Manufacturing Hub

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Calen

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02/20/25

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04/24/24

Description

Manufacturing Hub

Author: Calen

v3.2.0

The Manufacturing Hub is my centralized complex for (almost) all things created by assembly plants and their derivatives - vehicles, research, and maintenance specifically. Not included is Uranium Rod production, which is part of my Nuclear Power Station; Medical Supplies, which is part of my Food & Drug Center; and Solar Panels, which I don't currently use. While all my complexes (Oil Refinery, Unified Foundry, Food & Drug Center, & Nuclear Power Station) are built in stages, the Manufacturing Hub has the most at 15.

Stages of the Manufacturing Hub:

Installation Pics: https://imgur.com/a/C6V1Rp4

Stage 1: Construction Parts I & II, Vehicle Parts I, Mechanical Parts, Electronics, Research and Maintenance
Stage 2: Construction Parts III
Stage 3: Large Vehicles
Stage 4: Research Lab III
Stage 5: Large Storage Upgrade
Stage 6: Household Goods
Stage 7: Electronics II
Stage 8: Construction Parts IV & Maintenance II
Stage 9: Household Appliances
Stage 10: Research Lab IV
Stage 11: Mega Vehicles
Stage 12: Electronics III
Stage 13: Servers & Maintenance III
Stage 14: Research Lab V
Stage 15: Consumer Electronics

A brief note on storage: While storage is used for accumulating goods, I also like to think of it as a buffer against "the bad times". However, in an effort to really condense the layout of the hub as much as possible, I have shrunk the size and use of egress storage and removed internal storage entirely. I have only had one full playthrough with this new design, but it seems to work well. I do miss my massive amounts of electronics storage though. I am pondering reincorporating it into the design at a later date. If you decide to use the hub, let me know your thoughts/experience with the reduced storage in the comments.

Tips

Start with constructing the transport and storage first, then construct the buildings as able/needed.
Research Maintenance Depot II as soon as you can so you can upgrade the starting depots.
Add Maintenance Depots as needed - a maximum of 5 Maintenance Depots and 4 Maintenance II Depots.
To gain Lab Equipment needed for constructing/upgrading the Research Labs, remove them from the transports (trashcan icon).
Perform conversion to steel Mechanical Parts as soon as possible.
Perform upgrades as soon as possible.

Note: Please excuse the blocked connections at the maintenance depots in stage 1, they will go away once you upgrade them.

Required Materials

Name	Stage 1	Stage 2	Stage 3	Stage 4	Stage 5	Stage 6	Stage 7	Stage 8	Stage 9	Stage 10	Stage 11	Stage 12	Stage 13	Stage 14	Stage 15	Total
Construction Parts	660											110				770
Construction Parts II	1671	309	327	76		122	320	56	112	16	68	542	134	20	170	3943
Construction Parts III			268	384	900	206	798	363	171	95	292	389	131	18	64	4079
Construction Parts IV								10		180	180	2600	240	440	480	4130
Electronics			20													20
Electronics II										180						180
Electronics III													40			40
Lab Equipment	30															30
Lab Equipment II				60												60
Lab Equipment III										60						60
Lab Equipment IV														60		60
Rubber	377	45	200	200		161	242	133	92	29	70	679	70	35	116	2449
Steel				90												90

Additional Upgrade Costs

Name	Maintenance Depot	Storage II	Assembly III	Conveyor II	Maintenance II Depot	Assembly (Robotic)	Assembly (Robotic) II	Total
Construction Parts II	210	270						480
Construction Parts III			675	243	120			1038
Construction Parts IV					30	1220	3200	4450
Electronics	40	270						310
Electronics II						1220		1220
Rubber				330				330
Steel			405					405

Buildings

Name	Stage 1	Stage 2	Stage 3	Stage 4	Stage 5	Stage 6	Stage 7	Stage 8	Stage 9	Stage 10	Stage 11	Stage 12	Stage 13	Stage 14	Stage 15	Total
Assembly II	23	-23														0
Assembly III		27	4	2		3	12	4	3	2	4	-61				0
Assembly (Robotic)												69	4	2	-26	49
Assembly (Robotic) II															32	32
Fluid Storage II			1									2				3
Loose Storage II	1															1
Maintenance Depot	5															5
Maintenance II Depot								4								4
Maintenance III Depot													2			2
Microchip Machine												36			-36	0
Microchip Machine II															36	36
Research Lab II	3			-3												0
Research Lab III				3						-3						0
Research Lab IV										3				-3		0
Research Lab V														3		3
Silicon Crystallizer												3				3
Unit Storage II	19	2	-1	1	-18	1	1		1						1	7
Unit Storage III					10		2	1			1		1			15
Vehicle Depot	1		-1													0
Vehicle Depot II			1								-1					0
Vehicle Depot III											1					1

