This is just the kind of builds I like, inventive and 'self-contained' little units, cool stuff! Keep up the designsideas!

+1 for tackling this topic, its like omg game-changing advice!

also, generally to the satisfactory comunity, DrLC's build for this is incredibly important, it will 3x increase your motor production, its way cool because it solves a problem in a reproducible way +1 DrLC :)

Thank you! I made a few modifications but it works great! For example. I shortened the first floor Wire Belt so that I could bring in a conveyor lift down to snap to that splitter. Otherwise the wire would never go up and over to the assembler.

I built my crystal oscillator factory a few weeks ago (20 per min, overclocking 10 manufacturers) and it's a massive 5 floor blight on the landscape, I've never managed to get it to run 100% efficiently, and I've STILL got the issue of sending oscillators where I need them. This is a much better idea - with a bit of tweaking and external beltwork I could have had 4 vertical silos of 5 each for the same thing and it would look way cooler. Or even better, just drop a few where I need them and transport the crystal. This is definitely going into my game, many thanks!

I was thinking about doing something like this. Mini factory modules. Perfectly balanced in the start, and you just add what you need.

love this design. if i may though; middle mouse clicking allows you to copy what you are pointing at so you don't have to keep pressing 'Q' to go into your build menu. very useful for your awesome walls/ceilings. :)

Some feedback after drinking the cool-aide... I just took my take on your design for a test drive... It is a good little design you have, and the use of ceiling mounts is actually a bit of a game-changer as I get used to using them. The design itself however has a bit of a shortcoming, in that it takes the factory *forever* to start running at 100% (it does eventually, but the stack size of copper wire takes nearly 2 hours to overflow - really one of the nasty parts of the stiched iron plate recipe). If you use a smart splitter to split the wire, prioritizing the RIP output, it converges on full efficiency in about an hour instead of 2, at the cost of producing nothing but wire internally. The other tweaks I made to your design were to overclock a single smelter, and overclock a single wire constructor, which allowed me to move the quartz constructor downstairs, and the design became much more walkable, imho. Thanks again for posting the inspiration however, this sorta stuff is great to see people post.... It *almost* feels like cheating to have a stout supply of oscillators (seriously, it took me 10 minutes to unlock Phase 4).

I got my crystal oscillator design made, creating 12 of them per minute. It was to feed the next door building that makes motors (rigor motor alternate recipe) and also to provide me with some as building materials. It is a huge tower with a mushroom top lol. It would have been a very high tower if I added more layers for the manufacturers, and if I included the processing of quartz (done in a separate building). Edit: I did not use blueprints. It was a project I started during update 6.

I never even thought going with these blueprints I just build one with all 30 smelters, or 24 constructors etc but now I got even more experimenting to do lol and I'm getting a ton of ideas!

+1 for working in a very confined space and getting things to work with a few tricks. But if devs listened to us, and give us higher dimensions we can unlock, you wouldn't have had to do that.

Really enjoy these videos. Making these builds is not my cup of tea. I rather have space and chain enough machines for like 60 oszilators in one row. But i like to see those awesome modules.

i'm going to add i have a 8x3 design for a RIP plant, that i wish to use your work on top of, good thinking :)

I love that blueprints justify otherwise mediocre alt recipes.

It's pretty interesting how this one change (blueprints) have changed the design landscape entirely.

I feel like you skipped a step about underclocking. plates go out at 8.33/m iron wire stays at 22.5 for both, cables to 14, stitched plates to 2.5 and crystals to 18.

@DrLC, do splitters really snap to mergers/splitter's like that?

perhaps you can help with this... i'm trying to modularize HMF's with blueprints, even 3/min is like a huge factory, and its sorta spiralling away from a tight buid as i run the numbers, the steel rod recipe helped lots, but like i'm still looking at a ~40 constrtuctor ~10 assembler thing without using the compacted steel ingot recipe you can just plunk down an assembler to bui;d them for you, and that's the tact i've taken in many play-throughs, it is a huge beast feeding a single manufacturer off of iron, concrete and oil, like world-sucking huge build to do even 15/min hmf's, i'm wondering if your game on collabing on a design for it as a modular factory.

Are your blueprints on Patreon ?

This was the simplest build ever i didnt even watch more than 2 min all my build requires is 50 Iron Ore and 18 Quartz Crystal via Truck or Train station) to make 1 oscillator/min. So all you need is 1 Impure Iron ore with mk.2 miners overclocked and a truck stop to make 3 oscillators/min

I love how youe builds look, but not very scaleable

Have you uploaded this to the calculator?

Where can I download these

Provide the blueprint file!!!!!!!!!! This is forcing us to click along with every single step.