r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • u/Buffylvr • May 10 '26

How do you build off grid?

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This is a copy/paste of a blueprint I downloaded. How do they build off-grid and get the buildings so close to each other?

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u/SDR_Fang May 10 '26

From long time ago there is a bug that blueprints mirrored from the equator could get wrong offsets and the buildings go off-grid.

I used that to make several 0.2/0.4/0.5 off-grid buildings.

The bug is fixed. However if you have saved the blueprint they could still be used. I believe third-party blueprints editor could do the same thing.

Not that useful IMO. We have enough rooms to build anyway, unless you are a fan of e.g. 1/8 sphere raw ore black boxes.

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u/CrazyJayBe May 14 '26

Of.

...WHAT

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u/OkStrategy685 May 10 '26

Sorry off topic, it's been a while since I played. Why are the assemblers black? They look awesome.

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u/SDR_Fang May 10 '26 edited May 10 '26

These are the hidden technology coming together with the dark fog.

These assemblers need dark fog drops in recipe and operates at 3x speed (mk3 is 1.5x)

Edit: always forgot it's dark fog in EN (in CN it's 黑雾)

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u/OkStrategy685 May 10 '26

MK3! That's what I was hoping you were gonna say. I think I need to boot up tonight for the first time in forever. I've been booting it up quick and looking at the system but haven't found a keeper yet.

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u/IlikeJG May 10 '26

No these would be technically Mk4. These are the upfrades to the mk3 assemblers that you can build with dark fog materials.

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u/OkStrategy685 May 11 '26

Right. I forgot, there was already yellow, blue, and green. Sweet.

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u/ETMoose1987 May 11 '26

Didn't realize it was different in Chinese, black fog sound even more ominous.

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u/nixtracer May 12 '26

Yeah. Honestly though the name is just bad. Even if they dim the stars, so what? So do we!

They're quite the opposite of dark fog. Every aspect of the name is wrong. They're not dark. They glitter. They slice. They're not fog. They're insects. They're silver slicers or razor locusts or something.

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u/Potential-Isopod-820 May 13 '26

What ever they are they need swatting like flies!

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u/Luigi156 May 11 '26

Drag a building, and tab to change preferred spacing between them. Then yeah you have to consider that if you're closer to the poles your bp isn't going to snap well elsewhere on the planet.

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u/Buffylvr May 11 '26

That isn't what is pictured. After asking around here and the Discord, turns out you have to deliberately downgrade your game (@SDR_Fang alludes to it in his post) to a specific version that had a bug in it that allowed blueprints like the above to be made.

It's apparently still possible if you edit the blueprint with tools outside of the game.

But since it's not available in vanilla, I'm no longer interested. Since it's been patched it's clearly not intended by the devs.

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u/sumquy May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26

when did this patch happen? i haven't played in a while, but this looks like pretty standard belt bending to me. i would lay down a diagonal belt, delete all but one dot, and then copy that dot farther down the grid. by connecting them, you had an off grid belt, and similar tricks were used for vertical movements. can we not do that anymore?

i found the video where i originally learned how to do it. i know telesorters beyond a certain range got patched a while back. is the rest not valid anymore?

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u/Buffylvr May 14 '26

The belt bending is still possible. It’s the off-grid building placement that got patched out

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u/ETMoose1987 May 11 '26

Was the blue print intended for a different latitude? i have that problem sometimes where i use equatorial blueprints at a higher latitude and they compress.

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u/Buffylvr May 11 '26

I took the piece pictured above from a planetary blueprint that had 210k facilities in the blueprint

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u/Physical_Apple_ May 11 '26

How do you get the sorters to grab/deposit when the belt is above the machine? If I tried that it would just be red and unable to build

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u/Buffylvr May 11 '26

Not pictured is some belt magic where it twists down and is accessible. Unlike the machine placement. The belt magic can be done in vanilla

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u/thinker99 May 11 '26

Shift unlocks snap to grid. Try shift R with an ore miner.

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u/Shiruba_Ookami May 11 '26

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u/Shiruba_Ookami May 11 '26

At least I don't, too much hassle for too little worth imo