How do people paste entire building setups?

[Jimmy]

Ive seen some video where a person smacked a gigantic cluster of pre-designed layout for buildings with belts and inserters and everything.

I have been plaing only for 2 days tier 2 technology.
How do people do this>?

[Fel]

This is a feature called blueprints, new players initially don't have access to those until you research construction robots (that use those ghost and the corresponding items to build it for you).

There is a way to unlock it via a console command /unlock-shortcut-bar but I would recomment that you get through the game once first to properly learn how things work (unlocking that function normally in the process).

[CrushedIce]

Also its way more fun to design your own factory than copying it together from other people ;)

[Jimmy]

Originally posted by Fel:

This is a feature called blueprints, new players initially don't have access to those until you research construction robots (that use those ghost and the corresponding items to build it for you).

There is a way to unlock it via a console command /unlock-shortcut-bar but I would recomment that you get through the game once first to properly learn how things work (unlocking that function normally in the process).

Yes i have been very very careful about spoiling myself the game. On my 3rd hour i was looking at an idea how to setup smelting because i had no technologies and i was kinda confused. I didnt know splitter belt excisted at that point so then i saw a picture on reddit.
I used the design idea for carrying iron and coal together but after that stopped looking at designs.
Ive been enjoying alot for 3 days figuring out how to construct my own production lines.
Even went to bed once and woke up in the middle of the night because i had a great idea.

But i do pop up here or on the wiki page for some technical information and clarifications.
Because id also like to be able to save my own setup which can help me scale and plan things better in the future.
Thats why i asked about this blueprint thing

[Aero182]

Ctrl+C = copy
Ctrl+V = paste

Also when you copy something you can open your inventory and place a "blueprint" into it.

Then you can also press B and open your personal blueprint book. Create a copy of the blueprint and put it into that blueprint book, and you can open the book in other games and copy it again into other games.

[Owl]

Originally posted by CrushedIce:

Also its way more fun to design your own factory than copying it together from other people ;)

totally agree.

[Aero182]

Originally posted by Owl:

Originally posted by CrushedIce:

Also its way more fun to design your own factory than copying it together from other people ;)

totally agree.

agree x2. it's kinda like you start the game off doing spaghetti for the first 30 hours of play, then do busses/generic builds, then go back to spaghetti again, but you're way better at it haha.

im nearly on 1500 hours