Wooden chest — Factorio Production Calculator
Wooden chest is crafted in the assembling machine in 0.5 seconds, producing 1 per craft from 2 × Wood. At 60 per minute you need 1 assembling machine, and the chain behind it draws on 1 raw resources: wood.
Production chain for 60 Wooden chest / minute
| Item | Per minute | Machines | Machine |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wooden chest | 60 | 1 | Assembling machine |
Raw materials
| Resource | Per minute |
|---|---|
| Wood | 120 |
Machine counts are not rounded up. Add a little headroom in game — belt throughput and inserter speed usually mean you want 5-10% more than the exact number.
Wooden chest recipe
| Machine | Crafting time | Output | Ingredients |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assembling machine | 0.5 s | 1 | Wood × 2 |
What the whole chain needs
This recipe has no intermediate steps: every ingredient is a raw resource, so the chain is a single machine block fed straight from mining or pumpjacks. At 60 per minute that is 1 machine and nothing else to build.
Belt check: the busiest input here moves 120 per minute, which is 0.13 of a yellow belt's 900 per minute. Above 1.0 and you need a second belt (or a faster tier) before the machines themselves become the limit.
What uses wooden chest
No base-game recipe consumes wooden chest — it is an end product. Once you build it, the chain stops here, which makes it a good target if you only want to size the sub-factory that feeds your mall.
FAQ
How many assembling machines do I need for 60 wooden chests per minute?
1 assembling machine. One at standard speed produces 60 per minute, so 60 ÷ that number is the count. The calculator above rounds nothing — add 5-10% headroom for belt and inserter losses in a real factory.
How much raw ore does wooden chest take?
At 60/min the chain consumes 120 wood per minute. Those numbers are the theoretical minimum — mining productivity research and productivity modules both reduce them.
Machine counts assume bare machines at standard speed. Recipe data comes from the game's own prototypes (PlayerCalc, Factorio 2.0 base game). Not affiliated with Wube Software.