I decided to work on all the resource lines for the Smart Plating factory, today, so I blueprinted up a new version of a small beltway, and built them all out for the Iron and Limestone lines that this factory will use. Also, power lines for the miners, which doesn’t pull power from the main tubeway, but instead pulls lines from the factory, so that they’re subject to shutoff from the factory’s main power switch.

To get all those resource and power lines tied together, I also needed to finish building out the primary tubeway, at least up to the spot where the factory entrance splits off.

I made this decision after laying out the last 10 Assemblers for the factory floor, where I think I should be able to make them work, and running some power lines over the whole area.

At that point, the next step would have been finishing the beltwork, and configuring all the machines, and I realized… I’m not even 100% sure what machines are supposed to be making which products anymore, and how I intended to route all the belts together. There’s quite a bit going on here. So, instead, I figured I’ll do the beltwork and configuration AFTER I have resources coming into the facility, so I can verify each chunk of the facility immediately, before moving on to the next.