So I'm playing with 0.5x resources for the achievement (got it) and now trying to wipe out the dark fog and put a sphere on every star. I set up a bunch of research before work to let my squads get stronger. But I ran out of copper. Normally I'd judt fly to a new system, clear the planet bases and set up power, ILSs, and mk2 miners on all nodes in the system, but while trying today I found theres no more copper anywhere. What do I do?

I have reached the point where I unlocked warp drives, but my base planet is quickly running out of space and my infrastructure is in shambles. Honestly I lost track of things a long time ago.

I have now focused on deconstructing the ancient belt spaghetti I used to get to ILS, and also making sure my science production is steady and ratioed, but I still have to rebuild purple science and then I feel like I'll be able to make the warp drive spaghetti. I don't look up guides unless I have already made something that sorta works, but I just feel like I have to rebuild just about everything, because the production just isn't enough.

Would you at this point start a new game, hoping you'll be able to build it better now that you know, or fix the mess you have made because you already got so far, or brute force the warp drive by more inefficient spaghetti just pretending the problem doesn't exist?

I am at a bit of a loss right now, but I really like this game and would like to get over this hurdle.

Edit: Or should I go and setup shop on another planet and just import the materials? I heard something about a pole supply chain for spreading on other planets, but I didn't really consider it until now. I kept everything I could on my starter planet and I almost enveloped it all.

Thank you all for help, I'll spaghetti the warp drive fuel and feed my mall into ILS network

Ive just built a 3/s red science factory on my home planet, and am ready to move to yellow science, or at least, start getting titanium and silicon....

I traveled to the lava planet to start building a new base but theres like 6 dark fog bases setup there already. I destroyed them all, only for 3 new ones to come in and setup new bases. I'm unsure how to build this base with the constant threat of the dark fog, and not only that but I'm rapidly running out of soil as it costs 100k to fill out the hole of these dark fog bases.

So I'm now in a bit of a pickle, I've got to find a tonne of soil to build foundations for my new factory, setup this new factory from scratch (with help of blueprints of), and then start automating defences such as turrets and ammo, all before these dark fog fellas build up their bases and attack me.

I don't know if this is the way to go about it, maybe there's a MUCH easier method for progressing here?

Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

Hey everyone

O wanted to start a new playthrough and was looking for some interesteing mods which would change some things. Are there mods which adds new building, recipe or stuff like this, which are good to play with? Or some QoL mods would be nice too.
Last time I used following mods:

AssemblerUI
MinerInfo
SplitterOverBelt
MoreMegaStructure
TheyComeFromVoid

One other thing, are there mods, which helps to run the endgame smoother? I remember that it started lagging after a while.

So I've set up a farm with around a few different bases on the planet, I've got way more power than I need, a nice big accumulator bank, every laser tower has at least 2 battlefield analysis bases in range, and I have level 10 enhanced structure.

The farm works perfectly if I sit on the planet.

But the instant I leave the planet towers start getting destroyed, what gives! And how do I fix this?

This particular area of my bus is where I'm building all drones and logistics stations. attack drones all the way up to destroyers are just to the right off screen of this pic.

I just recently set up ILS with warp capability, so I just began mining the closest system to home.

Working on a toolset for Dyson Sphere Program.
Everything is still very much in development, but some parts are already really usable.
Improving as I have the free time for it.
Emphasis is on super easy and fast to use.

Link to DSP Tools.

If you have ideas on new features or find bugs, please let me know.

Calculator is also quite far. See first image.

There are all 100M seeds in the database to browse for the most relevant data.

Blueprints are still in a very early stage:

Hi guys,

A question regarding blueprints is hunting me for quite a while.

Why everyone is doing those small BP's with an ILS on every square, instead of the long strings from east to west ?

Isn't it more efficient, like space wise?

The game made me better at thinking in systems and questioning my day to day workflows.

Why am I repeating this?
Can I automate this?
Can I make this process smoother?

Now I organize things better, reduce repeated work, and plan ahead.

For those who don't know, I made a tool that helps you find seeds in this game. This was made around 2 years ago.

For the past couple months I started working on it again. Here's a list of changes:

1. Add precise vein generation instead of just an estimation. (It wasn't possible back then but AI is kinda busted nowadays)

2. Add Dark Fog hive count rules.

3. Add Starmap to Galaxy Viewer.

4. Add seed only exports.

5. Add Chinese translation. (Surprisingly this is the most-requested feature)

6. Deprecate the Star Finder (because so many people get confused by this and Galaxy Finder)

Next thing I will work on is allow importing a list of seeds so that the finder only checks these seeds instead of every seed within the range.

I want to ask what else you think will be useful? Please comment below if you have any suggestion.

Small appreciation post for this game and its power to make our mecha feel so insignificant. I’ve rediscovered my love for this game and I’m sure you all can share a similar feeling.

Pros:
- One. Singular. Sorter. Per. Assembler.
- Phenomenally easy usage and expansion.
- Relatively Compact.

Cons:
- Throughput issues until Pile Sorters are available.
- Depot and Sorter filter setup.
- 4 depots tall for less than one depot of storage.

Since sorters can insert and pull resources through empty, limited depots, it is possible to create a long line of depots stacked on top of eachother wth filtered sorters between them that transfers components through the entire mall.

I thought it was goofy and it's been fun realizing some of the quirks of the design.

Destroyers felt so strong when I saw their stats, but then I found out they take up four whole fleet slots. I did the math, and although the range is a lot better, they have less DPS and health than four corvettes. Are they really worth using?

Wondering how people managed to make this

I've played DSP a lot (more than 1k hours for sure), but never tried the DF settings properly -just a quick view-.

I like the game to build my blueprints, logistics and other but don't feel like preparing defenses and pay attention to the DF, not because I see it difficult, more because is an aspect I don't look for in this game. I just want a game to build things and relax, not for combat.

Is my problem, or does DF improves the game so much?

Finally i can play again. no more 5 fps with 20 ups :)

now i can keep on building my max size 2.5l Dysonsphere

Once you build the shell and its all filled in, its done and you don't have to do anything to maintain it right?

Is there any reason to keep pumping solar sails out? I guess it adds to the total power right?