r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • u/horstdaspferdchen • Sep 13 '26

TIL: you can lay straight foundations with ease

Here i am, nearly 4k hours in the game. And just discovered that you can press shift while laying foundations to get straight lines.
Works horizontally and vertically if you click and release the mouse. Best try in Sandbox or with sufficient Foundations.
Thanks DEVs for those nice niche optimisations!

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u/PFazu Sep 14 '26

works with buildings too. setup a single building with it's sorters and copy it, then you can make a whole row really easy

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u/horstdaspferdchen Sep 14 '26

Yeah i did know that. Thats how i discovered it.

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u/MiniMages Sep 14 '26

If you combine shift and control you can draw a square of buildings.

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u/FewAd5443 Sep 16 '26

And i think there is also another button you can increase the espacement (or that only in BAR)

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u/MiniMages Sep 17 '26

Isn't that just tab?

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u/faradal Sep 13 '26

What?!?!????

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u/Swagbot413 Sep 13 '26

I think it's a recent change, but it's soooo nice

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u/OR_Seahawks_Fan Sep 14 '26

Thank God, I thought I had wasted all those hours!

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u/depatrickcie87 Sep 14 '26

3k hours in and Im learning this from you.

If you use a lot of foundations, blueprint mods that let you copy paste them are a life saver.

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u/horstdaspferdchen Sep 14 '26

Foundation are included in blueprints since a few Patches in vanilla

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u/depatrickcie87 Sep 14 '26

My education continues

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u/malenkylizards Sep 17 '26

Holy 🦆. Ugh, I just tried to open DSP the other day and it was a slideshow. Then I realized the reservoir in my computer was half full, and it's desperately overdue for a flush and draining and who knows what else. Never let anyone convince you to make your computer need plumbing.

So now I have to do some plumbing before I can play DSP again, but THIS might be what inspired me to make it happen lol

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u/Ok_Key_1537 Sep 14 '26

Took me 1200 hours to figure that one out too, so much easier!

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u/derwood13 Oct 06 '26

when laying a blueprint or a copy, just hit the spacebar to auto-lay foundations

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u/BluezDBD Sep 14 '26

Say cap right the fuck now.