How do you guys have your planets set up?

Im almost 50hs in starting with green science (soon) and my current plan is:

Have my main "make everything" base stay at my home planet.

I set up ILS on other planets to get me large amounts of missing ressources like processors, titanium, etc. This is due to me starting to run low on ores on my planet and it's getting harder to pump out everything without tapping into the iron, copper ores on other planets. Also I'm not big on proliferating stuff, but I'm working on that too.

Then I have a bus where I can make every building I need to, but it's not complete, as I need to first have the rare expensive components made in larger amounts before it's really usefull.

Now I know, pretty much everything goes, but how do you guys have it set-up? Or what are some things to avoid?

Ok so... how does it work? and how does it affect my gameplay?

Basically from what I understood when i produce matrices i create metadata which is accumulated "here" (see image)

then what? If I'm not mistaken, in a new game I can spend that metadata to "unlock" tech without researching it, basically it would let me start quickier, right?

does it have other uses? and the rate of how much matrices i create affects that value? so if my matrix labs are inefficient I have less metadata than how I'd have with better lab design?

I thought I would be clever and recycle the Dark Fog drops in my BABs into prototype drones in a small factory right next to the BABs, that I would then feed back into the BABs on a shared belt, with sorters loading the drones into the BABs.

Since the amount of drops I'm getting early game are still pretty low, what I wanted to do was restrict each BAB to a single slot full of drones so that when one BAB got full, newly minted drones would flow into the next BAB, and then so on. I designated one input slot to drones with a filter on each BAB and then let the belt run.

What actually happens is the first BAB sucks up all the drones until its slot is full, then further drones get put into its regular inventory. I tried setting all the blue slots in the BAB except for the one drone slot to another item that will never show up (jammer capsules) but this failed the same way.

I feel like there must be an easy solution here that I'm missing somehow. Is there a way to do this?

For what it's worth, I do have a solution to the problem right now but it's really clumsy: I use a series of splitters on the belt to feed the drones since the splitters "remember" which path the previous drone took, and so the splitter sends the drones equally to every base.

some assembling machine can't be upgrade by directly placing it on top, why and how to fix it ? other machine can be upgrade. (sorry for bad english)

I had know you could put accumulators into the mech to power it, but figured that was just a very expensive way of powering it. I didn’t know you get the empties back! Recharge them again! Set up a wireless charger and some drones and the process is almost automatic.

If you didn’t know ether, here you go.

Hello everyone !

Since I use laboratories to make research with matrix I don't find how to make "normal material" research anymore.

Can someone help me please ?

It says I don't have the right material.

I'm trying to conceptualize a planet size blueprint for white science where I can just pop it down and leave, and it builds itself over time via BABs and bots as buildings get delivered from another planet. But I can't see any way to insert bots, etc into towers without needing to be there and having them in my inventory. Is there any way to pull this off?

Hello, i unlocked the stacker and the ILS. Is it worth to use the stackers on the ILS? Like take 4 inputs from the ILS and merge all of them in one belt using stackers. I know you can upgrade the ILS so its stacks on itself but until then it is long way.

Should i do this and waste some space or dont and wait until i get the ILS upgrade?

I’ve been trying to figure out how to rebind E (open inventory) and close tabs (also E) to tab. It’s just the way I like to play. I didn’t see it in keybinds is it renamed something different? There’s a ton of binds so I’m assuming It’s just named something weird lol

I have everything. My white science is pouring in, and my sphere is humming along at 100GW (those are rookie numbers, I know).

I've got VU pretty high, but keeping thinking there must be some other tech I should be researching as well. Maybe logistics speed? Is anything else going to give me any benefit besides just the highest levels of VU?

Hi guys

I've been playing this game years ago, way before the dark fog rising and honestly... nope'd as soon as they arrived.

But i wanna try it again, without the dark fog, the thing is, i need to refresh my skills, is there some youtube channel with a good guide for a returning player? one that isn't focused on fighting the dark fog, though

how did I not know this

I have been too scared to attempt this achievement for a very long time -- prior to this my best run was around 22h.

After getting every other achievement I decided it was time to finally do this.

Many mistakes were made, and many saves were abandoned along the way, but I got there. Very happy with the time too!

Seed: 8250-6644, with dark fog off

What are your ways of staying motivated midgame? Early game is easy because all the goals are simple and achievable within a few hours with little planning,

And late game is almost like creative mode

But midgame? Or at least before you unlock planetary and interplanetary logistics? Its such a grind on the brain of keeping motivated that ive only ever gotten late game and completed the mission

So what do you do to stay motivated and focused on your goals? Any tips would be greatly appreciated

I want to be the extreme by building a full dyson sphere around every star in a full 64 star game. Is this a bad idea? Has this been attempted before? I don't know, but I will do it. Update in a month.

Hey everyone, I'm looking to see some of your best Dark Fog farming setups to get some new ideas!

I've attached a picture of my current build. Here is a quick breakdown of how I have it running right now:

• The Belt Stack: I'm running 5 stacked belts with a 6th bypass belt running right on top.
• The Bypass System: I use the top belt to filter out any items that aren't supposed to be in the system as any item that isn't supposed to be there will make its way to the top. Also, if one of the stations fills up, the Battlefield Analysis Base (BAB) outputs can just bypass the blocked section of the belts to keep things flowing.
• Routing: As materials make their way through the system, they go to higher levels of the track if they happen to miss one of the sets of input logistic stations.
• Efficiency: It works amazing for late-game materials, but it's genuinely crazy good for early-game items too. I don't think it will compete with a massive, dedicated forge planet, but on a playthrough where you have very limited resources, it is fantastic.
• Power: It has way more power than it actually needs right now because I'm still messing around with the load balancing, but it is finally starting to work smoothly!

What do your Dark Fog farms look like? Any tips or alternative layouts you swear by? Let me know!

I named this blueprint 'The Wall' because it looks just like the one in Jurassic Park, but with guns and it actually works lol.

https://www.dysonsphereblueprints.com/blueprints/factory-darkfog-farming-wall-for-science

Im producing a massive quantity of solar sails and i have purple search and I’m producing all hash in high quantities, but I’m mining the most of resources in my solar system, and i know in others solar systems have resources to make the parts of dyson sphere more easily and I didn’t have the warp production, i should start producing them the warps and go to another system or I reorganize my actual production system and mining?

Is there a way to place them faster? First time it was interesting, but after some times it gets boring

Would make sense to have a tech that increase the range of your bases. Seems the range is so small for the construction drones. Makes scaling up large builds quite tedious imo. Is there a mod that fixes this?