Technologies & Blueprints
166 entries in the Factorio compendium.
Technologies & Blueprints — Era Chart
Chemical PlantTransforming feedstock chemicals into products through industrial-scale chemical processesNuclear PowerHarness the atom's fury to power your megafactory without coal smoke.Assembly Machine 3The ultimate standard assembler for high-efficiency late-game production lines.Rocket SiloThe final frontier: launch your rocket and escape the planet.Processing UnitThe logical leap from simple assembly to intelligent, self-regulating industrial might.Electronic CircuitThe green heartbeat of every automated factory, turning raw ore into intelligent machineryBattery AccumulatorA robust battery tolerant of abuse, with a life that can exceed 20 years in backup serviceGreen Science PackThe biological catalyst that transforms raw coal into the fuel for industrial evolution.Red Science PackThe plastic-fueled catalyst that propels your factory from basic assembly to advanced autoBlue Science PackChemical mastery fuels the next leap of industrial evolution.Rail SignalThe visual display device that conveys instructions or provides warning regarding the drivBeaconProjecting industrial efficiency across the factory floor with amplified module power.Logistic NetworkThe Chinese logistics network launched by Alibaba Group that ensures 24-hour delivery acroMining Drill 5The ground trembles, the ore sings, and the factory grows another tooth.Mining Drill 3Triple the bite, same two-by-two footprint—the planet finally yields.Mining Drill 2The moment your factory stops scraping by and starts scaling.Mining Drill 7The planet groans. The drill does not stop. The factory is never finished.Mining Drill 6The drill the community wishes existed: one more click, one more tier, one more gigawatt oMining Drill 9A drill that exists only in the space between what we built and what we dreamed.Mining Drill 11When the bedrock itself becomes the bottleneck, you dig past it.Mining Drill 8The drill that never shipped, but every factory dreamer still builds.Mining Drill 12A name with no drill behind it — this one doesn't exist in the factory.Mining Drill 10A drill that exists only in the space between what Wube shipped and what fans dream.Logistic Train 3Three stops, one rhythm, and a factory that never starves.Logistic Train 2Second draft, first real throughput—the train that finally keeps up with your furnaces.Logistic Train 9Nine stops, one rhythm, and a factory that never starves.Logistic Train 12Twelve wagons of iron-clad efficiency, laid down in a single paste.Logistic Train 16Sixteen stops, zero idle wheels, and a factory that never starves.Logistic Train 15Fifteen stops, zero bottlenecks—haul the whole continent by rail.Logistic Train 17Where the factory's heartbeat meets the rails, version seventeen and counting.Logistic Train 18Eighteen stops, zero idle time, and a factory that finally breathes in rhythm.Logistic Train 21One locomotive, twenty-one stops, zero idle belts: the rolling warehouse that keeps a megaLogistic Train 19Nineteen wagons of pure, clanking, rail-bound logistics, shared from one factory floor to Logistic Train 24A community rail blueprint that turns long-distance hauling into a silent, clockwork balleLogistic Train 25Twenty-five ports, one train, zero belt spaghetti — the community's love letter to organizLogistic Train 14Fourteen wagons of pure, unglamorous, magnificent item-shuffling.Logistic Train 27A fan-built rail artery that turns scattered factories into one breathing machine.Logistic Train 28Twenty-eight wagons long, one purpose: keep the factory fed.Logistic Train 29Where iron wheels meet the swarm, and the factory never stops breathing.Logistic Train 33Thirty-three wagons of pure, humming logistics on an alien dirt road.Logistic Train 34A tidy multi-wagon rail line that keeps your factory's supply arteries flowing without a sLogistic Train 30Thirty wagons, zero drivers, infinite throughput—Factorio's railway dream in a single pastLogistic Train 35A shared rail recipe that turns a cluttered base into a humming logistics artery.Logistic Train 36Sixty wagons of pure throughput, laid down with a single paste.Logistic Train 37A community-forged artery of steel and signal, hauling the empire's goods line by line.Logistic Train 38Thirty-eight wagons of raw order, thundering across the factory floor.Logistic Train 31Steel wheels, painted signals, and the quiet hum of a factory that never sleeps.Logistic Train 39Thirty-nine revisions, one unbroken rail line, zero belt backups.Logistic Train 41One blueprint, one paste, and a factory's worth of iron ore finally moves.Logistic Train 40Forty stops of steel and purpose, hauling your empire's goods across the wasteland.Logistic Train 43Thirty wagons of iron and copper, humming down the