Factorio's production mechanics (factorio-data 2.1.23, base mod)

A resource's mining_time is the seconds one unit takes to mine at mining speed 1, so a miner yields mining speed ÷ mining time units per second before bonuses. The four common ores (iron, copper, coal, stone) take 1 second; uranium ore takes 2. factorio-production/mining-time-rule

About: Factorio Resource harvesting

{
 "iron-ore": 1,
 "copper-ore": 1,
 "coal": 1,
 "stone": 1,
 "uranium-ore": 2
}

The electric mining drill mines at speed 0.5, so it yields 0.5 ore per second (30 a minute) from a 1-second ore, and 0.25 per second from uranium. It draws 90 kW, covers a 5×5 area (search radius 2.49 from its center), and has 3 module slots. factorio-production/electric-mining-drill

About: Factorio Resource harvesting

{
 "miningSpeed": 0.5,
 "orePerSecond": 0.5,
 "power": "90kW",
 "area": "5x5",
 "moduleSlots": 3
}

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The burner mining drill mines at speed 0.25 (0.25 ore per second from a 1-second ore, 15 a minute), burns chemical fuel at 150 kW, covers a 2×2 area (radius 0.99), and takes no beacon effects. factorio-production/burner-mining-drill

About: Factorio Resource harvesting

{
 "miningSpeed": 0.25,
 "orePerSecond": 0.25,
 "power": "150kW",
 "area": "2x2"
}

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The player mines by hand at mining speed 0.5, the electric drill's speed: 2 seconds for each unit of a 1-second ore before research bonuses. Uranium ore can't be mined by hand, since mining it uses a fluid. factorio-production/handmining

About: Factorio Resource harvesting

Value: 0.5 mining speed

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Ore patches run out: each unit a drill mines takes one unit from the tile it came from, and when every tile in a drill's area is empty the drill stops. Base drills drain at the default 100%; extra output from productivity bonuses doesn't come out of the patch. factorio-production/resource-depletion

About: Factorio Resource harvesting

How much ore a tile starts with comes from the map generator's noise expressions (resource-autoplace), not from a fixed number; that isn't covered here.

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Crude oil is an infinite resource. A pumpjack (mining speed 1, one tile, 90 kW, 2 module slots) works in 1-second cycles on a resource whose base result is 10 crude oil; the oil pumped scales with the well's yield, which this set doesn't cover. Each cycle lowers the well's amount by 10, and the resource has a minimum of 60,000 against a normal of 300,000. factorio-production/crude-oil

About: Factorio Resource harvesting

{
 "baseResult": 10,
 "cycleSeconds": 1,
 "depletion": 10,
 "minimum": 60000,
 "normal": 300000
}

The API documents minimum and normal only as non-zero for an infinite resource. The 10 per cycle is the base result; the wiki says output follows the well's percentage yield, and how that yield falls from the starting amount toward the floor isn't described in Wube's words read here.

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Mining productivity research adds +10% to every mining drill's output per level: levels 1 to 3 cost 250, 500 and 1,000 units, and level 4 repeats without end at 2,500 × (level − 3) units, needing space science. factorio-production/mining-productivity

About: Factorio Tech tree

{
 "perLevel": 0.1,
 "costs": [
  250,
  500,
  1000
 ],
 "infiniteFormula": "2500*(L - 3)"
}

A recipe's time (energy_required, 0.5 s when unset) is its seconds at crafting speed 1, and a machine divides it by its crafting speed: at speed 0.5 a 1-second recipe takes 2 seconds, at speed 2 half a second. factorio-production/crafting-speed-rule

About: Factorio Construction

{
 "defaultRecipeSeconds": 0.5
}

The API's JSON gives energy_required a default of 0.5; the gear, cable and circuit recipes leave it unset.