Operational Input

Name	Stage 1	Stage 2	Stage 3	Stage 4	Stage 6	Stage 7	Stage 8	Stage 9	Stage 10	Stage 11	Stage 12	Stage 13	Stage 14	Stage 15	Total
Workers	268	78	36	40	24	96	144	24	58	38	-182	64	58	84	830
Power (MW)	3.69	2.21	0.92	0.9	0.45	1.8	2.2	0.45	0.9	0.92	16.8	2.2	1.7	13.5	48.64
Compute (TFlops)											396	16	44	260	716
Maintenance	66.2	58.9	15.2	19	11.4	45.6	15.2	11.4	-26.3	15.2	-231.8				0
Maintenance II									22.5		477.9	15.2	30.1	249.2	794.9

Resource Input

Name	Stage 1	Stage 2	Stage 3	Stage 4	Stage 6	Stage 7	Stage 9	Stage 12	Stage 13	Stage 15	Total
Acid								72		72	144
Concrete	48	48						96			192
Copper	72	72				12		228		384	768
Glass			12		48	48		108		96	312
Gold								72		72	144
Iron	138	-42						96			192
Paper				12				12			24
Plastic						24		96		138	258
Rubber	18	18						36		72	144
Silicon						48		120		96	264
Steel		96	12	6	6		12	132	3	18	285
Water								75		72	147
Wood	36	36			24			96			192

Product Output

Name	Stage 1	Stage 2	Stage 3	Stage 4	Stage 6	Stage 7	Stage 8	Stage 9	Stage 10	Stage 12	Stage 13	Stage 14	Stage 15	Total
Construction Parts	48	48								96				192
Construction Parts II	24	24								48				96
Construction Parts III		24								24				48
Construction Parts IV							12			12				24
Consumer Electronics													36	36
Electronics	72	72								144			288	576
Electronics II						48				48			96	192
Electronics III													24	48
Household Appliances								36		36				72
Household Goods					48					48				96
Maintenance	2400													2400
Maintenance II							1920							1920
Maintenance III											360			360
Mechanical Parts	72	72								144				288
Research Speed	12			2.4					2.4			2.4		19.2
Servers											12			12
Vehicle Parts II			24							24				48

Byproduct Output

Name	Stage 1	Stage 2	Stage 3	Stage 4	Stage 5	Stage 6	Stage 7	Stage 8	Stage 9	Stage 10	Stage 11	Stage 12	Stage 13	Stage 14	Stage 15	Total
Recyclables	102			12				96		12				60		312

Earlier Versions (10)

Version	Release Date	Downloads
10 (Current)	02/20/2025	1324
9	09/23/2024	2598
8	09/16/2024	126
7	09/08/2024	208
6	08/25/2024	281
5	05/31/2024	2289
4	05/26/2024	107
3	05/14/2024	252
2	05/06/2024	111
1	04/29/2024	112

Comments (37)

Madison

Very Nice Job :) ..

Kozrek

The Grandmaster of Blueprint's.

Calen

Thank you!

romonito

Great job, well done ! Its working fine

Jadnar

Love this, Could you add a 'final' version in your BP's with the finished product? Also, do your belt layouts match the other books you've made? For example, Does the Manufacturing hub line up with the Foundry. Thank you for making these.

Calen (edited)

Hi, Jadnar. I'm happy you love my blueprints! I will put "including a final/complete version" on my list of to-dos. That list is getting shorter though, so it shouldn't be too long to wait. It's funny you should ask that about the belts lining up - I've been contemplating this a lot lately. Right now they don't, but I think they should. Specifically, I would like to have a common layout/organization between the Oil Refinery, The Manufacturing Hub, and the Unified Foundry.

Calen (edited)

Change Log v3.2.0 - Added connectors to steel transport as well as construction parts I-III transport for better control. Added footprint guide and an additional transport layout option. v3.1.1 - Corrected Hub Transport - Straight blueprint v3.1.0 - Updated transport to form backbone of new Transport System. v3.0.3 - Updated ingress transport to fix concrete/rubber conveyors. v3.0.2 - Updated a couple belt paths. v3.0.1 - Added installation image links for each stage, and added complete build blueprint.

Beton1975

Great Blueprint...just one question. Why do you have a large box with vehicle parts 2 above the vehicles depot? Any particular reason?

