I made an Excel template for planning layouts at work.

[TypeO]

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

[Starwalker]

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.

[TypeO]

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.

[cube]

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?

[TypeO]

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.

[onebit]

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.

[DerivePi]

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

[onebit]

I like how you can show the power under there!

[infogulch]

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)

[TypeO]

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

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.

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

[DerivePi]

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

[ShenJingBing]

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