Factorio Blueprints Version 3

A tileable solar panel block with a built-in walkway (or, driveway, I suppose). The ratio is as close to the ideal .84 as possible without wasting space.

Maximum density. Minimum ... uh ... walkity.

This can generate up to 480MW and won't waste fuel. You can place one fuel cell in the bottom right reactor to start it up (or one in each should be fine, too). More fuel cells will only be added when the stored power gets low enough. This requires 8 pipes of water even though you can theoretically use only five, but, hey, water is cheap.

You'll need to kick start this with a bit of fluoroketone, but once you're done that it'll hum along just fine!

MOAR POWER!

Easily extend your robot network with this blueprint.

A 2x2 blueprint for even more easily extending your robot network.

3x3 equals 9. So. Yeah.

A bunch of different-sized mining blueprints I find useful. One of these should cover just about any mining field.

These will smelt a full yellow belt and can be easily tiled vertically. You can choose between the coal line going up, going down, or being fed by a box (for very early game). You can also choose between input and output being on the same side or different sides.

Just like the stone smelter lines but steeler and morerer and redererer.

Smelts a full yellow, red, or blue belt using electric furnaces, with the option to have the input on the same side or opposite sides.

This will do basic oil processing. It's a bit weird space-wise because it's designed to be upgraded to the "Advanced Oil Processing" blueprint below.

This output petroleum, light oil, and lubricant. If the lubricant backs up then so will the heavy oil, and if the heavy oil backs up the excess will be sent to light oil cracking. Likewise, the light oil backs up, it will be converted to petroleum. If the petroleum backs up--well then you're in good shape, eh?

Make that coal into precious oil! Ouputs petroleum, light oil, and lubricant. You'll need to kick start the steam producing with a few pieces of coal or solid fuel. You'll also have the kick start the heavy oil with a few barrels--you can dump them into the assembling machine and, once everything is going, you can remove the assembling machine.

This might look like an odd number of chemical plants (21), but that's because it's designed to completely consume light oil from the advanced oil blueprint.

Rocket fuel. Similar to the solid fuel, this is designed to fully-consume the light oil output of the advanced oil processing blueprint.

Consumes either a yellow, red, or blue belt of uranium ore and outputs uranium-235 and uranium-238.

I hate this blueprint. It works almost by accident and it doesn't scale up well. But even though I hate it, you should probably use it first before the other one below. It does a surprisingly good job of getting Kovarex enrichment going without too much waste. But as you expand it some of the centrifuges will end up needing to get to 80 uranium-235 in waiting before they start outputting.

This is better than the other kovarex enchriment blueprint. It's compact, efficient, and can tile forever. You could also beacon it easily (But don't put productivity modules in! They won't work!). BUT you have to manually feed in the first 40 uranium-235 to every centrifuge. So the other blueprint might be better to use early as it's a bit more set-it-and-forget-it.

This will consume all of the output of the "Rocket Fuel" blueprint and convert it into nuclear fuel ... assuming you can provide the uranium-235!

A simple tile-able train segment.

Makes the trains go different ways. Choo choo.

Sometimes a train is like, "Meh, I don't even want to go this way, I want to go the other way." So like, this like, does that. Like.

A simple, tile-able train segment that goes diagonally.

Diagonal trains need to turn, too.

If a train going diagonally turns around, it's still going diagonally. So the opposite of diagonal is diagonal! Who knew?

This can be used to go from a straight train segment to a diagonal one.

This can be used to go from a straight train segment to a diagonal one.

You can put this in front of a busy stop or depot to give trains somewhere to wait. It's not the most space-efficient version of this but it tiles well with the other blueprints. (Hey? Want to know a secret? I was hoping all the train "enhancements" from Spage Age would make this more space efficient. But guess what? They didn't! It's actually worse than it used to be! Grrrrr!)

This uses rail chain signals to keep things reasonably efficient without deadlocking.

Again, chain signals are used to keep things fairly efficient. Also, the intersection blueprints are designed such that if you tile them next to each other, trains will wait until they can go through the entirety of all intersections before entering the first one, which should help with deadlocks and such.

Here, your happy train-going residents can take a break to have some tea, maybe some biscuits--oh hold up it's T not tea my bad.

Don't cross these trains! Oh wait. Do. Do cross these trains. It's okay, the intersection will take care of it.

Can we just take a moment to acknowledge how pretty this is? I mean, it's pretty. Real pretty. I took great pains to make it so you could rotate it any way and it would still be the same (except for that power poll in the middle that will rotate around the roboport). But you probably didn't even notice that, did you? I worked so hard on it! But you'll never know! You probably aren't even reading this! I'm talking to myself on the internet and it's sad but also dang that intersection is pretty, amiright?

