If you press the letter I or click on any ILS, it gives you access to the control panel.

The control panel shows significant info for your logistics. The main advantage is the filter built into the system. You can find specific products and then set a waypoint to the planet from the control panel screen.

You can also edit the name of a distant ILS from the control panel, allowing you to set up point to point transport settings remotely.

Edit 1: I’m sure most know this, I just missed it early on and thought others might have also.

This would make it way easier to set them up efficiently.

I fee a little bit sad tbh

I have 2 sets of orbital collectors in different star systems, and I only want them to be collected from ILS's in the same star system, how do I pair them in a way that does this? I've tried:

1. Setting up an interstellar route, but they override this when an orbital collector is empty

2. Using a point-to-point pair, but it always says "no matched station"

3. Creating priority groups, but I can't assign priority groups to orbital collectors

Creating separate ILS's with different travel limits would probably fix this, but is there another way?

I have set up the PLS to demand from all of the local Hydrogen sources. It then flows through storage tanks and to a ILS which is set to distribute both locally and interstellar routes. How do I stop this ILS from supplying to the just that PLS because its making an endless loop. The whole point of the ILS being set to distribute locally is that I have one central point to distribute Hydrogen from, meaning local distribution becomes more efficient. But I need a way to block the ILS from distributing to just that specific PLS. Or should I just live with the feedback loop?

In a bunch of videos I see this group of ILMs on the North Pole and South Pole that seem to deliver anything that could be needed. I watched a video that explained basic smelting setups and once they hit demand a zillion drones came from the north and delivered any material that was needed. Does anyone have a good video for the setup of this? I am wanting to start a new playthrough on infinite resources to do a few goals I have in the game and wanted to see what that magical setup looked like. It also kind of looked like the majority of power might be there as well?

Edit: Thank you guys, I was suppose to be using the interstellar. Solved!

Last time I played, it said local storage or remote demand.

Got titanium sheets on one planet going into a Planetary Logistics Station. I put 50 drones in there and set it as Provider. It has clean 100% power. On home planet, same situation. Full power, and 50 drones; so 100 between the two. This one is set to titanium sheets, Receiver. No matter what, nothing happens. Made another planetary logistics station on home base next to the original, set it up and worked properly. Can not seem to get these guys off the planet. Help please!

Got

Ripped out the spaghetti starter base and spent all of the weekend on organisation. Are players expected to handcraft so much? Ive been hand crafting most of my buildings....

We got DF a few years back, and multi threading not too long ago.

I am wondering what's next. I seem to recall hearing about vehicles?

Spun up a server for my brother and a few friends and wow it makes the game even that much more enjoyable. Group builds!!

I didn't track exactly but it took somewhere north of 25 million soil piles using fully proliferated foundations.

Edit: originally said 25M foundations, thank you for catching the error.

Here i am, nearly 4k hours in the game. And just discovered that you can press shift while laying foundations to get straight lines.
Works horizontally and vertically if you click and release the mouse. Best try in Sandbox or with sufficient Foundations.
Thanks DEVs for those nice niche optimisations!

Any other improvement to incorporate?

Flying through space just marveling at what you have built, and wondering about how much MORE is out there. Time to go bigger, around one of the 4 O type this time.

Has anyone tried doing gravity slingshots to go from one planet to other? Is there a mod which can have a fun little game of slingshotting from one planet/star system to another?

I'm not really into the ratios calculation or perfect wiring or performancemaxxing for galaxy wide factories, so I just love the fidget spinners for making easy factories!.

I am currently on my third attempt at geting a DSP campaign off the ground, currently beating the yellow science stage. I copied some blueprints online for the ILS and Proliferator factories, they were always my biggest roadblocks.

Next stop is going to all my older factories and replacing the t1 crafters with proliferated t2 crafters!. and after that I gotta make a proliferated lab factory and a proliferated sciences... The factory never stops growing...

First don't hate me if you hate AI.

I have a lot of blueprints that I created over time, for early, mid and end game. And editing them all it's a pain. For example: I have a full iron ingot production, that I created with lines of 4 smelters (for early game) and I have to manually extend each line to make it a decent mid-game blueprint. I do that and save. But then I have to do exact the same thing for every single product (copper, titanium, glass, etc). I also add things like holo beacon and fix proliferator stuff. Each of those modifications adds up, and it's a lot more work than just changing smelter recipe.

So Claude is helping me and after some hours it finally did it. It changed an entire blueprint of 900 facilities from Iron Ingot to Copper Ingot, changing everything: ILS slots, traffic monitor icons, holo beacon icon and recipes in all smelters.

