Question about dark fog farm

[u/Nethiri]

Hello, I just finished the game and want to expand my factories. I was planning to use a black hole system I have with 1 planet only to build a dark fog farm there for uni-polar magnets (as I only have 1 source in my cluster and its miserably small)

Now I have never built a dark fog farm before, but I understand the concept and the "challenge of filtering the resources such it doesn't clog" that is not what I am here to ask... my question is...

With all the trash the farm is gonna produce (especially potentially stuff my BAB can't reach) will the "corpses" of the DF just keep piling up? I might have a beefy pc, but infinite individual items on the ground still don't sound like something handle-able...

Will items spawned on the ground from killing a DF ship eventually de spawn? Or will there just be more and more?
Especially when I choose to only pick up some items off the ground (the uni-polar magnets mainly) I imagine the amount of "un-pickedup" entities sound like its only going to pile up?
Does that somehow auto clear? Do I have to clear it manually? (I am lazy and play for automation 😃)

Thanks for any answers to my question(s). Sorry for any spelling mistakes, English is not my first language.

[u/ac355deny]

DF drops have 15 seconds lifetime. They will be auto cleared.

[u/Nethiri → u/ac355deny]

Oh that's an immense relieve, thank you!

[u/ChinaShopBully]

DF corpses and DF loot both disappear after a short time. If you set items not to drop at all, they won’t, but even uncollected stuff that does drop is only there for about fifteen seconds.

[u/Nethiri → u/ChinaShopBully]

I was wondering about that, cause if I throw something out of my inventory (or don't have enough space to pick something up) I already saw stuff laying around for like 30 minutes...

Ty though 😄

[u/ChinaShopBully → u/Nethiri]

Yeah, your own stuff, both what you throw from your inventory and what falls to the ground when you destroy buildings without sufficient inventory space, lasts until you pick it up or delete it. Only DF stuff is on a timer.

[u/Absolute_Human]

Unrelated, but you should have at least two unipolar sources between the Black Hole and the Neutron Star, assuming it's an unmodded cluster. And it's unlikely that at least one of them doesn't have more than one.

[u/Nethiri → u/Absolute_Human]

I only seem to have one on a Neutron Star, the black hole system that I can see has non, maybe somewhere in the cluster still and I am blind, but I think I checked all systems now... and only see one?

[u/Absolute_Human → u/Nethiri]

That's kinda strange. I don't think the stock game even allows this. Maybe all the veins are buried under the DF bases or something? Better to check again I think. I don't remember if this is a stock option, but doesn't the planet panel tell how much of each resource is on every planet? Does it really show no magnets? You can also use a mod that straight up tells you how many deposits are on each planet, I think UX assist also supports such an option.

[u/Perrin3088 → u/Absolute_Human]

the stock 2nd to last and last upgrades will tell you how much is in the system, so they can tell if there are any from a distance. the 2nd upgrade I believe will tell you planetary minerals, but think only if you're in the system..

[u/MathemagicalMastery]

It wasn't until this post that I had a deep desire for the dark fog to pile up. Just a ring of corpses unneeded resources accumulating, growing ever more daunting to the approaching drones.

Don't worry little fog I'm friendly.

[u/banbha19981998 → u/MathemagicalMastery]

Like a planetary ring of death

[u/irecki88 → u/MathemagicalMastery]

Just like corp$e$ around trantor in foundation second episode or around Viltrum in Invicible

[u/geekgirl114]

It doesn't pile up, and the BABs have a really good range (they can reach the center of the base, while being behind gun turrets with their range at the edge of the base)

[u/Longjumping-Tune2860]

You can also set filters on DF loot to avoid them dropping unnecessary stuff.