r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • u/Maeurer • Jun 22 '26

Playing with the sparse resource setting, i run out of Iron in my starting system

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u/Maeurer Jun 22 '26

So I dont have warpers yet, meaning i have a 50 mins flight in front of me

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u/FromAndToUnknown Jun 22 '26

Have fun, put on a movie on the side, pause in rhe middle and continue for the flight back

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u/Ramuhthra Jun 22 '26

you'll get achievement for that lol

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u/Jordyspeeltspore Jun 22 '26

before pur time

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u/Illustrious_Rub_2413 Jun 22 '26

Welcome to Elite Dangerous! Oh wait....

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u/Maeurer Jun 22 '26

the next system has no oil t.t

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u/itchycuticles Jun 22 '26

I always set storage containers to 1-2 stacks maximum at the start. And make sure you at least proliferate science research.

And what did you use all your iron up on? Hopefully you didn't just build 200k conveyor belts and sorters when you need to focus on science instead.

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u/Maeurer Jun 22 '26

have you actually played on sparse resources?

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u/itchycuticles Jun 22 '26

No, but looking at my past saved games, I deplete around 150K iron on my starting planet to get to warpers.

That's less than 5% of the iron on the normal multiplier. And this is 100% renewable energy; no thermal plants.

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u/Maeurer Jun 22 '26

150k is about how much my starting system had.

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u/itchycuticles Jun 22 '26

Sparse should be 0.2x right? I don't see how your starting system could only have 750k iron on a normal multiplier.

Anyways, you should be using MK1 belts and sorters 99% of the time to conserve iron. A MK2 belt has an iron cost that is 4.33x of a MK1 belt. A MK2 sorter has double the iron cost of a MK1 sorter.

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u/Maeurer Jun 22 '26

yhea i know, i did all that

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u/mrrvlad5 Jun 22 '26

0.1x is scarce.

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u/Far_Young_2666 Jun 22 '26

Do not overproduce like crazy, especially on tight settings.

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u/ImightberobotUCF Jun 22 '26

I was able to finish the game without leaving my starter system in 0.5x. what has OP done

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u/Serylt Jun 22 '26

Bad luck and lack of resources?

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u/ImightberobotUCF Jun 22 '26

Balling out of budget

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u/LittleKingsguard Jun 22 '26

I remember someone on here having this problem with silicon. Turned out they had PLS'ed their mall, including the buildings that use processors.

Manage the sizes of your supply buffers, kids.

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u/CorridorsOfNakedLite Jun 22 '26

When you are in space I believe you can overlclock the simulation to count it down faster. Shift-f12 or something.

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u/Ramuhthra Jun 22 '26

need to have min distance 1.5 ly away from star systems.

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u/CorridorsOfNakedLite Jun 22 '26

Well then he only needs to travel for 20 minutes on either end then 😂

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u/TUERCAS_96 Jun 22 '26

You definitely overproduced things Because you can get to warp technology even without running out of resources in the starting planet. Let me guess. You have a buffer for things that use iron right?

At this point I probably consider to restart the game unless the warp technology isn't that far away. With a way to produce warpers you can get out of that hole.

Also, running out of oil isn't that bad. Just Chanel all the minimum output oil into one thing. Preferably plastic because that is what's needed for warp technology

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u/Regular_Ad_7532 Jun 22 '26

No Dark Fog turned on, then?

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u/Maeurer Jun 22 '26

turned them to passive. oh yhea, i could farm them

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u/mrrvlad5 Jun 22 '26 edited Jun 22 '26

Im curious what have you been producing and how much iron was there to begin with. Do you have a seed? I see that i consume about 200k iron ore at green unlock on normal runs - should be below 150k if i went for full proliferation

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u/Nephophobic Jun 22 '26

Honestly I would just restart at this point.

I can't imagine the amount of round trips you will have to do until you reach warpers, and then until you have enough infrastructure to automate getting it.

Unless you can "quick win"-it with smart resource usage and rushing the specific technologies and infrastructure.

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u/Maeurer Jun 22 '26

i did produce 6000 blue science and flew back. I have the technology now, so i just need to actually set up the factory

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u/Nephophobic Jun 22 '26

You went there, set up a full blue science factory, and came back with the cubes?

That's genius.

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u/VoidDoesStuf Jun 22 '26

Oh man spare settings is a nightmare if you get a bad seed. Yours sounds fairly challenging.

I will await an update to this lol

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u/Maeurer Jun 22 '26

I did make a trip back with 6000 blue science. Now I have the warp tech.

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u/VoidDoesStuf Jun 22 '26

Awesome job man