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Three furnaces smelt: the stone furnace at crafting speed 1, and the steel and electric furnaces at 2. The stone and steel furnaces burn chemical fuel at 90 kW; the electric furnace draws 180 kW and has 2 module slots. An iron or copper plate (3.2 s) takes 3.2 s in a stone furnace and 1.6 s in the other two. factorio-production/furnaces

{
 "stone-furnace": 1,
 "steel-furnace": 2,
 "electric-furnace": 2
}

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Assembling machines 1, 2 and 3 craft at speeds 0.5, 0.75 and 1.25, drawing 75, 150 and 375 kW, with 0, 2 and 4 module slots. Machine 1 takes neither module nor beacon effects and can't craft recipes with fluids; machines 2 and 3 add the fluid category. factorio-production/assembling-machines

About: Factorio Construction

{
 "assembling-machine-1": 0.5,
 "assembling-machine-2": 0.75,
 "assembling-machine-3": 1.25
}

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Smelting turns 1 iron or copper ore into 1 plate in 3.2 seconds, and 5 iron plates into 1 steel plate in 16 seconds. Smelting recipes run only in furnaces. factorio-production/plate-recipes

{
 "iron-plate": 3.2,
 "copper-plate": 3.2,
 "steel-plate": 16
}

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The core intermediates: a gear is 2 iron plates (0.5 s); copper cable is 1 copper plate for 2 cables (0.5 s); an electronic circuit is 1 iron plate and 3 cables (0.5 s); an advanced circuit is 2 electronic circuits, 2 plastic bars and 4 cables (6 s); a processing unit is 20 electronic circuits, 2 advanced circuits and 5 sulfuric acid (10 s, so only a machine that takes fluids can make it). factorio-production/intermediate-recipes

{
 "iron-gear-wheel": 0.5,
 "copper-cable": 0.5,
 "electronic-circuit": 0.5,
 "advanced-circuit": 6,
 "processing-unit": 10
}

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Science packs: automation (red) is 1 copper plate and 1 gear in 5 s; logistic (green) is 1 inserter and 1 transport belt in 6 s; military makes 2 from a piercing magazine, a grenade and 2 walls in 10 s; chemical (blue) makes 2 from 2 engine units, 3 advanced circuits and 1 sulfur in 24 s; production (purple) makes 3 from an electric furnace, a productivity module and 30 rails in 21 s; utility (yellow) makes 3 from 3 low density structures, 2 processing units and a flying robot frame in 21 s. Space science packs aren't crafted: a rocket launched with a satellite returns 1,000. factorio-production/science-pack-recipes

About: Factorio Tech tree

{
 "automation": 5,
 "logistic": 6,
 "military": 10,
 "chemical": 24,
 "production": 21,
 "utility": 21,
 "spacePerSatellite": 1000
}

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The player can craft by hand only recipes in the "crafting" category (and the hand-only "hand-crafting" one): nothing smelted, nothing with a fluid, and none of the advanced-crafting recipes such as the engine unit. factorio-production/handcrafting

About: Factorio Construction

[
 "crafting",
 "hand-crafting"
]

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The player always crafts at speed 1. Asking for an item whose parts are missing but craftable queues those parts first (chain-crafting), which assembling machines don't do. factorio-production/handcrafting-speed

About: Factorio Construction

Value: 1 crafting speed

The official wiki's words; the character's crafting speed wasn't found in the base data read here.

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Modules come in three kinds of three tiers. Speed modules add +20%, +30% and +50% speed for +50%, +60% and +70% energy; efficiency modules cut energy by 30%, 40% and 50%; productivity modules add +4%, +6% and +10% productivity, at −5%, −10% and −15% speed, +40%, +60% and +80% energy, and +5%, +7% and +10% pollution. factorio-production/modules

{
 "speed": {
  "speed": [
   0.2,
   0.3,
   0.5
  ],
  "consumption": [
   0.5,
   0.6,
   0.7
  ]
 },
 "efficiency": {
  "consumption": [
   -0.3,
   -0.4,
   -0.5
  ]
 },
 "productivity": {
  "productivity": [
   0.04,
   0.06,
   0.1
  ],
  "speed": [
   -0.05,
   -0.1,
   -0.15
  ],
  "consumption": [
   0.4,
   0.6,
   0.8
  ],
  "pollution": [
   0.05,
   0.07,
   0.1
  ]
 }
}

The speed modules also carry a quality penalty (−0.01, −0.015, −0.025), which matters only with the quality mod; base 2.1.23 has no quality tiers to lose.

