Smelting book: stone furnaces to beaconed smelters (early to late game)
Smelting book: stone furnaces to beaconed smelters (early to late game) is a blueprint book with 23 blueprints and 14,632 entities in total (the largest covers 135×90 tiles). It is mainly 1411 × electric furnace and 172 × stone furnace. It works without Space Age. Copy the string and import it from the blueprint library.
- Blue belts 6,597
- Inserters 3,568
- Furnaces 1,751
- Red belts 1,239
- Yellow belts 618
- Power poles 556
- Beacons 272
- Circuits 19
- Chests 12
About this build
A complete smelting book in 23 blueprints, sorted by stage: early game stone furnace columns for iron, copper, stone and steel, mid-game steel furnace arrays on red belts, and late game electric furnace smelters with and without beacons up to 360 plates per second. It also holds chest buffers and an input/output splitter block.
From Maxiume's smelting tutorial, which explains each design.
Changes on this site: the author's editor-only test entities (infinity chests and pipes, energy interfaces, loaders) were removed, so connect real inputs and power where they were.
Watch it explained
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Before you place it
- Clear a space of at least 135 × 90 tiles for the largest blueprint in the book.
- It works in the base game without Space Age.
- It has 1751 crafting machines and 272 beacons, so connect enough power before you switch it on.
- It is large: construction robots will place it much faster than building by hand.
- It uses circuit logic. Do not remove wires or combinators when you adapt it.
- Editor-only test inputs were removed: connect real inputs where the author had test sources.
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What it uses
…and 11 more building types, 278 entities in all.
Facts
| Type | Blueprint book (23 blueprints) |
|---|---|
| Game version | 2.0.32 |
| Space Age | Not required |
| Size | 135 × 90 tiles (largest blueprint) |
| Entities | 14,632 |
| Checked | Passed an automated check against Factorio 2.1 game data: no overlapping buildings, unknown buildings or unknown recipes. |
Numbers behind builds like this: Vulcanus casting ratio: foundries for molten iron and plates · furnaces per belt: 48 stone or 24 steel furnaces per yellow belt · mining drills per belt: 30 electric drills fill a yellow belt
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