rails like a steel heartbeat.Logistic Train 42A train that thinks, a station that sorts, a factory that hums.Logistic Train 44We Sustain — the largest Corps in the British Army.Logistic Train 46Where a single belt becomes a railway, and a factory becomes a living machine.Logistic Train 45Steel wheels on alien rails, hauling the factory's lifeblood across a hostile world.Logistic Train 48Where the factory breathes, the train carries its blood across the map.Logistic Train 47Forty-seven wagons of purpose, humming along a single perfect rail.Logistic Train 51Fifty-one wagons of pure, rumbling industrial will on a single track.Logistic Train 50Fifty items on a loop, zero belts, infinite patience.Logistic Train 53When robots are too quiet, let the rails sing.Logistic Train 54A rolling warehouse stitching the alien wasteland into one humming supply line.Logistic Train 57Steel on steel, slot by slot, the factory breathes in rhythm.Logistic Train 55Fifty-five stops, zero wagons sitting idle, one loop that's gloriously over-engineered.Logistic Train 60Sixty stops, zero idle wagons—logistics that keeps the whole island breathing.Logistic Train 56Sixty cars of iron and purpose, humming between the mine and the machine.Furnace 1One clink, one plate, one fuel: the furnace that starts every empire.Furnace 2Trade the cracked stone for cold steel, and watch your smelting line finally keep pace.Furnace 3When the grid hums to life, the old fuel tanks finally rest.Furnace 6A furnace that exists only in the space between memory and misremembering.Furnace 8A furnace number that the Factorio universe never actually minted.Furnace 11A name that echoes through the smelting halls but belongs to no official schematic.Logistic Train 58Steel on steel, logic on rails—your factory's blood, pumped by combinator.Furnace 12Three furnaces, one obsession: watch the coal fly and the iron flow.Furnace 13Three furnaces, one heartbeat: the smelting pulse that keeps every factory alive.Furnace 9You keep scrolling the wiki for a ninth furnace. There is only ever three. And that's enouFurnace 14The furnace that exists only in the space between your spreadsheet and your sleep scheduleFurnace 18A name that sounds like it belongs on a factory floor, but doesn't exist in the game.Furnace 21A fan's love letter to the hum of a thousand furnaces, saved as a single ghost.Furnace 19A furnace that exists only in the spaces between the real ones.Furnace 23The furnace that never was, but every factory dreams of.Furnace 25Twenty-five hammers of industry, laid out by a player who needed more plates by lunchtime.Assembler 3The iron heart of your factory, beating faster with every circuit wired in.Assembler 1Sixteen little slots, one big dream: turn the planet into a machine.Assembler 5The moment your factory stops being slow and starts being *almost* fast enough.Assembler 4Four ports, four arms, one relentless hum—the factory has outgrown its cradle.Assembler 7Seven recipes, maximum speed, zero compromise—the factory's final word.Assembler 8Eight ports, three modules, one relentless heartbeat of industry.Assembler 9The last piston you will ever need to oil, if the factory ever lets you.Assembler 6The assembler that isn't there yet—the tier every factory dreams of adding one more row toAssembler 10The last machine you will ever need to build, and the first one that makes you feel the plAssembler 12The assembler that only exists because a factory can never be finished.Assembler 11When three tiers aren't enough, the community dreams up the eleventh.Assembler 14The assembler that will never ship: a beloved 'what if' that keeps fans checking the tech Assembler 17Twenty tiers of industry, and this is where the factory stops whispering and starts roarinAssembler 18One more rung on the endless ladder of automation, humming with purpose.Assembler 16The last gear the factory will ever need to turn.Assembler 20The assembler that exists only in the space between your ambition and your power grid.Assembler 23Twenty-three iterations beyond what the aliens ever intended you to build.Assembler 24The machine that was never built, but every factory dreamer still sketches at 2 a.m.Chemistry 1One research, and your factory starts breathing, burning, and bubbling.Chemistry 3Three drops of sulfuric acid and the whole factory exhales in relief.Chemistry 2Turn crude oil into the plastic that binds your factory together.Chemistry 4The chemistry ladder's missing fourth rung — a fan dream, not a game feature.Chemistry 6Six revisions, one goal: turn petroleum into plastic without a single belt crossing.Chemistry 5The last drop in the chemical cascade—every plant now hums at full throttle.Chemistry 7The last alchemical secret the planet keeps from you, finally cracked open.Chemistry 8Another notch on the speed