This blueprint book provides a framework for designing modular components of large-scale bases. The framework is chunk aligned, allowing for players to easily place blueprints and design large-scale base layouts using the tile grid (which can be visualized in game either by pressing shift + space or by enabling the show-tile-grid debug view). This blueprint book is not expected to be used alone; rather users are expected to combine it with gigabase compatible blueprint books built on top of this framework. Compatible books include:
- Gigabus, an extensible and modular main bus design.
- Gigassembly, a series of Gigabus-connected factories including assemblers, smelters, and fluid processors.
- Gigarail Basics, a small set of basic railway building blocks.
In order to design your own gigabase compatible blueprint or blueprint book, the following constraints must be adhered to:
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Compatible blueprints MUST fit into a single chunk with no overlap into neighboring chunks except for the four corner power poles required by the framework.
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Compatible blueprints MUST NOT place anything on the hazard concrete tiles reserved for the framework except for the tile immediately to the left of the active provider chest. The module blueprint MAY place a logistics buffer chest in that tile. This is intended for modules that are placed repeatedly over large areas (such as solar fields or main bus belts) to use as a way to prevent construction robots from flying extremely long distances to and from a central supply area.
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Compatible blueprints MAY assume that all normal concrete tiles are fully powered by substations, fully connected to the logistics robot network, and fully covered by radar.
Note that this blueprint book adds some terminology for sizes that are multiples of chunks:
- A block is a 2-chunk wide square area (64 tiles wide by 64 tiles tall)
- A quad is a 4-chunk wide square area (128 tiles wide by 128 tiles tall)
- A block column is a 1-chunk wide rectangle that is 2 chunks tall
- A block row is a 1-chunk tall rectangle that is 2 chunks wide
- A quad column is a 1-chunk wide rectangle that is 4 chunks tall
- A quad row is a 1-chunk tall rectangle that is 4 chunks wide
Gigabase-compatible blueprints are encouraged to use these terms and to provide repeated variants of their designs in block and quad sizes to make it easier for players to place blueprints over large areas.