Beltworks vs Factorio School / FactorioPrints

Players often ask whether Beltworks replaces FactorioPrints or Factorio School. Short answer: no. Those archives are part of Factorio’s community history. Beltworks is a separate site with its own search, guides, and native uploads—and it still points back to the public sources for imported rows.

The classic archives

FactorioPrints and Factorio School collected blueprint strings, titles, tags, and screenshots for years. Countless factory designs only exist in that public corpus. If you already have bookmarks there, keep them. Beltworks does not try to erase that ecosystem.

What Beltworks optimizes for

Entity- and recipe-aware search aimed at “does this string actually contain foundries?” not only title keywords.

Factorio 2.0 / Space Age–oriented tagging and guides written for this site.

Native uploads with revisions, favorites, and collections on Beltworks accounts.

Print pages that stay usable even when a blueprint string is large (lazy-loading heavy payloads).

Editorial how-tos: import flows, Vulcanus prep, Foundry unlock pitfalls, quality loops, console commands, modding.

What we deliberately do not do

We do not strip authorship from imported listings.

We do not pretend imported descriptions were written by Beltworks staff.

We do not hide the outbound FactorioPrints / Factorio School links on imported pages.

When to use which

Use Factorio School / FactorioPrints when you already know a specific listing URL or prefer their UI.

Use Beltworks when you want cross-filtered search, Space Age guides beside the catalog, or to publish a native blueprint with Beltworks metadata.

Use both when researching: land on Beltworks via search, then open the source link to compare the original post.

Trust and moderation

Imported catalogs inevitably include thin, outdated, or mis-tagged rows. Beltworks marks imports, soft-deindexes the thinnest pages, and accepts removal requests from original authors. Native uploads are moderated under Beltworks terms. Report spam from any print page.

Related reading

How Beltworks imports and credits FactorioPrints explains the pipeline; How to upload a blueprint on Beltworks covers native publishing.