Planning library

Endfield Factory Planning Guides

These guides explain the decisions behind the calculator, not just the buttons. Each one connects the production math to a concrete planning problem so you can audit a result and adapt it to your own stock, power budget, and preferred routes.

Method overview · 8 min read

Factory planning fundamentals

Learn the complete calculation flow from a target rate to facilities, raw materials, dependency trees, cycles, and power totals.

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Worked example · 7 min read

Facility capacity and power planning

Work through a real LC Valley Battery example and learn when to round facilities, how to read utilization, and why final-step power is not total-chain power.

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Route comparison · 7 min read

Choosing between alternative recipes

Compare six Carbon production routes and evaluate throughput, input availability, downstream cost, and bottleneck risk instead of choosing by speed alone.

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A useful reading order

You do not need to read everything before using the calculator. Pick the guide that matches the decision blocking your current plan.

  1. 01Start with the fundamentals when you are new to per-minute planning.
  2. 02Use the power guide before expanding a plan across several facility families.
  3. 03Use the recipe guide when the same output has multiple production routes.

Check a number while you read

The recipe database exposes the exact input, output, time, facility, and power values used by the guides.

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