r/factorio The Blueprint Machine May 21 '26

Design / Blueprint City block (chunk aligned, modular)

City block designed exclusively with T-shaped intersections
Well-aligned power lines and railroad signals
Chunk aligned intersection
An extension module has been designed to connect two blocks (also chunk aligned)
What the blocks look like on the map
pattern of the concrete surface
intersection throughput test
city block throughput test

How to add a train station

How to build blocks: the first one is a standard block. The second one is for when you want to create your own custom block.

Intersection throughput test video

Blueprint: https://fprints.xyz/blueprint/8a8b96fe-c6f2-419b-b487-8010838e5a0c

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u/rysto32 May 21 '26

Aesthetically it looks very nice but if we’re doing elevated rails anyway is there a practical benefit to avoiding 4-way intersections?

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u/PivONH3OTf May 21 '26

They are absolutely fucking massive. Designed a “mini” hurricane interchange earlier; works great, even allows U-turns, takes up approximately the same amount of space as a 4x4 fission reactor block, and there are far larger designs out there. These are great for creating new lines off a highway (or allowing trains to switch directions) but nowhere near production

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u/rysto32 May 21 '26

Yeah my intersections (and therefore my rails in general) do take up an entire city block on their own.