City block nilaus In my first attempt to make a city block base I ran into this issue too and the suggestion that worked well for me was using one block for the mall itself and a neighboring block for unloading all the things it needs. Snapping 100x100, absolute, on grid Posted by Nilaus 3 years ago. This is my channel dedicated to Gaming with Let's Plays, Tutorials and live streams I play games that fulfill the FACTORIOFactorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Grid Aligned City Blocks and Rail Segments - FACTORIO MASTER CLASS 31. Dealing with the odd shapes forced by cliffs, if you build large enough, will break the City Block style of building and encourage finding ways to use odd shaped spaces for factories. So now I am building my own blueprints and moved away from I took the city block layout Nilaus uses (I just looked up his youtube video, I think it's called 'organizing your base with city blocks'. Advanced Smelting - FACTORIO MASTER CLASS. Not using any BPs from outside sources (except belt balancers, thats black magic to me lol) and ive seen Nilaus' blocks and they are 4 large power poles wide. 55 KB 1. TV's resources, guides, and community support for gaming enthusiasts. The every blueprint used in Masterclass series by Nilaus. City Block 100x100. 70 KB 2. I played with city blocks from Nilaus in around 300 hours and I really liked it. It is not smart enough to know that the block ahead of it is too short for a train to fit in, so a train ends up stuck in two blocks. Description. 2 favorites tileable science packs. You can also just go with the first two sciences. 1 min read. This means you need one extra city block for a 2700 SPM base. 773 City Block is The BEST!Short Factorio Tutorials First Edition: https://youtube. 最近在看国外大神nilaus的视频，学习了下他city block的思路，其中介绍蓝图吸附的部分用下来发现真是太好用了。 比如我有两个蓝图，一个是区域单元框架，一个是卸货区，两个蓝图截图如下正常的流程是 Nilaus gave me the idea of having a "registering" blueprint where you have a corner of your city block and an appropriately placed track. I play on an isl City Block 100x100. 32 1,511. Snapping 100x100, absolute, on grid Unfortunately main bus and city block designs don't mesh together particularly well. Regular signal only checks the block directly ahead of it is clear. 106 favorites Tileable Solar block. Considering I have over 500 hours in factorio I am sad to admit it, but I have basically given up on making my own setups. Main bus and city grid are kinda orthogonal solutions to the same problem. The city block blueprint was really amazing but apparently when your base is missing 1M of items construction bots become quite crazy about it and behave very weirdly. 12. Grid Aligned City Blocks and Rail Segments - FACTORIO MASTER CLASS. 2. Corner Defense And just like real city-centers tend to improve throughput by using one-way roads, you can generally get better throughput in Factorio city blocks by using one-way rails around the city block. You can fit 10 belts of my factories in a city block, where you can only fit 8 belts of Nilaus's factories in a city block . Wall (Turret) Wall (Turret Masterclass by Nilaus - Master book. 34 KB 1. g making steel or low density structures. FACTORIO BASE-IN-A-BOOKFactorio Lets Play with detailed design of a fully upgradeable base including City Blocks, Trains, Main Bus and Robots. As I am planning to try and design my own, i have been particularly wondering what other people use in terms or train size (aiming to work for both <ccc and <cccccccc< both signal and station wise), city block size, type of intersection, type of station and etc Nilaus's 100x100 city blocks are pretty good. 244. Then later I learned that it had some constraints that I didn’t like. 7. City Posted by Nilaus 4 years ago. Sadly i like the train city block layout more but this is also a great example of what fantastic game factorio is. If you stamp it down on an existing City Block with Roboports, you must either hold shift to place over existing items, or manually remove the existing Large Power Poles which serve the Roboports. Basically, the design challenge is too large to tackle all at once. FACTORIO SPACE AGEFactorio: Space Age continues the player's journey after launching rockets into space. 32 7,351. I have tried with building Nilaus city block which is 100x100. Staged Jumpstart Base. Still, it is not an I use Nilaus' City Block blueprint as a starting point, with roads in between the two lines of big poles. Like another commenter said, nilaus has provided some of the best examples of how you would do this in some of his series, but it is difficult to effectively plan and design a base this way. 0 BASE TOUR10. City This design produces 12 blue belts of green circuits, feeding a train station built for 1 locomotive and 3 wagons. 