Nilaus city block blueprint reddit City block is for people who want to megabase and want "easy" expansion (debatable whether it's actually easier, since you have to make all those blueprints in the first place). People usually go for solar blueprints like these for megabases because 1) they're UPS friendly and 2) you can just click once and you get more power. My city blocks based on rails have a chunk sized blueprint book of straights and corners, and then I place them in 3 x n and 4 x n arrangements, meaning the insides of the blocks are 2 or 3 chunks wide (Couple of exceptions, depends on modpack/scale). i usually start my blocks around an oil node so i can start with the fuel source. Didn´t play for some time (0. 0 and decided to go all in with a Angels + Bobs city block megabase (design inspired by Nilaus and many others in the community)! So here is my completed 3k SPM factory! City block is a design strategy intended for rail bases. It was really complex for me so im hoping Welp, you basically said it, option 1 is a more modular, compact, design, however it does eventually run into problems, you can't really have big trains, and often in mega bases is much more efficient to have big trains than a bunch of smaller ones, it's also more prone to deadlocks and traffic jams if you position the blocks unefficiently, for example if a train has to go around the whole - Base-In-A-Book (Stage 1): All Blueprints needed to build the complete base - Base-In-A-Book (Everything): Full set for Blueprints for each episode to show transition over 22 episodes - Episode X: Specific Blueprints for the state at the end of Episode X A lot of time is consumed by just building the infrastructure, so having a standard rail blueprint (yours or a community ones) helps quite a bit. There are 2 mini buses to avoid belt spagetti as much as possible. Factorio - Master Class Blueprints - Nilaus. For example, a smelting array might be 6x20, but a mall could be triple that. knwtpeefiduerfnacvyubhpxxcccdfjugyyjdrnnsqtcgflsqcnlnclbzisemrobuamwcazqzjlfmr