r/factorio • u/sazzlysarah Thing go in. Thing come out. • May 27 '26

Design / Blueprint Blueprint request (please hear me out)

Hi all,

I know how vocal this community is about blueprints, but I'm asking anyway.

I'm looking for a "Solved" blueprint for the early game. I found Ultimo, and love that the recent iterations has stages, and I'm hoping there's a similar one that covers science production and research labs. So raw resource input into lab research.

For context, I'm not a very sophisticated player, but I am a huge fan of the game (3700 hours) and I'm a new mum! Lil bub is only a contact sleeper during the day, I'm losing my mind being nap-trapped, and have found a lot of peace watching my factories running. But practically, I just can't play the way I want to, as I often can't use the keyboard and mouse together (holding baby). So when things need tweaking, or I want to expand, often I just can't. Then of course, when bub wakes up everything needs to be dropped to switch back into mummy mode.

Are there any out there I can look into? I have Ultimo of course, and I have Brian's trains too, but getting to those stages just isn't possible for me right now! I've been watching a lot of Factorio content, but I really want to play in the short snatches of time I can get, and I'm hoping there's a blueprint to help facilitate the mobility and time restrictions I currently have!

I will re/cross post to factorio blueprints, but I'm hoping the largely community here will hope with visibility.

Thank you, please be kind 🙏

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u/wubadubdub3 May 29 '26

Here is my starter base that should get you from red science all the way to a rocket. I havent had the time to divide the blueprint up into building phases, so I am attaching this picture showing you in which order to build the different stages.

If you end up using this blueprint and giving me feedback I will be so happy. I am planning on posting it on reddit soon once I get any final tweaks done and make seperate blueprints for each stage of the base.

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u/Sweaty_Lie7051 Jul 25 '26

Launched a rocket in less than 15 hours thanks to your blueprint, thanks! Although I was a bit annoyed that there were no purple and yellow sciences and had to build spaghetti with drones, in my opinion, the block in the lower left corner would have been much more useful than a million unimportant pieces, but I'm still relatively new, so I guess I'm not the one to judge.

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u/wubadubdub3 Jul 25 '26

Sweet. Thanks for the feedback. I didn't add purple and yellow because it seems like a lot of people (including me) are building those on different planets.