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Productivity adds bonus output on top of the work done: at +10%, every ten crafts give an eleventh free. A machine's effects can't push productivity below −80%. A recipe accepts it only if it sets allow_productivity, as iron plate does. factorio-production/productivity

{
 "minimumProductivity": -0.8
}

The eleventh craft is the API's rule worked through: bonus results are productivity × work completed. Which kinds of recipe allow productivity in base isn't stated here; a count would need a reproducible probe.

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A beacon (480 kW, 2 module slots) passes its modules' effects at 1.5× to machines up to 3 tiles away, but each machine scales what it receives by the number of beacons reaching it: × 1, 0.7071, 0.5773, 0.5 for one to four beacons (1 ÷ √n), down to 0.1 at a hundred. factorio-production/beacons

{
 "distributionEffectivity": 1.5,
 "profile": [
  1,
  0.7071,
  0.5773,
  0.5
 ],
 "power": "480kW",
 "moduleSlots": 2
}

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The transport belt, fast transport belt and express transport belt move items at 0.03125, 0.0625 and 0.09375 tiles per tick: 1.875, 3.75 and 5.625 tiles per second. Each carries 15, 30 and 45 items per second, 7.5, 15 and 22.5 on each of its two lanes. factorio-production/belt-speeds

About: Factorio Transport belt

{
 "transport-belt": 15,
 "fast-transport-belt": 30,
 "express-transport-belt": 45
}

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A belt has two lanes that move independently, each holding 4 items per tile whatever the item, so a full straight belt tile holds 8. Since 0.17 the spacing is 8 pixels in a 32-pixel tile, which gave the basic belt 15 items per second; before it was 9 pixels and 13.33 items per second. factorio-production/belt-lanes

About: Factorio Transport belt

{
 "lanes": 2,
 "itemsPerTilePerLane": 4
}

FFF

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Belts compress themselves: anything that puts an item on a belt (an inserter, a splitter, a side-loading belt, a drill) can use any gap wider than the standard spacing, squeezing the items for a moment until the belt opens the gap to full size, so a belt fills without holes before it backs up. Wube made this automatic in 0.16.25. factorio-production/belt-compression

About: Factorio Transport belt

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Underground belts run at their tier's belt speed and have a max_distance of 5, 7 and 9 tiles for the basic, fast and express tiers; the basic one passes under up to 4 tiles between its entrance and exit. factorio-production/underground-belts

About: Factorio Transport belt

{
 "underground-belt": 5,
 "fast-underground-belt": 7,
 "express-underground-belt": 9
}

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A splitter moves items at the same speed as its belt tier: 0.03125, 0.0625 and 0.09375 tiles per tick for the splitter, fast splitter and express splitter. factorio-production/splitters

About: Factorio Transport belt

{
 "splitter": 0.03125,
 "fast-splitter": 0.0625,
 "express-splitter": 0.09375
}

A splitter takes two belts in and sends two out, dividing items evenly and keeping each item in its lane; when one output backs up, everything goes to the other. Either input and either output can be given priority, and a filter sends one item type to one side and everything else to the other. factorio-production/splitter-routing

About: Factorio Transport belt

The routing rules are the official wiki's. The API's LuaEntity entries name splitter_input_priority, splitter_output_priority and splitter_filter without describing how a splitter routes.

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Belts carry whatever walks on them, the player included, so running along a belt adds its speed and running against it takes it away; biters and spitters ride belts too. factorio-production/belts-move-the-player

About: Factorio Transport belt

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In the base game a belt carries one item per slot. The engine allows up to 4 per slot (a utility constant), but only Space Age's research raises the belt stack size; base 2.1.23 has no technology that does. factorio-production/belt-stacking-not-in-base

About: Factorio Transport belt

{
 "maxBeltStackSize": 4
}

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Inserters turn at a fixed rotation_speed: burner 0.013, inserter 0.014, long-handed 0.02, fast and bulk 0.04. The wiki gives the unit as turns per tick. factorio-production/inserter-speeds

{
 "burner-inserter": 0.013,
 "inserter": 0.014,
 "long-handed-inserter": 0.02,
 "fast-inserter": 0.04,
 "bulk-inserter": 0.04
}

The values are T3; the unit is the wiki's.

