Optimal factory production capacity
Factories and mines in Avorion produce goods in cycles. These have a variable length depending on the product and can be shortened by adding Production Capacity to your station by building more assembly blocks. It can be reduced to a minimum of 15 seconds (30 seconds for some stations, which get twice the amount of tracks to make up for it). The length of a cycle is not affected by the size of the factory and the amount of tracks it has to produce items in parallel.
Formula[edit | edit source]
The formula for calculating the production time per cycle is as follows:
Time = product price * product quantity * product level / production capacity.
if a station produces more than one item, multiply the price, quantity and level of each individual product and add these together. then divide the total by the production capacity.
the production capacity cap is the value that you need to get the minimal track length of 15 seconds.
The formula for the optimal production capacity can be derived from the above formula to be as follows.
total production / 15 = Optimal Production capacity
total production = sum(product price * product quantity * product level) for each product that is produced.
A product of level 0 is treated as lv 1 in this formula.
All the values can be found in game except for production constant. This is a hidden value in the game files that acts as a multiplier for the production time. This means that a product of 2000 credits of level 4 would for example take twice as long as a similar product of 2000 credits of level 2.
List of Factories and their optimal Production Capacity[edit | edit source]
This is a table of known factories with their optimal production capacity and their produce. Note that Factories have an inherent production capacity of 100 so any factory with a cap value of less than 100 will already be working at optimal capacity. The game takes the maximum value of either 100 or the PC of the station. This table was generated for Avorion 1.0 using [1]Avorion Wikify Factory Optimization (a fork avorion wikify) in 2020.
Factory | Production Capacity cap | Produces (quantity, Price, Level) |
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Accelerator Factory | 200690 |
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Aluminum Mine | 134 |
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Ammunition Factory | 3376 |
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Ammunition Factory | 6310 |
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Antigrav Generator Factory | 38204 |
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Antigrav Unit Factory | 11850 |
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Body Armor Factory | 57544 |
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Book Factory | 256 |
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Brewery | 1728 |
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Carbon Extractor | 282 |
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Cattle Ranch | 300 |
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Cattle Ranch | 328 |
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Chemical Factory | 724 |
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Clothes Factory | 2720 |
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Coal Mine | 54 |
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Cocoa Farm | 586 |
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Coffee Farm | 629 |
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Computation Mainframe Factory | 17706 |
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Computer Component Factory | 11036 |
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Conductor Factory | 896 |
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Copper Mine | 117 |
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Corn Farm | 134 |
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Crystal Farm | 127 |
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Dairy Farm | 758 |
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Display Factory | 3144 |
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Distillery | 1245 |
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Drill Factory | 9542 |
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Drone Factory | 2587 |
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Electro Magnet Factory | 644 |
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Electromagnetic Charge Factory | 11188 |
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Energy Container Factory | 1087 |
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Energy Generator Factory | 6383 |
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Energy Inverter Factory | 2044 |
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Energy Tube Factory | 965 |
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Explosive Charge Factory | 1518 |
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Fabric Factory | 546 |
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Fertilizer Factory | 234 |
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Fertilizer Factory | 192 |
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Fish Farm | 194 |
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Food Bar Factory | 298 |
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Food Factory | 800 |
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Force Generator Factory | 23136 |
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Fruit Farm | 171 |
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Fuel Factory | 165 |
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Fungus Farm | 230 |
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Fusion Core Factory | 4092 |
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Fusion Generator Factory | 18459 |
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Gas Collector | 110 |
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Gas Collector | 138 |
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Gas Collector | 144 |
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Gas Collector | 120 |
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Gauss Rail Factory | 6188 |
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Glass Manufacturer | 98 |
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Gun Factory | 2464 |
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High Capacity Lens Factory | 938 |
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High Pressure Tube Factory | 1650 |
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Ice Mine | 100 |
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Jewelry Manufacturer | 336 |
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Laser Compressor Factory | 2633 |
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Laser Head Factory | 1564 |
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Laser Modulator Factory | 6697 |
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Lead Mine | 134 |
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Luxury Food Factory | 2581 |
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Meat Factory | 703 |
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Medical Supplies Factory | 3207 |
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Metal Plate Factory | 423 |
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Microchip Factory | 896 |
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Mineral Extractor | 134 |
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Mining Robot Factory | 87588 |
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Nanobot Factory | 2230 |
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Noble Metal Mine | 90 |
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Noble Metal Mine | 70 |
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Noble Metal Mine | 60 |
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Oil Refinery | 164 |
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Oil Rig | 50 |
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Ore Mine | 140 |
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Paint Manufacturer | 642 |
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Paper Factory | 246 |
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Plankton Collector | 117 |
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Plant Farm | 88 |
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Plasma Cell Factory | 464 |
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Plastic Manufacturer | 274 |
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Potato Farm | 99 |
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Power Unit Factory | 404 |
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Processor Factory | 9430 |
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Protein Factory | 907 |
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Rice Farm | 98 |
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Rocket Factory | 4500 |
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Rubber Factory | 355 |
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Satellite Factory | 30669 |
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Scrap Metal Trader | 100 |
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Semi Conductor Manufacturer | 516 |
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Servo Factory | 925 |
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Sheep Ranch | 325 |
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Silicon Mine | 134 |
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Solar Cell Factory | 313 |
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Solar Panel Factory | 2286 |
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Solar Power Plant | 84 |
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Spices Farm | 1078 |
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Steel Factory | 148 |
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Steel Factory | 111 |
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Steel Tube Factory | 564 |
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Targeting Card Factory | 9499 |
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Targeting System Factory | 15827 |
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Tea Farm | 207 |
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Teleporter Factory | 20997 |
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Tesla Coil Factory | 9627 |
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Tools Factory | 571 |
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Transformator Factory | 558 |
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Turbine Factory | 6692 |
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Vegetable Farm | 96 |
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Vehicle Factory | 41115 |
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War Robot Factory | 55314 |
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Warhead Factory | 1879 |
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Water Collector | 100 |
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Wheat Farm | 95 |
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Wine Factory | 1214 |
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Wire Manufacturer | 380 |
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Wood Farm | 156 |
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Zinc Mine | 167 |
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- It is unsure if toxic waste actually contributes to the production time of factories. If it does its time contribution is in the milliseconds that people might miss out, if it doesnt people might be wasting a a couple thousand credits on assembly blocks (those can get expansive fast). Toxic waste has been left out of the calculation, however if you want to include it, add 1 pc to the value to correct for it. The choice whether to include toxic waste or not is left to the reader.