0. This is my channel dedicated to Gaming with Let's Plays, Tutorials and live streams I play games that fulfill the City Blocks 2. It is far from complete or perfect but it helped me greatly in expanding my last base. 02 KB 2. Untitled. 0 20,224 Jan 6, 2025 · I've figured out why WUBE moved cliff explosives off of Nauvis. 98 KB 1. Size 54 x 54. 5 / sec | Factorio Tutorial/Guide/How-to Masterclass by Nilaus - Master book. 67. So I crammed in two more science so that I can automate bots. 68 KB 1. Each city block doesn’t have rails at the edge, but a concrete path. 34 21,545. I know alot of the blueprints from Nilaus and other content creators are 100x100. 34 21,154. 342 votes, 49 comments. But after finding Nilaus on youtube I decided to give the city block play style a go. Deathworld Defense (City Block) - FACTORIO MASTER CLASS. 34 18,876. Different things entirely imo Hi guys, im new to concept of city blocks. At 0,0 is the first city block, to it's left would be -1,0 and to it's right 1,0. A City Block is the size of 4 Roboports and includes roads, power poles, lights and a big Jun 3, 2022 · When talking about one of the best creators of blueprints for the game called Factorio, you cannot exclude Nilaus. 13. I believe they used Nilaus' city block blueprint book. E. High density, Roboport-scalable, progressive-upgrade solar array for Nilaus' City Block system. View Copy. 34 12,581. I like it because I have a walking path, my intersections all laid out. 34 12,965. City Blocks 2. 26 KB 2. 39 KB 2. My question is: Is there a major difference between using 4 poles wide or 5,6,7, etc? Pros/cons of difference ones? Actual roboport-sized city blocks in Nilaus' flavor are blocks that are 100x100 tiles with 4 roboports in them arranged in a square, and demarcated by concrete paths running between them. Perimeter Defense. Discover new worlds with unique challenges, exploit Posted by Nilaus 4 years ago. At first this seems like what some have called an 'artificial restriction', though I dislike the name, and the implied concept. 120. Unfortunately I couldn't make it fit exactly inside one city block so it does stick out a bit at the top, any suggestions on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated. You can use labels on mini map to keep track of you plan. Nuclear Power by Nilaus - FACTORIO MASTER CLASS. I spent almost 2 hours trying to find a good layout that would be repeatable, but I kept drawing a blank. Nauvis [virtual-signal=signal-item-parameter]Generic Train with My name is Nilaus and I am a full time Content Creator on YouTube and Twitch. Snapping 100x100, absolute, on grid. 27. 33. 16 KB 1. FACTORIO MASTER CLASSThis series of Tutorials and How To Guides help you become a better Factorio EngineerEach video serves as a beginner's guide but also co City Blocks 2. Use your i Discover Nilaus. Apr 19, 2018 · Very great base Layout and OCD friendly. 09 KB 2. Reply reply Khaze41 • Posted by Nilaus 3 years ago. 000 Science / min Megabase created by Little_Elia featuring City Blocks, lots of Master Class designs and connected through Logistic FACTORIO 1. Christian Nilaus. Solar Power. End Game Megabase LOGISTIC(GREEN) SCIENCE 22. If you start designing your own and get overwhelmed, theres nothing wrong with grabbing someone elses and starting to work with their stuff and make a list of ways youd do it differently when you go back to looking for blueprints or suggestions for rail city blocks as I am trying to start a playthrough using modular rail city blocks. but I needed a solar setup for my city blocks, and I wanted it to support robots and just be a drop in right over a robot ready city block. ) He uses a 100x100 setup with four roboports and measuring sticks from big electric poles. 34 29,035. Is my first game and im following a lot of the Nilaus masterclass. Jun 16, 2021 · Factorio S21 - A Better Sea Block. I don't particularly like "blocks" in general (because they limit what I can do with my designs) but there are a lot of variants, including some specifically designed around trains, with enough space between intersections as well as enough space for FACTORIO MASTER CLASSThis series of Tutorials and How To Guides help you become a better Factorio EngineerEach video serves as a beginner's guide but also co Christian Nilaus. 655. At the moment im running a big main bus and hace a net of building bots. 2 favorites mega base with train blocks 2. He'll then use a whole block for loading/unloading next to another block that actually deals with the material. Personally I find it easiest to separate the stages of production - ores here, plates here, etc. For 2700 SPM, I use about 38. 