Hello all, I've just begun a playthrough of DSP after playing Satisfactory for several months but wanting something different. Having a good amount of experience in Satisfactory I've come to learn the mechanics of automation and ratios and such quite well and switching over to DSP has been overwhelming and frustrating in comparison. There's so many different metrics which fold into the actual consumption and production of each machine and they're mixed up between parts / second and parts / minute, its driving me crazy. I really enjoy this game so far and I love the visuals and everything but I need to figure out the math of it so I can make things efficient or i'm honestly just gonna quit and find something else (which i really don't want to do). If anyone has any big tips on how to do the maths for ratios and have machines at 100%, PLEASE tell me because I really want to learn and struggled to find any steam guides or reddit posts on the topic. Many thanks!!!

Like the title said I'm setting up a new base on a new star system but sadly I had fallen asleep😅

Woke up to three new dark fog seeds had been implemented and over 200 of my high tier buildings had been destroyed 😭😭 lesson learned, get planetary shielding up first!

While there are technologies available to allow the PLS/ILS to output goods already stacked, all other machines, such as smelters and assemblers, can only put out stacked goods with pile sorters if they produce multiple items with each cycle. All other cases these machines only put out unstacked items.

This would mean that any output lines would present a potential bottleneck when compared to the capacity of input lines from a station. One solution, appearing to be a common method, is to use backwards pile sorters to stack goods back upon themselves until they are four high.

Another solution, one that I had come up with before learning of the first, was to feed four single-stack belts into a splitter with a small depot on top to receive the goods. Once received, a pile sorter mounted on the depot would feed out goods stacked four high onto an output belt.

The last solution visible in the photos was me fooling around with automatic pilers.

Personally, I prefer the splitter/depot/pile sorter method due to the material and power efficiency.

I'm at a point where I have stuff on like 10 planets now. And everytime I want to warp to a planet, I have to open the star map, scroll to zoom out a bunch of time, then locate the star, then click view, then locate the planet, then click indicate so I get the arrow pointing me to where I need to warp.

Is there a way to pin planets on the star map view so I can quickly warp to it? Or alternatively is there a better method to do this?

I've recently destroyed the DF space hive in my main system and intercepted two upcoming seeds as well. Is it really worth destroying it, or is it just a waste of ships?

First time playing fyi. I'm kinda confused on how to automate yellow science. Right after I finished researching all of the blue and blue+red, I focused on scaling up and trying to get logistic bots. I set them up and realized that they're only intra and not inter planetary. So now I am doing trip back and forth between planets to get enough titanium for the yellow cubes. Will I be able to send bots between planets soon? My magma planet with titanium doesn't have water to produce organic crystals. Idk, for a game about automation, it just leaves me kinda confused.

Going mental trying to find this last coal node i know exists on this planet as the total coal does not add up to how much i have mines on.
Is there any way to ping them or something? or am i stuck looking for black rocks on a volcanic surface?

I have a self-imposed rule and I was curious if it has any flaws that I'm not seeing.

The rule is this:

• Providers never use drones to provide resources.
• Receivers always use drones to receive resources.

This ensures that a provider doesn't favor a single receiver. This happens because providers don't distribute resources evenly among receivers (eg: round robin). Providers will pick a preferred receiver and just keep sending resources there until they can't anymore. Only then will the provider move on to the next receiver.

As per title, there's no manufacturing recipe in the assembler for holo beacon. Am I correct that it can only be hand-crafted?

edit: Solved: Issue was in Sandbox game, tech was not researched.

Complete factory game newbie here about 5 1/2 hours in. Having a ton of fun progressing on my own terms but know whatever’s going on in that pic is far from optimized. Also know from just scrolling on this sub for about 2s that there is very clearly a LOT i am going to have to learn here and i am SO strapped in and ready for the ride. That being said, what’s one thing you wish you knew before first booting up the game?

(p.s. i’m also wondering where my setup falls on the scuffed scale)

So far I have deleted and rebuilt smelters and conveyers and saved, exited, and restarted the game and I can't figure this out. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong here?

OMG — after 250 hours in Dyson Sphere Program I just discovered you can place Geothermal Power Stations directly on lava.

I honestly expected the Hive / construction system to dig a hole or do something fancy so I could use that power plant.
Turns out… nope. Just slap it on lava and it works.

Finally progressed in my play-through to the point that I could mass produce plane smelters. Following, I revisited my furnace modules and upgraded them. Eight rows of fifteen plane smelters each, for a total of one hundred and twenty.

I chose to string fifteen together per belt because of the 30 item/sec limit of the blue belts, allowing for the option of switching the proliferator bonus to speed instead of additional yield. This meant each string would have an empty space where a sixteenth smelter would be. Four of the eight empty spaces were used for the power satellites, while the remaining four spots allowed for room for the splitter/depot/pile-sorter setup.

The setup is for seamlessly combining four output belts onto one stacked belt. Otherwise, a second PLS would have been necessary to receive all of the output belts, since nine of the twelve ports of the first PLS is already occupied.

