🖥️ Real HD UI and Icons

Real HD UI and Icons combines four focused base-game texture packs into one convenient high-definition visual upgrade for Factorio.

The pack replaces a total of 780 graphics, including:

• 582 item and interface icons
• 7 item-group tab graphics
• 132 technology graphics
• 59 achievement graphics

Every image is provided as a high-definition 2x replacement, designed to preserve Factorio’s original appearance, colours, proportions, and in-game scale.

The goal is simple:

Sharper icons. Cleaner interfaces. Same vanilla gameplay.

🖼️ What It Does

Real HD UI and Icons upgrades many of the graphics used throughout Factorio’s menus, inventories, crafting screens, technology tree, achievement interface, and item-group tabs.

The original graphics are replaced with cleaner and sharper 2x versions while remaining faithful to Factorio’s established visual style.

This mod is visual only.

It does not change:

• recipes
• technologies
• achievement conditions
• item behaviour
• item values
• crafting times
• game balance
• progression
• saved games

Everything continues to behave exactly like vanilla Factorio.

📊 Included Graphics

Real HD UI and Icons contains 780 high-definition replacement images across four visual categories.

✅ Features

• 🖥️ High-definition base-game UI graphics
• 📦 582 upgraded item and interface icons
• 🗂️ 7 upgraded item-group tab graphics
• 🔬 132 upgraded technology graphics
• 🏆 59 upgraded achievement graphics
• ✨ 780 total high-definition replacements
• 🔍 Native 2x texture detail
• 🧹 Cleaner alpha edges
• 🎨 Preserves Factorio’s original colours and visual identity
• 📐 Preserves original icon proportions and in-game scale
• 🖼️ Improved clarity at 1440p and 4K
• ⚙️ Visual-only texture replacement
• ✅ No gameplay scripts
• ✅ No recipe changes
• ✅ No technology changes
• ✅ No achievement-condition changes
• ✅ No balance changes
• ✅ Safe for existing saves
• ✅ Factorio 2.1 compatible
• 🛰️ Space Age friendly

📦 Item and Interface Icons

The largest part of the pack contains 582 item and interface icon replacements.

These graphics appear throughout Factorio in locations such as:

• player inventories
• crafting menus
• machine interfaces
• logistic request slots
• circuit-network interfaces
• item selection menus
• shortcut and selection windows
• production statistics
• blueprint interfaces
• recipe displays
• technology prerequisites
• entity information panels

The upgraded icons are designed to look cleaner and more readable without changing their meaning or making them feel disconnected from Factorio’s original art style.

The icons retain their original:

• silhouettes
• colour palettes
• visual themes
• orientation
• proportions
• in-game display size

🗂️ Item-Group Tabs

The pack upgrades 7 base-game item-group tab graphics.

These tabs are used to organise recipes and items into major categories within crafting and production interfaces.

The improved graphics provide sharper category symbols while retaining the original visual meaning of each group.

No item groups are added, removed, renamed, or reorganised.

Only the graphics are replaced.

🔬 Technology Graphics

The pack includes 132 high-definition technology graphics.

These appear throughout Factorio’s technology tree and research interface.

The upgraded technology graphics improve the clarity of:

• machinery
• weapons
• logistics systems
• production chains
• power technologies
• military research
• automation systems
• resource processing
• circuit-network technologies
• advanced equipment

Research costs, prerequisites, unlocks, science-pack requirements, and progression remain completely unchanged.

🏆 Achievement Graphics

The pack also contains 59 upgraded achievement graphics.

These graphics appear in Factorio’s achievement interface and achievement notifications.

The replacement images preserve the identity and visual meaning of each achievement while improving detail and edge clarity.

The mod does not change:

• achievement requirements
• achievement progress
• achievement availability
• Steam achievement behaviour
• completion conditions
• achievement tracking

Only the achievement graphics are replaced.

