What this is

Gridworks Guides is a one-person site. Every guide is about a game that eats evenings: production chains, ratios, progression order and the systems the tutorials skip. The format is deliberate — materials, quantities and coordinates you can build from, with no video to scrub through and no paywall to hit.

How a guide is made

Most guides here are played through on the current build, and the numbers are read off the game itself — machine throughput, recipe costs, coordinates — not copied from another guide. A page built instead from the developer's own patch notes or from data extracted out of the build says so in a short “how this was made” note, and names what is still unverified. When a game patches and a number moves, the guide is re-checked and the change is logged on the page, with a date. Where a value cannot be confirmed yet, the page says so rather than guessing.

Updates and corrections

The front page tracks official patch notes for the games covered here, so you can see when something has changed. Spotted a wrong number, or want a game covered? Send a correction or a suggestion — specific helps most.

Keep in touch

Follow new guides and patch notes on the RSS feed. Everything stays free, and the printable cheat sheets are the best thing to pass on. If you want the video side of it, the Patch Notes to Shorts playbook is the process in four pages.