All maps from all tests are available for download from here.
| Test | Title | Factorio Version | Date | Author |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| test-template | Test template | 0.17.79 | n/a | mulark |
| test-000001 | What is the best way to benchmark Factorio? | 0.16.51 | 2018-10-21 | mulark |
| test-000002 | Does performance of designs scale linearly to the number of entities / amount of production? | 0.16.51 | 2018-10-21 | mulark |
| test-000003 | Is it better to use offshore pumps where they are needed directly in, or use as few as possible and pipe water to its destination? | 0.16.51 | 2018-11-09 | mulark |
| test-000004 | Does the number of slots or type of chest influence the performance cost? | 0.16.51 | 2018-11-09 | mulark |
| test-000005 | What is the performance improvement for priming inserters? | 0.16.51 | 2018-11-09 | mulark |
| test-000006 | Does solar have a negative UPS impact due to the additional RAM consumption? (Part 1/1) | 0.16.51 | 2018-12-19 | mulark |
| test-000007 | A look at a couple rocket fuel designs, and a investigation on the fluidsUpdate timing presented by verbose benchmarking. | 0.17.33/0.17.34 | 2019-06-05 | mulark |
| test-000009 | Does having more beacon sharing impact performance in any meaningful way? | 0.16.51 | 2018-12-23 | mulark |
| test-000010 | A deeper dive into the results of test-000009. Why did more beacons perform worse? | 0.16.51 | 2018-12-27 | mulark |
| test-000011 | A performance comparison between /u/schaev and /u/swolar's designs. | 0.16.51 | 2019-02-23 | mulark, swolar |
| test-000012 | A look at how overbuilding a synthetic yellow science build affects performance. | 0.16.51 | 2019-01-04 | mulark |
| test-000013 | Are electric networks updated in parallel with each other? | 1.0.0 | 2020-09-21 | mulark |
| test-000014 | Does the update order of trains affect the performance of trains? | 0.16.51 | 2019-01-24 | mulark |
| test-000015 | Are cars with orientation 0 more UPS efficient than other orientations? | 0.16.51 | 2019-01-12 | mulark |
| test-000016 | Do train wagons perform collision checks on their directly connected neighbour? | 0.16.51 | 2019-01-19 | mulark |
| test-000017 | A performance comparison of 0.16 and 0.17. | 0.16.51/0.17.1/0.17.7 | 2019-03-11 | mulark |
| test-000018 | A look at on patch smelting, where directly mining into a furnace is compared against mining into a chest and using an inserter to move the ore. | 0.16.51 | 2019-01-12 | mulark |
| test-000019 | Does the wait condition on trains have a signifigant performance delta? | 0.16.51 | 2019-02-10 | mulark |
| test-000022 | Are trains moving north more UPS efficient than other directions? | 0.16.51 | 2019-01-23 | mulark |
| test-000025 | Does the spacing between rails affect performance? | 0.16.51 | 2019-02-04 | mulark |
| test-000026 | Are diagonal trains more or less UPS effective than straight trains? | 0.16.51 | 2019-02-04 | mulark |
| test-000028 | Does having cars aligned to the collision grid improve performance when they are moving? | 0.16.51 | 2019-02-02 | mulark |
| test-000029 | What is the performance cost of a moving ore belt in front of miners? | 1.1.90 | 2023-09-12 | mulark |
| test-000030 | Part 2 of testing train wait conditions. Testing multiple conditions. | 0.16.51 | 2019-02-14 | mulark |
| test-000031 | Is it better to have two miners each mine a half lane, or have one miner mine into a splitter for a full belt? | 1.1.91 | 2023-09-14 | mulark |
| test-000032 | Further performance exploration of 2 miners versus 1 miner and a splitter | 1.1.91 | 2023-09-15 | mulark |
| test-000034 | When using cars as a handoff, is it better to leave the fuel and ammo slots empty, or fill them? | 0.17.17 | 2019-03-24 | mulark |
| test-000038 | 0.17 Revisit: Is it better to use offshore pumps where they are needed directly in, or use as few as possible and pipe water to its destination? | 0.17.33/0.17.34 | 2019-05-20 | mulark |
| test-000039 | How have the Intel security vulnerability mitigations impacted the performance of Factorio? | 0.17.43 | 2019-07-14 | mulark |
| test-000046 | Does recompressing game saves affect the resulting runtime performance? | 0.17.78 | 2019-11-28 | mulark |
| test-000047 | Revisting train wait conditions in 0.17 | 0.17.79 | 2019-12-15 | mulark |
| test-000050 | Measuring the performance cost of pipes based on fluid filters and fluid levels. | 0.18.17 | 2020-04-02 | mulark |
| test-000051 | Retesting the UPS cost of diagonal trains; Is it worth going diagonal to avoid ore? | 0.18.24 | 2020-05-12 | mulark |
| test-000055 | Measuring the performance of Factorio across various versions | Varies | 2020-08-09 | mulark |
| test-000059 | 1.1 Revist - Is it better to over beacon entities so they spend more time idle? | 1.1.42 | 2021-10-19 | mulark |
| test-000060 | Does priming inserters matter when the inserter is part of a DI chain? | 1.1.107 | 2024-04-17 | mulark |
| test-000061 | Is there a performance improvement to turning off inserters chasing items? | 1.1.107 | 2024-04-20 | mulark |
| test-000101 | Best way to load/unload furnaces? Cars vs. Chests, clocked vs freerunning inserters? | 0.17.32 | 2019-04-22 | KnightElite |
| test-000102 | Do Stack Inserters perform better than filter stack inserters? | 0.17.32 | 2019-04-22 | KnightElite |
| test-000103 | Performance of trains in different states | 0.17.33 | 2019-04-22 | KnightElite |
| test-000104 | Performance Cost of stationary trains | 0.17.33 | 2019-04-25 | KnightElite |
| test-000105 | Is it worth making trains stay at the station instead of a signal so inserters remain inactive? | 0.17.34 | 2019-04-27 | KnightElite |
| test-000106 | Which fuel type is most UPS efficient? | 0.18.17 | 2020-04-02 | KnightElite |
| test-000201 | What is the ideal amount of logistic bots in a network? | 0.17.79 | 2020-05-04 | Swolar |