# Factorio Version 2.0.43 released as stable

- Product: Factorio (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/factorio)
- Vendor: Wube Software
- Date: 2025-03-31
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/427520/view/536597739399546481
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/factorio/releases/2025-03-31-version-2.0.43-released-as-stable

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- **added** — Add support for volume and speed activity matching for persistent working sounds
- **changed** — The swap-players command can now handle basic remote view and players in space platform hubs
- **changed** — Items stop drawing health and spoilage bars when the player is zoomed too far out
- **changed** — Trees no longer take damage from spores nor absorb spores as a result of taking pollution damage
- **changed** — Gleba wetlands, lowlands, and water tiles now absorb 3 times as many spores as other tiles
- **changed** — Asteroid spawning is now consistent regardless of what other game things are happening
- **fixed** — Fix a desync related to demolishers
- **fixed** — Fix total raw item icons clipping out of the recipe tooltip
- **fixed** — Fix unlimited building reach when train GUI was open from character view
- **fixed** — Fix vehicles with portable roboports not being able to insert/remove equipment from themselves
- **fixed** — Fix a potential stutter when stopping a variable music track
- **fixed** — Fix variable music track intermezzo not being played correctly for subsequent tracks
- **fixed** — Fix the collision and selection boxes for many of the Gleba tree/fungi
- **fixed** — Fix a performance issue with lightning on explored planets
- **fixed** — Fix tile auto-filling logic that would sometimes ignore listed entities' buildability rules
- **fixed** — Fix picking rocket parts signal by pipette picking the item version of the signal instead of the recipe version
- **fixed** — Fix inserters getting stuck inserting items if the item spoiled into one of the crafting machines current recipe ingredients
- **fixed** — Fix ghost rotated fast replace of some fast replaceable entities that have rotation constraints after placement
- **fixed** — Fix cutting both tile ghosts and non-tile ghost entities removing the tile ghosts despite not including them in resulting blueprint
- **fixed** — Fix remote equipment removal not being cancellable

##### **Minor Features**

- Added support for volume and speed activity matching for persistent working sounds.

- The swap-players command can now handle basic remote view and players in space platform hubs.

##### **Graphics**

- Changed items to stop drawing health and spoilage bars when the player is zoomed too far out. (https://forums.factorio.com/125880)

##### **Balancing**

- Trees no longer take damage from spores nor absorb spores as a result of taking pollution damage.

- Gleba wetlands, lowlands, and water tiles now absorb 3 times as many spores as other tiles.

##### **Bugfixes**

- Fixed a desync related to demolishers. (https://forums.factorio.com/127560)

- Fixed total raw item icons clipping out of the recipe tooltip. (https://forums.factorio.com/120059)

- Fixed unlimited building reach when train GUI was open from character view. (https://forums.factorio.com/121493)

- Fixed vehicles with portable roboports not being able to insert/remove equipment from themselves. (https://forums.factorio.com/127228)

- Fixed a potential stutter when stopping a variable music track. (https://forums.factorio.com/127454)

- Fixed variable music track intermezzo not being played correctly for subsequent tracks.

- Fixed the collision and selection boxes for many of the Gleba tree/fungi.

- Fixed a performance issue with lightning on explored planets. (https://forums.factorio.com/127611)

- Fixed tile auto-filling logic would sometimes ignore listed entities' (e.g. Asteroid collector's) buildability rules. (https://forums.factorio.com/127249)

- Fixed that picking rocket parts signal by pipette picked the item version of the signal, which wasn't compatible with the recipe version of the signal.

- Fixed that inserters could get stuck inserting items if the item spoiled into one of the crafting machines current recipe ingredients. (https://forums.factorio.com/127583)

- Fixed ghost (non-superforced) rotated fast replace of some fast replaceable entities that have rotation constrains after placement. (https://forums.factorio.com/100956)

- Fixed cutting both tile ghosts and non-(tile ghost) entities would remove the tile ghosts, despite not include them in resulting BP. (https://forums.factorio.com/127588)

- Fixed that remote equipment removal couldn't be cancelled. (https://forums.factorio.com/123069)

- Fixed that Ctrl+Click on empty equipment grid slot in remote view behaved unexpectedly. (https://forums.factorio.com/127251)

- Fixed production score script error when encountering recipe products of type "research-progress". (https://forums.factorio.com/125973)

- Fixed that trees on Gleba were taking damage from and absorbing spores. (https://forums.factorio.com/123472)

- Fixed that some tile types on Gleba were not absorbing spores.

- Fixed that the train control hint window was showing in remote view of other surfaces. (https://forums.factorio.com/118902)

- Fixed that undoing a fast replace would not restore wires. (https://forums.factorio.com/117356)

- Fixed a crash with rocket flying sound after a failed audio device switch.

- Fixed that it was possible to rotate blueprint with thrusters. (https://forums.factorio.com/125242)

- Fixed custom minimap widget would not restore zoom after save-load, would ignore zoom given during creation and would change zoom incorrectly when writing to zoom. (https://forums.factorio.com/127590)

- Fixed that canceling cliff deconstruction could break cliff deconstruction. (https://forums.factorio.com/127640)

- Fixed that manually placing a real entity on a ghost didn't set item requests properly. (https://forums.factorio.com/127575)

- Fixed a crash when drawing combinator with activity_led_sprites missing. (https://forums.factorio.com/127661)

- Fixed rocket target GUI was showing platforms unsorted. (https://forums.factorio.com/127668)

- Fixed platforms list not updating after platform was renamed. (https://forums.factorio.com/127666)

- Fixed crash related to boilers when configur

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