regarding my blueprints and other neat things

[ranzolger]

introduction

over the last couple of years i published various late- or endgame blueprints. i just wanted a central place to discuss questions and explain some of the things i created. of course i'm open for enhancements, other refinements and points of view.

i'm still working on most of the bps, as some still have some (minor) flaws . version history is provided, also a (hopefully) proper description and screens. i may add, delete or correct things within this post without further note (i do not intend to do so). due to character limitations i will not post blueprints, but all are linked (i may link to: factorioprints.com, imgur.com, pastebin.com, kirkmcdonald.github.io, docs.google.com, factorio.com).

for the creation of those blueprints i set myself some limitations/must-haves:

main goals:

• blue belts only
• avoid robots where possible (except construction)
• 8-beaconed assembling rows (10 tiles high)
• tileable
• 'production islands' connected by trains
• vanilla

with production islands i mean dedicated production facilities which handle big amounts of related products (eg. green/red/blue circuits, copper/iron/steel plates, everything with chem plants,...). each of those islands should be supplied by trains and be stackable with itself (to increase production easily). this lead to the general setup as it is.

production island example

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all the 'production islands' are designed the same way:

• to the left you have unloading station with an attached stacker.
• in the middle there is the production module.
• to the right there is the loading station for the products.

for more details have a look further down (-> train station design).

train station design

first of, i decided to go left hand drive (LHD) as at the time i started making those bps we used LHD. in some cases its easier to put signals but, as you leave a train you pop out on the left side of the train and will not stay in between the tracks. also LHD is way cooler . i wanted train stations which have the same height as a standart 8-beaconed assembler row (=10 tiles) so it would be easy to stack them (best seen in 'The Smelter'). also i used the 2-track design which, in perfect circumstances, could double train throughput (-> forum discussion), in my experiences throughput may be increased by ~40%. as with this system a couple of stations with the same name (un-/ loaded item) may be stacked on top of each other, all stations whose buffers fulfill the storage requirements should turn off. this might be simple to achieve but may lead to a 'no path' error when all stations are deactivated (-> station circuitry).

there are 4 and 8 wagon versions. the 8 wagon version uses 4 chests instead of 6 as it was impossible (at least for me) to find a proper belt setup which made it possible to use 2-4 and 2-8 trains. also the belting itself was way easier . the other big difference are the thresholds that are used in the (->station circuitry).

train-stop naming scheme

all train-stops within a station (train-stop stack) which handle the same item type should be named the same.
my naming scheme (i try to use) is:

1. '[U]' or '[L]' for unload or load
2. '[item=anyitem]' eg. [item=electronic-circuit]
3. 'production island #' eg. Circuits01

which will result in '[L] Circuits01'.
i'm afraid im not that consistent with this scheme yet. i use numbers for the productions islands to differentiate between them. in case you build another one of those islands you can increase the number (eg. '[L] Circuits02'). the usage of that may be unlikely, but i wanted to have that option.

universal stacker

as the name may suggest this stacker works with all the stations in my bps. there are 2 versions: for 2-4 and 2-8 trains. they are supposed to be build below the first train-stop of any production island. they provide an unused track for players use (eg. building trains, fuel supply, playertrain parking spot, whatever...), it can be used by trains to bypass the station too.

there are some things those stackers provide aswell:

• 'always active' CC: this one will overwrite the station circuitry and activate all train-stops regardless of their un-/loading thresholds (its off by default).
• set fuel CC: here you can set the desired fuel for all train-stops within the station (preset to 10 nuclear fuel).
• easy extension via 'Universal Stacker Tracks' blueprint (overprint the big electric pole in the red circle)

in case you do not use this stacker feed any fuel signal to the big electric pole at the rear of each station via green cable. each station (train-stop stack) has to be set individually. all blueprints have two stations: unloading (left) and loading (right), there are some exceptions at 'The Refinery'.
also make shure that there are only chain-rail-signals between the stacker exits and the station.

