When a blueprint is placed, a ghost of the layout appears on the ground. This can be used as a guide for manually placing factory pieces, or, more commonly, handed over to construction robots for automated completion. Blueprints can be stored in a blueprint book or blueprint library to...
If the width of the machines modulo 3 is 1 (such as a width of 4), then any offset leads to an optimal layout. If the width of the machines modulo 3 is 2 (such as a width of 5), then the arrangement is optimal when the center of a machine aligns with the center of a beacon...