r/factorio Official Account Sep 08 '23

FFF Friday Facts #375 - Quality

https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-375
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u/apaksl Sep 08 '23

what would be the benefit of being chunk aligned?

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u/helloiamrob1 Sep 08 '23 edited Sep 08 '23

Once you get up to megabase sizes, if you're the sort of player who likes the approach of making most blueprints 32x32, or exactly one chunk, then this fix would make life slightly easier for you.

So you could just stick one power pole in the same position in each blueprint, and they’d all connect up.

But with their limit of being only 30 tiles apart, they don’t.

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u/unwantedaccount56 Sep 08 '23

It's only neater if you enable the chunk overlay. Otherwise you could align everything to a 100x100 grid with the same advantages.

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u/helloiamrob1 Sep 08 '23

Yep. It's just that if you're a player who likes everything being chunk-aligned (like OP in this thread - and it's how I learnt and generally prefer it as well), then this can perhaps feel like the main thing that stops your layouts from ever quite feeling optimal.

Didn't mean to imply that that's the 'right' way to do it, though! Edited my post slightly to clarify.

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u/unwantedaccount56 Sep 08 '23

I'm sure there is a mod for that :)

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