Factorio guides
The ratios and numbers the builds on this site are based on, from the base game to every Space Age planet, plus how to import blueprints.
- How to import a Factorio blueprint stringImport a Factorio blueprint string in four steps: copy it, open the blueprint library, click Import string and paste. Covers books, Space Age, quality and mods.Read guide
- Factorio furnaces per belt: 48 stone or 24 steel furnaces per yellow beltHow many stone, steel or electric furnaces fill a yellow, red, blue or turbo belt: 48 stone or 24 steel furnaces per yellow belt, plus the steel plate ratio.Read guide
- Factorio steam power ratio: 2 steam engines per boiler (1:20:40)Each boiler feeds 2 steam engines, and one offshore pump feeds 20 boilers: the 1 : 20 : 40 steam ratio, the power it makes and how much coal it burns.Read guide
- Factorio solar panel to accumulator ratio (Nauvis)The 0.84 accumulators per solar panel ratio on Nauvis, how many panels you need per megawatt day and night, and why other planets differ.Read guide
- Factorio oil processing ratio: refineries and crackingThe 20 : 5 : 17 ratio of refineries, heavy oil cracking and light oil cracking for all-petroleum oil, with the numbers per second and smaller builds.Read guide
- Factorio nuclear reactor ratio: heat exchangers and turbinesHow many heat exchangers and steam turbines each nuclear reactor layout needs, the neighbour bonus, and the power of 1, 2, 4 and 8 reactor setups.Read guide
- Factorio belt speeds: items per second for every beltYellow, red, blue and turbo belt throughput in items per second, per lane and with Space Age belt stacking, plus how many machines a belt feeds.Read guide
- Factorio scrap recycling: what 100 scrap gives and recyclers per beltEvery Fulgora scrap recycling output and its chance, 2.5 scrap per second per recycler, 6 recyclers per yellow belt of scrap, and how to deal with the surplus.Read guide
- Factorio Vulcanus casting ratio: foundries for molten iron and platesVulcanus foundry ratios: one molten iron foundry feeds 3.75 casting foundries, and 4 casting foundries fill a yellow belt of plates. Steel included.Read guide
- Factorio Gleba bioflux ratio and spoil times (6 : 5 : 2)The Gleba bioflux ratio: 6 bioflux biochambers, 5 yumako and 2 jellynut processing biochambers make 12 bioflux per second. Plus every spoil time that matters.Read guide
- Factorio quality chance: quality module percentages and legendary oddsQuality module chances for every tier, how the 10% rule decides rare, epic and legendary, what 4 quality module 3 give, and what quality improves.Read guide
- Factorio beacons in 2.0: diminishing returns and how many to useHow Factorio 2.0 beacons work: 1.5 effectivity divided by the square root of the beacon count, totals for 1 to 20 beacons, and the most per machine.Read guide
- Factorio thruster fuel and oxidizer ratio for space platformsHow much thruster fuel and oxidizer a thruster uses, chemical plants per thruster for basic and advanced recipes, and why a half-fed thruster is more efficient.Read guide
- Factorio asteroid crushing: crusher recipes and outputs per secondEvery asteroid crushing, advanced crushing and reprocessing recipe, what one crusher makes per second, and the chunk return that changed in Factorio 2.1.Read guide
- Factorio Aquilo heating: heat per building and heating towersHow much heat every building needs on Aquilo, why underground belts and pipes drain so much, and how many buildings one 40 MW heating tower keeps warm.Read guide