Factorio Blueprints Version 2 (Old)

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 block can fit on top of most of the normal (not-angled) train blueprint blocks. So you can slap it over top of any of them for a somewhat space-efficient use of train track area.

This block can fit on top of the train angled blueprint blocks.

This will produce a lot of power while being designed not to waste fuel cells. 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 can use this to easily extend your robot network. The four extending powerpolls should overlap with other robot extensions so it's easy to line up correctly.

A bunch of different sized mining blueprints I find useful. One of these should cover just about any mining field. There are robotports built in. There are also belt balancers, all outputting 4 belts (this works well with my train solid load blueprints which assume 4 belts in).

This 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.

This is just like the yellow belt / stone smelter, but now with MOAR OUTPUTZ! It's pretty easy to upgrade the stone version to this in-place.

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 uses productivity modules and beacons with speed modules to smelt a full blue belt without consuming the full belt of resources and with only 13 furnaces. Because modules are _just that good_!

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 assembline 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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

This uses rail chain signals to keep things reasonably efficient without deadlocking. Radars are also included because intersections seem like a good place to include them, I guess.

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.

The same as the train stop, but on both sides.

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.

Quickly loads two fluid wagons.

Quick unloads two fluid wagons.

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).

This makes gears. 'Nuff said.

Late game iron gears.

A whole bunch of blueprints to produce green circuits, with variations on belt speed (blue vs red vs yellow), direction (through or in-out), and assembling machines (2 or 3).

A late game blueprint using beacons with speed modules productivity modules to make just so many green circuits with so few assembling machines.

A bunch of blueprints for making plastic bars.

You know the drill. Makes plastic bars.

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.

This produces like, I dunno, not quite a full yellow belt. Math is hard.

You really don't need much of this stuff. This blueprint is designed to be extendable, so you can put just one down and then extend it if you need more. You can get the sulfuric acid output from either side.

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

This'll use an entire blue belt of green circuits. The ratios are a little weird because if you add or remove either assembling machines or beacons, either the whole belt won't get used or there'll be more down time. This makes sulfuric acid onsite.

I only created yellow belt versions of this. It's easy to make more than one, and honestly I'm not sure you're going too actually need more than one.

I don't know if you'll ever need something like this. And the ratios are kinda weird and it was just really hard to get right. But, I guess if you want to blow lots of things up, these will help.

Outputs about 70% of a red belt of batteries. This makes sulfuric acid onsite, because it's only really used for batteries and for blue circuits (which also make it onsite).

This will produce almost exactly half a yellow belt of engines. Like, eerily close. Almost like it was planned that way. Except I swear, it wasn't, it just kinda happened. I am not smart enough to do that with all the crazy math for beacons and such. Anyway, it's kind of long, so if you want more I suggest putting down a second or third blueprint--making this one longer gets complicated.

This produces electric engines at the same rate as the beaconed engines blueprint produces engines. Because, I dunno, symmetry?

Get those robots crankin'!

Concrete is needed in pretty significant amounts for a few products, such as centrifuges. In that sense concrete is sort of an intermediate. This will generate a red belt of concrete.

This doesn't produce rocket control units particularly fast, but the ratios are about right and it's easy to put down multiple blueprints to produce more.

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.

Generates cliff explosives. I also threw in personal barrels and explosives in case you need them.

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.

Makes both stack inserters and filter stack inserters.

Imma be honest with you: I know like nothing about these things. I've barely used circuits at all. They are a mystery to me. I'm a computer programmer who doesn't understand factorio circuits. It's a sad, sad thing.

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

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.

The ultimate tree-killer. Show those trees who's boss!

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.

This will consume an entire red belt of copper when built with assembling machine 3s and it still doesn't produce all that fast. It's designed to be upgradeable to the Module 3s blueprint.

This will consume an entire red belt of copper when built with assembling machine 3s and it still doesn't produce all that fast. It's designed to be an in-place upgrade to the Module 2s blueprint (you might want to remove the box for the module 2s after upgrading).

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!

Who wants to simply launch a rocket, when you could instead get 1 space science per second (well, really 1.25 because it's using Assembling Machine 3s)? This blueprint has productivity modules in the silo, but will still get the 1 per second rate without them. In fact, I'm not even entirely sure what the output is when you have the productivity modules in ... probably still the same speed because accumulators are needed for the satellite and produce exactly fast enough. Truthfully, this isn't a great blueprint. It should really be using beacons or something. Maybe I'll post an updated one later.

This will produce efficiency one modules for wherever you need them and productivity 3 modules and speed 3 modules for late game beaconed setups.

This can produce robots and robot-related products fairly quickly.

Produces yellow, red, and blue belts.

Creates solar panels and accumulators as well as substations.

Let those robots make trains for you!

Circuits and such.

Makes a whole bunch of different logistics products.

Makes a whole bunch of production products.

Plenty of laser turrets along with walls, gates, and artillery cannons. There are also flame turrets and regular turrets, though honestly laser turrets can do the job without them.

This makes destroyer capsules as well as poison and slowdown capsules.

You guessed it: artillery shells.

Boom boom boom.

Produces uranium ammo at a pretty decent rate. This doesn't depend on any intermediates so you can build rather than my other uranium ammo blueprint if you want, even if you don't have intermediates being produced anywhere.

One then done.

Keep those spidertrons fully legged--er, I mean, armed!

Tanks need ammo, too.

Flamethrower ammo.

I'm not sure why you're using shotguns at this stage of the game (or ... ever), but if so ... this is for you!

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.

This is a useful blueprint to use in sandbox mode when you are testing out blueprints and need somewhere to shove all the stuff they are making.

Kinda the opposite of the Grabber. You can set the requestor chests to ask for a bunch of one item and this will churn out that item onto a belt.

Some said it couldn't be done. Others, the more sensible ones, said it could probably be done, but it really shouldn't. So, of course, I did it anyway. Here you go, internet--Enjoy!

Physics? Never heard of it.

Want to waste just plain stupid amounts of power while accomplishing absolutely nothing? Just plop a few of these down next to each other, fill the roboports with logistic robots and the boxes with copper plates, and watch the fun begin! This does actually have a practical use; I use it in sandbox mode to test output of a power setup, which is especially useful for nuclear reactors where it can be difficult to use up all that power easily.