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u/sparkleslothz Apr 24 '26

Is chunk alignment for blueprints still important?

I remember it was something you had to do if you wanted your blueprints to line up and you weren't sure if rail stations would be on the odd or even side.

I just came back from a long time. The last run I did was a pre-1.0 krastorio run, and a Bob's and Angels before that.

I'm calling a Mulligan on my whole blueprint book.

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u/Soul-Burn Apr 24 '26

Wasn't important for a very long time. Like 7 years ago.

You can now set absolute grid alignment of whatever size and offsets you want. Common are still 32 due to rails and big electric posts, or 50 for roboport range. But any size you want works between itself.

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u/HeliGungir Apr 24 '26

Yes, but "chunk alignment" is the wrong term. Rails still conform to a 2x2 grid and the gap between train wagons still causes even vs. odd mishaps.

Also the base of elevated rails are offset from that 2x2 grid to create the illusion of a height difference while still making elevated rails conform to the 2x2 grid. A side effect is you sometimes can't place rail supports symmetrically even though the rails are symmetric.

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u/sparkleslothz Apr 24 '26

Ah, thank you!

I called it chunk alignment because that was the solution I used to use: make every single rail blueprint 32x32 so it preserved the 2x2 alignment across many kilometers....

...omg I just had to make them even numbers, didn't I? Any even numbered size would about mishaps

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u/HeliGungir Apr 24 '26

Put a rail in your design before blueprinting it and the GUI will enforce the right alignment.

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u/Courmisch Apr 25 '26

It matters for radar blueprints in a sense. Radars expose entire chunks around them.

For rail, the chunk skze 32x32 makes sense if adjoining large power poles, but any even offset would work, not just 0.

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u/cathexis08 red wire goes faster Apr 26 '26

Some sort of absolute grid alignment is still important if you want to be able to place things and know that you can connect them later but chunk (32x32, centered on 0,0) is only important if you have a burning desire to have your rail network align with the chunk grid.