Production chains
Build a chain around a real demand and verify every input, transfer and final delivery.
What we know
Canned food: the confirmed relationship
How to approach the decision
Editorial planning advice based on the confirmed systems above.
- Separate required ingredients from optional productivity inputs.
- Trace competing demand for a shared cargo before assigning supply.
- Use the manual planner to sketch the chain without assuming recipe ratios.
Follow competing demand
The official canned-food example is useful because meat and fish are also demanded directly by towns. Supplying the processor therefore creates a routing decision: where should the available cargo go? The developer also identifies grain and tinplate as materials used by other industries.
Map the consumers first. Keep required ingredients separate from optional boosts, and observe downstream capacity before increasing supply. The manual planner records the route you choose; it does not prescribe an unverified recipe ratio.
A mistake to avoid
A conceptual chain is not an exact recipe table; quantities remain unverified.
What still needs live data
Input/output quantities, cycle times and full recipe graph.
We will update this guide before opening individual database records. Unverified shells are excluded from search and the sitemap.
cargo chain planner
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Official sources
Industries & Cargo dev blogLast editorial review: September 8, 2026. Evidence policy and source ledger.