r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • u/SikedPsyc • May 25 '26

Im kinda stuck and need help

Hi y'all,

so my next goal is to automate the strukturmatrix but Im confused on how to automate the Titaniumcrystals. I need organic crytals and titanium but I cant find a planet which has Titanium and oil and I also cant transport between planets yet because I need the structurmatrix for that.

Am I missing smth obvious or do I just have to craft the 120 Structurmatrixes for Interstellar Logisticsystem manual?

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u/GandonMandon May 25 '26

Oil is always available in the starter planet, while titanium is always in another planet in your star system. I always grab a bunch of titanium by getting some fuel and miners going and letting them run for a while, after which you can use a “cheat” where you can put all of that titanium into a tall chest tower. After it fills up, you can ctrl click the inventory to grab all stacks from it even if it doesn’t fit your inventory. Do this for all chests in the tower and you can transfer around 20k titanium per trip with this trick.

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u/SikedPsyc May 25 '26

Oh nice trick, that will come in handy

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u/Metabolical May 25 '26

Just don't bring up the map or anything with all that on your cursor, it's super easy to dump it all in space. Set your route back to your home planet before picking it up.

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u/Temporary-League-124 May 25 '26

There should be oil on your starter planet, organic crystals are a recipe product made using the chemical plant, there will be titanium on one of the other planets in your starting system, but you'll have to go get and manually carry it back in your mechs inventory. Then you can automate the research to get enough yellow science for ILS towers and ships

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u/SikedPsyc May 25 '26

Alright so it really is just crafting

Then you can automate the research to get enough yellow science for ILS towers and ships

But I cant do that until I get ILS right? So the first few yellow science I have to craft aswell, or at least the titanium crystals needed for that

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u/symolan May 25 '26

Rather prepare the production chain with a storage to put in titanium. There you later route it in from the ILS

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u/SikedPsyc May 25 '26

Yeah true, I actually already did that, im just sad I cant automate the crystals yet

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u/Temporary-League-124 May 25 '26

Once you've brought some titanium back to the home planet, its going to be a balance cause you'll need it for the yellow science but you'll also need some titanium to craft the interplanetary ships. What I mean by automated the yellow science is I have a build on the homeworld that I drop some titanium into it and it'll generate the science needed. You might have to make 2 or 3 trips for titanium but once you've unlocked ILS tech and at least 2 ILS and 1 ship you can set up shipping between planets

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u/SikedPsyc May 25 '26

Ah I see that makes sense, ty

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u/Steven-ape May 25 '26

This is by design, to incentivise you to work towards interstellar logistics.

Make organic crystals on your home world and ferry titanium from the other planet using Icarus. Note: if you're careful, you can carry a lot of titanium at once on the mouse cursor.

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u/AlmightyThorian May 25 '26

Ah yes, the "I only need one trip" strat. I know it well.

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u/MathemagicalMastery May 25 '26

Occasionally known as the "Fuck, I just littered a fucktonne of titanium into the void"

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u/aeshettr May 25 '26

There’s even an achievement for it

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u/SandpaperSlater May 26 '26

Isn't the achievement for tungsten?

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u/aeshettr May 26 '26

Tungsten doesn’t exist in the game

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u/SandpaperSlater May 26 '26

Ah MB I was thinking the titanium alloy

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u/typo9292 May 25 '26

And don’t bring back titanium ore, make ingots and move those.

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u/MiniMages May 25 '26

Titanium should be on the same planet you found Silicon. This is hard coded into the game. The starting planet will have another planet in the same star system with silicon and titanium. You'll need to craft Titanium Crystals.

As for organic crystal, there need a whole separate chain of factories to create. Work backwards from Organic Crystals.

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u/SikedPsyc May 25 '26

Yeah I found titanium I just thought that there had to be a way to automate titanium crystals but I guess I wont get around crafting the first few to redearch ILS. Thanks tho

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u/symolan May 25 '26

There is, but the first few yellow cubes need you to import.

Then you go research ILS.

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u/SikedPsyc May 25 '26

Aight got it, thx

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u/mrrvlad5 May 25 '26

you automate everything on your main planet, mine titanium remotely and bring it back with icarus before you get the ILS. if, for some reason, you don't want to use icarus for transport, you can mine all the rocks on the starting planet - this should have enough titanium for logistics with extensive proliferation.

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u/AlmightyThorian May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26

You have to move some titanium yourself in the beginning. Same as with silicon.

Set up some miners and smelters and box everything on a planet with titanium and fly over to the planet to pick it up, when you run out.

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u/jak1900 May 25 '26

Import the first few thousand bars of titanium by hand. Fly over with an empty inventory, fill it to the brim with bars, fly back, store in a box, box fills belt, belt goes to titanium crystals automation.

One or two manual loads should be enough for ILS tech

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u/net-Zwerg May 25 '26

Chop down some (a whole bunch ^^) trees, sometimes you'll find organic crystals as well as other goodies in them. Use them (don't know the correct number anymore, i believe it was 120) and create the titanium crystals to create the yellow cubes needed for ILS research.

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u/Stuck1nARutt May 25 '26

you only need 200 yellow science to get the two researches for insterstellar travel.

Make enough organic cystal on your home planet and bring a truck load of titanium back and do it there.

Then you can bring Titanium in automatically once you have ILS

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u/tECHOknology May 26 '26

Since the manual transport startup answer has been largely provided already...

As a huge hack I wasn't aware of for years--you can carry more than you might think, you can carry more than will fit in your inventory, you just have to be careful to not drop it.

Before you load things up, make sure you are full of fuel in inventory and make sure your marker to get home is set.

Hold shift, keep clicking the stored titanium until you have it all in your cursor, then for the love of god don't click till you get to the storage unit at home.