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Eric Aug 04, 2026

Finaly my First Cityblock Megabase Grid is Ready

Finaly my First Cityblock Megabase Grid is Ready
Finaly my First Cityblock Megabase Grid is Ready

My first city block design I put the blocks too close and had trouble with trains getting clogged. How are you avoiding that here?

4k spm city block megabase Oil processing FactorioBin
4k spm city block megabase Oil processing FactorioBin

Full view Zoomed in view Part of the mall Resource display block Logistic network Electric network Performance, the base averages 30-35 ups SPM This megabase uses a city-block design, with two lanes of rails and 1-4 trains. It's completely vanilla, with default settings. Here is the blueprint book I designed in the making of this megabase . Following here are some notes and changes, for a ...

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CITY BLOCK 2 0 Improved Base Design For SPACE AGE
CITY BLOCK 2 0 Improved Base Design For SPACE AGE

My Megabase is coming along well! I opted for a 100 X 100 cityblock size, with the rail network using 100 X 50, allowing for 2-8 trains to run freely in a 4 lane rail network. Highly modular and can be adapted for specific needs (ore patches in the way, for example) Sergey Trusilnikov and 26 others 27 reactions · 5 comments

Choose a Factorio city block size for rail grids , roboports, train stations and Space Age megabases . Compare 64, 96, 100, 128 and larger blocks.

City Block Design for 12 Blue Belts of green circuits
City Block Design for 12 Blue Belts of green circuits

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Alligned big electric pole Outside base radar scanning Radar scanning range Grid radar Stations 1 station 2 stations

Megabase Grid / City Block size by zOldBulldog » Mon Feb 20, 2023 12:15 pm I noticed that most of the standard blueprints and youtube videos involving a Grid or City Block make them 100x100. This is puzzling to me since 96x96 would make it exactly 3 chunks by 3 chunks and still leave a 2-block border outside of the power-pole square.

main bus and city block detail on comment
main bus and city block detail on comment

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Finally settling into what will hopefully be my first megabase build. Everything I need to build a train-based system (because the robot- based system lagged me down to 6-12 FPS) is done and I can focus on setting up a logical system.

Im currently trying to design my first "real" city block. Ive already got and implemented some feedback from reddit and now decided to ask most dedicated and involved part of the community - you! I have a few screenshots attached to the post - overall view of a block, closeup of intersection and closeup of trainstation+enter+exit part of a block.

Brickwall city blocks book City Block Plastic FactorioBin
Brickwall city blocks book City Block Plastic FactorioBin

How I Made the Ultimate Hexagon City Block Megabase on Gleba in ...

So its all done now, the last few blocks placed, the splutter of spoilage being removed from machines a long memory, the Gleba mega base is done, NOW WHAT I ...

Factorio S6E65 Building a City Block blueprint
Factorio S6E65 Building a City Block blueprint
Book of Blocks 100 x 100 roboport heavy city block design item
Book of Blocks 100 x 100 roboport heavy city block design item
Book of Blocks 100 x 100 roboport heavy city block design item
Book of Blocks 100 x 100 roboport heavy city block design item
I made a version of Nilaus city block blueprint book with landfill
I made a version of Nilaus city block blueprint book with landfill
Factorio Starter Base Blueprint Guide Update 2 0
Factorio Starter Base Blueprint Guide Update 2 0
My Factorio blueprints for city block rails
My Factorio blueprints for city block rails

Plan a Factorio megabase with a realistic SPM target, production math, rail or belt architecture, modules, power, buffers and UPS checks.