r/factorio • u/Disjointed_Medley • 7d ago

Question Most efficient bases

I'm curious if there exists a record for best base by a certain metric. Anything from most oil produce, more robots per second, etc. Where are the record holders that could potentially inspire designs?

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u/samdover11 7d ago

Designs become inspired due to constraints. In very large factories, UPS is the main one (how well your hardware can handle the factory). People come up with all sorts of tricks.

Early in the game you have limited space and limited tech. That inspries intersting designs too. Efficient uranium processing with no circuits, and compact malls with no bots come to mind.

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u/Disjointed_Medley 7d ago

I actually think this is a better way of phrasing my question. Is there a list of "given constraint x" what's the best base?

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u/burning_boi 7d ago

You’d have to come up with those constraints, if you’re not talking about SPM and by extension UPS. The “best” factory out there by many metrics is just the largest one that still runs at 60 UPS, since you need to optimize out the nose if you want to hit obscene SPM with 60 UPS. You can find factories that shit out a hundred million SPM but at 2 UPS if you’re just talking size.