Early game blueprints
Small, cheap builds for the first hours of a new map: burner and stone-furnace setups, first science and simple power. They use only early-game items so you can place them before you have bots.
18 blueprints, 17 without quality machines (shown first) · Start here
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Space platform First interplanetary ship (Vulcanus, Gleba and Fulgora)
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Base gameBook · 23 Smelting book: stone furnaces to beaconed smelters (early to late game)
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Space Age Nauvis starter base (large, through rockets)
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Space platform Space science starter platform: 1.5/s
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Vulcanus Vulcanus main base (large)
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Vulcanus Vulcanus starter (small)
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Base game 24 stone furnace smelting column for iron or copper plates
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Base game Brian's Bootstrap phase 4: complete early base
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Base gameBook · 6 Brian's Bootstrap: starter base in four phases (book)
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Base game Early steam power: 1 offshore pump, boilers and 4 steam engines
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Base gameMade in 1.1 Early steam power: 36 MW (1 pump, 20 boilers, 40 engines)
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Base gameMade in 1.1 Electric mining drill array: 4 blocks, yellow belt
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Base game First automation: early research base
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Base game Gun turret wall section for early defence
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Base game Nauvis starter: first automation on an iron ore patch
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Base gameBook · 21 Staged starter base book for Factorio 2.0: from burner mining to bots
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Base game Starter base: bot rush and early mall (60 SPM)
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Space platformRare Interstellar ship for Aquilo