For when you want an intersection but you have an irrational fear of even numbers like 4.

Like the T intersection except it goes between two diagonal segments and a straight segment.

Like the T intersection except it goes between two straight segments and a diagonal segment.

This supports a train sized with one engine and two cars. Actually all of my blueprints kind of assume that. If you're just finding this out and you're like, "Oh no! I use bigger trains these blueprints are useless to me!" then I'm very sorry.

This train stops features a few waiting areas. You can use this for a busy stop with multiple trains going to it to keep them from clogging up the tracks.

This can be plopped down on top of a train stop for easy solid loading. Also, "Solid Load" sounds like a joke about poo and I apologize for that.

Put this down on top of the train stop blueprint for quick solid unloading. And yes, Solid Unload" sounds even more like a joke about poo. At least it's not Liquid Unload. Oh, wait, that's farther below.

Quickly loads two fluid wagons. Also, ew.

Quickly unloads two fluid wagons. Also, eeeeeeeeewwww.

An infinitely expandable train depot! This basic version is easier to build by hand, but I suggest upgrading to the advanced version below once you have robots building it for you.

An upgrade to the basic version that allows any train waiting area to go to any train station. This does a good job of keeping the trains moving, even if one or more of the stations are very busy. You can expand it forever.

Expands the advanced depot.

Unloads solid goods from trains in the depot.

Loads sold goods into trains in the depot.

Unloads liquid from fluid wagons.

Loads liquid into fluid wagons.

A lot of people hate on roundabouts. But not me, man. I'm not judging. You do you.

Like the roundabout but only 3-way.

Pound on the ground for going through or around but never up nor down.

I get really tired of writing these descriptions. Do you get tired of reading them?

A roundabout with diagonal entrances and exits.

What did the tie say to the hat? You go on a-head, and I'll just hang around! What does that have to do with this blueprint? Nothing at all.

It's like that other roundabout except it has less thingies.

If you squint this looks like an alien spaceship.

I know what you're thinking. "When would you ever need something like this? Does it even work? Could it deadlock?" The answer is simple: Leave me alone and stop asking so many questions!!

You can put one of these down at a train station to have robots bring fuel to refuel any trains that go by. Each requestor chest requests enough fuel to fill up two trains (6 inventory spaces worth).

These make managing trains a lot easier. For example, if you have two iron plate stations and you name them the same thing, trains whill choose which one to go to by priority. This ensures stations with fewer items in the boxes get higher priority. There are two options: one is for items with a stack size of 50 (like iron ore) and the other is for items with a stack size of 100 (like iron plates).

Like the unload prioritizer, except for stations where you are loading items into a train. The stations with more items in the boxes will get prioritized by trains above those with fewer.

Same as the solid unloader prioritizer, except for liquid wagons.

Same as the solid loader prioritizer, except for liquid wagons.

A bunch of useful very early game things. I tried to have this more-or-less prioritize the things you'll be most in need of. This includes some personal gears and green circuits which might be helpful as you manually create things.

This makes fast inserters. But does it make fast inserters fast? Or fast fast inserters? Or fast fast inserters fast? No, of course not, there are no fast fast inserters you n00b!

You can have your assembling machine 2 in any color, as long as it's blue.

I steel got it!

I feel like I'm always hurting from red belts just after they are researched, so this is designed to produce them at a pretty decent pace.

This makes refined concrete at a decent pace. I also threw in gates because you unlock them around this time and I don't know where else to put them.

Trains! For all your train-related needs. I also threw in a box to hold some personal engines in case you need them to build a car or tank or something.

This is everything you need to get basic oil running. It doesn't produce pipes because my Basic Stuff blueprint does that already.

Makes bulk inserts in bulk. Or at least in normal. I mean, they stack in a chest so that kinda feels bulky. I dunno.

Imma be honest with you: there are whole sets of things in here I've never really used. I've played so much factorio and yet I still feel like a n00b.

This produces solar panels and accumulators at about the ideal ratio. I also threw in substations because I find they're very helpful when you're doing solar.

This will produce logistics and construction robots at a decent pace and place them directly into a roboport. It also creates roboports, chests, and a few intermediates for personal use. It takes a little to get going, mostly because the chests production part gets a bit greedy, but nevertheless it produces pretty well.

I'm getting tired of writing these. Are you getting tired of reading these? This thing makes electric furnaces, okay? What else can I say? Why are you still reading this? Move on, man! Move on! Or ... woman. Move on, woman! Just, whoever you are, move on.

