Efficient Designs

## Disclaimer

**\*\*\*SPOILER ALERT\*\*\***

If you do not want to **spoil** the *fun* of getting to figure out your own efficient designs, DO NOT PROCEED.

Otherwise, if you're having troubles figuring out how to make your designs or want to compare your own to the ones below, then feel free to proceed.

ALSO, if you think you have a something to add or change, you may do so in this area as well.

## Cutter

### Half Cutter

#### Keeping both halves

Submitted by GhostieFans

Submitted by JustANobody2107

### Cutting and Merging

1. Right half
2. Left half
3. Bottom half
4. Top half
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## Assemblers

Assembler factories consist of a combination of **only** cutters and stackers and are capable of producing one or more complex shapes. Examples are full windmills, 1/4 + 3/4 shapes, double rate diagonals, and a factory for producing every basic shape from a shape that is made from quarters of all the shapes.

### Windmill

A windmill shape is this:

Windmills do not occur naturally in the game, and have to be made. Half windmills and quarter windmills can be found. To make windmills you have to use cutters and stackers.  shapes are the only half windmills that spawn naturally.

#### 1-Windmill Piece

Remember you need a total of 4 input belts to produce a full output belt

#### 2-Windmill Piece

You need 2 input belts to produce a full bet of output

## Complex Shapes

### Blueprint maker

A blueprint shape is this:

The shapes are used when pasting a copy. Bottom layer shape can be found in the world naturally or made.

#### Making Shapes

but belts and tunels on left are temporary, so skip those, while stacking (shown here for better visibility)

### Logo Maker

A logo shape is this:

Warning!! This is the ultimate spoiler! Do not proceed if you like to have fun playing the game by yourself!

#### Logo Shape Makers Without Quad Cutter

20x3

26x5

9x17

### Rocket Shape Maker

A rocket shape is this:

It is very useful for upgrades and unlocking freeplay, but it is very hard to make. Here is some help.

22x12 with paint mixer

### Purple Shape and White Star Maker

This shape is this:

These shapes are used for upgrading in later levels. One alternative is to use a blueprint maker but with premade purple and premade bottom shape.

Submitted by JustANobody2107

### Martian Logo (Level 18)

The martian face to reach Level 18 (9 x 11)

## Smart factories

Factories that uses filters to perform selective actions.

See also: Efficient Designs#Everything Machines

## Overflow Gates

**Wires Update allows use of filters which is generally superior to using overflow gate logic.**

Storage units prioritize the top output lane. If the top output belt becomes blocked/backed up then it will start using the lower belt.

This can be exploited in useful ways.
Here is a painter than will output uncolored shapes if no pigment is given.

If no pigment is given then the painter shape input belt backs up. This causes the overflow gate to output unpainted shapes using the other path bypassing the printer.
One problem with overflow gates is that they stop working as desired if your belts backup for reasons other than what you intend. To avoid this you can add these to prevent belts from backing up.

Here is an example of a universal colour mixer

## Other Designs

### Rotate one shape

If you have upgraded one and not the other this will help divide it up and avoid a speed loss. This is not necessary when rotator and belt are at same speed.

If you want full shapes made from two left and two right halves:

### Combined factory example

Example of multiple-designs combined to make a shape.

## Everything Machines

Share your everything machine here with the template:

Overlap size length x width
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Helpful vocab:

* overlap size: pretend everything is on one layer. If you find the size of the machine on that imaginary layer, you will get an overlap size
* physical/wires: physical has white (or black with standalone) background and you can place belt, balancer, etc. In wires the background is green and you can place wires, wires crossings, etc.

If you don't know how to format table, find size, or find rates, just post pics in the comments

See also: Everything Machines

## Extended Hubs

Extended Hubs are just hubs but bigger. Great to leave some space for them when you need to make blueprint shapes.

42x42
How is it expensive buildings are literally free?
And dont tell me you dont have the blueprints,
if you wanna build something this big you're