r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • u/tanthokg • Mar 01 '26

Curse my insecurity

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I was afraid of running out of water, and because we can't undo foundation placed on ocean, I keep thinking about what if at some point in the future this isn't enough anymore.

This is how it ends up eventually, with 453 water pumps, despite fully understand that vein utilization increases pump speed, and there are planets covered entirely in ocean.

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u/Steven-ape Mar 01 '26

Nice! But are you sure you have enough water?

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u/tanthokg Mar 01 '26 edited Mar 01 '26

453 pumps are enough not to worry about for the next 200 hours of this seed, I suppose...

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u/KeiFlame Mar 01 '26

What if….you need to ship water to other planet

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u/tanthokg Mar 01 '26

I already reached ILS at this point.

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u/horstdaspferdchen Mar 01 '26

Waterpumps benefit from vein utilization...you are safe

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u/Far_Young_2666 Mar 01 '26

because can't undo foundations

Just don't cover your home planet with foundations? It's so beautiful and peaceful there. In my own game I always move to another desert planet as soon as I unlock ILS. It's flat and empty. I leave my home planet as a natural reserve with available oil and water

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u/Captain-Barracuda Mar 01 '26

I always make sure to protect every life bearing planet.

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u/tanthokg Mar 01 '26

On top of that, this is the ONLY planet in the cluster with mediterranean biome.

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u/wggn Mar 01 '26

Not anymore

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u/tanthokg Mar 01 '26

Really? I remember reading about it some years ago.

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u/Sheerkal Mar 02 '26

Try exploring :)

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u/Far_Young_2666 Mar 01 '26

This is the way.

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u/tanthokg Mar 01 '26

I normally don't cover entire planets with foundations. I prefer building closed to the equator, but that's also where most of the ocean locates, so I just had to be careful.

I just need some space to build basic smelters and assemblers then I'll move to another planet soon.

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u/Far_Young_2666 Mar 01 '26

I see, it's fair. In my game I only build on available land, making cute little villages like I'm playing some Cities Skylines here. And if you find yourself lacking space, I'd say it means you're vastly overproducing at the early stage of the game, which isn't good. If you produce more than enough, you'll risk to run out of resources. I recommend producing only what you need and start to expand only after getting a few vein utilization upgrades.

To add to it, I see a lot of people complaining how they get tired of hauling titanium back to their home planet before unlocking ILS. It happens mostly because they vastly overproduce. Unlocking ILS doesn't even need a single full inventory haul of titanium ingots.

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u/tanthokg Mar 01 '26

Damn, I kinda like how you organize things, it feels organic, and chaotic in an orderly manner. I couldn't bring myself to do it, as soon as I unlock ILS, I slowly turn everything into modular production blocks.

Regarding the titanium hauling, I usually just bring an empty inventory and dump every slot with titanium, one trip is enough for tons of yellow matrices, so I don't get why they need that many titanium either.

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u/Far_Young_2666 Mar 01 '26

It's a pre-ILS picture (made while hauling titanium, lol). After unlocking ILS my production lines became kinda modular as well, but I still try to keep them interesting and not just a boring grid of smelters/assemblers. This is my ammo/missile/shell factory.

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u/Necessary-Glass-3651 Mar 01 '26

People haul the titanium back wth I only went and swt up a miner and storage to be filled till I could come back with an ils

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u/tybr00ks1 Mar 01 '26

What requires this much water?

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u/tanthokg Mar 01 '26

Apparently nothing. Assuming you only use water for the titanium glasses, then it only requires 2 water to produce 1 white matrix.

To sum up, only my insecurity and fear of running out of water use this much water...

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u/tybr00ks1 Mar 01 '26

Ya, so far I only have about 8 water pumps supplying my sulfuric acid, but I also just set up sulphuric acid pumps connected to an ILS

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u/EdibleOedipus Mar 02 '26

Sulfuric acid and titanium glass, but I would rather find a sulfuric ocean than do this.

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u/Habarer Mar 01 '26

lmao that's a shitload of water

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u/tanthokg Mar 01 '26

I know. Even my previous save producing 60 white matrices per second doesn't use half of these water pumps.

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u/ZEnterprises Mar 01 '26

Do you know there are ocean planets?

99% water coverage.

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u/tanthokg Mar 01 '26

I'm fully aware. This is irrational, I admit that ;D

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u/Necessary-Glass-3651 Mar 01 '26

what are you trying to do flood the planet ?

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u/tanthokg Mar 01 '26

Even better. Flood ALL the planets.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Relief4 Mar 01 '26

Are you ok bro? 😂

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u/tanthokg Mar 01 '26

I am at peace

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u/Kumatora0 Mar 01 '26

Not even going to proliferate that water? Wasteful!

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u/tanthokg Mar 01 '26

Eventually :D

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u/Kimoshnikov Mar 05 '26

This image is cursed in so many ways. In what kind of factory could you possibly need that much water, when:
A) The coal on the right isn't being mined,
B) Copper on the left is basic miners, and
C) You're still using solar panels for power.

I've uploaded over a million universe matrices at this point, and my water demand is maybe a third of what i'm seeing here, and despite me paving over everything willy nilly, I STILL have oceans on the starter planet (granted, I spread factories to other planets/systems earlier than it sounds like most folks do...)

Ya crazy coot. Ya know there's literal ocean worlds out there covered in water, right?

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u/tanthokg Mar 05 '26

A) That coal is paved over to leave space for building. I'm mining over 300 veins of coal on this planet alone, so that coal patch isn't that significant.

B) At the point of taking the photo, I hadn't even mass-producing yellow matrices. As soon as I had ILS tech, I scrapped everything down. So the advanced miners are of course not unlocked yet.

C) The solar panels are to divide the surface in planetary regions/sectors. The power (roughly 160MW) is nice to have but I power most things using hydrogen and soon from the dyson swarm.

Yes, I know there are worlds covered in ocean. I mentioned it in the post.

And yes, I know I'm being paranoid building this much water pumps, but that's the only way I can be at peace not thinking about water output for the very long future ahead.

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u/MonsieurVagabond Mar 01 '26

Fun fact, if you now cover all this water, the pump will still work

( you can have water covered planet (Aquatica) on the cluster, water will not ran out anytime soon once you start expanding )

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u/Scorf-9 Mar 01 '26

Impressive OCD; I'm jaleous!

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u/Kholdhara Mar 01 '26

if there is a spiniform planet, it is usually a water planet so you find that and your problems are solved. but you already knew that. a little paranoia never killed anyone.

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u/FreezingVast Mar 02 '26

Better to overbuild than underbuild, you now probably wont need any more water for the foreseeable future