station circuitry

as mentioned above i wanted train-stops that deactivate themselves when they can't fill or empty a trainload. this alone may be achieved quite simple, but i wanted it stackable and without the possibility for the 'no path' error. so here is my (maybe overcomplicated) solution:

selfdeactivating train-stops

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every trainstop has a constant combinator (CC) that determines which commodity will be handled (red circle), for simplicity we use in this example. the CCs output signal has to be '

1

'. the green wire of this CC goes directly into the input of the upper (yellow) DC and its red wire to the local substation. the substation connects to the same DCs input with the red wire, so on the substation you would read '

1

' and on the in- and output side of the upper (yellow) DC '

2

'. this way the you will read '

2

' on the next (upwards) substation.

the train-stop will activate when it receives the virtual-signal '

A > 0

'. this may be accomplished in two different ways:

the green DC checks the local substation for '

= 1

' (in this case it will read '

1

'), if this is true it will output the virtual signal '

A1

'. this makes shure all train-stops of each resource closest to the stacker will be active at all times.

the light green combinator (2nd from the left) checks if no train is present at the train-stop ('

T = 0

'). if no train is present it will pass through the virtual-signal '

A

' emitted by the first DC (blue). this makes shure train-stops are deactivated as soon as a train stops at them, this will enforce rerouting of trains heading to the same train-stop. otherwise rerouting would wait until first DC (blue) stops sending the virtual-signal '

A

'. this will not work for the first train-stop of each item type (closest to the stacker).

the first DC (blue) will check for the buffer thresholds to activate the train-stops. the buffer is the combined content of all buffer chests.
for unloading it has to be set to '

< 'threshold'

'
for loading it has to be set to '

> 'threshold'

'
until the threshold is satisfied, it will send out the virtual-signal '

A1

', which will activate the train-stop. i made a spreadsheet with calculations for the thresholds.
if you do not care about top-notch calculations you can go with double or triple the train capacity aswell (for both loading and unloading).

sadly there is no thumb for the virtual-signal '

A

' or '

T

' in the wiki.

i made a spreadsheet to calculate the buffer thresholds and a little more. i may work on that later on. an offline version can be downloaded at the end of the post.

this circuitry may become obsolete with factorio version 1.1, just read this FFF 361. i'll try to adjust the blueprints if necessary.

loading/unloading buffer chests:

i got this circuitry a long time ago in a multiplayer game. i cannot recall who made this, so credits go to another random factorian!
just found an official source at the factorio wiki.

this setting makes shure all chests are at an quite even storage level and incoming trains will always be unloaded with 6 inserters (into the buffer chests). loading and unloading are capable of consuming a full blue belt of items (with stack size >10).

equal unloading

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the picture shows a station with 4 freight cars each with 6 chests which will result in 24 chests (the divisor at the arithmetic combinator [AC]).

lets assume a train just brought a trainload (4 x 2k = 8k) of ores, unloaded into 4 x 6 = 24 chests (so each chest holds 333,33 ores on average). the AC divides the total amount of ores by the negative amount of chests which will result in a negative value of the average storage level of the chests (here: -333,33). then each inserter combines the negative average with the amount of ores in his adjecting chest. the inserter will activate as soon as its chest content is equal or higher than the average.

its almost the same for the loading stations. the inserters filling the buffer chests will activate if their adjecting chest has less than average +12 items stored. even with this circuitry the 6 inserters are able to consume a compressed belt and fill the buffer chests quite even. this minimises the time the train has to stay at the train stop.

station lane balancer

as the belts and lanes may be consumed uneven i decided to put a 4-belt balancer into the station setup. but this one is kinda special as it also balances lanes (as soon as it backed up a little). i found it ages ago, the only source i have is this picture. it was important to use input balanced versions to consume all 4 (or 8) wagons evenly, the only necessity for the output were 4 compressed belts.

