I needed another entrance to the tunnels under the roads, so I threw this together real quick with plans to rebuild something better later but I kinda like it. Looks like a funky modern greenhouse crossed with a city subway entrance.
Steel pipe factory. Makes 300/min from 1,200 iron ingots (alt recipe). Got the idea from a helix build I did in another game a while back. Might work on the interior more but it's cramped already, mostly just a showpiece to bulk up the city.
I've been hiding my truck stations by building structure around them, but this time I wanted them to fit naturally with the design. The factory next to it is making 4,800 iron ingots per min so I wanted 2 truck stations (each with a max of 2,400 items/min) able to fill trucks. Went with an open drive-through design. I think it works.
Simple wire factory, gets ingots by truck from the smeltery then ships wire out via the other truck station. Makes 2,400 wire/min
I'm building a little city, and for local item transfer I want to use trucks to make the roads seem alive and trains eventually for long hauls. The trucks need fuel and it seemed kinda stupid to run fuel to every one for such short trips, so I made a centralized gas station. It has 1200 coal/min running to 2 truck stations, so plenty to siphon off for other projects. I'm planning to set truck routes that hit up the gas station every x stops and hopefully everything runs fine. The design is a cross between a Texaco gas station I remember as a kid with Ficsit flair.
I needed copper ingots for a different factory I'm planning so I went and made this, turned out pretty cool. Makes 1200 copper ingots/min and feeds the matching truck station with overflow going to a sink for now
I wanted to embrace visible logistics and have glowing belts on display. 80 smelters that will be cranking out 2400 iron ingots per min.
I've been hiding my logistics in the last few factories, so this time I decided to embrace it and have open logistics with levels of visible multicolor neon belts in an iron smelting factory
First playthrough, 2nd factory for this city block. Refineries producing plastic, rubber, and petro coke. My first factory was boxy so I really tried to add depth to this one. Tried to blueprint some sections but refineries are huge and the building sections required too much fiddling to snap clean so I just did it all by hand. If I never have to place another beam it'll be too soon lol
2nd "real" factory. bunch of refineries making plastic, rubber, and petro coke. got everything working with minimal fiddling. another good learning experience. I think I'm done with conveyer floor holes, they rarely work right especially mk 6. got some ideas for the outside shape/theme and deco but for now i'm just happy everything works. instead of a loopback to equalize pipe pressure, I did buffer towers this time and they seem to be working great.
now that the first factory is done and I have some practice, I started to make roads with plenty of tunnel space to bus items. going to build south towards oil and have this factory ship materials to a bunch of refineries at the next location. it won't be far so I plan to use trucks to give the roads some life
It's my first factory with walls and a roof, so I went simple to learn the ropes about clean building and logistics. Makes wire and quickwire out of caterium from a nearby deposit. Still need to deco with signs and stuff. Right now I'm just sinking everything, but I plan to add more factories and shuttle parts to them.
I started a factory yesterday to match the caterium mine in the back, but it had all sorts of weird angles, floors not lining up, and was entirely too dark inside so I tore it down. Changed over to a brighter, simpler building design with enough windows for natural light to come through. Just finished the first production floor and basement logistics
First time making a real factory that's not just machines on foundations. about to test run the smelters and make sure everything is hooked up correctly before moving on to the next production floor. it's a caterium factory so i went with a dark gold industrial theme
I just kept chaining machines together and supplying inputs by train and honestly the spaghetti factor isn't too bad and it cranks out everything up to turbo motors. Gonna stop the progression grind for now and start using all of these materials to build some cool factories.
Going to build a small wire/quickwire factory so I built this to house a nearby caterium node, miner inside
First playthrough, phase 4. Built a fuel gen power station for more juice and a railway to haul the inputs. Learned a lot about fluids/pipes. Originally had everything piped internally but I was playing around with loopbacks and buffers trying to stabilize oil flow.