grid, airships can float directly to their target. They won’t collide with objects in between. They will do their best to visually fly above terrain, structures, and buildings, but ultimately are not blocked by world objects. This has a number of benefits:

Airships are easier to use and more efficient as a transport option
Loading times are improved, as air-based navigation does not need to be calculated
Airships that have their route blocked will no longer cause large framerate hiccups as they search the entire map for a valid path
Airships will no longer interfere with other vehicles like trains
Misc Improvements

Copy/Paste/Move now works on trains as well as groups of worker units. This process will copy item filters, signal tags, and assigned worker tasks. (Note: you can double-click to select an entire train)
When the Tutorial window is minimized, player can re-maximize it by clicking on the tutorial progress bar shown in the upper left hand corner
Numbers in the billions can be displayed without truncating
Added new video preference: Particle Effects (enables or disables particle effects on trains, train cars, air shrines, and logic block transmission)
Better highlighting of potentially linked Mechanical Rail Tiles when placing Steam Engine
Item Generator’s default menu tab is the Inventory panel where you can set the item filter
Added new language: Brazilian Portuguese
When assigning worker commands, hovered buildings will no longer show their town network highlights (this was causing a distracting flicker effect when choosing items to pick up or drop off)
Copy/Paste of buildings will now display preview placements in a blue tint to reflect when they can connect to water (similar to current behavior when placing single buildings)
Can activate controller mode by pressing a controller start/menu button
Changed grass texture
Can navigate into and out of the Campaign Select button grid using D-pad navigation
Balance Changes

Modified a few rules on Campaign 1 map (including on files in progress): Infinite Consumption rule is no longer active. This was causing a confusing situation where water would never ‘overflow’ a target house and therefore was much more difficult to distribute to other houses (since things like Splitters aren’t available in this stage). Instead, Goods Consumption has been increased to 150% (as a way to make sure players can still earn coins rapidly). On this campaign map, grain consumption speed has also been increased, and water consumption speed has been decreased.
Increased max block radius of Air Shine’s “Boost Worker” effect from 4 to 7
Item Generator can now produce Steam Power, Mana Power, Fire Power, Water Power, Earth Power, and Air Power
Bug Fixes

Copy/Paste of workers and rail units was not transferring properties like Item Filters
Menu for issuing worker commands would not be formatted correctly when targeting a building that has no items to pick up
Changing a building’s recipes after building an elemental crystal booster would fail to create a proper output slot for depleted crystals in the building and would break the booster functionality. (Buildings that were saved in a broken state will be fixed on map load)
When selecting a worker dropoff location, if the player targeted a non-chute block structure, the game attempted to navigate on top of the structure instead of showing that it is an invalid target
Negative numbers did not apply the correct abbreviated format
Logic Lamp lighting was applied even if ‘Object Lights’ preference was off, potentially causing performance issues
Creating grabbers on buildings that only stored packed items would not create the correct automatic filter settings, and would appear with a question mark icon. (Legacy filters with incorrect settings will be automatically fixed on file load)
Unlock notification for certain path structure types would appear immediately after creating any building in some campaign maps
Smoke particles would play from Steam Locomotive even when powered by entirely by Magic Rails
Fixed text display errors for some languages in text input fields
Selecting a house happiness category from the house detail panel would not update the displayed category in the house status panel
Removed useless button on Worker selection panel
Filter configuration for Mana Transmitter allowed application of regular items (crops, tools, etc) instead of restricting to charged Mana Crystals
Was possible to place multiple Fish on a tile using Farming/Mining tools, resulting in duplicate fish resources that were not removable until save & reload
Copy / Paste of building groups did not constrain assigned workers to available workers, so it was possible to exceed available workers
Performing copy/paste on a single selected building would not paste certain properties like ‘assigned workers’ even though these properties were transferred when copying groups of buildings
Preview for placement of Farm Tiles would highlight in blue as if connected to water when in fact they were one tile too far away from a water source
Trains could appear in a jumbled order when moving them to a position where the tail end wrapped around a track corner
Crafting Time was appearing as an input for many instantaneous upgrades
XBox One controller did not have default mapping for ‘open game menu’ or ‘pause’. These mappings are applied when loading the new version
Barrier gates would update their state even when the game was paused, causing timing issues
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12 Jan 2024Developer post
Spinoff game Factory Town Idle is now out of Early Access! (30% launch discount)
Hello again! Wanted to let fans of Factory Town know that my newest game Factory Town Idle has completed its time in Early Access and is now ready as a full 1.0 release. It's kind of like if you took the management and logistics of Factory Town and packed it into a clicker/idle/i
20 Apr 2023Developer post
Factory Town Idle released, with Bundle discount for Factory Town owners
Just released my latest game, Factory Town Idle! It's a clicker/incremental style spinoff of Factory Town, so you get the same fun supply chain management in a more concentrated form. It's released as Early Access, meaning there's lots more changes & improvements planned. The
06 Apr 2023Developer post
Free demo released for Factory Town: Idle (spinoff of Factory Town)
Hello! I'm the developer of Factory Town, and for the past year I've been working on a spinoff incremental game called Factory Town: Idle. It has a lot of the same items & recipes of Factory Town, but everything is controlled through top-level menus where you can create new b
07 Mar 2023Developer post
2.1.7 Patch Notes
- Fixed bug: Omnitemples would enter a stuck, inoperable mode if they were created, constructed, and had 100 offerings provided in a single gameplay session
13 Jan 2023Developer post
2.1.6 Patch Notes
When selecting a building, the default display tabs will more closely align with its function (Production buildings use the Production Tab, Schools use the Research tab, etc) Fixed Research Cost Multiplier values other than 100% causing all infinite research cost to be zero
When selecting a building, the default display tabs will more closely align with its function (Production buildings use the Production Tab, Schools use the Research tab, etc)
Fixed Research Cost Multiplier values other than 100% causing all infinite research cost to be zero
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23 Dec 2022Developer post
2.1.5 Patch Notes
Increased size of selected building menu, so that the ‘add worker’ button is more likely to be visible Fixed gamepad prompt initially appearing on Tutorial menu (until the current step is completed), even in keyboard mode
Increased size of selected building menu, so that the ‘add worker’ button is more likely to be visible
Fixed gamepad prompt initially appearing on Tutorial menu (until the current step is completed), even in keyboard mode
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Updates & announcements

Misc Improvements

Bug Fixes

Performance Improvements

Improvements to Airships

Misc Improvements

Balance Changes

Bug Fixes