Friday Facts #371 - Apple Silicon | Factorio.
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 traveled from the USA to the Wube offices in Prague for the first time. While waiting in the airport, I
decided to work on Factorio with my Intel Macbook Pro…
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