Blueprints browser: COI HUB community layouts, filters and ratings

About this game

Developer: MaFi Games · Publisher: MaFi Games · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Realistic 3D · Screen type: City & Base Management

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What to study

Captain of Industry treats player factories as shareable content, and the browser is built like a storefront inside the game: a filter rail narrows 1,490 layouts by compatibility (base game only, my selection, everything), cards carry downloads, comments, stars, and approval percent, and pagination runs to 59 pages. The compatibility filter is the design lesson, since a blueprint that needs an expansion the player lacks is useless no matter how good it looks. The top HUD and bottom build toolbar stay visible behind the modal, so browsing never fully leaves the game. Frame at about 0:05 in the Update 4.2 trailer (Steam). Disclosure: no trailer burn-in or captions; one card thumbnail itself contains the text CAPTAIN OF INDUSTRY UPDATE 4 PERFECT OIL as part of that user blueprint's thumbnail art.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

card-grid side-panel tabbed-panel

Components

Parts on screen.

Card Window Tabs List Toolbar Resource bar

Screen inventory

• Blueprints (F4) window: Library and COI HUB tabs, Search field, Sort by Most popular
• Compatibility filter rail: Base game only (1330), My selection with Supporter edition and Trains expanded checked, Everything (1490)
• Card grid of community blueprints: Manufacturing Hub, Oil Refinery, Coal Power, Unified Foundry, Early Foundry, Early Hub, each by Calen with age, downloads, comments, stars, and approval percent
• Pagination 1 / 59 at the window foot
• Top HUD behind the window: research state, power 1.71 GW, food, health, population, ship status Docked, date 10 October 7822
• Right-side stockpile bar with per-resource amounts and bottom build toolbar

Top 3 colors

#414348 21%#8a8983 19%#646454 18%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© MaFi Games, Captain of Industry screenshot: Update 4.2 trailer (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by MaFi Games.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-11-03. verified 2026-11-02: scene frame from the official Steam trailer, inspected visually at full resolution; Library/COI HUB tabs, filter rail counts, six card titles with authors and ratings, pagination, top HUD values, and stockpile bar confirmed legible

No published MaFi Games fan-content policy found (checked 2026-11-02, reconfirmed 2026-11-03); frames are from the publisher's own Steam trailers, used for design study and commentary, unofficial, not endorsed.

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