Facility Capacity and Power Planning

The selected recipe produces 1 LC Valley Battery every 10 seconds in a Packaging Unit. Convert that cycle into a per-minute rate before comparing it with the target.

This rate belongs to one continuously active facility. It is a capacity number, not yet the number of buildings you need.

The example target is 18 batteries per minute. One facility supplies 6, so the final assembly step needs exactly 3 facilities.

If the result were 2.5 instead, read it in two ways. The calculation says two facilities are fully occupied and a third needs half of its capacity. The physical layout still needs three buildings for uninterrupted output. Keeping both numbers prevents accidental overbuilding while preserving enough placement space.

Each Packaging Unit in the current dataset uses 20 power. Three final-step facilities therefore account for 60 power. That is not the complete factory total, because the inputs also need to be produced.

Amethyst Part

90 required per minute

Originium Powder

180 required per minute

Those input rates expand into their own recipes, facilities, and power costs. The calculator follows that dependency chain until it reaches a raw material or a material you manually choose to treat as raw.

Increasing the final target multiplies every upstream demand. A recipe with generous output may disappear as a concern, while a slower intermediate or a facility with higher power draw becomes the real constraint. This is why planning only the final building often produces a layout that looks correct but cannot run continuously.

Compare both table and tree views. The table is better for totals; the tree explains which target created a demand and where repeated materials enter several branches. When two targets share an intermediate, plan the combined rate instead of building two isolated supply lines by habit.