The wiki measures a full swing (pick up, drop, return) at 76 ticks for the burner inserter, 70 for the inserter, 48 for the long-handed inserter and 24 for the fast and bulk inserters: about 0.79, 0.86, 1.25 and 2.5 swings a second. factorio-production/inserter-swing-times

{
 "burner-inserter": 76,
 "inserter": 70,
 "long-handed-inserter": 48,
 "fast-inserter": 24,
 "bulk-inserter": 24
}

The wiki's in-game measurements (its speed table gives 76, 70, 48 and 24 ticks per full turn). The long-handed inserter's 0.02 would give 50 ticks a turn, but the wiki measured 48 and puts the difference down to rounding in the engine.

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Ordinary inserters pick up from the tile behind them and drop on the tile in front; the long-handed inserter reaches one tile further at both ends, picking up two tiles away and dropping two tiles away. factorio-production/inserter-reach

{
 "pickup": {
  "inserter": 1,
  "long-handed-inserter": 2
 },
 "drop": {
  "inserter": 1.2,
  "long-handed-inserter": 2.2
 }
}

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An inserter's energy cost has two fields, energy_per_movement and energy_per_rotation, and in base each inserter sets both to the same value: 50 kJ for the burner inserter (drawn from fuel), 5 kJ for the inserter and the long-handed inserter, 7 kJ for the fast inserter and 20 kJ for the bulk inserter (electricity). The electric ones also drain 0.4, 0.4, 0.5 and 1 kW while idle. factorio-production/inserter-energy

{
 "burner-inserter": {
  "energy_per_movement": "50kJ",
  "energy_per_rotation": "50kJ"
 },
 "inserter": {
  "energy_per_movement": "5kJ",
  "energy_per_rotation": "5kJ",
  "drain": "0.4kW"
 },
 "long-handed-inserter": {
  "energy_per_movement": "5kJ",
  "energy_per_rotation": "5kJ",
  "drain": "0.4kW"
 },
 "fast-inserter": {
  "energy_per_movement": "7kJ",
  "energy_per_rotation": "7kJ",
  "drain": "0.5kW"
 },
 "bulk-inserter": {
  "energy_per_movement": "20kJ",
  "energy_per_rotation": "20kJ",
  "drain": "1kW"
 }
}

How the engine charges the two fields over a swing isn't described in Wube's words read here, so no total per swing is given.

An inserter carries one item per swing until Inserter capacity bonus 2 raises it to 2 and bonus 7 to 3. The bulk inserter carries 2 once researched (its own technology adds one), then 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10 and 12 with capacity bonus 1 to 7. Base 2.1.23 has no stack inserter, which belongs to Space Age. factorio-production/inserter-capacity

About: Factorio Tech tree

{
 "inserter": [
  1,
  2,
  3
 ],
 "bulk-inserter": [
  2,
  3,
  4,
  5,
  6,
  8,
  10,
  12
 ]
}

The modifiers are code; the starting hand sizes of 1 come from the totals in Wube's comments, since the engine holds the base value.

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By default an inserter drops onto the far lane of a belt that crosses in front of it, and it picks up from the near lane first. Wube's FFF #442 describes the drop arrow shifting to the side the inserter will drop to, and flipping the inserter to change that side. Since 2.1.7, an inserter dropping onto a splitter always feeds the splitter's input side. factorio-production/inserter-belt-lanes

About: Factorio Transport belt

The plain-belt lane rules are the wiki's (T1). The drop arrow and lane flipping are FFF

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Inserters don't fill a crafting machine's whole input: it takes ingredients for as many crafts as it finishes in 1.166 seconds (the longest swing of a base inserter) plus one, at least 2 and at most 100 crafts' worth. The rest stays on the belt for the next machine. factorio-production/machine-insertion-limit

{
 "overloadSeconds": 1.166,
 "minimumMultiplier": 2,
 "maximumMultiplier": 100
}

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An inserter stops feeding fuel to a boiler that holds 5 or more items of it. factorio-production/boiler-fuel-limit

Value: 5 fuel items

The official wiki's rule; no constant for it was found in the base or core data read here.

