EVE Industry

Production Planner

Materials, times, costs and the skills a build really needs — components included, all the way down.

Pick a product and the planner expands its whole build tree: materials with ME applied, job times with your skills, what is cheaper to buy than to build, the skills you are missing and the research times of the blueprint.

EVE Online production planner

Plan any EVE Online build in three steps: pilots and facilities, what it takes, then split the batches — material cost with ME applied, job times with your own skills, build-or-buy on every row and the prints you still have to get.

The production planner on Capsuleers.app answers the question every industrialist starts from: what does it actually cost to build this, how long does it take, and what do I still need to train. Pick a product — any of the 4 959 types a blueprint can produce, ships, modules, charges, drones, structures, fuel blocks and reaction outputs — and the tool expands its entire build tree from the EVE Online SDE.

Materials are computed the way the game computes them: quantities are multiplied by the number of runs BEFORE rounding, so a single ten-run job costs less than ten one-run jobs, material efficiency and facility bonuses apply in that order, and no material ever drops below one unit per run. Job times combine blueprint time efficiency with Industry and Advanced Industry multiplicatively — TE 20 with Industry V is not −40%, it is −52% — plus the structure and rig bonuses of the facility you configure. Reactions are handled apart, because a reaction formula has neither ME nor TE and no industry skill shortens it.

Every row of the tree carries both prices: what that branch costs to build, and what it costs to buy outright at EVErefs reference prices. The cheaper of the two is marked, and one click switches the plan — so the tree doubles as a build-or-buy answer at every depth, not only at the top. Components needed by more than one parent are consolidated into a single job, exactly as you would queue them in game, which keeps the rounding of materials honest.

The skills panel is recursive in both directions: it collects what every blueprint in the plan requires, then closes the chain of prerequisites those skills themselves demand — the ones no blueprint names and that you discover only when the training queue refuses. Load one of your characters and each row shows the level you have, the skill points missing and an estimate of the training time.

The third step is where the plan becomes a project. Pick how to split the batches — the fewest jobs the blueprints allow, or as many as your free slots can run in parallel — and the tree, the job list and the shopping list are recomputed on that choice, because every extra job rounds its own materials. The schedule reads each pilot's blueprints, skills and slots: ME and TE come from the copy actually owned, a print in the wrong hangar becomes a move-it step, and a step nobody can install is flagged instead of being quietly assigned.

The whole build tree, not just the final job

Pick what you want to make and the planner opens every level below it: the components, the components of those components, and the raw materials at the bottom, each with the quantity the job actually consumes after material efficiency.

Demand is consolidated by type rather than by branch, because in game a component needed by two parents is made in one job, and every job rounds its materials up. Counting it twice would cost more than the truth.

Each row carries a buy-or-build decision, and three presets move all of them at once: build everything, buy the reactions, or buy the components. Each preset shows the net cost of the whole plan, so you can see what the choice is worth before making it.

Material efficiency, time efficiency and structure bonuses

The plan is computed against where you will actually install the jobs. That means the system, the structure, its rigs and the tax, for manufacturing and for reactions separately, since they are usually not the same place.

Rigs are handled per family rather than as one setting, because that is how the game works: a rig covers a family of products and you can run tier two for ships and tier one for components in the same structure. How many rigs a structure can take, and in which sizes, is read from the game data rather than assumed, so the page only offers combinations that exist.

The security band is derived from the system rather than asked for separately, which is what stops a plan from describing a nullsec setup inside a highsec system.

Where a job can actually be installed

A Titan in a Raitaru in highsec is not slower, it is impossible. The planner computes the numbers anyway, which is exactly what makes that case misleading, so it checks five installation requirements against the structure you chose: supercapital, capital, and the three reaction families.

When a plan touches one of them, a panel names the product that triggered it and offers to move the setup to the smallest valid structure, changing only what is wrong rather than downgrading a setup you meant.

Running it across several characters

The project step is where the plan becomes a schedule. Add the characters who will do the work and it reads their real skills, the blueprints they own with their real material and time efficiency, and what is in their hangars.

From that it assigns the jobs, tells you which blueprint needs moving from one character to another, flags any step nobody present can run and names the missing skill, and tracks progress against what is already built or in production. Job slots come from skills, not from head count: one character with maxed production skills runs many jobs in parallel.

The shopping list is net of what you already hold in the system where the job will be installed. Stock sitting twenty jumps away is still listed, separately, because buying it and hauling it are different decisions.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need to sign in?

Not to plan. The build tree, the costs and the buy-or-build presets all work signed out. Signing in is what turns a plan into a project: reading your characters' skills, blueprints and hangars needs their permission, and it is read-only.

Why is my cost per unit different from the market price?

Because the plan shows what it costs you to make it, and that depends on your structure, your rigs, your blueprint efficiency and the system cost index. The margin shown compares that against the reference price, so a negative margin means building it is worse than buying it, which is genuinely true for some items.

What is the excess value in the totals?

Reactions and some components cannot be made in half quantities, so a plan often produces more of an intermediate than it consumes. The leftover is valued at what it cost to make, not at market, and subtracted to give the net cost. Without that, building everything looks far more expensive than it is.

Does it handle invented tech two blueprints?

Yes, and it handles them as invention rather than as purchases. An invented copy starts at the efficiency invention gives it rather than at a researched value, runs per copy are what invention produced, and a decryptor changes both. Those are the numbers used, not an assumed researched blueprint.