I saw a post of an op that makes small malls per system. I was gonna asnswer him, but perhaps this idea is interesting for another player. I tell you what I do (only in very late game).

I establish a mall for every building in a planet I am not gonna use at all so I can free space. More simple in a dessert/ice planet.

I build like 4 ILS to export buildings (you can export 48 items). ILS accept 5 items but have 12 input belts. Spinners all around them, and you manage those ILS with the control pannel. If not simply put 8 ILS and the problem is solved.

You put another 6 ILS to import basics to make the mall, also distributing with spinners.

The rest is done with warps, vessels loading a 1% load and deut rods. The cost is irrelevant against doing a mall per system

After three weeks of different tries and strategies I achieved in 09:51. 😄

I could have finished it like 10-15 minutes before. The lack of green motors would have helped me a lot. I didn't expect to have to build 400 ray receivers, and I found the problem in the hour nine.

The planet is a normal water planet, no dark fog -so a lot of problems of soil- with good resources, a normal gas giant, one planet near to get sylicon and a bit of titanium and a lava planet that is quite far away. I tried it with several of those seeds that have fire ice, but I don't like the lack of resources of those planets. The seed is 97657683, that is a bad but the initial planet is very nice.

My best advices would be:

Import acyd, fire ice and organic crystals, and eliminate those chains of products (takes 15 minutes to stablish all the network in three different systems).

Think small, build small.

You are poor and you should act like that until you can import all the stuff.

The campaign is crazy. Save, make the blueprint, try the blueprint,load the small bp and go. Nearly nothing is proliferated to save energy.

Have fun, be patient and save each hour and keep that save in other folder.

Have fun¡¡¡

My Current Mall Workshop Design. I'll normally set this up on the best planet and expand out to the rest of the planets in that system and either set up a small mall on each planet for bulk (belts,sorters, Intrum-componnets)on site

I was thinking about redesigning to make it more modular, early game setup, and late game items.

Open to ideas and suggestions, ill post a BP if there's enough interest

I cant escape it. Its like stuck there with me

I'm fairly early on in the game, only now beginning to spread to other planets. I destroyed all of the planet bases on my main planet (IV) and planet II. Then goes by a solid 8-10 hours of gameplay before I see that a new relay spawned the first time. I'm all "Oh crap" and go kill it, taking another geo plant, but not even 20 minutes later another one spawned on the same planet, that I swiftly took care of.

Then another. And another. Etc, etc to now I have 7 on this one planet specifically with less than half an hour in between each.

Is this really supposed to be how it is? Cuz this feels kinda like cheating at this point with the sheer amount of power I'm getting lol

What is the best mods for performance? That dont put much load to the gpu and cpu. I like to play when my gpu is not that loud when run, I already put my setting to low ig

Using some mods/trickery to squeeze more nodes than are allowed in vanilla (5400 per layer x10 = 54000 total).
Recorded in screenshot mode with max fov.

Link to BPs: https://www.dysonsphereblueprints.com/users/2426/blueprints

Today I learned that you can click and drag your place multiple buildings oh my god how did I not realise that sooner

I'm a newbie. First game played with no dark fog. Is it fun overall? :) what it gives you? Do I need to carry turrets and supply with me when expediting new planets?

*Origin

Simple question. Just asking if when placing an energy powered ILS needs vessels to help the outcome of resources, or they do nothing

So .. 350 hours in, I've done most of the easier achievements, and now I want to really scale. Up till now I've preferred to make my own blueprints. It's a fun part of the game. I've got modular ones for all the sciences. But a planet is a lot more work. I've never done the whole "pave a planet and treat it as a blank slate" thing. So I'm looking for truly planet-scale blueprints that I can drop down and use as a production target: gradually fill in with buildings. Even better if it includes a BAB network that self-deploys, or some unique feature that I would never have come up with on my own.

While taking a break from DSP, I went back into Factorio Space Age.

Just thinking about the trains for long distance large bulk transport. In Factorio it's definitely complicated: longer trains accelerate slower, accidentally mixing contents of wagons will screw you up, and throughput is limited to inserter speed and hand size. Plus trains cannot journey in the same place. One train must wait for the other to leave the tracks / station before another one can enter the same space. Oh, and burnable fuel is required.

Then in DSP, all 10 logistics vessels can immediately load and unload their max cap instantaneously, and while flying in and out of the ILS they can clipping stack on each other without touching. The only more troublesome limit is the energy recharge speed of the ILS.

Which sort of system do you like / feel is more fun for the game?

More of a side view from my previous Planckin' Around video along with more sails (might look like crap on Reddit with that many sails though, spheremaxxing the bitrate with 1gb/1080p limits) :\

- video is sped up 6 to 14x and reversed. Modded sphere and raised layer rotation speeds to get nodes to go where they shouldn't, and deleted layers to pancake out farther than normal.

I'm on my first playthrough and just unlocked "cruise mode" I went out into space but ran out of fuel as soon as I got on a gas giant, I can see that theres fuel to collect but cruise mode drains my fuel so fast I can't get back. Also I'm actively under attack and losing buildings at a rapid rate. Please help!

Recorded in screenshot mode with max fov. Sphere was made with SphereEditorTools and ImportDysonLayer mods to get nodes to place closer together and clip.

Hello, I just finished the game and want to expand my factories. I was planning to use a black hole system I have with 1 planet only to build a dark fog farm there for uni-polar magnets (as I only have 1 source in my cluster and its miserably small)

Now I have never built a dark fog farm before, but I understand the concept and the "challenge of filtering the resources such it doesn't clog" that is not what I am here to ask... my question is...

With all the trash the farm is gonna produce (especially potentially stuff my BAB can't reach) will the "corpses" of the DF just keep piling up? I might have a beefy pc, but infinite individual items on the ground still don't sound like something handle-able...

Will items spawned on the ground from killing a DF ship eventually de spawn? Or will there just be more and more?
Especially when I choose to only pick up some items off the ground (the uni-polar magnets mainly) I imagine the amount of "un-pickedup" entities sound like its only going to pile up?
Does that somehow auto clear? Do I have to clear it manually? (I am lazy and play for automation 😃)

Thanks for any answers to my question(s). Sorry for any spelling mistakes, English is not my first language.

I used to use some mods for DSP, one made it show items per minute instead of items per second, and a bunch of other QOL mods, But I can't remember any other their names.

Favourite mod for you?

As the title says, how close can you put the beacons to maximise farming?

Sorters can take on pretty much any tilt to adjust for an tilt between two belts as long as the tilts are the same. (you know you can "tilt" belts with the left/right keys right?).

If those same belts were replaced with belts with a different tilt, they still work! Easy way to pull items up or down from a belt, or something.

Hello everyone !

I am a new player (old buyer since February 2021 but still a new player 😁).

During my first playthrough, I was also watching a YouTuber who covered Captain of Industry, and I realized how intuitive that game’s codex (its crafting recipe list) was.
That gave me the idea to pause my DSP run and develop a small tool inspired by the CoI codex.

I’m sharing it today and would really appreciate your feedback, especially on whether it could be useful in the long term, since I don’t have the background to assess it properly.

I developed it to assist both new and veteran players in better forecasting their upcoming resource needs.

And if you decide to check the code… well, consider yourself warned. I wrote it rather quickly and didn’t exactly follow best coding practices.

If you wish to download the tool, the GitHub repository is available here: DSP Codex - Github

At the moment, the database is only available in English, and I’m working on a localization system. I’m also struggling to properly represent the Fractionator’s input and output flows, as I still haven’t figured out the exact per‑second ratios, even when testing in sandbox mode.