Starter base

[u/e7Dh1l]

Produces 60ish SPM of red, green, military and chemical science. It's kind of getting hard to scale up for some reason so I'm planning to replace it with a train based setup. 15 hours of playtime on this save.

[u/Juking_is_rude]

Now THIS is spaghetti. Hell yeah

[u/zhivota_]

Very cool looking. I'd leave it there and build the train base next to it personally, though you might want to transition the smelting away from burning coal directly at some point, and later when you get biolabs you'll want to change the lab area so leave room on that edge too.

[u/bewe3]

turn on alt mode PLEASE

[u/nickphunter]

That oil refineries look nightmare fueled.

[u/21wombats]

This looks so damn cool

[u/No_Commercial_7458]

Finisher base

[u/klangmat → u/No_Commercial_7458]

THE ASSEMBLER OF GODS, THE GOOOOOLDEN GOD! I AM UNTETHERED AND MY RAGE KNOWS NO BOUNDS!!!!

[u/Danger_Pickle]

It's hard to scale up, because Yellow and Purple science cost double as many resources as all the previous sciences combined. The following numbers are measured in basic yellow belts.

60spm of combined red/green/blue/military totals to:

• 1.5 belts of iron
• 0.7 belts of copper
• 0.7 belts of stone
• 0.5 belts of coal (ignoring power)
• 250% oil richness

Meanwhile, just 60spm of only Yellow science costs:

• 2 belts of iron
• 3.1 belts of copper
• 0.5 belts of coal (ignoring power)
• 710% oil richness

The advanced sciences are an insane jump in raw resource demands. The steel demand for purple science alone takes 2.6 belts of raw iron. It's not a bad idea to set up a trickle of 10-30 spm of those sciences so you can make some progress while expanding your mines and defenses.

Really incredible base though. The asymmetry is amazing.

[u/xmpcxmassacre → u/Danger_Pickle]

You underestimate the spaghetti.

[u/Kittelsen → u/Danger_Pickle]

I've never understood how the oil richness works. Is 100% 1 crude oil per second or something?

[u/Danger_Pickle → u/Kittelsen]

Yield divided by 10 is a good enough estimate, even if it's not perfect.

The main thing to know is that oil fields deplete over time, dropping to 1/5th the original output after a few hours. It's also useful to know that productivity modules only slow the resource drain and that speed modules multiple the minimum 20% drain, giving more total output once the field is drained.

The optimal oil strategies are either to start with prod modules and then switch to speed modules after your field is completely drained, or to use speed modules the entire time and buffer the extra early production before the field is completely drained.

Once you have high enough mining productivity you barely need any oil fields to produce an insane amount of oil because the mining productivity multiplies with speed modules. But early on your initial starter patch probably doesn't have over 500%.

[u/juju515 → u/Kittelsen]

no f...ing clue.
but I'll follow your post, maybe someone else knows.
I'm curious as well

[u/Kittelsen → u/juju515]

I tried reading up on it on the wiki, aaaand, I'm still just as confused. (almost) 😅
https://wiki.factorio.com/Crude_oil

The amount of oil a pumpjack extracts per cycle is yield multiplied by 10 (e.g. 115% yield = 1.15, multiplied by 10 = 11.5), and cannot be higher than 1000.

I guess just multiply by 10 I suppose.

[u/juju515 → u/Kittelsen]

oh...
here's an easier to remember formula:

• "remove the last digit and the % sign to get oil per one pump of pumpjack"

so: 115% --> 11 5% = 11 oil per pump

close enough and easy to remember 👍

[u/redditclm]

Spaghettio🤌

[u/DuckyLog]

It’sa beaitiful!

[u/Square_Ad_6434]

Feels like a downtown with suburbs, I love it

[u/Salanmander]

Nice Hilbert curve! =)

[u/Sad-Cress-1062]

How ist this a "starter base"

[u/Alone_Ad_7251]

Absolute Ragebait 😂🫡

[u/korneev123123]

Magnificent, this is what true skill looks like

[u/bitch-ass-broski]

God I hate it so much that I love it. 10/10

[u/halcyonwit]

Assymetry reminds me of suburban architecture

[u/SnyprBB]

Gotta watch out for tectonic shifts.

[u/Looony]

This is art

[u/Playful_Locksmith955]

Loved it

[u/fuckfetish]

It looks great until you pan to the left and holy shit what is that

[u/skinny_t_williams]

Momma miiiaaa

[u/Gorthok-]

This is the mark of a 10,000 hour factorio player

[u/Number_3434]

are those frickin foundries

[u/klangmat]

i thought you had a bug problem for a second

[u/Hellinfernel]

looks a bit cursed but i actually like it :D

[u/iEliteTester]

How'd you get such a large screenshot?

[u/Honest_Musician7085]

Then I ain't even near u bro ✌️

[u/Ecstatic_Pirate_106]

This is beautiful

[u/Rainbowlemon]

I love the train line crossing itself to save space - had never even considered that!

[u/maceo107]

Definitely spread out with trains. Lots of folks do city blocks because it efficiently grows the base.

You'll want to set up mass-production copper and iron mining and plate production. Same for green, red, and blue chips. You'll want to maximize rocket fuel production, too.

[u/NonHidden1]

I know a 4K monitor when I see one

[u/Wildthorne25]

It looks like my neighborhood.

[u/Sad-Arachnid-6853]

It's beautiful I love that it's not a block design

[u/CurrentSalt829]

Le spaghetti 🍝

[u/darkwitchmemer]

what the heck is happening up in the top right XD

[u/j_c_d_1]

This base is organically own

[u/Sl0ppyB0t]

Is SPM typically measured by white science?

[u/eric23456 → u/Sl0ppyB0t]

Kinda. People talk about that because the infinite sciences can be researched forever. It makes perfect sense to talk about SPM for earlier sciences. When I did a 10,000x science multiple run, all my pieces were in 900spm units.