A small utility to recall recipes for items and also give the building set, raw materials, and time to craft a certain number of items.

I originally built this to be useful to me and it certainly shows. recipes.yaml is woefully incomplete (especially compared to this amazing spreadsheet), but includes the recipes I've used and planned with most often. The tags in it are also based on my mental organization of the different items.

I whole-heartedly welcome pull-requests, and please use the recipes.yaml. I hope it proves reusable in other analyses and tools.

• Item = A thing that can occupy an inventory slot or be consumed. Examples: Iron Gears, Copper Coil, Sulfuric Acid.
• Recipe = The immediate inputs, time, and output amount when making an item.
• Tick = A unit of time equal to 0.5 seconds. Created for convenience since many early game recipes only take 0.5 seconds.
• Building = Catch-all term for all production facilities. Includes assembly machines, chemical plants, and offshore pumps.

Note that I abbreviate many items' names relative to the in-game name. For example, Copper Cable becomes cable, Electronic Circuit becomes circuit, and Red Science Pack becomes science_1. Hopefully all the names are still immediately clear.

Taken from the help description:

Usage: factorio.py [options]

Options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -l, --list            Print a list of recipes.
  -v, --verbose         Turn on listing tags.
  --tag=TAGS            Only print recipes with the specified tag. Can be
                        listed multiple times.
  -r RECIPE_REQUESTED, --recipe=RECIPE_REQUESTED
                        Item whose recipe to recite.
  -b BUILD_TARGET, --build=BUILD_TARGET
                        Item to determine build for.
  -a AMOUNT, --amount=AMOUNT
                        Amount of the item being built. [default 1].
  -t TICKS, --ticks=TICKS
                        Number of ticks allowed per batch. 1 tick = 0.5 sec.
                        Defaults to the recipe time.

Basic

$ python factorio.py -l
gear
coil
pipe
steel
...

With associated tags (determined by me):

$ python factorio.py -l -v
gear [intermediate]
coil [intermediate]
pipe
steel [intermediate]
circuit [intermediate,electronic]
...

Drilling down into a specific tag:

$ python factorio.py -l --tag combat -v
gun_turret
regular_magazine
piercing_magazine
regular_shells
piercing_shells
laser_turret [electronic]
...

$ python factorio.py -r inserter
1 inserter = 1 iron, 1 circuit, 1 gear + 1 ticks across 1 buildings

Basic

$ python factorio.py -b inserter
For 1 inserter in 1 ticks:
Machines:
2 (1.50) coil
1 inserter
1 gear
1 circuit
Raws:
2 (1.50) copper
4 iron

Specifying an amount

$ python factorio.py -b inserter -a 4
For 4 inserter in 1 ticks:
Machines:
6 coil
4 inserter
4 gear
4 circuit
Raws:
6 copper
16 iron

Specifying an amount and specific number of ticks:

$ python factorio.py -b inserter -a 4 -t 2
For 4 inserter in 2 ticks:
Machines:
3 coil
2 inserter
2 gear
2 circuit
Raws:
6 copper
16 iron

• Fill out recipes.yaml to be complete
• Account for different build rates of assemblers
• Account for using different modules in buildings (?)
• D3 Graph to show flow of items through buildings listed in a build
  • Allow splitting a block of buildings (circuits) into two nodes for building organization