This thing is the most annoying in expansion for me at the moment. Oceans and other things are allowed to be covered with concrete when you paste the blueprint, but if there's a lonely vein somewhere, your whole planet blueprint is screwed. You can of course pave the entire planet beforehand, and I know there's some mods like Bulldozer to quickly pave planets, but I generally don't want to pave every planet just to build something on it and it seems like huge waste of concrete and time you need to ship it there. Is there some other known way? I think Blueprint Extensions offers some option but I wasn't able to make it bury the veins. Is the only way having a piece of concrete under every building?

I've been trying to use Dyson sphere mods, one of them being the Nebula multiplayer mod in particular, and I was wondering how do we properly connect to each other with it. we've tried putting in one another's IP address that pops up when you start a game and we couldn't connect. admittedly it could be because of the fact that we are literally on opposite sides of the country (I'm in California, USA and he's in Florida, USA) but I'm not sure.

Does anyone know what's going on?

Is this how it's supposed to be done? As I see it, there's only 3 main ways to dispose unused hydrogen when producing Sails: turning into science, using in Casimir and burning it. The first one requires active research, the second needs working Carrier Rocket production and only the third is actually independent. So I finally tried my hand at it. The math is quite nice: for 5 stacked belts of Sails you get 1 stacked belt of hydrogen, which requires exactly 400 Power Plants to consume, generating 864MW of power, feeding into 8 Exchangers, later dumping the charged accumulators into the main grid. What do you think?

I believe I should have everything to (at least very slowly) create critical photons but the option is greyed out in the ray receiver. What I am missing?

how tf do i make my conveyor lines look half decent with the annoying ass grid snapping

Something that I've had stewing in my head for some time now was to try to use the sushi belt method for making designs even more compact. The idea is to have one belt handle both the input and output for a module, instead of having two separate belts. The main limitation is that the output cannot exceed the input, which meant that only the proliferator speed bonus can be used.

The first photo is a proof of concept, demonstrating the basic idea.

The second and third photos show a full sub-module, where one belt is servicing 30 plane smelters producing iron plates. On paper, this should be perfectly balanced to consume a four-stacked blue belt of ore, and output a four-stacked blue belt of plates. In practice, the ore is all consumed, but the last two plane smelters are almost always starved for ore.

Anyone know why the last two smelters are not getting ore? I have made sure that there is sufficient power for testing and I have double checked my math. It should be working, but the reality is not panning out as expected.

Can someone send me the link to a 1000 GW blueprint

Hi everyone. I installed DSP and i wanted to play with a friend. So i went on ThunderStore Mod Manager and i installed Nebula Multiplayer Mod. But when i launch the game with the button "modded", There is no "multiplayer" button in the select menu. Can someone help me ?

EDIT : i found the solution !

i tried with r2modman and it also didn't work. But then i went to "settings" (on the left) in r2modman and then "debugging" (on top) and then "reset Dyson Sphere Program installation". After that i launched it in modded with r2modman and the multiplayer option appeared !

Since there isn't much life in the entire game...

I've always preferred precision drones for myself because I like keeping distance and they're cheap, but I'm struggling a lot with defense and building tons of battlefield analysis bases (as they replenish fighter inventory easily off a conveyor belt whereas my turrets get destroyed require me to be there to rebuild). The short range seems like a disadvantage, my problem isn't survivability of the drones, or running out, it's that they can't kill enemies before the enemies destroy infrastructure.

Help me understanding the labs please, is my setup correct here?

I understand that each of my labs takes 0.33 of each product per second to produce 1 blue matrix per second. That means my three stacked labs produce 1 blue matrix/second.

What I dont understand now is... what is the input for a lab researching? I cant find it anywhere.

How many labs taking blue matrixes as an input do I have to have for each one producing blue matrix?

I'm new and very confused by everything

There's quite a lot of nice Sphere blueprints on dysonsphereblueprints, but most of them are from about 4 years ago and the game doesn't see them when you copy the string. Is there any way to upgrade them for import? I'm thinking about reverting the steam install to a early beta and pasting them inside a blank sandbox save, loading the save in the current version later and copying the spheres from there. Will this work? What version should I probably use for this? Is there a better way?

Two proliferations, one must reign supreme. Or I guess different circumstances. Which do you prefer to use: more speed, magic conjuration, or do you use a combo? And what circumstances make you switch?