A lab researches at speed 1, draws 60 kW, has 2 module slots, and accepts all seven science packs: automation, logistic, military, chemical, production, utility and space. A technology needing a pack the lab doesn't list can't be researched in it. factorio-production/labs

About: Factorio Tech tree

{
 "researchingSpeed": 1,
 "power": "60kW",
 "moduleSlots": 2,
 "packs": 7
}

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A technology costs a number of units, each needing one set of its science packs and a set time; at lab speed 1 a unit's time is its seconds, so labs working together divide the total. Only one technology is researched at a time per force, though progress on a switched-away technology is kept. factorio-production/research-time-rule

About: Factorio Tech tree

The unit rule is Wube's (API); one research at a time and kept progress are the wiki's (T1).

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Six levels of lab research speed add +20%, +30%, +40%, +50%, +50% and +60% to every lab, +250% in all. factorio-production/research-speed-research

About: Factorio Tech tree

[
 0.2,
 0.3,
 0.4,
 0.5,
 0.5,
 0.6
]

Seven technologies are unlocked by doing something rather than by labs: Steam power by crafting 50 iron plates, Electronics by crafting 10 copper plates, Automation science pack by crafting a lab, Steel axe by crafting 50 steel plates, Oil processing by mining crude oil, Uranium processing by mining uranium ore, and Space science pack by launching a satellite. Steam power and Electronics need nothing before them, so the tree starts from these two. factorio-production/trigger-technologies

About: Factorio Tech tree

{
 "steam-power": "craft 50 iron-plate",
 "electronics": "craft 10 copper-plate",
 "automation-science-pack": "craft lab",
 "steel-axe": "craft 50 steel-plate",
 "oil-processing": "mine crude-oil",
 "uranium-processing": "mine uranium-ore",
 "space-science-pack": "launch satellite"
}

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The base mod's technology.lua in 2.1.23 defines 196 technologies (Space Age adds more, not counted here). Sorted by the most advanced science pack each needs, 15 need automation packs only, 60 reach logistic, 54 chemical, 17 production, 34 utility and 9 space, and 7 are trigger technologies; 64 of them also need military packs. Nine of these are infinite, repeating at a rising cost, among them mining productivity and the weapon damage upgrades. factorio-production/tech-tree-shape

About: Factorio Tech tree

{
 "total": 196,
 "byTopPack": {
  "automation": 15,
  "logistic": 60,
  "chemical": 54,
  "production": 17,
  "utility": 34,
  "space": 9,
  "trigger": 7
 },
 "withMilitary": 64,
 "infinite": 9
}

The nine infinite technologies are physical-projectile-damage-7, stronger-explosives-7, refined-flammables-7, laser-weapons-damage-7, artillery-shell-range-1, artillery-shell-speed-1, follower-robot-count-5, worker-robots-speed-6 and mining-productivity-4.

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The Rocket silo technology costs 1,000 units of the five packs from automation to utility at 60 seconds each and needs eight technologies first. A rocket takes 100 rocket parts (each 10 processing units, 10 low density structures and 10 rocket fuel, 3 s); launching one with a satellite returns 1,000 space science packs and unlocks the Space science pack technology, which leads to the infinite technologies. factorio-production/rocket-silo-goal

About: Factorio Tech tree

{
 "units": 1000,
 "unitSeconds": 60,
 "rocketParts": 100,
 "spacePacksPerSatellite": 1000
}