The Smelter

link: factorioprints

inspired by this topic: 4x0,833 belts (ore) go in, 4 belts (plates) come out; uses the minimal amount of furnaces per belt.
i don't think i have to explain anything here, otherwise feel free to ask!

Circuit Book (Green/Red/Blue)

link: factorioprints

various designs for circuits, everything should be explained in the description. as said above: feel free to ask my anything

The Refinery

link: factorioprints

level indicator

the 'refinery storage big' has a level indicator which can be adjusted to your needs. before i made this i used displays with coulours which used one combinator per lamp. i wanted something more compact, so here it is:

the level indicator consists of 9 lamps (which can be de-/increased without problems) and a handfull of combinators. it can handle any signal (except virtual-signal-blue) and you only need to adjust a single combinator. it uses 4 colours (red-yellow-cyan-green; from low to high)!

4-colour level indicator

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it may be difficult to change the order of the colours itself, but the thresholds when each colour should activate can be easily adjusted. this circuitry takes advantage of the fact that some signals are prioritised above others. its practically the order of the colour-signals in the gui.

colour priorisation i use here:

1. red
2. green
3. yellow
4. cyan

i left the 10th lamp ('

= 100

') out, as it would take a while to fill all tanks to 100% (this may be different for chests or other signals). it is easy to refine the display if you use smaller steps (eg. steps of 5: lamp settings: '

> 5

'; '

> 10

'; '

> 15

';...), this is quite easy as all lamps are daisy chained.

Tileable Kovarex

link: factorioprints

kovarex enrichment

i dont know why this kind of signalling wasn't posted on the energy subforum, yet. its super simple and kind of module safe. this is for late game only, as stack inserters must be able handle 10 items per swing and enough productivity modules 3 must be provided.

example kovarex enrichment step by step

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the bottom right inserter (stack filter inserter) is the 'master' of this little arrangement. the upper right inserter (fast inserter) will output the centrifuges products. this system takes advantage of the fact that will be extracted first.

lets assume the centrifuge just finished its production cycle (no and some on the input side and 41 and 2 on the output side):

1. stack filter inserter grabs first 10 and puts them on the belt:
   this will trigger the fast inserter to put 1 on the output belt
   centrifuge output side: 31 & 1
2. stack filter inserter grabs second 10 and puts them on the belt
   this will trigger the fast inserter to put another 1 on the output belt
   centrifuge output side: 21
3. stack filter inserter grabs third 10 and puts them on the belt
   this will trigger the fast inserter to put another 1 on the output belt
   centrifuge output side: 10
4. stack filter inserter grabs fourth 10 and puts them on the belt
   as there are no more items the fast inserter will do nothing, exept there is one additional from productivity modules
   centrifuge output side: nothing

the missing on the input side will be replenished by the filter inserter.

so the stack filter inserter just put exactly 40 on the belt for the next centrifuge to process and all other (excess) output was handled by the fast inserter. the stack size for the stack inserter (bottom left) is just limited for better visuals/synchrony.

the example shows a part of a longer centrifuge chain (just like in the linked bp). it can be modified to be self-feeding, but that would require priming of each centrifuge. using lower tiers of productivity modules or adding them after the centrifuges started working will clog the system eventually. speed modules in the centrifuges are no problem at all.

pros:

• can be infinitely extended in a row
• quite compact
• simple circuitry
• can be used as self feeding standalone centrifuge

cons:

• needs t3 productivity modules in centrifuges before usage (workaround: no or speed modules)
• if used as self feeding standalone each centrifuge it will need priming first
• may be problematic with blackouts (i'm not shure)
• stack inserters must be able to handle 10 items

The Reactor

link: factorioprints


its making was inspired by this creation. but it didn't work as i hoped. so i fiddled around and made 4-reactor tiles which can output true 640MW, most tileable reactors won't manage that (due to limited water, steam or heatpipe throughput).