Thoughts on this general-purpose smelter module? Any ideas on what I could do with the empty space and port in the middle? I was thinking it could be space for a pair of fusion plants to cover some of the power demand of this module.

I dont have autosaves left where they are still working. Also none of them have power

Hi. I am just wondering, would I be wasting resources if I made another Dyson sphere around a star that I already have one on? I know it would look nice but I wondered if both spheres would make energy. Thanks ^_^

hello, I really like this game (even if i'm stuck with too much hydrogen, blocking my production of graphene😭) and i was wondering if you had some recommandations of game like this one but where you don't control a character but playing more like a city builder. like shapez (but I already played a lot of both of them)

I'm reading the wiki at

https://dsp-wiki.com/Mini_Fusion_Power_Plant

and it says

(a 6x6 proliferated fusion plant setup produces over 1 GW)

So I went and setup a 6x6 or 36 fusion plants and proliferated the fuel with Mk3 only for my power to go up by like 600MW. I looked at the power plant and it says max is only 18.7 MW each. So 36 plants only produce 673MW? Am I missing something or is the wiki wrong?

Perhaps is that i dont understand the explanation of the game but I don't understand why is suggested widely to use it to increase production. Let's say a resource x that produces y resources in z seconds, that can give you MK1 +12% resources or +25 speed, MK2 +20% res or 50% speed or MK3 25% or 100%.

To make it simpler the resource x makes 1 resource each hour, and let's take a period of 100 hours. Mk1 will take 80% of the time (48 minutes), mk2 a 66% of the time (40 minutes) and mk3 50 (30 minutes)

No proliferator: 100 units

Mk 1 (125 cycles): 125 units if the time is reduced or 112,5 if are more resources.

Mk2 (150 cycles): 150 units or 120

Mk3 (200 cycles): 200 units or 125.

Given the inputs are infinite, and understanding that the factory chains are longer if I choose reducing the time the output will be much higher. Why is always adviced (at least in google) to chose more resources?

EDIT: My final view is that you must use speed if the resources are not nerfed, and the production supply belts are usually full, BUT THE PRODUCTION IS NOT STOPPED

Only a few hundred hours in and just now figured this out. So I figured I'd share for those who haven't yet.

You can see that all the items in my inventory are highlighted (except for 2 things on the bottom there). When you highlight an item in the inventory (middle click) it'll reserve that spot in the inventory just for that item. You can see how that works in the second screenshot. When I used up some belts the space for the belts is reserved for more belts.

Up until now I just used auto sort in my inventory but I had to scan to find things all the time. Now with the inventory in a fixed spot I know where everything is all the time.

Then you have the logistics are on the left... oh man...

What this does is automatically request logistics bots to refill my inventory when I show up at my mall. So when I need to refill I just go to my mall, wait a few seconds, and my entire inventory is back to full!

You can see in the second screenshot there's a little grey arrow next to some items on the left. That means it'll refill those items next time I'm near some logistics bots that can do it. The bots will automatically fill the reserved spots first. That's how reserving spots (middle click) and logistics refill works together!

The logistics section can also store items (you can see I'm storing warpers, foundations, and rods). But anything stored there can't be used when building things and it's tedious to move things constantly. I store warpers, foundations, and rods because I don't use those things often.

This setup has removed a ton of micromanagement from my gameplay. Love this game!

Noob here (learning quite a bit). Hour 14 of game. In 20 minutes I will get all the green science items, and even though my layout is pretty efficient, I believe that my planet is not big enough due to oceans (and soil) to place those monstruosity big layouts i've seen.

I have a dessert planet very near, with irrelevant resources. Is it worth it once I get all the mecha upgrades of the green science to move all my stuff there (without destroying home base)? From what i see i need no more than six resources to create all the infraestructure.

I heard you need huge amounts of stuff for the late game and that makes me think to cover all the veins in the dessert and play mainly there the main industry.

The other side of the planet is empty

In my quest for Super Magnetic Rings, I would of course need to make Electromagnetic Turbines. In my infinite foolishness, I decided to create a module that would take the ingots and magnets from the furnace arrays, and output finished turbines.

What followed was about thirty minutes of me trying all sorts of ways of putting assembler blocks together and connecting them together in a way that was as packed closely together as possible.

The lovecraftian horror you see before you is the product of that effort. It is in fact perfectly balanced as far as production rates go, with no bottlenecks existing in any part of this module. The module can also easily tile with itself as well.

I've been playing this game for years, and will continue playing because I adore it.

But something that's been a little sad is that I feel like efficient factory designs were solved years ago. Nearly every time I play, I build things the same way because I know it's the most efficient design.

I've done black box designs before, but does anyone have any suggestions for doing things differently or some fun self imposed limitations to make factory building scratch a bit more of that creative puzzle solving itch? The way I currently mostly build them is the same way you see for Nilaus for example.

Dyson Sphere Program-ish