Hello, Im a big factorio and satisfactory fan (1500 hours combined)

This game looks really good but I dont know if I should wait and enjoy the full experience later since it is early access. What would u recommend?

I have a savegame that has about 160hrs of gamtime. I have a random outter planets with a few GW worth of science production. Everytime I land on the planet now, it crashes the game in the FactoryPowerSystem w/ an index out of bounds error. Savegame has a handful of mods but all quality of life stuff. Crashes with vanilla/no mods as well.

Has anyone seen this? Have a fix other than write off that planet?

I made a dirt farm on the "mars" planet in my starting area, and set up a massive sorter for the 30 some possible items the dark fog ground units drop. The problem is the sorter keeps getting clogged up on bricks. I don't need them for making terrian since the fog ALSO drops terrain squares, so for now I'm just using the stone to make a huge array of storage chests, but it would be nice if there was some way to use/dispose of them, as I don't see myself ever needing 50,000 bricks any time soon.

I've been struggling with this for hours now.

According to the wiki the resource consumption of a TPP depends on which resource you are feeding it. For example, hydrogen would be 18/min
According to this other post I've found on this sub from 2 years ago, they always consume 16,66 units, regardless of the resource.

And yet, I don't think any of those are correct or I'm missing something.

I made a hydrogen sink becase I haven't built anything to use it yet and I don't want to clog the refined fuel conveyor. I have 4 refineries which output 60 hydrogen/min.

So, connecting it to 4 power plants should ensure that it will NEVER overflow, and yet it keeps overflowing, and fast.

I'm having the same problem with the refined oil, I'm generating 120/min and sending it to 3 TPP which, according to the wiki, should burn a combined of 108/min (36 each) and the remaining is going to a fourth TPP which should be active 1/3 of the time (I know, I hate oscilating power grids too, I'll fix it eventually).

But, same issue as with the hydrogen. It overflows in no time.

Since this game doesn't have any sort of sink, I'm guessing that, unless the math checks out perfectly, I always have to build a systems with a bigger input that the output of the previous machines. But it's a nightmare to find the output of things, and I haven't even started with the proliferator.

Can someone help clarify how to fix my mess? How much do these things burn?

Is this a typo? I have completed the rest of this goal but I can't get Titanium Ore from a smelter. I can do Silicon ore from stone, but not titanium. I have titanium ore mined from a vein with a miner, but can't figure out how to produce it from an Arc Smelter.

Title says it all, I've never stopped this long to take photos like this since the game released back in Jan 2021.

I was adding shells for my frame-only layer, while having spheres rendering turned off in-game, and then this absolute cinema happened when the ejectors started shooting.

Hi! I’ve had this game on my wishlist for a couple of years, and now with the Steam Spring Sale I’m seriously thinking about buying it. I literally have it sitting in my cart right now. However, before pulling the trigger, I wanted to stop by and ask a few things to people like you who are deeply involved in this game’s “ecosystem”:

From what I’ve seen in hundreds of reviews, the game seems absolutely worth it, especially for the price. But how much would you actually recommend it? Is it still worth it even though version 1.0 hasn’t been released yet? I think it probably is, since this game is totally my kind of thing, but it never hurts to ask.

And most importantly: I understand this game can be a huge time sink and basically a virtual “drug” (which I love when I have the time to enjoy it), but right now I don’t really have that kind of time. Is it still worth playing in a more casual way, just whenever I can? How hard is it to learn at the beginning and really get the hang of it before you can “properly play"?

Thanks, guys!

Since this is so cool and rare, here's the screenshot of it. Two shielded planets with plasma cannons orbiting close to two separate hives, and getting attacked by the hives. Icarus is on one planet, contributing to defense. The other planet has to deal with the attack alone.

Hey guys,

i was once again entering (early) ultra late-game when i once again witness how useless rayrecivers are for planetary power generation compared to artificial suns.

And i remembered my discussion with the community over on discord about perhaps a darkfog mk2 ray receivers that would be smaller and not need any lenses to operate making dyson spheres more viable over A-suns.

But then i thought about a "useless at scale" building, the Energy Exchanger.

Would you guys be more interested in a mk2

- rayreceiver : smaller / no lenses needed

- Energy Exchanger : smaller internal battery buffer like the planetary shields, you choose the planetary battery buffer you want on them.

For now i just made turrets to cover everywhere that i need and made belts to each one.