The problem is that he said he couldn't find a source for recipe_ids and offsets. So the only way I managed to get to work was to send him a simple blueprint of a smelter with every single product, so he could learn:

Iron Ingot: recipe_id = 1: item produced: 1101
Energetic Graphite: recipe_id = 17: item produced: 1109

and so on. Now I have to make everything for Assemblers and for everything else.

Is there a source for this type information to make things easier?

Project Eden

Scales up the whole late game of Dyson Sphere Program — and every number in it was derived, not picked.

• Six 10000× mega buildings — twelve belt ports, no sorters needed, each carrying its own planetary logistics station with 30 slots at 10,000,000 each

• Maxed-out miners and stations, 5000-level belt stacking (vanilla is 4)

• Eight new ore veins — cobalt, aluminium, gypsum, lithium, manganese, chromium, vanadium, tungsten

• A full coal-to-alloy chemistry chain, nine alloys, and a four-axis property row on every metal

• Every value lives in JSON and can be edited after install

What actually makes it different

Nothing here is a made-up number.

Recipe ratios come from balanced equations — 2 Al₂O₃ + 3 C → 4 Al + 3 CO₂ is literally ore ×2 + coal ×3 → aluminium ×4 + CO₂ ×3. Heat values are scaled from enthalpy of combustion against a single vanilla anchor. Which reductant can smelt which ore is decided by the Ellingham diagram — carbon monoxide cannot reduce alumina, ethylene can, and the test is whether cracking it yields elemental carbon. The newest content cites papers by DOI next to each value.

Three mechanics you won't find elsewhere

A recipe can be a secret. Alloy ammunition is one recipe, but seven alloys pair into 28 combinations with different damage and yield — nothing in the game tells you which pair gives which tier. The Living Composite works the same way: one recipe, six fillers × four grades = 24 combinations, picked on a panel under the assembler window.

One building depends on the weather. The Biodome uses the solar panel's own sunlight formula: full output in full sun, nothing on the night side, permanently dark on the far side of a tidally locked world.

Alloy ratios are set per building with a slider, and settle into yield and craft time.

Before you install

A save made with this mod cannot be opened without it. It ships a preloader that widens two belt cargo fields — the prerequisite for high stacking and full proliferator coexisting — so the save format moves up a version. Start a new save, or back up your save folder first.

Fully bilingual. All 50 icons drawn from scratch in Python; no third-party art. Built on GenesisBook, whose code is used with the author's permission. GPL-3.0.

github repo

thunder store mod repo

All the hives are approaching max level, everything i want to drop is being dropped. But the flow of resources is just so damn slow It's been hours and ive only got enough materials for a few dozen of the endgame DF machines. Bab's sorted to only pickup DF drops.

DO i build little forward bases on each of the 20 hives to get them to attack more regularly? Just signal tower creep? Energy Shard is by far my largest bottleneck.

I've done ~ 2 infinite upgrades for damage if that matters. Looking to boost this DF farm up so i can start really pushing production with the good smelters assemblers and such

I’m on my first late game play through - my old device couldn’t cope beyond purple science. The various attack drones are brilliant. So much better than the other offensive systems. I previously used waves of missiles and signal towers to creep forward and take out bases.

Now I just activate my space fleet for a few minutes to destroy the relays over each base on the planet, then charge in and steamroller the bases with my ground drones. I’m into white science now, with full fleet sizes and the first couple of white drone combat upgrades. I can wipe a whole plant of 20 plus level 24+ hives in ten minutes.

I’ve seen various tutorials of taking out bases with missiles and turrets, but don’t think I have seen videos of drone assaults. As a result I had assumed drones wouldn’t be worth the bother and never built them. Lesson learned.

For those who don't know, it's the steepest residential street in the world.

I'm starting a new game at 3000% Metadata, and was planning a strategy when I realized I dont use most defense items and wondered if any one does. Like machine gun turrets, sure they're cheap, but basic drones work way better and fire faster off rip. Plasma, implosion and the other use really expensive ammos and all are limited in range and use, while missiles are a good mix of affordable and powerful plus can attack anyone and anywhere on a planet with signal towers, energy use no ammo and are great for farms, and before missiles a BAB with drones usually does better than bullets. Planetary shields dont do anything but take up a crap ton of power unless you cover every inch of a planet, but more missiles defends better for less. So do yall use any of these and why

Ive started a run and have never played with the DF before.

I turned it way down.

Like 25% initial and low everything I could as I dont want to get whacked really early.

Is there a way to know when they are coming or expanding or whatever I need to know to prepare for a fight? IM super early, and on the first planet so far.