Blueprints and Planners tutorial - Laurence Plays Factorio

In the second logistics related tutorial, I'm going to take a look at creating and managing blueprints, plus some of the details of deconstruction and upgrade planners that you might not know about. It's an interesting and powerful topic, and one that's very worth getting to grips with.

As ever, let me know if there are any other topics you'd like to see in a Tutorio.

Thanks to Tristan for error checking!

0:00 Intro
0:24 Creating Blueprints
3:10 Using Blueprints
4:16 Snap to Grid
5:11 Rail grids
6:10 Upgrade and Deconstruction planners
8:07 Blueprint Manager

[colbancassian]

snap to grid was driving me crazy. I finally understand it. Thank you so much!

[DragonFistLeeMontage]

Great video - started playing factorio after not playing for several years and these were excellent ways of refreshing my memory and teaching me new things! Cheers!

[RedCMD]

you can also shift+left click (and drag) the origin (red flag) around inside the blueprint editor

[diamondking]

Love the tutorials as usual Laurence! I always learn something new! Have you thought of making a tutorial for advanced circuitry like clocks and latches to help with resource and fluid balancing in overhaul mods?

[CannedLaughter]

The fact that non of this is ever explained in Factorio is baffling to me. I do think that some of this is a bit unintuitive to use, in particular the filters for deconstruction. Great tutorial by the way.

[patrickbuswell]

This is a great video. Thank you for the simple no BS and easy to understand information for newbies like me. Once again, chapter would be great, I was looking for the upgrade planner information in this case. Thanks for sharing friend!

[galhorblack]

thanks for the video i will have to watch it many time to fully memorize everything;

[chriscahill]

ty i didnt know the shift i like to do grid along with tiles and this allows me to grab the ports tiles and all and rail network os expansion is so much better

[walterroche]

Blueprints have a troublesome history with the game. They can be lost with a simple power outage. So always backup your blueprints! Either via a text file or going into the game files and creating a Zip file of them.

[Logically_Fallacious]

I've been looking for a definitive playlist of all your Factorio tut's and I can't find it... I know some are more relevant to 2.0 than others, but your train, bot, and circuits (with some 2.0 differences from 1.1) tuts I found useful... I am looking for your complete set...

[MatthewGP]

For rails, Is there an easy way to add land fill to your blueprints? Or is drawing landfill on a lake, adding your rails, then blueprinting the only way?

[DavidKFZ]

bro what the fuck, this game is just ridiculous, so keen to try this

[SteaksOnSpear]

How do you select a factory for blue print, i can't just left click and drag over factories, nothing happens it just clicks on one thing?

[piiYT]

3:15 can edit it, or delete it. How to edit a blueprint???

[Murder-less]

Like for Ctrl+z. People tend to ignore it:)