Update 2: what changed in your factory
New V2 recipes, simpler Superconductors, cheaper Core upgrades, and the transport and building changes worth checking in an existing save.
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StarRupture factory guides
Help with choosing recipes, sizing production, sharing rails, using storage, and keeping a large factory understandable.
These guides explain the choices around those numbers: which recipe fits your factory, where a shortage comes from, and whether a shared rail or storage plan is likely to work.
How to choose between V1 and V2 recipes
A V2 recipe may save space or machines, but that does not always make it the best choice for the factory you are building.
Read guideHow full storage can hide a production bottleneck
If a factory starts fast and then slows down, one of its inputs is not being made or delivered quickly enough. Here's how to find it.
Read guidePlan production for a Corporation delivery
Turn a Corporation delivery requirement into a practical items/min target, including the other products that may be running at the same time.
Read guideCheck whether materials can share one V3 rail
Check the actual traffic on each part of a V3 rail before you combine materials, and leave room for uneven delivery and later changes.
Read guideLeave room to expand a factory later
Plan enough space and sensible material routes for later unlocks before you fill a new factory site with the machines available today.
Read guideUse Cargo to keep factory sites separate
Use Cargo links between separate production sites so each factory has a short, understandable set of inputs, outputs, and local rails.
Read guideCheck how long a storage buffer will last
Storage can cover interruptions and short bursts, but it can also hide a production line that never makes enough material.
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