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A boiler burns chemical fuel at 1.8 MW and heats water to 165 °C steam. With water's heat capacity 2 kJ and steam's 0.2 kJ per unit per degree, one unit of water becomes ten of steam: a boiler takes 6 water and gives 60 steam per second. factorio-production/boiler

{
 "power": "1.8MW",
 "steamTemperature": 165,
 "waterPerSecond": 6,
 "steamPerSecond": 60
}

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A steam engine uses 0.5 units of steam a tick (30 a second) and gets full value from steam up to 165 °C, so it gives at most (165 − 15) × 0.5 × 0.2 kJ = 15 kJ a tick: 900 kW. One boiler (1.8 MW) feeds exactly two engines. factorio-production/steam-engine

{
 "steamPerTick": 0.5,
 "maxPower": "900kW",
 "enginesPerBoiler": 2
}

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An offshore pump draws 20 units of water a tick, 1,200 a second, needing no power source of its own (a void energy source): enough water for 200 boilers and 400 steam engines. factorio-production/offshore-pump

{
 "perTick": 20,
 "perSecond": 1200,
 "boilers": 200
}

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A solar panel gives up to 60 kW. Nauvis's day lasts 7 minutes (25,200 ticks). Wube's comment marks the phases: full output for half of it, a fall over the next fifth (dusk), nothing for a tenth (night), and a rise over a fifth (dawn). The wiki says the fall and rise are linear, which gives an average of 70%, the 42 kW per panel the wiki states. factorio-production/solar-panel

About: Factorio Time of day

{
 "peak": "60kW",
 "average": "42kW",
 "dayTicks": 25200
}

The data gives only the phase boundaries, in a comment beside the colour lookup rather than a value the engine reads; the linear ramps are the wiki's (T1). The Power production page's solar section still uses a 25,000-tick day.

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An accumulator stores 5 MJ and charges or discharges at up to 300 kW. Since a solar panel's night and twilight leave a gap to fill, the wiki's Solar panel page puts the need at about 0.85 (0.84672) accumulators per panel on Nauvis. factorio-production/accumulator

{
 "capacity": "5MJ",
 "flow": "300kW"
}

The capacity and flow are T3; the ratio is the wiki's (T1). The wiki's Power production page gives 0.84, worked on the old 25,000-tick day.

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A nuclear reactor turns a uranium fuel cell (8 GJ, 200 seconds at full power) into 40 MW of heat, plus 100% for each adjacent reactor that is also fuelled: two side by side make 160 MW between them. It holds heat up to 1,000 °C at 10 MJ per degree. factorio-production/nuclear-reactor

{
 "consumption": "40MW",
 "neighbourBonus": 1,
 "fuelCell": "8GJ",
 "maxTemperature": 1000
}

The values are T3; what neighbour_bonus = 1 means (+100% per fuelled neighbour) is the wiki's (T1).

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A heat exchanger takes up to 10 MW from heat pipes at 500 °C or more and makes 500 °C steam; a steam turbine uses 1 unit of steam a tick and gets full value up to 500 °C, so it gives (500 − 15) × 1 × 0.2 kJ × 60 = 5.82 MW. A lone reactor feeds 4 exchangers, and each neighbour bonus 4 more. factorio-production/heat-exchanger-and-turbine

{
 "exchanger": "10MW",
 "turbine": "5.82MW",
 "exchangersPerReactor": 4
}

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Electric poles power machines in a square around them and link to other poles within their wire reach: small pole 5×5 area and 7.5 tiles, medium pole 7×7 and 9, big pole 4×4 and 32, substation 18×18 and 18. factorio-production/electric-poles

{
 "small-electric-pole": {
  "area": 5,
  "reach": 7.5
 },
 "medium-electric-pole": {
  "area": 7,
  "reach": 9
 },
 "big-electric-pole": {
  "area": 4,
  "reach": 32
 },
 "substation": {
  "area": 18,
  "reach": 18
 }
}

