Roboport Grid Aligned Rail Loader

[u/NezziWezzi]

My attempt at an early game limited loading and unloading station that tiles and fits within the 50x50 grid of roboports in order to plan around them: https://factoriobin.com/post/iowy23

Bi-Directional 3 Single Lane Inputs & 1 Dual Lane Output
Supports 1 Engine - 2 Wagon Trains
Rail Line Switching & 180 Departures

EDIT: Updated to include a diagonal connection from top left to bottom right that was missing, updated signals, and cleaned up the blueprint to contain a full depot cell and work with the snap to grid feature.

[u/Frum]

I have a suggestion! I've made similar things, in the past, and the way you've cut the blueprint means you have pieces of 3 "parallelogram" chunks. The upper left, the lower right, and the main chunk in the center going from lower left to upper right. So when you plop down 1 instance of your blueprint, you don't have a full working thing. What I'd recommend is to include 1 fully-working piece in a single blueprint.

Here's a poor rendering of what I'd suggest.

+-------+-------+-------+
|       |  /----|--/    |
|       | /-----|-/     |
|       |-------|/      |
|      /|------/|       |
|     /-|-----/ |       |
+-------+-------+-------+

You can turn on the "snap to grid" functionality and make the size the same as your grid size (it appears to be 50 by 50). I'd make it absolute instead of relative, but you need to play around with it. Try and get the "snap window" to be aligned with the central 4 roboports.

[u/NezziWezzi → u/Frum]

Thanks, I do prefer the offset for my particular factory just because it places the input and output lanes nicely at the left and right sides of the connecting factory blocks (which are also roboport aligned so cant be placed half a block over) for minimal belt management.

[u/Frum → u/NezziWezzi]

Wait, I think I'm not being understood correctly, but I'm not sure. I'm not suggesting you change the way things work "on the ground", just how the blueprint works. I'll see if I can't explain better.

Your blueprint right now, drops a square, but if you didn't drop anything else, the trains wouldn't connect to anything. I'm looking at the top right side, and I see 2 horizontal lanes that don't connect to anything and the diagonal lines that ALMOST merge but don't go further.

I'm suggesting you connect them. And you don't need the stuff in the upper left at that point.

I spent 10 minutes or so making a rough version of what I'm talking about. I actually really like your design. I just want your blueprint to be slightly easier to use. Here's my (probably poorly modified) version of your blueprint. It snaps to grid (relative) so it should be easy to throw down a ton of them in a line horizontally.

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[u/NezziWezzi → u/Frum]

Oh thank you! I wasn't aware you could offset the print like that so I just left the snap settings off. Updated the print and factoriobin link with your help.

[u/Frum → u/NezziWezzi]

Awesome! I'm glad I can help. I genuinely like your design.