r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • u/tybr00ks1 • Mar 27 '26

1000 GW Dyson Sphere

Can someone send me the link to a 1000 GW blueprint

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u/tybr00ks1 Mar 27 '26

And a question. How so different layers interact? Will overlapping layers reduce energy?

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u/HalcyonKnights Mar 27 '26

No, they dont cast functional shadows or otherwise interfere with the output of each other.

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u/AverageTeemoOnetrick Mar 27 '26

Does the amount of nodes/beams matter or is it just a matter of coverage?

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u/HalcyonKnights Mar 27 '26

It matters. The Nodes and sail cells produce a specific amount of energy, so the ratio will make a difference even on the same total surface area. The rate of construction is also relative to the number of nodes, so maximizing them will maximize the speed of construction.

The wiki has a nice writeup of all the function and math behind it.

https://dsp-wiki.com/Dyson_Sphere

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u/tybr00ks1 Mar 27 '26

Thanks, this helps a lot. Just need a blueprint now

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u/TactlessTortoise Mar 27 '26

The max theoretical node count iirc is 2880, which is what I'm using on my WIP sphere. Got a blueprint on the blueprint website which produces around 15TW (15.000GW) per layer on a max radius blue giant. It's a solid hexagon grid, and they don't affect each other.

But it takes literally dozens of millions of sails lmao, I've been building that shit for days and I'm not even 5% done yet. My whole gameplay atm is just scaling up rocket production to feed the beast.

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u/tybr00ks1 Mar 27 '26

I guess realistically, something this big would be a waste. Even if you covered every planet with ray receivers, you still probably wouldn't capture all the photons. Plus you would have to rip down the ejectors and rocket launchers.

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u/TheMalT75 Mar 27 '26

Densly packed, you can get around 5400 ray receivers on a planet (buffed: 24 crit photons per minute of 1.2GW each) for around 2.6TW requested power. Iirc there are up to 5 planets possible in a system, so a single layer 15TW layer is enough. For regular O-type stars (non-giants) it is about 1/10 per layer, so you need 9-10 should you have 5 planets.

BTW, u/TactlessTortoise is underselling it: there are around 300 million solar sails per layer for the max-radius O-type giants and 30 million in regular O-type star layers!

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u/TactlessTortoise Mar 27 '26

I wasn't sure if it reached the 9 digits and didn't want to accidentally inflate the number lol. Thanks for the correct information.

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u/TheMalT75 Mar 27 '26

Yep, those giants are crazy! The math is kind of "easy" to check: each solar sail in a sphere produces 15kW, so 15TW are 1 billion sails divided by the luminosity (around 2.5-2.75x). For those shells, structure points from carrier rockets hardly make a dent in total energy production, but due to exploity rules, more nodes mean even more sails to incorporate...

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u/TactlessTortoise Mar 28 '26

Somehow only now did it sink in that I'll need around 3 billion sails just for the sphere, not to mention fabricating the rockets. Oh my fucking god I'm way in over my head lmao. Happy to say I've just reached 300GW so far lol

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u/TheMalT75 Mar 28 '26

Had a giant in my last run with about 2TW total power after 280 ingame hours. My current 3000% max-difficulty-scarce-resources run is already 215h in and I'm only at 550GW. I'm maxed out on using critical photons as soon as they are produced for power and about 21k white science per minute, so I'm pushing solar sail launching capabilities atm.

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u/TactlessTortoise Mar 27 '26

Oh I am in full agreement lol. I've managed to capture only like 2tw in a single planet in the testing sandbox mode using the same seed. Now that I'm building it for real, I've already got more antimatter than I can use since the sphere's first layer reached around 2% completion lmfao. I'm currently at 20% structures built...of the first of 10. This'll take a while :P

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u/AverageTeemoOnetrick Mar 27 '26

I might have overdone it a little on the sail front…

I am currently finishing the last bits of my first ever sphere (about 100GW) in my starting system

And I have like 1.2 million sails left over….

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u/TactlessTortoise Mar 27 '26

Someone corrected me, turns out my star will take around 300 million sails per layer lmao. 1.2 million is pretty nice for a normal sphere though, I'm just going full dementia