34 12,817. And because even little mistakes can tank an entire build, isolating those mistakes into a block helps prevent systemic failure. 2 favorites steam power book. 9 4,820. In general, the concept of "make one thing in one city block" inflates the footprint a lot, because you need unloading stations - one for each material, loading station - for the final product, and since you are using standard city block size, the actual factory itself may or may not be sized well enough for it. Especially if you use city blocks. 4 Reactor (464 MW) 8 Reactor City Block (1160 MW) Kovarex 12 Beacon Circtuit Posted by Nilaus 4 years ago. 21 8,048. The result is that you get a 100x100 logistics area. Paved City Block Dec 5, 2024 · i use a 100x100 city block from nilaus. 62 KB 1. 06 KB 2. 360K subscribers in the factorio community. The chain signals behind that signal - which is to say, a ton of them, given that you have so few regular signals - then won't allow trains through. Could i start with city blocks now or i should have structured at the start? How can i plan the structure of the blocks if i dont have the big poles at the start? rail inside city blocks is like city block in Nilaus' city block video. 32 2,439. The every blueprint used in Masterclass series by Nilaus. Apr 2, 2018 · Hi, i watched Nilaus explaining the Factorio Engineering series block based train network and tried to reverse engineer the city block layout as there are cu… In my current play through I am building a factory with lots of trains with city blocks, which as you might imagine, is heavily inspired by Nilaus's recent train world series. Posted by Nilaus 3 years ago. 58. His trains don't go in between blocks. He transferred the idear of modular service infrastructure to factory by building city blocks contain a singel service. Posted by Nilaus 7 months ago. Base-In-A-Book by Nilaus. 91 KB 2. 28 2,524. There is two big improvement given by bear large Nilaus city block : this force you to space your factory and give you an optimized robot port layout. For artists, writers, gamemasters, musicians, programmers, philosophers and scientists alike! The creation of new worlds and new universes has long been a key element of speculative fiction, from the fantasy works of Tolkien and Le Guin, to the science-fiction universes of Delany and Asimov, to the tabletop realm of Gygax and Barker, and beyond. And all rails surround 4 city blocks Posted by Nilaus 3 years ago. 34 24,233 Nilaus city blocks are basically what happens when you place 12 large electric poles in their max distance in a square pattern, resulting in an 88x88 space in between for you to build. . i use a blueprint right when i begin a new game so that i can "orient" myself where i'll be going from that. Masterclass by Nilaus - Master book. 10/10 would watch again. Solar Block 100x100. 34 My name is Nilaus and I am a full time Content Creator on YouTube and Twitch. Example. It comes with little roads like that for faster walking. City Block 2. All other blocks can be tiled off of that one with an assurance that their rail portions will be properly placed. Find blueprints for the video game Factorio. 53 KB 1. The starting point (0,0) is wherever you choose to plop the first city block. He can stack several 1-4 trains. 5 / sec | Factorio Tutorial/Guide/How-to. Any train route will go through the middle of a block dedicated just to train routing. Share your designs. 2x5 nuclear reactors with just slightly over the exact ratio of heat exchangers and turbines - each group is 9 HEs and 16 turbines for a total of 144:256, which is just over the cheat sheet's ideal 144:248 (aka 9:15. 20 792. Nilaus doesn't like shift-placing blueprints (maybe he just doesn't know it's possible?), and I tend to agree that a design that's intended to Blueprints by Nilaus. Point is: A good 2 or 1 lane design ends up with far better throughput than naively-built 4 lane designs like you see in Nilaus' "masterclass" City Blocks 2. Inputs: 180 Stone Bricks/s Masterclass by Nilaus - Master book. Rail Segments 50x50. Making a continuous pattern which doesn't waste roboports by unnecessary overlapping is a slightly different design requirement, since substation coverage area doesn't divide into roboport coverage area. Book Contents. Book Contents [virtual-signal=signal-item-parameter]Generic Train with Apr 26, 2021 · City blocks are 100x100, built upon Nilaus’ classic design. Space Age Staged Jumpstart Base (Nilaus Inspired) Posted by anonymous 4 months ago. Nauvis. 