reactor control

every reactor tile (4 reactors) has two large steam buffers (left and right). each buffer is big enough to store enough steam to go from zero to full energy consumption without power drops. as it is tileable each segment has its own 'intelligent' reactor control. it uses 3 combinators per 2 reactors. this system might be edited to work for smaller stand-alone setups using 2 combinators for the whole reactor.

reactor control

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first of: a DC (orange) checks the stored steam '

< 450k

' and outputs '

1

'. so even when there is no steam stored it will output '

1

', this is necessary for automatic startup.

this signal is sent to the inserter (green) which handles the uranium fuel cells. it checks if '

>

', if this is true (which it is after construction) it will activate and insert a single uranium fuel cell (stack size limited to 1). as it reads its hand content (pulse) it will send a signal '

' to the attached memory cell.

this memory cell (red DC) will store this signal until a signal '

> 0

' is fed into it. have a look here for more information about memory cells.

this is done by the inserter (blue) which extracts the used up uranium fuel cell from the reactor. it is set to read hand content (pulse).

after the memory cell is reset, the uranium fuel cell inserting inserter will check again for '

>

' which will be done until the stored steam exceeds the set limit of 450k units (and the DC stops sending '

1

').
when steam drops below this threshold the first DC will start to send '

1

' again and the cycle will start again.

all the other combinators are only there to control the lamps. its quite similar to the 'level indicator' (-> the refinery).

i used a combinator for each reactor to make it failsave. tileable setups are a little different than stand-alone setups which should work with 2 combinators.

45sps/2700spm All Science Book

link: factorioprints

belt mixer

nothing really special, i just like to show of this one

4-4 belt mixer

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its just a 4-4 belt mixer. its output can be handled by (non lane-) balancers.

module production

in case you need a potent, tileable module production.

module production

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kirkmcdonald calculator

final thoughts

example setup

this is a suggestion for one of the science bps:

1x labs
1x science production

3-4 'all my circuits'

refinery:
1x sulfur/lube/acid
5x plastic
1x batteries
4x rocket fuel

smelter:
9x iron plates
15x copper plates
10x steel plates
3x stone bricks

save example

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its not the above mentioned ratio, its more a map to test the general functionality of those bps. most of them are on earlier iterations.

tl;dr

the promised offline spreadsheet:

Factorio station thresholds V1.1b.xlsx

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like i said in the introduction:
please feel free to ask questions or let me know what can be made easier/better. it may take some time for me to answer, but i will try my best.

you made it this far... thank you very much for reading. im looking forward for criticism and glorification.


the factory must grow...


english is not my first language, so please excuse clunky expressions or other mistakes. if something isn't clear, wrong or can be misunderstood, please let me know.

[ranzolger]

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[ranzolger]

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[slartibartfast2]

Hey ranzolger, first I'd like to just say thanks so much for your hard work uploading and documenting these blueprints!

I'm a fairly new Factorio player (about 100 hours) and I've been using your circuits blueprints extensively and I absolutely love them.

I'm now starting to build my first "mini-mega" base - aiming at 500spm as a first goal, which requires me to bring in large quantities of raw materials. I don't have a lot of experience with trains and I'm looking at the outpost stations included with "The Smelter" for several of my deposits. However, there are a few things I can't quite figure out:

1. The station is meant for a train with 4 cars yet there is room for 5 cars (or a gap of one car length between the locomotive and the cargo cars). Is the assumption that every train has an artillery wagon? Or something else?
2. Any tips for how to build the train station to unload these materials? Basically a simple station connected to a stacker on both sides?

Thanks again!

[ranzolger]

all my bps use either 2-4-0 or 2-8-0 trains, so 2 locomotives and 4 or 8 cargo/fluid wagons. this explains the gap you mentioned. both locomotives face in the same direction, this will increase train acceleration by a large amount.

and for design of train stations... thats completely your decision and may depend on what you want to do. i personally prefer repeatable designs (like i used in all my bps). especially in areas where you need a couple of stations (ore deliveries to your starting base, or plates later on).
the stacker is only necessary in front of the trainstop(s), and only in case you use more than one train.

for a simple and short explanation have a look here.
something i read before using trains was this guide (even though it doesnt cover station design). its quite old, but still viable.

feel free to try different approaches, fail and succeed.

i hope i could help.

