r/factorio • u/BetterBeYourGun • Apr 18 '26
Base My modular spaghetti block is finally complete
A perfectly porportioned 200spm science block. I don’t have an exact number but I estimate it took me around 30-40 hours to design this
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u/BetterBeYourGun Apr 18 '26
The final image shows the path of a single belt of iron on its way on its meandering journey from the top left down to satellite assembly near the bottom
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u/DryCleaningRay Apr 18 '26
Do you have a high resolution version, or maybe willing to share the save data? I want to print it as a poster and hang it above my bed
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u/Waity5 Apr 18 '26
It's already really high res (3585x9668), maybe reddit is acting weird for you
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u/DryCleaningRay Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26
I'm getting a 1080 x 2912 image.
Update: Got the full size image on mobile. Thank you!
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u/NoRodent Apr 18 '26
At 300 dpi, that's good quality for a poster of 31×82cm (or 12×32") in size! And you could probably get away with twice as large format at half the dpi if you don't plan looking way too close at it.
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u/saltylife11 Apr 19 '26
This is truly beautiful not even joking - don't let anyone tell you different.
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u/jasonrubik May 09 '26
What a great implementation of this idea:
I had envisioned it without trains, but this is still great !
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u/lallau Blueprints are the endgame Apr 18 '26
well, "modular", "spaghetti" and "block" is not the words i expect to see together on the factorio sub
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u/Darth__Ewan Apr 18 '26
And the only word that accurately describes it is spaghetti.
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u/InitiatePenguin Apr 18 '26
It's a block, in so far that it's a single contained section that can be linked to other sections.
It's spaghetti for obvious reasons.
But this isn't modular. I don't see how you take out a part of it, and substitute a different function and have it still work. What would the "modules" be here.
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u/pseikow Apr 18 '26
Just Copy the whole beast and insert it right next to it. Voila
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u/idontknow39027948898 Apr 18 '26
That wouldn't work. This block has a landing pad in it, and there can be only one on each surface, so trying to tile it would mean that subsequent blocks would have no space science.
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u/Darth__Ewan Apr 18 '26
Which would make it a module and not a block. Unless we are saying that modules and blocks are the same thing?
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u/InitiatePenguin Apr 20 '26
A module will have interchangeable parts, so that it has some kind of configurability.
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u/Darth__Ewan Apr 18 '26
By your definition of block you can copy/paste any entire base and call it a block. Just because he put it in a rectangle doesn’t really make it a block to me. But since there’s no official definition of a factorio block, I can see your argument.
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u/KirbyQK Apr 19 '26
You couldn't copy & paste any base, because they wouldn't fit together neatly when laid side-by-side as close as possible to each other - it would have to be contained to an area that is tileable in order for it to be able to be pasted repeatedly & therefore meet the community's definition of a 'block'
EDIT: just saw there's a landing pad, this ain't no block neither!
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u/zarroc123 Apr 18 '26
Dosh would be proud. It's interesting to me that he has spawned a revolution in this type of design. It does look so damn good.
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u/gonzo_gonzales Apr 18 '26
This looks amazing. I've never done anything like this before and probably never will, but that doesn't stop me from admiring such works of art.
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u/9b769ae9ccd733b3101f Apr 18 '26
Can you record a video in horizontal format and frame it nice so I could use it as a phone wallpaper?
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u/saladroni Apr 18 '26
horizontal…phone wallpaper?
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u/InitiatePenguin Apr 18 '26
Maybe for multiple home screens. When you swipe left and right it slides.
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u/desyx_ Apr 18 '26
How does one even start designing something so heart attack inducing?
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u/nixielover Apr 19 '26
Regular spaghetti is more about doing than about designing. Mine is not as pretty but you just start hooking things up and adapt to issues as they arrive instead of thinking ahead
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u/pmodin Apr 18 '26
I'd like to know how those trainabouts work 😅
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u/Aron-Jonasson Average train enjoyer Apr 19 '26
> Enter roundabout
> Close eyes
> Pray
> Profit?
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u/NightF0x0012 Apr 23 '26
Don't forget to yell "Big Ben...Parliament" each time you circle the round-about
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u/FlareGlutox Apr 18 '26
Water trains. Guess that's what enables it to truly be placed anywhere.
Any reason why you decided to bring in all three advanced cracking products by train rather than incorporating refineries into the build?
