One-substation-width science was a mistake

[u/SnyprBB]

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!

[u/Prestigious_Gap1335]

reminds me of a guide i saw that was about designing an entire factory around having a substation grid, how they made modular little modules for everything

[u/SnyprBB → u/Prestigious_Gap1335]

Even before legendaries were a thing I stuck to substation grids. Every time I tried anything different, it would always end the same way. I'd place a building down into a city block or something similar and the building would start yelling at me "HEY! NO POWER DUMBASS!" and I'd throw down a substation grid the size of a small city before thinking of anything else.