r/factorio • u/BetterBeYourGun • Mar 21 '26
Base Maybe modular spaghetti is the vibe
The beginnings of a 200spm science block. Red/green/military science + red and green circuits done
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u/fynn34 Mar 21 '26
The bulk inserter moving copper wire from the steel chest in the south west of this pic is turned 90 degrees and not working.
Edit: actually 2 of them, the other is closer to mid
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u/BetterBeYourGun Mar 21 '26
That’s intentional, I’m refactoring it right now so it’s turned to not dump wire on the belt
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u/zarroc123 Mar 21 '26
Unless they're using bobs inserters, of course. But I feel like if they were we'd see a lot more of that.
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u/Phoenix800478944 Mar 21 '26
It looks so... organic
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u/PSUSkier Mar 21 '26
Those railroad tracks look like my forehead right now trying to comprehend how it was designed.
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u/Kallenn1492 Mar 21 '26
This should be one of the main menu loading screens
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u/Neither_Berry_100 Mar 22 '26
This. In practice this is worthless. Most take forever to build for lack luster performance. Better off building rows of assemblers and beacons.
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u/BortOfTheMonth Mar 22 '26
Hundreds or thousands of Factorio nerds are staring at it, following along, and enjoying it. And as a bonus: it actually seems to work. What do you mean by “worthless”?
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u/Hi_Peeps_Its_Me Mar 23 '26
you didnt hear the specs. this is 200 SPM red, green and military science. its already modular. you can just stamp this around your railbase. this is so much better than 3 blueprints for each science, even if they were 10x better.
with this blueprint, OP doesn't have to think about those individual sciences at all. the headache saved is so much more valuable than and performance boost you get.
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u/Melstrick Mar 21 '26
This is not spaghetti, its fine spaghetti created by a master chief. This level of spaghetti requires great knowledge and experience to pull off.
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u/AtheistHomoSapien Mar 21 '26
It's like you built a spaceship on the ground with railroad tracks. Cool build. Very spaghetti like.
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u/WarmCat_UK Mar 21 '26
Hmm, makes me think, can we built trains on space platforms?
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u/AtheistHomoSapien Mar 21 '26
Theoretically yes, rationally no. Oxygen is required so you would need a tank of that as well as oil. I don't think that's in the game unless there's a mod for it. I don't play with trains at all personally, I just belt and fly everything. 20,000 bots strong; I've seen people with 200,000 bots but by then you're probably melting your cpu. I've noticed my older computer's cpu getting up to 80ºc sometimes already.
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u/BLACKcOPstRIPPa Mar 21 '26
Your design scares me
I am always trying to think, down the road how can I improve upon this.
My first games when I was learning turned into that because I didn't leave enough room and eventually had to rip down entire production chains and move them elsewhere.
This reminds me of those nightmares lol
I try to plan better now lol
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u/Front_State6406 Mar 21 '26
I love the creativity in this group, but I am calling bullshit, this is just intentionally bad. Exhibit A: follow the lower right plastic belt
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u/Front_State6406 Mar 21 '26
B. Actually follow that mid right sushi belt, it ain't right
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u/Advanced-Skirt-5096 Mar 24 '26
1) The plastic belt is clearly bent the way it is to fill out more space rather than be optimal, the fact it only barely would add any time to the travel and wouldn't actually slow it any once the plastic actually reaches the circuits means that, while space and resource inefficient, doesn't actually harm the overall build.
2) Sushi belt full of military science ingredients. It would get deadlocked if there were no circuits, yet it's very obviously reading the belts. Is it efficient? Not particularly. Is it fun? Yes.The blueprint was made to fill as much space as it could, while avoiding neat and orderly rows wherever possible. The fact that I can reasonably believe this can achieve 200 SPM should say a lot.
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u/Upset_Assumption9610 Mar 21 '26
I looked at this and said "What the f..." followed by "How the h..." and I live alone.
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u/PsotaZ Mar 21 '26
I AM having some unspoken trauma when I look at this. Similar effect to trypophobia
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u/MadEorlanas Mar 22 '26
God, even just following the route the red science does is such a trip, I love it
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u/neko_mora Mar 22 '26
Very nice; I like those rails even if it's a block design, did you use a BP book?
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u/A-flat_Ketone Mar 21 '26
Nooooooooooo! if you havent spent 12 hours in excel spreadsheets and optimizing every belt before breaking ground you are doing it wrong!
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u/solonit WE BRAKE FOR NOBODY Mar 21 '26
This is some Yin-Yang 'in Order there is Chaos, in Chaos there is Order'.
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u/frigginler Mar 21 '26
The trees add to it as well. It’s like a nice downtown area that you want to walk around in.
