Any examples of "modular" factories?

[MT SPT]

I am trying to build modular factories ("mini factories") that are not concentrated in one place. However, I am not sure how to divide my factories.

Have you guys seen any examples of modular factories that I could take inspiration from? I am kind of overwhelmed.

Any help is greatly appreciated

[Kage Goomba]

Not sure if this counts as modular but I do know that its been accepted that "centralization" is a bit of a bad idea as the game will lag out hard.

So building components off site and shipping finished products tends to be a good idea - not to mention makes good sense.

Like I've got an oil field and I'm refining/building mats there before shipping them out.

It comes down to how you prefer to do things at that point - logistics is also key.

[Phoenix Cat]

TBH and IMO modular factories really only start to work when you have a reliable way to transport materials from on location to another. Things are so spread out now. Used to be easier. I just start off by building mini factories and making whatever is at that location that I can. Then upgrade from there once you can start transporting items reliably.

[MT SPT]

Originally posted by Kage Goomba:

Not sure if this counts as modular but I do know that its been accepted that "centralization" is a bit of a bad idea as the game will lag out hard.

So building components off site and shipping finished products tends to be a good idea - not to mention makes good sense.

Like I've got an oil field and I'm refining/building mats there before shipping them out.

It comes down to how you prefer to do things at that point - logistics is also key.

Yeah I dont want to centralize everything into a mega factory which is why I am trying to make a "modular" factory (factories spread out on the map )

[Kage Goomba]

Originally posted by MT SPT:

Originally posted by Kage Goomba:

Not sure if this counts as modular but I do know that its been accepted that "centralization" is a bit of a bad idea as the game will lag out hard.

So building components off site and shipping finished products tends to be a good idea - not to mention makes good sense.

Like I've got an oil field and I'm refining/building mats there before shipping them out.

It comes down to how you prefer to do things at that point - logistics is also key.

Yeah I dont want to centralize everything into a mega factory which is why I am trying to make a "modular" factory (factories spread out on the map )

Yeah I've got a "main base hub" where I started - so its a large facility - but that has to do with the fact there's like 6 iron nodes there.

But I make Steel/Caterium off site and ship it in.
I have a 96 Coal Power Plant long ways off - it also makes Gunpowder with left over coal - and ship that back in.

My Oil Field - all oil products made there and shipping it in.

Just to name a few things.

[Maehlice]

I try to be modular at the floor level, which also lends itself to being modular at the factory level.

I'm working on one of the Ore Processing Centers right now. These are screenshots from the Iron & Steel floor:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3355050351

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3355054866

Each of those modules is a complete unit tuned to process 120 Iron Ore & Coal Into 102 Iron & 180 Steel Ingots.

We invented the wheel once, and now any one of us can just plop one down anywhere we need Iron & Steel.

I have similar BPs for pretty much every part that can be fit entirely within a single blueprint. Else, it just takes a couple extra BPs to complete the module (in which case notes on the BP and subcategory organization come into play).

EDIT: It all comes down to what kind of logistics you want to work with. Do you want a few long trains transporting thousands of items and parts, or do you want a bunch of smaller local networks that you can then later connect to transport just a few hundred here and there?

[MT SPT]

Originally posted by Maehlice:

I try to be modular at the floor level, which also lends itself to being modular at the factory level.

I'm working on one of the Ore Processing Centers right now. These are screenshots from the Iron & Steel floor:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3355050351

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3355054866

Each of those modules is a complete unit tuned to process 120 Iron Ore & Coal Into 102 Iron & 180 Steel Ingots.

We invented the wheel once, and now any one of us can just plop one down anywhere we need Iron & Steel.

I have similar BPs for pretty much every part that can be fit entirely within a single blueprint. Else, it just takes a couple extra BPs to complete the module (in which case notes on the BP and subcategory organization come into play).

EDIT: It all comes down to what kind of logistics you want to work with. Do you want a few long trains transporting thousands of items and parts, or do you want a bunch of smaller local networks that you can then later connect to transport just a few hundred here and there?

Thanks!

[Dirtyshadow]

Examples from small to large scale inspiration you may want to look at Yakez on Youtube.
He was doing a blue print only build challenge and his modular and stacking factories are crazy good, but he also explains them and shares his blueprints.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZCxu3XCgkU

[MT SPT]

Originally posted by Dirtyshadow:

Examples from small to large scale inspiration you may want to look at Yakez on Youtube.
He was doing a blue print only build challenge and his modular and stacking factories are crazy good, but he also explains them and shares his blueprints.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZCxu3XCgkU

Thanks

[M.Red]

very small and modular
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3338622043

currently playing around - putting smelters on top of the containers for ore makes a nice little smelter setup

[Hybria]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PzhHwnX9ts

One Mega Factory for everything

[oilreg]

Originally posted by MT SPT:

I am trying to build modular factories ("mini factories") that are not concentrated in one place. However, I am not sure how to divide my factories.

Have you guys seen any examples of modular factories that I could take inspiration from? I am kind of overwhelmed.

Any help is greatly appreciated

there is some Youtuber called Yakez he has some free to download cube factories