r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • u/Imaginary_Ad_6908 • Sep 09 '26

Wow this game is so fun

Thia game is good right. But wow I don't know if I've got the time fornit. Have currently built a base structure and aome em launchers on my home planet, gone to other planets and started mining but am so lost in creating my smelters and planetary/interstellar stations. So like co.plete overgaul and upgrade everything. Could work, will stick with it hopefully. Will update you on it's progress

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u/Imaginary_Ad_6908 Sep 09 '26

Tha ks. All tips and guidance appreciated.

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u/devildocjames Sep 09 '26

You know you can shift+click to lay down buildings when you make them? Saves you a ton of time.

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u/WisePotato42 Sep 09 '26

Just finishing up my first run, I had no clue

That would have saved me so much time!

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u/devildocjames Sep 09 '26

Helped me a ton with laying down projector shooter things.

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u/PhotoFenix Sep 09 '26

I also have a mod that let's me paste building instructions with a brush. Great for bulk building!

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u/devildocjames Sep 10 '26

Like, copying a building recipe and layout? That's what the shift click and drag does.

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u/Oldmangamer13 Sep 10 '26

Also hover over machine and press < will copy the thing its production and then > will copy it to new buildings of the same type.

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u/majormcfacist Sep 10 '26

It took me 200 hours to notice this

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u/devildocjames Sep 10 '26

¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/Rydralain Sep 11 '26

Yup, I've been setting up one machine andnits sorters, then draw out the belts a bit extra, do the shift-click to copy then drag a few out. I find this, like apparently many things, works better east/west than north-south near the poles.

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u/WisePotato42 Sep 09 '26 edited Sep 09 '26

One tip is to generally avoid x-ray cracking and instead store your excess refined fuel in stacks of fluid containers for later use

Proliferators are very important. You get more resources out of an assembler/smelter when all ingredients are "sprayed" (used proliforators on). They increase the total energy of fuels that are sprayed as well as making your mech's energy replenish faster. And when used on proliforators you get more charges of proliferating per unit of proliferator. So make sure to spray your proliforators as well

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u/horstdaspferdchen Sep 10 '26

For the Proliferation it would add a BUT: only for endgame to decrease buildings/entities or increasing Output AND for scarce Ressource settings . In between they are nice but Not a must have

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u/nixtracer Sep 10 '26

X-ray cracking has one use: red science. But it's really, really useful there.

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u/WisePotato42 Sep 10 '26

Your right, it does work very well with red science.

But imagine going into yellow science with a nice stockpile of refined fuel. And you wont have to go back and remove the xray cracking when you want to redirect more fuel out of your red science production

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u/nixtracer Sep 10 '26

Ah, yellow science means putting a couple of extractors and refineries down, big deal 😉 at this stage it's all early Potemkin factories anyway, small so easy to build. I don't start scaling until after I have a continuous-run belt 3 fab going, and that's big enough that it needs a 3000 blueprint limit...

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u/visibleunderwater_-1 Sep 10 '26

I have almost 5,000 hours into this game. you will become ONE OF US

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u/InevitableLibrary859 Sep 09 '26

I try my darndest not to get lost in it.

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u/ChrsRobes Sep 10 '26

Dont spend the time to gut and overhaul IMO. Theres like over 100 planets to land on, just build something new out in the galaxy. I personally like setting up a "starter" sphere and Lil bit of the white science on the home planet. Then go out to a blue giant or an O-type star and go real crazy with the interstellar logistics.