Trains are a way of integrating your factories, they need to work with and be tightly integrated into every piece of your train connected factories. One rail line is going to transport a huge variety of items in most cases, a technically ‘perfect’ rail network would be a single loop for one item type with no intersections or crossings, not too useful when you want to expand dynamically or make modular bases. This involves a lot of factors, most notably speed, size, and number, of trains, but in the end stuff gets from A to B.Īlthough it moves the same things as belts, bots, etc, they do so in a very different way. This means we will judge the success of a network on it’s ability to move things between destinations. Here we have to lay some groundwork for future arguments: The purpose of trains is to move things between places. Rule 1: A perfect railway is not practical. This article is not for those inexperienced with trains, if you’re just getting started, check out this presentation.Īlready know that trains are the future and just need the technical advice? Skip to Rule 2. Number of perfect rail networks made: 1.Percent of played worlds with train networks: 100%.Time spent figuring out rail theory in hours: still counting.This post will attempt to show you that trains are not actually as complicated as they are famed to be.
Just because a train network never jams, does not mean it’s perfect. (I recommend at least scanning over that post, it’s got useful information.) In this post I will show you the principles behind building rail networks in Factorio, so that you understand what you’re doing before you do it, you understand the problems when they appear, and, if no mistakes occur, you create networks that never jam ever. This article was partially inspired by Korezaan’s post: Post has been updated September 2019! Read on further below, January 2021: Factorio 1.1 introduced stop train limits! Read my take on the feature here.
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