Multi-Agent Coordination in Factorio: FLE v0.2.0

by noddybearon 5/8/2025, 3:09 PMwith 5 comments

by noddybearon 5/8/2025, 3:09 PM

Hey everyone,

It's Mart, Neel and Jack from the Factorio Learning Environment team.

Since our initial release, we have been working hard to expand the environment to support multi-agent scenarios, reasoning models and MCP for human-in-the-loop evals.

We have also spent time experimenting with different ways to elicit more performance out of agents in the game, namely tools for vision and reflection.

Today, we are proud to release v0.2.0, which includes several exciting new features and improvements.

Thanks for checking this out.

by goaon 5/8/2025, 3:27 PM

I have a few qualms with this app:

1. For a competent ML researcher, this is trivial to build using VQA + MCTS + standard message passing.

2. MARL techniques with attention-based communication solved this years ago

3. It does not seem very "viral" or income-generating. I know this is premature at this point, but without charging users for the service, is it reasonable to expect to make money off of this?

by georgeh4ckson 5/8/2025, 5:09 PM

Very cool! Big Factorio fan so excited to check this out!