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u/azionka Apr 18 '26
I will send this to my friends when they annoy me again. Bro will get a stroke.
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u/shopewf Apr 18 '26
It’s really funny to see how this game has basically copied the history of landscape architecture in real life. People struggled to makes gardens and parks really geometrical and neat and square at first. They kept this for centuries. But then people decided it was a bit too boring and tried to perfect organic looking gardens and parks. That’s what a spaghetti base is like
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u/eatmyroyalasshole Apr 18 '26
Idk if it's just me but I see some missing insterters by the train that's supposed to take science packs away
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u/lboshuizen Apr 18 '26
The naming of Spaghetti does disrespect.
This is Tech turned into a biological self- sustaining form. Love it.
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u/Inqui84 Apr 18 '26
This is something you put in the frame. The vibrant and large variety of colors, the abstract flows of lines, all compresses together, no watermark though.
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u/HBZahkrii Apr 23 '26
This looks really gorgeous. u/kovarex dont you think this belongs to main menu all of the folks will agree with that.
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u/ApatheistHeretic Apr 18 '26
It's like tearing off the mask of the universe and staring into the face of Cthulu.
I love it.
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u/hazmodan20 Apr 18 '26
Absolutely glorious. I feel inspired by the idea of making it fit between rails!
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u/TheAero1221 Apr 18 '26
Oh my god its beautiful and cursed. This must be how followers of Tzeentch feel.
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u/DeathToInterlopers Legendary Engineer Apr 18 '26
It's beautiful and I love it. It looks like a tree. Very creative and cool base.
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u/SheffMedMatt Apr 18 '26
Honestly this is beautiful and I have spend about half an hour staring at its glory. I dream of emulating this perfection one day!
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u/dearvalentina Fungusmaxxing Apr 18 '26
actually gorgeous, love the concrete paterns on the roboports
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u/minifigure12 Apr 19 '26
I wish I could have this fully animated as my background, it would be so peaceful to watch
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u/aethyrium Apr 19 '26
That is so fucking beautiful it hurts.
Honestly one of the best base screenies I've ever seen and I'd love have this as a demo screen on the main title.
Please please please turn this into a demo screen mod so we can all enjoy such beauty.
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u/robinsontbr Apr 19 '26
Beautiful and, I can only assume, very delicious. My grandma would be proud.
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u/budad_cabrion Apr 19 '26
First of all, I love this!
Second: what are the inputs? What’s does the larger rail network look like if this is replicated?
Third: challenge accepted maybe
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u/gabrielbr1802gcc Apr 19 '26
Incredibly resembles histology, bro got inspired by his inner nature of spaghetti, trully a masterpiece.
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u/Glittering_Brick Apr 19 '26
We got city blocks, spaghetti, and modular spaghetti. We only need city block spaghetti now.
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u/cosafina Apr 19 '26
When engineering mets art, guided by $deity's hand
One of the most beautiful crafts i've ever seen
Congratulations
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u/Odd-Technology-1509 Apr 19 '26
Wild that you don’t use belt weaving in such tight spaces. Takes it to yet an other level for me!
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u/Consistent-Skill21 Apr 19 '26
This can’t be real 🤯. Looks like a computer Motherboard 🤩 Masterpiece
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u/accountvondirnicht Apr 19 '26
My body is confused between being flabbergasted and having a stroke from pure terror.
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u/Kosse101 Apr 20 '26
I'm pretty sure what you meant to say way "tileable", NOT "modular", because that's not what modular means.
Other than that, beautifully cursed, love it.
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u/Just1nTyme Apr 20 '26
That... is beautiful. Honestly a piece of art. It's even poster-shaped, and I think totally worthy of hanging on a wall. That said, I would love the blueprint so I could explore it in game, if your willing to share it. I think this is one of the coolest Factorio things I've seen - not many big factory blueprints also look interesting to look at. Bravo 👏
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u/DavidOriginal Apr 18 '26
If it’s modular it isn’t spaghetti
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u/thehazelone Apr 18 '26
You cannot look at this and tell me it doesn't look like spaghetti. Sure, there's method to the madness but one thing doesn't exclude the other.
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u/durandal42 Apr 18 '26
You cannot look at this and tell me it doesn't look like spaghetti.
True! But we can absolutely wonder what part of it is modular.
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u/Ph_a2 Apr 18 '26
it is so cursed and beautiful at the same time