dial, and the chemical plants finally keep up with your ambitioChemistry 9The last drop of acid your lab will ever need to squeeze from the machine.Chemistry 11Where crude fluids become the lifeblood of every advanced circuit.Chemistry 10Where raw ore becomes acid, and a tidy factory becomes a pipe labyrinth.Chemistry 12The last flask you shake before the sky catches fire.Chemistry 14The penultimate chemical breakthrough, one step from the factory's final frontier.Chemistry 17Seventeen iterations of the molecule, and the factory still isn't finished.Chemistry 20A phantom rung on a ladder that only has two steps.Chemistry 22A name that lives only in the space between what players remember and what the tech tree aChemistry 24A fan-dreamed tier where the alien's chemistry finally meets the builder's ambition.Chemistry 21The factory learns to brew, not just build.Chemistry 25The final alchemical whisper before the factory becomes a self-sustaining organism.Solar 2Turn your sun-baked fields into a factory that never sleeps—well, except at night.Solar 1Turn the endless day into an inexhaustible power grid, one panel at a time.Solar 4The sun never clocks out, and neither does your factory.Solar 5Where the sun's patience outlasts the factory's hunger.Solar 6The tier every solar-farm dreamer sketches on a napkin but the tech tree never delivers.Solar 3The last panel you'll ever need: harvest the alien sun and never burn another drop of oil.Solar 7Seven rows of sun, zero fuel, infinite patience.Solar 8Eight panels of pure sunlight, enough to keep a continent of machines awake.Solar 11Eleven rows of glass and light, humming in the Factorio sun.Solar 10Ten points of research, and the alien sun becomes your engine.Solar 12The first solar panel big enough to make the sun your real power plant.Solar 14Free power from the sky—no fuel, no smoke, just light turned into gigawatts.Solar 17Thousand panels, one sun, zero oil—build the glow that keeps the factory breathing.Solar 18The sun never sets on a factory that has mastered the sky.Solar 20Turn the sun into a factory that never runs out of fuel.Solar 15Fifteen steps toward the sun, and the factory finally drinks the light.Solar 22A community label for a solar array that lives in the shadow of Factorio's real photovoltaSolar 21Twenty-one rows of glass and light, turning the endless grey plain into a power grid.Solar 23A thousand panels drink the sun, and the factory never sleeps.Solar 19Nineteen rows of glass and light, humming quietly while the factory roars around them.Solar 24No fuel, no noise, no moving parts—just the sun doing the work.Military 1The factory stops building and starts fighting.Military 3Your turrets finally stop being a suggestion and start being a wall.Military 4When the turrets fall silent, you light the corridor yourself.Solar 25The sun doesn't bill you. Build the panels, let it work for you.Military 5The last wall of iron and fire between your factory and the swarm.Military 6Your turrets just found their second wind—faster, meaner, and very much not done shooting.Military 7The last rung of the war machine: a bomber that turns the sky into a delivery service for Military 2When bullets run dry, the factory breathes fire.Military 8The fortress the base game never promised, but the community keeps building anyway.Military 9The last wall between your factory and the endless swarm.Military 10The last shell loaded into your factory's cannon, and the one that ends every siege.Military 12Twelve steps through the war machine, and the final reward is just a little extra speed.Military 11The last shield raised before the factory becomes truly untouchable.Military 13Thirteen steps of violence, ending in one ocean-shaking boom.Military 17Three turrets, three tiers, and a thousand fan blueprints named after the seventeenth.Military 16The factory doesn't just build—it defends, and it defends in earnest.Military 14The last iron wall before the sky opens.Military 18The last plate of armor before you launch into the sky.Military 19The last wall between your factory and the swarm.Military 15The biters learned to fear the hum of a fully armed perimeter.Military 22The turret your factory wishes it had: a fan-born legend of the red-bordered frontier.Military 21Where the factory stops hiding and starts firing back.Military 25The final hammer falls on the alien horde as your fortress reaches its ultimate lethality.Military 20The last wall of steel between your factory and the dark.Military 24The last gear in the war machine, where the factory's fury reaches its full expression.Infrastructure 1Before the robots fly and the rockets launch, someone has to lay the first belt.Military 23The tier that never shipped, but every veteran wishes had.
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