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Hi everyone,

I was bored at work the other day and made a Factorio Excel template to plan out some stuff for my game later. It's not very elaborate, but good enough for furnace layouts and stuff.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... 1511466101

I am not very good with google docs, so I hope this somehow works.

Edit: Looks like Google docs doesn't like Excel formatting. So No vertical text in google docs.

Cheers
TypeO

I took a look, and after a little while I thought "Why bother with this, why not play the real game instead of trying to play it in Excel".

Then I realized that was exactly what you were doing! Playing the game at work, or as close as you could. I know the feeling, I'm at work typing this, thinking of what I'll build when I come home.

This is more powerful then crack.

Starwalker wrote:This is more powerful then crack.

That's pretty accurate. If Factorio would run better from an USB stick, I would probably play it at work. But it doesn't, so I'll play with my Excel sheets.

TypeO wrote:If Factorio would run better from an USB stick, I would probably play it at work. But it doesn't, so I'll play with my Excel sheets. :D

It doesn't? It should. What did you try? What does it do?

It works, but stutters hard right from the beginning. I don't think it's because of the stick, probably because of my shitty work computer.

draw.io works pretty well for this, too. I find its useful to make a drawing of complex factories before construction to make sure everything flows neatly.




To open it in draw.io login to google and select open in draw.io Pro.

I'll stick with ACAD for now (at least until I adapt Revit to my cause...).

I like how you can show the power under there!

TypeO, I liked your sheet but it had a bunch of problems from importing from Excel. So I reworked it to use Unicode arrow characters (→←↑↓↰↱↲↳ etc) instead of rotated text, fixed cell size and border issues, reworked some machines, and made an example. It seems to work a lot better imo:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing

Some scrrenshots:


The original of this design: (https://i.imgur.com/aWXV8VC.png)

infogulch wrote:TypeO, I liked your sheet but it had a bunch of problems from importing from Excel. So I reworked it to use Unicode arrow characters (→←↑↓↰↱↲↳ etc) instead of rotated text, fixed cell size and border issues, reworked some machines, and made an example. It seems to work a lot better imo:

Yeah, that's way better. Thanks

DerivePi wrote:I'll stick with ACAD for now (at least until I adapt Revit to my cause...).

That's cool. I work also work with CAd a bit, but you are the first I have seen that has the black backround activated.

onebit wrote:draw.io works pretty well for this, too. I find its useful to make a drawing of complex factories before construction to make sure everything flows neatly.

Cool, will look into it. thanks

For underground belts, you can only go 4 tiles, not 5.

I just doodle them on paper. It's more about the idea, coming up with a different setup, the exact alignment is secondary.