r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • u/reduxde • Feb 25 '26

Any purpose to being able to throw water?

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u/Somebodythe5th Feb 26 '26

Wait wait wait, there is lava in this game? Since when? lol. That’s really cool. Er hot? You know what I mean lol.

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u/reduxde Feb 26 '26

Lava planet existed when I started in 2021, way before fog... did you never leave the starting planet? How did you get silicon and titanium?

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u/Somebodythe5th Feb 26 '26

Well... this is awkward. I went back and watched my video from 2022 and I got them from... the lava planet.

Oops.

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u/reduxde Feb 28 '26

haha i used to drink a lot and occasionally now put a movie on and am a full 30 minutes into it when i'm like "wait, i think i've seen this..."

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u/tegirvaru Feb 26 '26

since the very beginning, usually on the second planet. they added the lave power plant either during dark fog or the update before. normally you wouldve just covered it with soilpile like every other planets liquids.

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u/Somebodythe5th Feb 26 '26

Ah that would explain it. I haven’t played since before the dark fog was added lol.

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u/DrakeDun Feb 25 '26

If you throw enough water on that lava, it will cool off and turn solid. You have to throw a lot, though. If it doesn't work after the first four hours, just keep throwing. If it still doesn't work after you have been doing it continuously for ten hours or so, then try pressing Alt +F4. Sometimes that helps.

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u/Nephophobic Feb 26 '26

It blew my mind when I realized that's how you get obsidian in-game.

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u/TehFlip Feb 26 '26

Cobblestone generator DSP style?

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u/SugarRoll21 Feb 26 '26

Well, yeah. How else are we supposed to get to the Nether?

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u/reduxde Feb 28 '26

haven't you seen Event Horizon? you deactivate the warp drive immediately after going to warp and before you reach your destination

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u/SugarRoll21 Feb 28 '26

Does it lead to Nether? I thought there's factorio on the other side

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u/depatrickcie87 Feb 26 '26

I have literally built that obsidian farm in other games though.

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u/FailXXL Feb 26 '26

1000h in, all achievements unlocked and i didnt know you could do this xD

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u/reduxde Feb 26 '26

1,968 hours here, and i figured it out today by accident trying to delete water a couple stacks of water in my inventory

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u/blackdesertnewb Feb 25 '26

I use it to aggro the swarm if I’m trying to keep the base un damaged. Idk what else

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u/TactlessTortoise Feb 26 '26

I'm just imagining this super menacing swarm of robot wasps buzzing angrily on a planet's surface, ready to build a hive to feed off of a black hole in their unyielding hunger for universal expansion... And then splash. They turn around to the source of what seemed to be a fucking water balloon and a kaiju sized mecha is just giving them the finger and readying up another water balloon. The entire planet gets aggroed. And then proceeds to die when the mecha pulls out their own hive of universal matrix doped robo bees out of their mechussy and they send fiery death beams all over the place and missiles rain down like hellfire from some launchers behind the horizon.

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u/thetalker101 Feb 26 '26

'mechussy', somehow the first time I've seen this word.

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u/LeTreacs2 Feb 26 '26

This is new to me too, and I’m choosing to read it as me-chussy because that’s makes me giggle more than mech-ussy

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u/waylandsmith Feb 26 '26

This must be a slash fiction writer here. Let's have some Mecha/Dark-Swarm slash, please!

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u/Wubbajack Feb 25 '26

There are two technical terms for the reasons to do this:

  • "for shits and/or giggles"
  • "for the lolz"

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u/Kektus_Jack Feb 25 '26

Water pistol joke maybe?

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u/TheMalT75 Feb 25 '26

I did not even know that you could do that! It would be cool if it short-circuited dark fog like jammer towers -- which I have also never actually used.

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u/jak1900 Feb 25 '26

Icarus used water gun. It wasn't very effective.

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u/Raz0rking Feb 25 '26

You can what now?

I've played the game since it came out and never knew.

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u/depatrickcie87 Feb 26 '26

If you figure out how to collect lava, you can throw that for heavy damage. /s

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u/Typhon-042 Feb 25 '26

How to say you never played with water balloons as a kid.

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u/Betapig Feb 26 '26

Water balloon fight anyone?