A hypothetical factory being hit by 8 yellow box beacons and 8 yellow knight beacons would have costs reduced to 8.9% of their original costs. This effectively means there are diminishing returns on their effectiveness. N yellow box beacons would reduce costs to 0.85^N of the original cost. These limitations effectively disappear pretty quickly, though, once you get the production multiplier of a factory to >10x. However, for low output factories, efficiency beacons are subject to breakpoints and effectively cap at a minimum cost of 1 per ingredient. These beacons are highly underrated because they are the games’ best solution for the higher tiers of factories/juice that otherwise demand ludicrous amounts of tier 1 factories. Yellow boxes boost efficiency by 15% (costs x0.85) and yellow knights boost efficiency by 13% (costs x0.87), meaning all things being equal, yellow boxes should be preferred over yellow knights. It’s for this reason that you’ll generally be better off alternating speed and productivity tiles throughout your maps, assuming your factories are not either speed capped or at a very low base productivity. For example, a blue box and a purple box affecting the same factory (assuming it’s not speed capped) would multiply overall production by 1.4*1.3=1.82.

This means if you have a factory that only produces 1 item per bar fill, you’ll need to raise the productivity multiplier to a total of at least 2 in order to see an actual difference in productivity.īlue and purple beacons work together multiplicatively. While purple beacons are not subject to a cap like blue beacons, purple beacons are subject to breakpoints, particularly for new tiers of factories or juices. This means adding a second purple beacon provides a slightly smaller benefit than the first purple beacon does. Multiple purple beacons on the same tile stack additively, meaning a purple box and a purple knight hitting the same tile would cause productivity to be multiplied by (1+(.3+.35))=1.65. Purple boxes boost productivity by 30% and purple knights boost productivity by 35%, meaning all things being equal, purple knights should be preferred over purple boxes. Once a factory is at its speed cap, additional speed boosts are wasted on the factory. Blue beacons are also subject to a speed cap, which is different for each factory.

This means adding a second blue beacon provides a slightly smaller benefit than the first blue beacon does. Multiple blue beacons on the same tile stack additively, meaning a blue box and a blue knight hitting the same tile would cause speed to be multiplied by (1+(.4+.35))=1.75. Blue boxes boost speed by 40% and blue knights boost speed by 35%, meaning all things being equal, blue boxes should be preferred over blue knights. Knights hit all the spaces a knight piece in chess could move to.īlue beacons boost speed.

Each beacon will hit 8 surrounding tiles, though in different arrangements. When placed intelligently, beacons can easily double the overall effectiveness of your maps.Įarly game, there are six different beacons you can use. NGU Industries features beacons, which can provide powerful stat boosts to your tiles’ productivity, speed, and efficiency. A quick guide to using beacons and getting much more value from your maps.

Ngu industries tutorial island layout