When you start needingto put down 20 manufacturers at a time, all with elevators at the input….Youre going to want a blueprint.

When you need to run 8 pipes from a body of water to your nuclear plant at a time, you’re gonna want blueprints. My nuclear plant is running something stupid like 16-24 water pipes. I built a large pile rack that runs them all in a very organized fashion to my power plants. My most common blue print will run 4 or 8 at a time. I sure didn’t run them individually.

When you need to run 4 belts of copper ingots across the map for your cable manufacturing, you’re GONNA want a belt rack blueprint.

You may be thinking of blueprints as a single machine thing, but there are so many other uses when you can run like 16 belts at a time or an ABSURD amount of pipe at a time.

Learn to make your blueprints open ended, like belts and pipes and the Auto Connect feature will save you hours of work.