I like this blueprint. It's kinda symmetrical and pretty. It makes assembling machine 3s and consumes an entire yellow copper belt to make one every 12 seconds or so (assuming you are producing them with assembling machine 3s).

This big ol' thing will produce everything you need to get nuclear up and running. It's extremely resource hungry and still takes a while to output what you'll need. But once you have nuclear going, it should eventually fill up and mostly sit idle.

For when you have the NEED for SPEED and also the THIRST YOU CAN'T SLATE to GOBBLE UP IRON PLATES!

Makes more roboty things.

This is enough to keep one assembling machine continuously producing beacons. Is that enough? That's probably enough. I dunno maybe you super late game people would scoff at it.

Creates useful early military thingamabobs.

Grenades! Show those trees whose boss! Oh, I guess this also makes ammo for bugs, meh, whatever. Stupid trees.

Listen, sometimes you just gotta burn stuff, like trees, or alien bugs that are just trying to defend their environmental paradise of a homeland from a smaug-producing psychopath who's willing to wipe out their entire planet just to leave in a rocket, only to decide he doesn't want to leave afterall because he's having too much fun destroying their planet. I mean, what if the alien-equivalent of Captain Planet shows up? You gotta burn him, you know? You just gotta burn him.

Makes the hidden booms.

Makes capsules. You can bust 'em.

I know what you're thinking, because it's the same thing I'm thinking. It's the same thing we're all thinking: EXPLOSIONS!

Slap this down on top of the Rockets blueprint to expand it or just put this down solo, either works.

Pew Pew

Ammo for your lovely tank.

Cluster grenades and piercing shotgun shells.

It's neat how inexpensive this stuff is once you get uranium up and running.

Makes the biggest booms.

Robots don't have souls, so remember that when you watch them plummet to the ground after their tiny little bit of life runs out.

Okay ... you remember before, when I said robots don't have souls? Well that was technically a lie. Distractor robots do, in fact, have an experimental soul software installed. It doesn't serve any purpose, though. The goal was simply to make them really feel the pain and loss of death when they are terminated after such a short time. It's horrible, I know. But, whatcha gonna do, eh? Ha ha! Whatcha gonna do!

Destroyer capsules do not _have_ souls--they _take_ souls!

This creates modules 1s at a good pace. To match my other blueprints, it creates more efficiency modules than anything else. But it's easy to switch any of the assembling machines from any module type to any other type--they all have the same requirements.

Module 2s, baby!

The first of the science blueprints. I designed these to be expandable, so each one builds on the last. They all produce science at the same rate.

Science level 2 for you, boo! Okay, sorry. I crossed a line. You are not my boo. Rhyming is no excuse for calling you my boo.

Science for the blowing up of things.

Chemical science ... what is that exactly? Like chemistry? Why not call it chemistry?

More science. I have nothing useful to say here.

The final of the expandable blueprints! (Psst! You want to know a secret? This thing has too much low density structure production. They changed things in Space Age but I never updated it! I just left it not perfect! Do you know how hard that was for me? Do you know? DO YOU KNOW?!?)

You probably won't need these since they're baked into the other blueprints, but they're here if you want 'em!

You also likely won't need these but they are here if you want them.

You'll never guess what these make!

Each of these will produce a half-yellow-belt of red circuits. They tend to be long, so if you want more red circuit production I suggest just slapping down more of these blueprints.

Okay, unlike the other intermediate blueprints, this one you might actually want. It's much easier to make this separately since you need to pipe it to miners for uranium.

Each of these is designed to consume a full belt of green circuits.

For when you need to make things to make other things make other things go boom.

So, let's say you saw a beautiful field of soft grass and vibrant trees and thought, "Yup, it's gotta go." This does that!

Let me ask you a question. Why would a regular engine be required to make an electric engine? That's weird, right? I mean, are the folks at Tesla like, "Shoot, we can't upgrade production because we need more gas-powered engines so we can break them down and then use the parts to create electric engines." I don't get it.

A whole bunch of defense blueprints. These fit with the robot extension and/or railroad segments. The double-rows of laser turrets should be good enough to handle just about any late-game threat, at least on Nauvis.

You can slap down a whole bunch of these together and then use the blueprints below to ramp up production of various items easily. The only downside is excessive power consumption, but hey, that's what nuclear and fusion power is for, right?

A whole bunch of blueprints for scaling up production of various items. There will likely be items you want that are missing here, but it should be easy to use one of the existing blueprints as ... uh ... a blueprint ... for making anything you want.

