Multi-Floor Factory Space for Vanilla

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Today I was talking with someone about how the Factorissimo factory concept is interesting although being able to pack so much stuff inside is sort of cheating, but the idea behind it is interesting. At least a way to keep things more tidy.

That is why I suggest to be able to create factory floors and grow our factories vertically instead of horizontally. This would be done using pillars (with max distance between them like light posts) and putting concrete over it.

There would be a new item called "elevator" that works like underground conveyor belts but take the items to the higher floors. You could do this by either making those things raise one level at a time or create special elevators that selectively take part of the load to one floor and the rest to another like it happens with splitters.

Factories would not save you total space, but would save you horizontal footprint. So instead of having lets say 100 steam engines layed out one next ot another you could have 4 levels of 5x5 engines for example. The floor space could be as large as you want as long as you use enough concrete and pillars to sustain the above weight. You could even make most of your factory be a two floor thing. Imagine that pillars have to be 10 spaces apart for example to hold weight on top.

I think it is an interesting idea and I hope it can be considered for future versions of Factorio.. I see this solution as a bit of an in-between. It adds useful functionality without going as far as Factorissimo does..

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Factory in factory are repeating requests. Search for example for factorissimo : search.php?keywords=factorissimo&fid%5B0%5D=6

There are several mods, that use the so called "surfaces" of Factorio, Factorissimo is just one of them.

What comes most near to useful ideas:
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