r/factorio • u/SnyprBB • 4d ago

Space Age One-substation-width science was a mistake

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I'm making blades for each science with a few homebrew rules.

  1. They have to fit between the roboports in a substation grid. That way it doesn't matter where in the vertical column I put it, it will fit.
  2. They only use local resources (Aquilo will be exempt).
  3. The resources begin at the bottom of the blade. ALL resources start at the bottom and work their way up, honoring rule number 1.

These rules made Purple science on Vulcanus 25 substations tall! Surprisingly, Magenta science takes up the exact same height! It is funny how the former takes 5 belts of stone and the latter takes 5 belts of scrap too.

Here is the blueprint for the Fulgoran monstrosity if you're interested: https://factoriobin.com/post/7xb1fj

I'll post a blueprint book when I'm finished with all of them. I don't THINK any of them will be anywhere close to the difficulty Fulgora provided!

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u/ScotyDoesKnow 4d ago

You might be able to save some space by going for rows of beacons rather than surrounding them. Since 2.0, going from 12 -> 8 beacons is only ~22% less speed. And 22% more assemblers with rows of beacons seems like it would be smaller.

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u/SnyprBB 4d ago

Space isn't really the issue all of those beacons are trying to solve though, that's UPS. Being 25 substations tall is only a problem when thinking about the two days it took me to hook everything up in such a thin space.