Some useful blueprints for getting that sweet, sweet productivity bonus from foundries.

These will make space foundation so you can leave that crummy-old planet and go ruin some others, too!

You can use this to create that initial space science platform and such, for manually launching rockets. I recommend upgrading to the one below at a certain point, since you'll need a lot of rockets!

You can tile these to create an area that can launch many rockets. I don't recommend using it for your first rocket, but once you need to scale up this should do the trick!

A nice, simple blueprint for getting space science. It's fairly minimal and produces well. I really like this one! If you need to scale up, just create a few more.

You can use this to travel between Nauvis, Vulcanus, Gleba, and Fulgora. Don't try to go to Aquilo or beyond or you will have a bad day. This will slow itself down if it runs low on ammo, so you can mostly set it and forget it.

This will handle travel to the inner planets or Aquilo. It's got some decent features: it will slow down when going to / from Aquilo if low on ammo, if you have excess space rocks it will recycle whichever one you have most of, and it has a decent amount of cargo space.

This will go out to the Solar System Edge and can go beyond it (at least, you know, a little). It's not _great_ so you may have to babysit it some. It has features similar to the Aquilo Transport.

A solar block optimized for Vulcanus. Solar works pretty well on Vulcanus so it's not a bad choice.

Use this to get oil products going on Vulcanus. You can upgrade to the normal Coal Liquefaction blueprint below once you've researched it.

Make that coal into oil products! This version is just like the Nauvis version but with minor modifications to work well on Vulcanus (like using sulfuric acid). You'll need to kick start it with some heavy oil and some fuel in the biolers, but once you've done that it runs on it's own.

I'm looking at this blueprint and, you know, there's just something about it. Something like, mhm, yeah, you go blueprint. One could say it's ... hot! The stone this produces will need to be handled, so that means either turning it into stone brick or just dumping it in lava (preferably both--send it to stone bricks until that backs up and then send the rest to the lava).

*Sizzle* Still hot!

Helps to make those rockets so you can get off this hellscape!

Rockets are all like "Zoom zoom pew pew" and I like that, you know? I like that.

When the chips are down ... maybe just pick them back up? Then put them in a rocket. Then fly away. Just make sure they're blue.

Makes the Vulcanus science pack at a decent-ish rate.

This makes foundries! I like foundries. This assumes you are using robots. You should definitely be using robots.

When you want to show those ores who's boss.

Makes tungsten carbide for off-world shipping.

Makes tungsten plate for off-world shipping (or on-world green belt production). The smaller blueprint (shown) only makes a few but the larger one produces quite a lot and you'll probably want to use it if you plan to make green belts. Also, you should plan to make green belts.

This makes those handy green belts! I definitely recommend producing them. Vulcanus can make them fairly easily and they are useful for late-game ships if for nothing else.

This will harvest that lightning into power! I recommend doing something like this and scaling up as you can for power on fulgora as that seems to work best.

Something this size is really nice for getting lots of power, but you may have trouble figuring out where to place it, so you might want to use the small one.

As an alternate to lightning power, you can use this. It's less resource-intensive and produces decent output so it might be the better option, but, hey, that's up to you!

My fulgora blueprints rely heavily on robots and on having enough logistics storage, so you'll want 1 (or 2 or 3 or 4) of these for sure.

Takes in scrap, sends out precious, precious resources! This uses active provider chests to get rid of items quickly. The reprocessing center below will handle it from there!

Uses circuits and robots to reprocess items, but only when needed! Circuits are used to only send items to reprocessing if you have too many of them. One of these is optmized to fully handle the output of the "Two Red Scrap Belts" Recyling Line blueprint (assuming no upgrades). This makes sure your resources don't back up and stop all production but also makes sure you aren't reprocessing things that you need!

A tileable rocket fuel blueprint. This is all you need to create stuff for rockets, since you pull blue chips and low density structures straight out of the ground. Man, I love Fulgora--don't you love Fulgora? Stupid Gleba _wishes_ it was as cool as Fulgora.

Makes recyclers. 'Nuff said. Well, I didn't actually say "'Nuff" but pretend I did.

A little known fact: holmium plates were named for Sherlock Holms. Not Sherlock Holmes, that's a totally different dude.

These aren't anything like other plants, like the cactus or the fern.

I find it helpful to make these on-planet so you can easily expand your power capacity.

Makes lightning rods. Also contains a lightning rod. Which came first, the lightning rod machine or the lightning rod?

Like the accumulators, I find it helpful to build these on Fulgora to easily expand the power grid.

