Sources and original illustrations
Primary references and the limits of this educational collection.
Primary references
- Official Factorio Wiki: Burner inserter — Fuel-fed operation and self-fueling when suitable fuel is picked up.
- Official Factorio Wiki: Boiler — Water and steam ports and normal-quality steam output.
- Official Factorio Wiki: Steam engine — Steam use, normal-quality output and demand-following behavior.
- Official Factorio Wiki: Belt transport system — Two belt lanes, side loading and transport geometry.
- Official Factorio Wiki: Electric system — Electric networks, pole connections and supply coverage.
- Official Factorio Wiki: Lab — Required science packs and lab operation.
- Official Factorio Wiki: Research — Technology prerequisites and science requirements.
- Official Factorio Wiki: Pipe to ground — Opposed underground pipe endpoints and connection behavior.
- Official Factorio Wiki: Assembling machine 2 — Recipes with fluids and assembler fluid connections.
- Official Factorio Wiki: Electric mining drill — Mining area, output orientation and resource availability.
- Official Factorio Wiki: Steel plate — Base-game steel recipe using iron plates.
- Official Factorio Wiki: Stone furnace — Fuel, ingredient and output behavior in basic smelting.
- Official Factorio Wiki: Rail signal — Rail blocks, signal states and direction.
- Official Factorio Wiki: Train stop — Named destinations, scheduling and stop settings.
- Official Factorio Wiki: Locomotive — Fuel and directional train movement.
- Official Factorio Wiki: Splitter — Input/output priorities and item filtering.
- Official Factorio Wiki: Circuit network — Wired item signals and entity conditions.
- Official Factorio Wiki: Logistic network — Provider, storage and requester roles.
- Official Factorio Wiki: Roboport — Separate coverage areas, network links and charging.
- Official Factorio Wiki: Ghost — Planned entities and construction requirements.
- Official Factorio Wiki: Deconstruction planner — Filtered removal marking and cancellation.
- Official Factorio Wiki: Tutorial:Train signals — Block-based signal reasoning and intersection context.
Original visual material
The diagrams in this edition are original SVG illustrations explaining the sequence or decisions in each guide. They do not show a laboratory experiment, a personal trip or a tested product result. No photographs from the linked sources are reproduced.
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References were consulted during preparation of this edition. A source may cover a broader or narrower question than a particular guide; the support notes above explain why it is listed. Read the original for methodology, exceptions and updates.