[h1][b]Graphics[/b][/h1] [list] [*]Added shell particle effect for the artillery shooting. [*]Added tinted scorch marks for explosion effects. Explosions on different tile types will result in scorch marks of different colors. [/list] [h1][b]Changes[/b][/h1] [list] [*]Pressing escape/close GUI when a search field is focused only closes the search field instead of the entire GUI. [*]Updated GUI styles for PvP configuration GUI. [*]Unit groups will determine their collision mask based on the collision masks of their members. [url=https://forums.factorio.com/84204]more[/url] [/list] [h1][b]Bugfixes[/b][/h1] [list] [*]Fixed landfill spawning under player when building landfill elsewhere. [url=https://forums.factorio.com/84170]more[/url] [*]Fixed a crash when a train recalculating path during movement is unable to reserve rail signal within movement distance. [url=https://forums.factorio.com/84216]more[/url] [*]Fixed production statistics corruption when recipe returns some but not all catalyst. [url=https://forums.factorio.com/83881]more[/url] [*]Fixed a pathfinding crash related to changing tiles in a way that affected neighbouring tiles' transitions. [url=https://forums.factorio.com/84181]more[/url] [*]Fixed that malformed data in data.raw wouldn't show the minimal-mode failure GUI. [url=https://forums.factorio.com/84412]more[/url] [/list] [h1][b]Modding[/b][/h1] [list] [*]Fixed that writing to mod settings would silently ignore bad values. [*]Added "allowed_effects" support to the lab. [*]Added "creation_distance_orientation", "use_source_position", "height" and "vertical_speed" to particle creation parameters (related to shooting effect shell particles). [*]Added "scorch_mark_color" to TilePrototype. [*]Added util.remove_tile_references for easier compatibility maintenance with future game updates when removing base game tiles. [*]Removed migration for CustomInputPrototype consuming types that were removed in 0.15.24. [/list] You can get experimental releases by selecting the '0.18.x' beta branch under Factorio's properties in Steam.