🎯 Design Goal

Real HD UI and Icons is intended for players who want Factorio’s interface graphics to look cleaner on modern monitors without changing the game’s art direction.

The goal is not to redesign Factorio’s user interface or replace its visual identity.

The goal is to make existing graphics sharper and more readable while preserving the familiar vanilla appearance.

The pack is built around:

• faithful vanilla-style colours
• original icon shapes
• original visual meaning
• consistent 2x detail
• preserved in-game scale
• cleaner transparent edges
• improved readability
• safe visual replacement only

🖥️ Visual Style

Real HD UI and Icons is designed to look like Factorio, just cleaner.

The intended appearance is:

• sharper than vanilla
• faithful to the original artwork
• clean at 1080p
• clearer at 1440p
• improved at 4K
• readable at normal interface scale
• consistent across menus and interfaces
• not overly glossy
• not excessively sharpened
• not a UI redesign

The pack does not enlarge icons inside the game.

The source graphics contain more detail, but Factorio continues displaying them at the intended interface scale.

🔎 High-Resolution Interface Support

Factorio’s original interface graphics can appear softer when used with:

• 1440p monitors
• 4K monitors
• high-DPI displays
• increased interface scaling
• high-resolution screenshots
• large interface panels

The 2x replacements provide additional texture detail so icons remain cleaner when rendered at higher resolutions or larger interface scales.

This can make small details easier to recognise without changing gameplay information or interface layout.

🧹 Alpha and Edge Work

Icons and interface graphics frequently contain transparent or partially transparent edges.

Poorly processed textures can cause:

• dark outlines
• bright halos
• colour bleeding
• square transparent borders
• rough silhouettes
• visible background contamination

The graphics in this pack have been reviewed and processed to reduce these problems.

Special attention has been given to:

• transparent-edge cleanup
• alpha consistency
• retaining original silhouettes
• avoiding black fringe artifacts
• preventing bright outlines
• preserving small icon details
• maintaining readability at reduced display sizes

⚙️ Performance Notes

Real HD UI and Icons is a texture replacement mod.

It does not run gameplay scripts, scan entities, process inventories, or perform repeated calculations during normal play.

The mod should not directly affect UPS.

The main resource difference is the use of larger source textures, which may increase:

• VRAM usage
• texture-atlas size
• initial loading time
• mod download size

The actual impact depends on:

• your GPU
• available VRAM
• Factorio texture settings
• interface scale
• texture compression
• other installed HD texture packs

For most modern gaming systems, UI and icon replacements should have a smaller graphics impact than large terrain, entity, or animation texture packs.

🧪 Behaviour Notes

• Existing saves can use the mod safely
• Removing the mod should not break saves
• No entities are added
• No items are added
• No recipes are added
• No technologies are added
• No achievements are added
• No achievement conditions are modified
• No item behaviour is changed
• No interface layout is changed
• No gameplay scripts run during normal play
• The mod only redirects supported base-game graphics to HD replacements

🔗 Compatibility

Real HD UI and Icons should work with most gameplay and overhaul mods because it is visual only.

Works well with:

• vanilla Factorio
• Space Age
• quality-of-life mods
• gameplay mods
• interface mods
• technology mods
• crafting mods
• most overhaul mods
• other Real HD texture packs

Possible conflicts

Other mods that replace the exact same icons, technology graphics, achievement graphics, or item-group tabs may override or be overridden depending on load order.

Mods that add completely new items, technologies, achievements, or item groups will continue using their own graphics unless dedicated Real HD support is added.

A custom interface mod may also change where or how some graphics are displayed, but this should not affect gameplay compatibility.

🛰️ Space Age Compatibility

Real HD UI and Icons is Space Age friendly.

The mod can be used in games with or without the Space Age expansion enabled.

This pack focuses on supported base-game graphics.

Space Age-specific graphics may be handled separately through dedicated Real HD Space Age packs so players can manage download size, VRAM usage, and installed content more easily.