You'll need these both on- and off-planet.

Cuz regular capacitors are, like, so boring.

Once you've built this, you're just about there! You've beaten Fulgora! Congratulations! But, uh, don't forget Tesla turrets. You know, if you want them. They might be a big help on Gleba. Frickin' Gleba.

These might be a good investment for Gleba defense. Their power usage is insane but so is their damage.

Definitely don't rely on solar on Gleba in the long run. But you may want something like this to kickstart everything. It's ratios are optimized for Gleba.

This performs two very important roles: 1) it gives you power and 2) it disposes of materials you will want to get rid of. The initial blueprint will make sure to burn pentapod eggs, optionally burn rocket fuel when you're low on heat, and burn other items if you have too many in logistics storage. The expander just adds more burning of materials if you have too many of them. The expander (rocket fuel) adds more rocket fuel burning if your normal resources aren't enough to power things (I haven't really needed to use this, though). I have found this to work pretty well for power on Gleba all on it's own, once it gets going, and it can even support laser and tesla turrets and such.

A simple harvesting blueprint for either Yumako or Jellynut. The requestor chest requests seeds.

This produces nutrients for powering things and seeds for replanting. Like all my Gleba blueprints, it relies on robots. I find using robots to be _extremely helpful_ on Gleba. It keeps things simple and compact and Gleba seems to have no trouble powering this setup.

You'll need to kickstart this with a couple of pentapod eggs. In theory, this should never let a pentapod egg spoil and spawn a bug. I've also never seen it happen in practice so it seems pretty safe. Oh, yeah, also this creates science or something.

This kick starts itself, isn't wasteful, and ... and I just love it, okay? I'm really proud of it. Someone affirm me, already.

I love this one, too! *Chef's kiss*!

Very simple (and kinda wasteful, power-wise) steel plate smelting.

Organic plastic, I guess? I don't get it.

Simple green circuit production.

Red circuits or something I dunno I'm tired of writing these.

You'll definitely need plenty of this on Gleba. You can choose belt-fed or robot-fed.

Biochamber production that should be safe from pentapod egg spoilage. You'll have to kickstart it with a couple of pentapod eggs.

Why can't Gleba be more like Fulgora and make rocket fuel super easily?

Why can't Gleba be more like Fulgora and make low density structures super easily?

Why can't Gleba be more like Fulgora and make processing units super easily?

Carbon fiber for export to make cool things. Or, whatever you want. Send it to Vulcanus and then burn it in lava, what do I care?

You'd think stack inserters would be really cool. But, actually, they're total dorks. They're always going on about their stamp collections and stuff. Geez, stack inserters. Get a life.

For killing the big bugs. This does a decent job but uses a LOT of power. But that's what the "Defense Support Array" below is for! I don't suggest using walls on Gleba cuz those dang monsters just walk over them.

One Death Hub can consume the power of two of these. So you might want a couple to make sure you can support spiky power usage if you are using the Death Hub above for defense.

Bioflux for export.

You'll need something to kickstart the power on Aquilo. Just put a few of these down and then focus on getting the more useful power blocks below going--then you can remove these.

This isn't 100% necessary, but it will make life a whole lot easier. Heating towers take forever to get going. I'd suggest putting this down first and manually putting nuclear fuel in it. Once it gets going, robots will feed it but only if the heat gets too low (so you should need little or no fuel because the heating towers will take over).

It's a bit tough to get the first one going, but once it starts these work well for providing power and heat. Just add more if you need more power. But be careful to do it slowly or you'll suck all the heat away and your power will immediately die. This is tileable.

Produces ice platform and a little bit of heat. This is tileable with itself and the "Fire & Ice Power" blueprint.

This will produce cryogenic plants. I am out of silly or clever things to say.

This make fluro--uh, I mean flouro--uh, I mean fluoru--Look! Nobody sane can spell this the first time! Anyway, whatever it makes, it makes it good. And it's smart enough to shut down production and not over fill the tanks, so you should always have plenty of this but never backup the cryogenic plants that are cooling the liquid.

Aquilo science. Cool! (Get it?)

Apparently, all we need on earth to finally get quantum computing out of it's infancy is some place really, really cold. If it works in Factorio, it must be true!

A fusion of fusion-based power items.

The only way to advance beyond the limits of your reach into space: Even. Bigger. Guns.

You'll need at least a little of this stuff for kickstarting fusion power on the "Edge and Beyond" ship or on other planets, so here's a little blueprint for ya! It won't make too many.

A tileable rocket silo blueprint for Aquilo.