Tile: Difference between revisions

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A tile is the smallest piece of the world map. The whole Factorio world is made out of them.

Tiles are used as a unit for measuring area and distance.

A Chunk (32x32 tiles) is the next largest unit for area/distance.

You can either

Area covered by Radar: about 100 tiles diameter (100 tiles in each direction, bounded to the matching Chunk, read about Radar to understand this)
Speed of a basic Transport belt: about 1.8 tiles/sec.
It takes about 1 minutes and 52 seconds to run 1000 tiles without speed up. ^[1] (As a side note, this would mean that the character is a very healthy person.)

1 tile is generally assumed to be 1 square meter in size (like Minecraft). According to this discussion, this assumption seems to be true.

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 tile is generally assumed to be 1 square meter in size (like Minecraft). According to [http://www.factorioforums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=9182&p=73352#p73349 this discussion], this assumption seems to be true.
-== Length or area? ==
-If you want to make it clear whether you are referring to a tile as length or area please use something like "tile length", "square tiles", "tile^2" or similar, but in most cases it should be clear.