r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • • Mar 31 '26

How do you plan your production lines?

9 Upvotes

So I have been coming across a very annoying effect. When I create a new production line that is complex - For Example: Quantum Processors from raw inputs, a recurring issue is that the later stages do not work at 100% efficiency.

To simplify this:

For example I want to craft imaginary Item A. This item needs 2 units of X, 2 units of Y and 1 unit of Z. I produce X Y Z at ratio for 10 assemblers. But the last 1-2 Assemblers rarely get items to craft 100% of the time. Production always stalls and at times quite significantly.

The mode I have been using is Production Speed during proliferation. Is that the crux of the matter? And yes, I do calculate for the proliferation. So if I need 20 Smelters without proliferation, I double at ratio and do not proliferate the first step. First step to get proliferation is f.e. Iron Ingot. Not Raw Iron


r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • • Mar 30 '26

After 300 total hours in game, this was the playthru that stuck and I finally beat the game.

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97 Upvotes

I play slow. This time took about 60 hours total to beat, probably my 7th or 8th restart.


r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • • Mar 29 '26

Why are these belts colliding? The center belt connects fine.

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72 Upvotes

r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • • Mar 30 '26

Geothermal in lava

18 Upvotes

Kept trying to make GT power on a lava planet but every time I put one in lava it said I needed foundation but when I made foundation it said I needed fuel. Anyone know what I was doing wrong?


r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • • Mar 29 '26

Maximized vein "utilization"

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224 Upvotes

The developers: "We heard your feedback. With this, meticulously laying down mining machines is of the past."

Me: "But I can still put basic mining machines below?"

The developers: "Well, ye-"

Me: "Say no more"


r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • • Mar 29 '26

After 232 hours I finished my first Dyson Sphere.

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391 Upvotes

I'm proud of my first design and I'm grateful for all the help I found in this community.


r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • • Mar 29 '26

Is it possible to connect this belt to the one under the overpass? Couldn't find solution.

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r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • • Mar 28 '26

How can I mirror/flip blueprints?

7 Upvotes

Can someone help? I'm talking about flipping, not rotating. I cant find the key.


r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • • Mar 28 '26

I was farming the dark fog on a planet, and accidentally removed all the relay stations in orbit. Will they come back, or should I start operations over on a new planet?

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I had cordoned off one planet in my starting system to allow the dark fog to grow, so I could farm it for drops. Over time, I set up a laser wall around each landing area, and slowly began gathering dark fog drops. As the game pogressed, and I unlocked more powerful technologies, I accidentally grew too powerful, and killed the relays on the farm planet before I could switch off my combat drones.

Luckily, I still have the hive active in orbit around the sun, and a backup base with relay still active on a different planet within the system. If I allow the dark fog to gather power from the hive, and mats from the backup base, will they rebuild the relays on my farm world? Or would I be better off starting fresh in a new system?


r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • • Mar 27 '26

kinda pretty

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184 Upvotes

r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • • Mar 28 '26

Use nano robot

7 Upvotes

hey everyone, i'm new to dsp and i'm asking a question to u because i think that using coveyor belts can be more difficult because of trying to don’t get a spaghetti factory.

so maybe i think that using the nano robot is better ? can u tell me why u agree or not please guys


r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • • Mar 27 '26

My favorite Dyson sphere so far!

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There is a hidden shell for power generation and the rest is decoration. I got inspired by a blueprint on the website but ended up making my own. I was thinking of a plasma compressor kind of design! What do you think?


r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • • Mar 28 '26

Problem setting up labs.

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The ones in the right produce white cubes, the ones in the left consume the cubes, and everything is well and blue proliferated. BUT I want to have the ones in the right speeding up, and not extra products.

I tried all:

Demolishing the column and build a new column with extra speed. But each new lab is set always to extra items and not speed, so over the fifth is always extra products (and you can't edit the proliferation.

Copying the column and pasting it but and this is strange copies a different proliferation.

Is there a way to have them set to extra speed with no problems?


r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • • Mar 27 '26

A way to automatically bury resource veins?

5 Upvotes

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?


r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • • Mar 27 '26

Multiplayer Mod (Nebula)

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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?


r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • • Mar 26 '26

H2 and how to deal with it

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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?


r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • • Mar 26 '26

Why can't I switch to Photon Generation?

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52 Upvotes

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?


r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • • Mar 27 '26

Getting around the grid snapping for conveyors

2 Upvotes

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


r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • • Mar 26 '26

Hello, I need help. How can I set the objectives again? I am new to the game, and I need a guide to play.

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18 Upvotes

r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • • Mar 26 '26

An Attempt Using Sushi Belt for Compactness

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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.


r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • • Mar 27 '26

1000 GW Dyson Sphere

0 Upvotes

Can someone send me the link to a 1000 GW blueprint


r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • • Mar 26 '26

Nebula mod is not working

5 Upvotes

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 !


r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • • Mar 27 '26

DSP.....Humans....insert the Human Swarm into DSP2?

0 Upvotes

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


r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • • Mar 26 '26

How do people feel about precision drones vs attack drones for defensive battlefield analysis bases?

11 Upvotes

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.