34 5,738 Posted by Nilaus 3 years ago. Snapping Posted by Nilaus 6 months ago. 000 Science / min Megabase created by Little_Elia featuring City Blocks, lots of Master Class designs and connected through Logistic Find blueprints for the video game Factorio. so, that your starter base does not interfere with your main. I currently have a game with the same problem. Then you spread 4 roboports in such a way that all their logistics networks are still touching. You can see that type of block in his Space Age play through as well, on Nauvis. 2 favorites mining book group. 0 - Factorio Space Age Master Class by Nilaus. 49 KB 1. Works out well for my megabase-in-the-works. 32 1,552. 3. My Top 5 QUALITY OF LIFE MODS to add to Every Game | Factorio Tutorial/Guide/How-to. Last updated: Oct 27, 2022. Last updated: Apr 02, 2023. i mostly just set it up this way because i liked the herringbone shape of the rail network. But I think a about the chunks aswell and I like my city blocks to fit nicely in those chunks so I opt for 96x96. Blueprint string here. 1. for stations I use long trains (3-8) so the stations take 1 city block for a stacker and 1 city block for a train I attempt to start a base in Factorio as a fairly new player (100 hours only). Space Age Blueprints. Search the tags for mining, smelting, and advanced production blueprints. Based on Nilaus's City Block design he is using in his Megabase in a Book series. Community-run subreddit for the game Factorio made by Wube Software. I decided to be pragmatic and not only use 1 city block but 4 for a production part. 1. So now I'm unhappy with my base aesthetics, but also don't want to redo it as city blocks because personal preference. Straight Single 50x50. 19 KB 1. 34 81,606. 1 min Tbh Nilaus is who I would reccomend. com/playlist?list=PLdmTzXEEUupR1LB3uqQSScW4OKFksluyVShort Factorio Tutorials S They are x and y, so basically first number is for city block order horizontally and the second number vertically. Either merge the blocks completely, or just belt items across the tracks (I did the latter). The key here is that it's constrained by a city block. 26 KB 1. As to expect the same problem occured which you have. 31. A 2-lane layout would increase the space available immensely and would be much easier to design. Gratulations for Nilaus' approval. 32. Snapping 100x100, absolute, on grid Beaconed & moduled build for refined and refined hazard concrete. 72 KB 2. 2 favorites big city by brian. Rail Segments 100x100. then i delete my entire starter base with bots and move to the Masterclass by Nilaus - Master book. (shout out to the great blueprints!) FACTORIO 1. The exterior large power poles are for compatibility with Nilaus's 100x100 City Block concept. rail between city blocks is like those timelapse megabase videos. Nauvis [virtual-signal=signal-item-parameter]Generic Train with Nilaus uses a 4-Lane system which of course causes the space for the stations within one city block to be rather limited. 07 KB 1. 29. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Fits on a standard city block as made by Nilaus. City blocks set the scale of your builds, then it’s as simple as copy-pasting the blocks. Blueprint code available upon request. 99 KB 1. Generic Blueprints. Let's round up to 40 blue belts for easy math. Stations are in the adjacent rail blocks, and we usually fit 4 double rows of factories inside each block, often rounded up/down to produce a full number of blue belts. 40 KB 2. I really like the city blocks from Nilaus and also wanted to use trains. I haven't played in many years so this should be interesting. Nilaus's city block blueprints are centered on a 100x100 grid such that the grid boundaries are 3 tiles beyond the edges of the power poles on each side (making 6 tiles between the power poles that delineate each city block when tiled). Snapping 50x50, absolute, offset by +25/+25. 06 KB 1. That's the final one. The middle square of the 3X3 squares has a wall around the original crash site. City Blocks. 0 59,388. He does use grid alignment? And I’d reccomend it because it’s designed in a way that makes a lot of sense - the most production space you’ll ever have that’s clear of roboports is the inside of a 2x2 of roboports, so any city block bigger than that is gonna be using essentially the same size constraint if that makes sense. This allows you to spam City Blocks on top of water. i "borrowed" the Nilaus city block train bp, modified it slightly, then tried a few things until found this, a way to only ever have 3 way intersections, and be infinitely tile-able. Book I loaded up Nilaus' City Block Guide videos and started following along, figuring that the basic concepts would work out, only to discover that the connection distance for large power poles is different in K2. Factorio S22 - Angels Mods Tutorials Lets Play. As the title says, I used the editor to create a blueprint book containing Nilaus' City Block designs with landfill under each entity. 