Matter Printer & Blueprint System -- Copy, Paste, Scale Your Factory

You Are Building Every Assembler Line By Hand. Stop.

You designed the perfect Smelter layout. Eight Smelters, three Connectors, one buffer chest, exactly aligned. Took you 20 minutes. Then you need three more copies. So you build them again. And again. By the time you finish the fourth copy, you have spent over an hour placing the same damn buildings in the same damn pattern.

Outworld Station has a blueprint system. It is not well-documented in-game. But once you learn it, you can replicate a full production line in under 60 seconds – settings, logistics routes, and all.

Quick-Fix: Your First Blueprint in 30 Seconds

That is the basic single-building copy. The real power comes from multi-building templates.

The Blueprint System (v0.1.2.6+)

Version 0.1.2.6 introduced the Blueprint tool and Multiple Hotbars. Here is how they work:

Creating a Multi-Building Template

1. Hold Shift and left-click to select multiple buildings
2. A blue selection box highlights your group
3. Press Ctrl+C – a template saves to your clipboard
4. Press Ctrl+V – the entire group ghost appears
5. Click to place all buildings at once

Pro tip: The template remembers building connections, conveyor directions, and logistics settings. If you had a Smelter set to output to a specific chest, the clone does the same.

Hotbar Blueprints

Saving templates to your hotbar lets you reuse them across sessions:

Switch between hotbars with the Tab key or the hotbar selector UI.

Saving a Template to Hotbar

1. Select your multi-building group
2. Press Ctrl+C to copy
3. Press Ctrl+[number] to save to the current hotbar slot
4. Template is now permanent – survives save/load

The Matter Printer: Printing Physical Components

The Matter Printer is the building that turns blueprints into physical objects. It is unlocked around Station Level 4-5 under the Production research tree.

What the Matter Printer Does

Use Cases

• Mass-producing Connector pieces for station expansion
• Printing Hull Frames for new rooms
• Replicating structural supports for large open spaces
• Automating building material production so you can focus on layout

Real Scenario: Rebuilding After a Raid

A hostile drone swarm took out my entire mining wing – eight Smelters, four Connectors, two Storage Chests, and the power line feeding them. Manual rebuild would have taken 40 minutes.

The fix: Before the raid, I had saved a “Mining Block” template to Hotbar Slot 2. It was a group of 4 Smelters, 2 Connectors, and 1 Chest with conveyor routes already set. After the raid:

1. Opened the Matter Printer queue – printed 16 Connector pieces and 8 Smelter frames (3 minutes)
2. Clicked Hotbar 2, selected my Mining Block template (5 seconds)
3. Placed two copies side by side (10 seconds)
4. Connected power (20 seconds)

Total rebuild: under 5 minutes. I keep templates for every production module now.

Building a Template Library

Here is what I recommend saving:

See our Station Layout Guide for optimal template placement, and the Station Expansion Blueprint guide for complete mega-station build plans.

Community Resources

• Steam Guides (opens in new tab)
• Outworld Station on Reddit (opens in new tab)