[causa-sui]

I made a small change to extend the red circuit blueprint to make plastic onsite. Since I use a lot of coal liquefaction to make petroleum gas this has served me well in a few places. I'm interested in constructive criticism.

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[ranzolger]

nice edit... good to see other work on those bps as well

fitting design, inserter throughput is fine, beacons are enough... i don't see any problems, good job

but i couldn't help myself but to fiddle around :

top: design by causa-sui
bottom: my nitpicking 'enhancement'

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its one tile smaller and a little bit cleaner (at least in my eyes).

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[NotRexButCaesar]

Very cool. I probably won’t use them as they aren’t my style, but I can most definitely take inspiration.

[causa-sui]

but i couldn't help myself but to fiddle around :

Ah, nice. Yeah, I try to keep the entry undergrounds "inside" the beacons when doing these 13-tile type things, and it was bugging me with this one that I didn't see an easy way to pack them in one more tile. The answer was right in front of me all along. Thanks!

[causa-sui]

I also made some variants of your base grid that have absolute alignment and landfill

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[causa-sui]

Might the circuit logic for the smelter w/ stops be simplified in 1.1?

[DWRoelands]

Thanks for these BPs!

I'm having a heck of a time with The Reactor, and I'm sure it's just my own ignorance.

I can't stamp down the blueprints because there's no water where the offshore pumps are set up. Do I have to use the editor to put water in the correct spots for each "Tile" BP? Or am I missing something obvious?

[ranzolger]

the reactor is meant to be printed on top of water, thats why it includes landfill.

i didn't wanted to use waterfill or something similar, as it would have included mods.

[causa-sui]

I'm weighing some blueprints, what do you think of this one? Seems good to use 4 prod modules in the copper wire assemblers no? link

by DaveMcW viewtopic.php?f=202&t=83879

[kvzp]

Now with an RHD version of The Smelter !

https://factorioprints.com/view/-MY0iqTHvqH2cQ8DP9Cy

[causa-sui]

I made an edit to the red chip build. Now there are only prod modules in the machines, and I deleted one red chip assembler. I think this gives good ratios though since three of these consume one blue belt of plastic and output one red belt of chips. And using prod modules in the machines seems better in general.

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[spagno]

Awesome blueprints, I'm using them for a while but i have a couple of questions if I may
how to connect the outpost ore? I also trying to use the "Base grid book" but it doesn't fit well

I also have a lot of queue problems, maybe i'm doing something wrong

regards

[ranzolger]

Sorry for the late answer...

I made an edit to the red chip build. Now there are only prod modules in the machines[...]

I've added another version of the red circuit production with only prod modules and full belt consumption of plastic/green circuits.
But good to see new/advanced designs!

Awesome blueprints[...]

Thanks

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how to connect the outpost ore?
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I actually don't get the question. Just plop down the bp next to an ore patch, connect the ore belts to the station and rename those as you wish. And if course the train tracks have to be connected to the smelter(s).

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I also trying to use the "Base grid book" but it doesn't fit well
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Thats a rather old blueprint of mine. Its not specifically compatible to anything i made. I made this for full radar/roboport coverage a long time before i startet using trains.

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I also have a lot of queue problems, maybe i'm doing something wrong
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Could you be more specific about queue problems? Is it about the trains just before the stations? Have you used the provided stacker bps? Then there should be no problem.


Merry christmas to you all!

[mjones24]

Is there anyway that you could post a blueprint for the section of track that you are using to connect the main four lines to the various stations? I am having trouble getting the signals right

[mjones24]

Also do you have any blueprints for petroleum and water outposts?