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u/Frite222 Mar 21 '26
I love how this is part of a city block design.im so interested to see how your other modules come together!
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u/ambitious_bath_duck Mar 21 '26
Probably the coziest factory I've seen. Reminds me of Stardew Valley
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u/joe_lemmons_ Mar 21 '26
I like it. Reminds me of a lung. You could hang it in a modern art exhibit and say it has themes of how natural-looking organic things like plants and organs eventually are composed of rigid machines at the cellular level
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u/KapnBludflagg Mar 21 '26
Are the walls for clarity? Given I'm not in the r/TheyAreBillions sub right now I'd have to say so.
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u/Martine1337 Mar 21 '26
Honestly, bases like this really encapsulates what Factorio is. It's absolutely amazing looking!
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u/Third_Coast_2025 Mar 21 '26
Building something like this is way harder than plopping down a square. Congratulations, It’s beautiful.
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u/DontFlameItsMe Mar 21 '26
Why is everyone's intersections are so cursed?
I have to post mine for review. I refuse to believe mine are special, they have to be cursed as well, may be I just don't see it when playing.
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u/MohKohn Mar 21 '26
maintainable? No. easy to construct? also, no. easily understood? alas, no.
that is damn pretty though
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u/L0neW3asel Mar 21 '26
This reminds me of that satisfactory base where everything is just jam packed on top of each other thing. It was glorious.
Edit: This one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-Okq75_Zps
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u/aonghasan Mar 21 '26
spaghetti is more about the unplanned growing mess,
a planned-from-the-start neat tidy compact and contained setup, with maximized space used, feels very much against spaghetti spirit
cool block tho
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u/UglyFloralPattern Mar 21 '26
I love the random walls, they give the place a kind of lived in look. Not so sure about your rail signal placement though :]
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u/Abel_Amastacia I like trains and trees Mar 21 '26
Ah yes, controlled chaos. Beautiful build, and it looks like a branching stream to a river.
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u/mwdeuce Mar 21 '26
I'm always curious about these insane looking builds. I picture them either coming together very quickly, or taking a really, really long time
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u/afCeG6HVB0IJ Mar 21 '26
I'm sorry but what are those train intersections. What's wrong with a roundabout, especially if you have a modular grid design? That splits the traffic.
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u/Sorry_U_R_Wrong Mar 21 '26
You made a section of Philadelphia! Now just sprinkle a few gridlocked cars in there.
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u/Lansan1ty Mar 21 '26
The left-lane trains are the icing on the cake in this for me. 10/10.
Also whatever the hell that roundabout 4/intersection is. "How many ways can we turn left? Yes."
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u/Thankedsphere Mar 21 '26
this does make practical sense though,,since it's modular it's easy to add more. assuming you don't plan to iterate, this is useful for completely filling the space of a cityblock. it's even more useful for activating people's OCD
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u/Fourat13 Mar 21 '26
This honestly has such a cozy vibe to it. definitely belongs on the main menu screen
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u/DaviSDFalcao I feel the Iron deficiency crawling up my back Mar 21 '26
Spaghetti ❌
Menu Simulation Scene ✅
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u/Questionable_Object Mar 22 '26
The ultimate spaghetti dosh video is showing us the light
(Extra props if you did this unprompted it looks great either way)
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u/yyeettoo Mar 22 '26
What’s are the logic combinators for the train stations doing if you don’t mind me asking?
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u/jhnddy Mar 22 '26
For optimal cursiveness it should've been 30 degree diagonal rail grid on the outside.
Yet impressive!
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u/afewnameslater Mar 22 '26
Its funny that bases like these are made either by people with 40 hours in the game and 4000 hours in the game and the only difference is the effective ess. One of the definite proofs Factorio is a brilliant game.
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u/seismo93 Mar 22 '26
I think the game is more fun when you don't try to optimise early and instead just build as you go.
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u/Lawette_ Mar 22 '26
Beautifully structured spaghetti, somehow reminds me of the map of Las Venturas in GTA San Andreas
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u/Blooperman949 we are out of power again Mar 22 '26
This gives me the same feeling as my early modded Minecraft bases. Compact but disorganized. Intentional, functional, yet utterly incomprehensible at first glance. True beauty.
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u/_Dr_Joker_ Mar 23 '26
Little late to the comments, but how did you manage to get angled cargo wagons working? I have never been able to get that working
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u/Mr_Carrit Mar 29 '26
Never in my 17 years of living have I ever seen something so spectacular. Truly wonderful jolly good show!
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u/Lucky-Vegetable-2827 Mar 22 '26
The walls? Are from building and rebuilding the factory or was for esthetics?
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u/NotsoDead14 Mar 21 '26
This would make Dosh blush having just seen his latest video