48 KB 1. Posted by Nilaus 6 months ago. with full power, circuit and bot coverage. 23 KB 1. You can have a city block train grid, you can have city blocks, you can have train grid. 34 18,267. 0 6,736. If you don't do that you can end up with rails being misaligned by 1 tile in your entire base. 5). FACTORIO MASTER CLASSThis series of Tutorials and How To Guides help you become a better Factorio EngineerEach video serves as a beginner's guide but also co One of more prominent proponents of city blocks style is Nilaus with his youtube videos and twitch streams. Nilaus really ruining Factorio for me. 24 favorites City Block Stations. Steel City Block 323 Ore -> 90 Steel/sec After playing for about 5 years and watching some of Nilaus's videos, I decided to due a full bob + angels city bocks by rail in 1. 8 Reactor City Block (1160 MW) View Copy. His last job was manager at a software company that build very complex logistics software. 192 favorites 4 Reactor Nuclear power (belted) Nov 11, 2016 · Nilaus Long Handed Inserter Posts: 72 Joined: Sat Aug 13, 2016 11:26 am. 62. I made this nuclear setup for a 100x100 city block, keeping the roboports and big power poles in their proper spots. But a single city block is huge. 32 2,009. Owned by Christian Nilaus. Snapping. 34 4,506 City blocks are their own entire game to its own to design and implement lol Or just go download Nilaus city block rails and go from there. City Block structure for easy replicability, multiple selections available, 蓝图里面的网格尺寸+. Paved City Block. Here as a public service, no compensation requested nor wanted. Jan 5, 2025 · I agree, but "city block" is a coined term pretty much for the specific way Nilaus does it. I spent 8 hours launching my rocket and then 30 more hours filling all the squares with concrete and stone. N/A. then i delete my entire starter base with bots and move to the It consists of some "components" for my last city block base (defense segments, rail segments, power poles, roboports, solar) based on Nilaus 100x100 absolute grid aligned block video. more like giving me a "boundary" or "grid" to know where i will start the "big factory" (when i'm in the early stage like "starter base"). Then I tried with bigger city blocks and that had some new constraints. Size 114 x 114 City blocks where 'invented' by nilaus. 30 KB 1. For the beginne Masterclass by Nilaus - Master book Grid Aligned City Blocks and Rail Segments - FACTORIO MASTER CLASS. FactorioBin is a site for quickly and easily sharing Factorio blueprints What's really conflicting is that I don't like the city block approach but it is hard to argue with how clean it looks. Blueprints for Nilaus' series : MegaBase/Base-in-a-Book, MASTERCLASS (which I got from his Discord). City Block 100x100 Oct 27, 2022 · Deathworld Defense (City Block) - FACTORIO MASTER CLASS. 34 145,757. 0 15,007. That’s why I’ve come to calling what OP has city blocks (the roboport, electricity, radar, path structure) While I’ve come to calling what many people think of as city blocks (squares defined by rails) as a train grid. 34 Masterclass by Nilaus - Master book. The rail system is formed by putting in either a straight track, turn, or 3 way junction that take 1 city block each (a 2x2 of roboports max logistic range). Nothing stops you from doing both together, but they're not useful to combine and arguably it's not even a city grid anymore, so no one is going to make a video about how to arrange a main bus in a grid, because it's just not a useful way to organize a main bus. 5 blue belts of green circuits per minute. From the Master Class series alone, you will be able to get a lot of blueprints, including: City Blocks 2. 8. Book Dec 5, 2024 · i use a 100x100 city block from nilaus. 204. But you'll still have to plan blocks exchange, train and train station. 0 - Factorio Space Age Master Class by Nilaus City Blocks 2. That said, I'd also put two absolutely iron clad and indispensable rules to city blocks: Always start designing the blocks with rails. 15 3,263. This one has created a number of blueprints for this game and a lot of people love his creation. This is a slightly modified variant of a design by Thebesj, enhanced to be compatible with an existing City Block's Roboports. End Game Megabase AUTOMATION(RED) SCIENCE 22. jyjbdmiopqrdmlfrznnpnpvidzepqblxnlliepfyzbxeozzffp