Dyson Sphere Program

Don't overlook the power requirements of the launch silos. You'll need 3 silos per mk3 assembler building rockets to keep them launching non stop, and each silo uses 18MW.
It's easier to start slow and ramp up because once you've got the a bit of the sphere built you can scale up ray receivers to power the expansion of rocket launches.

My sphere isn't quite finished yet.. I think I will just get it done before my silicon supply runs out.

Has anyone done enough exploring to be able to tell if further away stars tend to have more resources? Just exploring the ones near my home system some of them have outrageously high quantities of resources, like 30mil stone, 20mil fire ice, 25 mil of all of the common metals etc. I have all of the rare resources except unipolar magnets within 6ly.

sakkath said:

Has anyone done enough exploring to be able to tell if further away stars tend to have more resources? Just exploring the ones near my home system some of them have outrageously high quantities of resources, like 30mil stone, 20mil fire ice, 25 mil of all of the common metals etc. I have all of the rare resources except unipolar magnets within 6ly.

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My new home system. Took me a bit to find, didn't even think to look next to the black hole.


Rare resources are a little rare it seems, I haven't seen huge deposits, mostly under 10M. There is plenty all over though, the unipolar, organic, and stagmites actual "rarest" it seems. I marked off several on my search for a new home.

That is a lot of resources.. looks like I need to explore more then!

Near my home system I found a planet that has 20mil stalagmite.. it's an ocean world though, 99% water coverage..

Does that system have a lot of planets or just huge mineral deposits on the planets it does have? I haven't seen more than 4 planets in any system I've visited yet (which is only around half a dozen).

sakkath said:

That is a lot of resources.. looks like I need to explore more then!

Near my home system I found a planet that has 20mil stalagmite.. it's an ocean world though, 99% water coverage..

Does that system have a lot of planets or just huge mineral deposits on the planets it does have? I haven't seen more than 4 planets in any system I've visited yet (which is only around half a dozen).

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It has 5 planets, 1 being a gas giant. Yeah they are all fairly high resources as well, all but one is low/zero of 1-2 resource. Lucky thing is the one world orbiting the gas giant is one with a good supply of resources on its own, it just screams "turn me into a refinery/smelting planet!" As a bonus, the inner planet has a close orbit, so it will be well within sphere when I start building, I'm thinking of turning it into a brain/rocket/railgun planet, should look cool on the inside of a complete sphere. The next planet will be just outside the sphere, so I'm hoping the 2 together will make quick work of the construction. Thinking the other planets will be best for overall production, splitting some high demand stuff to all of them in the end.

I'll admit I turned resources up a tick to 1.5x when I started, but the system would still be very nice even at default. Systems nearby all seem high as well. I haven't even explored 1/4 of the cluster yet physically, and browsed 1/2 the stars perhaps.

No water or oil, but impressive nonetheless.

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No water or oil, but impressive nonetheless.

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There isn't many O stars, at least in my cluster, they must be seeded to be good systems. I was after them for the high Lum originally.

I've got 1 black hole, 1 neutron star, 1 0 type, 1 blue giant..

0 type is by far the best so far in terms of resource quantity.. the black hole and neutron star only have 1 planet each.

I don't think luminosity really matters. Yes you'll get more power, but the sphere I built in my starting system is producing more power than I can possibly use anyway. I could run 30 other planets off artificial stars from what I'm producing and I'm not even tapped into 1/4 of its power output.

Finally finished building my first sphere. Took 80860 rockets, and approximately 12 times as many sails. Interesting to note that it doesn't affect the effectiveness of solar panels on planets outside the sphere. Wonder if they will change that in future patches.

sakkath said:

Finally finished building my first sphere. Took 80860 rockets, and approximately 12 times as many sails. Interesting to note that it doesn't affect the effectiveness of solar panels on planets outside the sphere. Wonder if they will change that in future patches.
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Yeah I just noticed last night with a planet orbiting a gas giant, it was getting full sunlight, when it should have been some Pitch Black type eclipse going on. Never really noticed it on other planets orbiting gas giants. I can ignore little things like that, although I do hope devs eventually tweak things like that.

Very enjoyable game

made my sphere, set up nodes to mine each rare mineral, maxed production and capped a full 5k plus storage container for each item and ive got bulk mining for all the core products set up off world to be shipped back. Maxed rsearch but didnt plug tons of levels in the infinite icarus upgrades. Ended up with about 110 hours in it but some of that was afk time

i will shelve it and wait for any updates / dlcs down the road

I can't be the only one who wants a No Man's Sky - Dyson Sphere crossover with base parts and frigates and stuff in the manufacturing chain.