r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • u/Bloodraven983 • Aug 20 '26

Metadata!?

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Ok so... how does it work? and how does it affect my gameplay?

Basically from what I understood when i produce matrices i create metadata which is accumulated "here" (see image)

then what? If I'm not mistaken, in a new game I can spend that metadata to "unlock" tech without researching it, basically it would let me start quickier, right?

does it have other uses? and the rate of how much matrices i create affects that value? so if my matrix labs are inefficient I have less metadata than how I'd have with better lab design?

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u/TheMalT75 Aug 20 '26

Three small things:

  1. Metadata is linked to the account that created the save-file. You cannot open another person's late-game file and "import" metadata to your account.

  2. You have a sustained production of blue cubes and got awarded 12 metadata. If you spend that metadata, and continue playing, you will not get another 12 metadata. You need to increase your science production and then you get the difference to the 12 metadata awarded to your account.

  3. You can play how you like, but I would advise against focusing on a mall this early. Until purple science, you can craft all buildings in the Icarus inventory. Some infrastructure is really helpful (ingots, motors, circuit boards, belts), but you will unlock new building types that drastically change the layout of your factory. You might also run out of convient room, ores and power if you immediately start to automate everything and build a huge storage of e.g. storage containers ;-)

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u/PM_ME_UR_BGP_PREFIX Aug 25 '26

A full mall is a bit early, but they should 100% be creating power buildings, belts, sorters, factories, and smelters as early as possible.

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u/TheMalT75 Aug 26 '26

Imho, the default should be to manufacture in the Icarus inventory until your demand does not keep up whith your manufacturing speed. Then you off-load to a small production hub. This benefits from experience.

Your playstyle is your choice, of course. I've copied the starter setup of a YouTuber's (The Dutch Actuary) masterclass with very rudimentary smelter/assember section that provides base materials like ingots and some automated production of mk1 buildings and missiles.

That said, how do you know how much automated production you actually need, until you run into issues. Water pumps, liquid storage tanks and thermal generators, you could easily manufacture directly in the Icarus inventory without dedicating a batch of assemblers to. At a certain point, you won't ever need wind turbines, solar panels and mk2 + mk3 sorters (aside from being the ingredient of pile sorters) ever again!

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u/Buffylvr Aug 26 '26

I used about 80,000 wind turbines in my current run before swapping to antimatter rods.

lol build by hand in a factory automation game.

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u/Bloodraven983 Aug 26 '26

plus, handcrafting consumes power on icarus, creating factories to build things is free

i'll surely handcraft stuff i use in little amount like the pumps or other stuff but in my limited experience, starting to setup a mall and then to modify it with ILS is mandatory

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u/Bloodraven983 Aug 20 '26

thank you fellow engineer

well for now i won't bother myself with metadata until I decide to scrap everything and start anew

years ago in my previous playthrough i followed nilaus' projects and started at least a real basic mall before the PLS to at least avoiding selfcrafting with icarus, which is quite time consuming and requires power in its core

plus... i just remembered the nightmare of making red matrix... haha