📦 Four Packs in One

Real HD UI and Icons combines four previously focused graphics categories into one convenient package:

• Real HD Icons
• Real HD Item Groups
• Real HD Technology
• Real HD Achievements

Combining these related interface graphics makes installation and management easier while keeping the pack focused on menus, icons, research, and achievements.

Instead of installing four separate interface texture mods, players can install one combined package.

📦 Part of the Real HD Project

Real HD UI and Icons is part of the larger Real HD texture project.

The long-term goal of the Real HD project is to upgrade Factorio’s visuals through focused, optional texture packs.

Related Real HD packs may include:

• Real HD UI and Icons
• Real HD Decorative Base Game
• Real HD Trees
• Real HD Ores
• Real HD Particles Base Game
• Real HD Equipment
• Real HD Entities
• Real HD Terrain
• Real HD Space Age packs

Keeping major graphics categories separate allows players to control:

• download size
• loading time
• VRAM usage
• visual preferences
• update size
• compatibility
• Mod Portal file-size limits

⭐ Recommended Settings

For the best visual result, use:

The pack is designed to remain readable at Factorio’s normal interface scale.

Players using high-DPI displays may benefit most from the additional source detail.

❓ FAQ

Does this change gameplay?

No.

This is a visual-only graphics replacement pack.

How many graphics are replaced?

The mod replaces 780 graphics:

• 582 item and interface icons
• 7 item-group tab graphics
• 132 technology graphics
• 59 achievement graphics

Are the images really 2x?

Yes.

All included images are high-definition 2x replacements designed to preserve the original in-game scale.

Does it make the interface larger?

No.

The textures contain more detail, but the interface elements remain at their intended size.

Does it change recipes or items?

No.

Recipes, item values, crafting times, stack sizes, and item behaviour are unchanged.

Does it change technologies?

No.

Technology costs, prerequisites, science-pack requirements, unlocks, and research behaviour are unchanged.

Does it change achievements?

No.

Achievement conditions, progress, tracking, and Steam achievement behaviour are unchanged.

Does it affect UPS?

No gameplay scripts run during normal play, so the mod should not directly affect UPS.

Can it affect VRAM usage?

Yes.

High-resolution textures require more memory than the original vanilla graphics, although interface graphics are generally less demanding than large entity or terrain texture packs.

Can I add it to an existing save?

Yes.

Can I remove it later?

Yes.

Saved games should continue loading normally without it.

Is it compatible with Space Age?

Yes.

The mod is Space Age friendly and can be used with or without the expansion enabled.

Is this AI upscaled?

Yes.

AI upscaling was used as part of the production workflow, followed by manual review and further work in Photoshop.

The manual process includes:

• cleaning transparent edges
• correcting visual artifacts
• improving small details
• repairing problem areas
• preserving original colours
• maintaining recognisable silhouettes
• checking readability at normal interface scale
• keeping the results close to Factorio’s original artwork

AI is used as a production tool, not as a replacement for manual review.

The goal is to create cleaner and sharper graphics without introducing an unrelated visual style.

Why combine these categories?

Item icons, item-group tabs, technology graphics, and achievement graphics are all closely connected to Factorio’s interface.

Combining them provides a more consistent visual result and makes installation easier than managing four separate mods.

📌 Design Philosophy

Real HD UI and Icons is built around one rule:

Make Factorio’s interface cleaner, but still feel like Factorio.

That means:

• no gameplay changes
• no interface redesign
• no altered recipes
• no changed technologies
• no modified achievements
• no extreme colour shifts
• no inconsistent icon sizes
• no strange new art direction
• no heavy runtime scripts
• no unnecessary visual clutter

Just cleaner, sharper, high-definition interface graphics.

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🙏 Credits

Mod maintained and polished by Squishy1870.

Original Factorio artwork and assets are made by Wube Software.

This mod is an independent fan-made HD texture replacement pack and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Wube Software.

📜 License

GNU General Public License v3.0

See the included license file for full details.