Cited by: Factorio, Power network

Wube's FFF #416 and #430 (2024) describe 2.0's fluids: connected pipes, underground pipes and storage tanks form one segment holding one fluid, and a pump splits one segment from the next. Fluid put into a segment is available at once anywhere along it: there is no flow from pipe to pipe, so pipe length and junctions no longer cut throughput as they did in 1.x. Each transfer is capped at 100 units (6,000 a second) and scaled by how full the source and the sink are, so a machine pushing in slows as the segment fills. These rules are the posts'; they weren't re-checked against 2.1.23. factorio-production/fluid-segments

{
 "maxPerTransfer": 100,
 "maxPerSecond": 6000
}

FFF

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In 2.1.23 a pipeline's extent is limited by default_pipeline_extent = 320, which a fluidbox can override; a pipeline takes the smallest extent of its parts. The data doesn't say how the extent is measured. When Wube introduced the limit in 2024, FFF #430 described it as a 250 × 250 tile area whose overrun stops all flow until pumps split the pipeline. factorio-production/pipeline-extent

Value: 320 default_pipeline_extent

FFF

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A pipe and an underground pipe each hold 100 units and a storage tank 25,000. An underground pipe pair has a max_underground_distance of 10. A pump moves 20 units a tick (1,200 a second) for 29 kW, a tenth of its earlier rate: Wube cut it in 2024 when pipelines gained their extent limit. factorio-production/pipes-and-pumps

{
 "pipeVolume": 100,
 "storageTank": 25000,
 "undergroundDistance": 10,
 "pumpPerTick": 20
}

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Water turns into ten times its volume of steam: Wube cut the water a boiler or heat exchanger needs tenfold in 2024 without changing any machine's power, so fluid wagons and barrels can carry a power plant's water. factorio-production/water-to-steam

In 2.1.23 the 1:10 follows from the heat capacities (water 2 kJ, steam 0.2 kJ per unit per degree); see boiler.

An oil refinery (crafting speed 1, 420 kW, 3 module slots) runs three 5-second recipes: basic oil processing turns 100 crude oil into 45 petroleum gas; advanced oil processing turns 100 crude oil and 50 water into 25 heavy oil, 45 light oil and 55 petroleum gas; coal liquefaction turns 10 coal, 25 heavy oil and 50 steam into 90 heavy oil, 20 light oil and 10 petroleum gas. factorio-production/oil-refining

{
 "basic-oil-processing": {
  "in": {
   "crude-oil": 100
  },
  "out": {
   "petroleum-gas": 45
  },
  "seconds": 5
 },
 "advanced-oil-processing": {
  "in": {
   "crude-oil": 100,
   "water": 50
  },
  "out": {
   "heavy-oil": 25,
   "light-oil": 45,
   "petroleum-gas": 55
  },
  "seconds": 5
 },
 "coal-liquefaction": {
  "in": {
   "coal": 10,
   "heavy-oil": 25,
   "steam": 50
  },
  "out": {
   "heavy-oil": 90,
   "light-oil": 20,
   "petroleum-gas": 10
  },
  "seconds": 5
 }
}

Coal liquefaction marks 25 of its 90 heavy oil ignored_by_productivity, the 25 it takes back in, so productivity bonuses add only to the net 65.

Cited by: Factorio, Production chain

A chemical plant (crafting speed 1, 210 kW, 3 module slots) cracks oil downward in 2-second recipes: 40 heavy oil and 30 water into 30 light oil, and 30 light oil and 30 water into 20 petroleum gas. Its other base recipes include plastic (20 petroleum gas and 1 coal into 2 bars), sulfur (30 petroleum gas and 30 water into 2), sulfuric acid (5 sulfur, 1 iron plate and 100 water into 50) and lubricant (10 heavy oil into 10), each in 1 second. factorio-production/cracking-and-chemistry

{
 "heavy-oil-cracking": {
  "in": {
   "heavy-oil": 40,
   "water": 30
  },
  "out": {
   "light-oil": 30
  },
  "seconds": 2
 },
 "light-oil-cracking": {
  "in": {
   "light-oil": 30,
   "water": 30
  },
  "out": {
   "petroleum-gas": 20
  },
  "seconds": 2
 }
}

Cited by: Factorio, Production chain