Calen

@Beton1975 - I typically trade Vehicle Parts II for crude oil.

mommaray

quick question...by any chance do the transports for this blueprint match up to the outgoing transports for the foundry?

Calen (edited)

@mommaray - They don't currently. I plan on working on that in the next week or so. They do now! I would update both the Unified Foundry and Manufacturing Hub blueprints.

Grinder (edited)

Outstanding work here Calen! I am converting my island to incorporate all of your blueprints.Yours are the hands down best due to the thoughtful integration across all manufacturing logic chains. Sincere thanks for your efforts, they are appreciated. I too would be interested in your full island layout. I lack the big picture goal you seem to have mastered as I am still working through my first run. Grandmaster of blueprints indeed! P.S. Copy/paste link above is v.3.0.1 not v.3.0.2.

Emrys

Are there instructions on how to connect the individual blueprints?

Calen

@Grinder - That's awesome! How did it work out?

Calen (edited)

@Emrys - There are Imgur URLs for each stage in the description above showing how to install it.

aadje93

could you make a pic how the transports should match with the layer 1 manu hub? Also it seems that belts from the unified refinery dont match up with the manufacturing hub?

Respen

The copy/paste is still showing for me as v3.1.0 instead of the new v3.1.1

Calen

@Respen - Fixed. Thanks.

kam99

I had been using JDPlays blueprints. Calen's blueprints are more efficient, more compact and optimised for COI Update 2. Quite simply, they are the best blueprints available.

Calen

@kam99 - Thank you! This made my day. :)

Stragler76 (edited)

Great blueprints. Question: What happened to the transport 'around back' for settlement needs (household goods, etc.) and diesel? I seemed to have lost it when i updated blueprint.

Qpon

The one thing I find at fault is construction capacity is low for my tastes. I'd like it more if that was doubled, that is easy but would require more electronics production. At times if feels like an eternity to build something waiting lmao. Otherwise amazing. I love how it is in stages by your tech level. BRAVO Best all in one stuff ever

Степан

обновите до новой версии! (чертеж не работает, нельзя построить)

Torach

in your latest iteration some of the stages have broken conveyors. Manufacturing equipment 4 and household appliances for instance.

MaddTrker

this bp looks awesome, but I have a question. Will this bp match up with the early foundry bp you made? Also does the bp have the transport setup you see in the 2nd pic of your bp?

Calen

@Torach - Those work fine for me. @MaddTrker - The Hub does come with a transport blueprint that works well. The Early Foundry also has an egress blueprint that should connect. Nevertheless, I have paused any further optimizations between facilities until after Update 3 comes out. I imagine I will need to create trains stations for each facility, rather than large transport blueprints, but I won't know for certain until we get Update 3.

zack12027

Very nice BP! a small change to the adding of research 1-2-3 would be adding a storage temporarily so you can upgrade the research center, for 4 tho, since theres lack of space you would have to make cars remove them from belt manually. But i guess you could do the same for 1-3

halcyforn (edited)

very nice hub small sugestion the bellts between construction aparts and warehouses this what going to next stage should be paused( for special needs) and added small connector on last crossroad to first in next type of parts, thanks to this you have always lower tier parts and half of them go to hi tier.

halcyforn

i found one small problem with this blueprint at llater stage can you add this shadow to see how much space i need to build it now i need delete this factory or move foundry i saw in most of your bp you have this.

Calen (edited)

@halcyforn - Thanks, I took both of your suggestions and incorporated them into the latest release (3.2.0).

sneeper69

@Calen, Hi, the install images aren't working. Can you fix that link, please?

Calen

@sneeper69 - That's weird; it works for me. Try this link: https://imgur.com/a/manufacturing-hub-staged-installation-C6V1Rp4

Lotec

Do I need some mods or something to import it? Copy/paste end with error: "..." (0 chars) https://imgur.com/a/UlBLos9 any idea?

Skellitor301

iirc there was a version of this blueprint that included vehicle ramps in the transport folder. Was there a reason why those were removed?

Calen

@Lotec - I assume you're hitting the Copy button on this page first? I just tested importing the blueprint and it worked fine for me.

Calen

@Skellitor301 - I just checked and they're there. They're the first two blueprints in the Transport folder. There used to be just one, but I had added a second one and then renamed them slightly. Maybe you were looking for the old name?

Dawn

how do you connect the transport of the oil refinery front to the oil refinery transport? the number of belts dont seem to match up. or are the different blueprints not compatible?