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Space platform: STS Inner

Space platform: STS Inner is a blueprint with 597 entities in a 40×71 tile area, mainly 218 × stone wall and 81 × accumulator. It needs Space Age and is built for space platforms. Copy the string and import it from the blueprint library.

Top-down preview of Space platform: STS Inner
  • Walls and turrets 243
  • Power 125
  • Blue belts 107
  • Pipes and fluids 50
  • Inserters 37
  • Space platform 20
  • Circuits 8
  • Machines 4
  • Chemistry 3
Simplified drawing: each colour is a building type, not game graphics. Zoom in and hover a building to see what it is and what it makes.

About this build

A space platform design called STS Inner, from Thomas Paine's Space Platforms book: 40 by 71 tiles with 5 thrusters, 6 asteroid collectors, 4 crushers, 8 gun turrets, 17 laser turrets, 44 solar panels, 8 cargo bays. Platforms are placed on foundation tiles and must handle their own fuel and asteroids.

Thomas's notes: Inner system shuttle transport system where solar power works and rockets are not needed.

Before you place it

  • Clear a space of at least 40 × 71 tiles.
  • You need the Space Age expansion (Asteroid collector, Crusher, Advanced thruster fuel recipe).
  • It has 7 crafting machines, so connect enough power before you switch it on.
  • It is large: construction robots will place it much faster than building by hand.
  • It has turrets: keep them supplied with ammunition or power.
  • It uses circuit logic. Do not remove wires or combinators when you adapt it.

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What it uses

  • Stone wall218
  • Accumulator81
  • Express transport belt62
  • Express underground belt44
  • Solar panel44
  • Bulk inserter37
  • Pipe29
  • Laser turret17
  • Pipe to ground16
  • Cargo bay8
  • Gun turret8
  • Asteroid collector6
  • Decider combinator5
  • Thruster5

…and 8 more building types, 17 entities in all.

Recipes

  • Advanced oxide asteroid crushing ×1
  • Advanced thruster fuel ×1
  • Advanced thruster oxidizer ×1
  • Carbonic asteroid crushing ×1
  • Ice melting ×1
  • Metallic asteroid crushing ×1
  • Metallic asteroid reprocessing ×1

Facts

TypeBlueprint
Game version2.0.72
Space AgeRequired (Asteroid collector, Crusher, Advanced thruster fuel recipe, Advanced thruster oxidizer recipe, Cargo bay, Space platform hub, Thruster, Space platform foundation)
PlanetSpace platform
Size40 × 71 tiles
Entities597
PowerAbout 7.1 MW with all 9 machines working. Modules are included; inserters, belts, lamps and robot charging are not.
CheckedPassed an automated check against Factorio 2.1 game data: no overlapping buildings, unknown buildings or unknown recipes.

Space AgeSpace platforms

Numbers behind builds like this: thruster fuel and oxidizer ratio for space platforms · asteroid crushing: crusher recipes and outputs per second

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