GIANT ROBOT; SMALL PLANET | #1 | Dyson Sphere Program | Lets Play/Guide/Walkthrough

[@vodrake]

All these squares make a circle....All these squares make a circle....All these squares make a circle....

[@timothyjames5195]

Kami! I need you to tell me I can leave the lookout!

[@TheRojo387]

It's a sphere, and triangles are best for it.

[@jaredfieseler6654]

@@TheRojo387 it’s a reference to team four star dragon ball z abridged

[@666louis]

Calm yourself ;-) It's because they are indeed trapezoids.

[@ziconghuang7139]

Welcome to non-Euclidean geometry...

[@agtzayn]

Flat earth people be like: wtf this game

[@thetechnoninja3859]

This game seems really really well done. I've wanted something like this before. Where it was basically Factorio except I can move between worlds and several star systems. Truly all I could hope for. I just got this game and I cant wait to start playing. Please keep these videos coming!

[@Swarm509]

It really feels like the devs have played the other games in this genre and wanted to bring the best parts, or parts they liked, together but create something unique as well. Hopefully they keep updating/fixing the game and listen to community feedback. If not that could be its downfall.

[@Shaded]

have you tried the Space Exploration mod for Factorio? It allows you to explore more planets than just the starter one, extending vanilla gameplay by a ton. But yeah, this game looks awesome, I'll defo give it a go.

[@nakoda1610]

also, factorio but on a round world

[@Swarm509]

@Ruxis256 After putting more time into the game it really is very feature complete as is and devs are basically doing daily updates. Well worth the price.

[@Baleur]

Factorio has that with the Space Exploration mod tho :)

[@zamalek4079]

There is actually tons of literature on how to avoid the "singularity" at the poles of planets in games, because every game developer has probably faced that "problem" the first time that they have tried to render a planet. The fact that they turned, what is typically a bug, into a feature is super impressive.

[@robbieruthig6131]

Nilaus talking about trying to make a better ratio build 2 seconds later: we don’t need 2 of these but why don’t we build 2 of these

[@AssidiousBlue]

Re landfill: You can use numpad +/- to change size, and one 1x1 tile will rise a 4-5x4-5 area of water

[@Zarytex]

I don't really recommend building stuff at the poles why?: [slight SPOILER ahead!] , it's about the dyson swarm you can later on build the dyson swarm (a lot of small mirrors cirling the star) which redirect the rays of the star, to use these rays on your planet to make power you need a ray reciever, this ray reciever works just as a solar panel basically, it only works if the star in roughly in sight so if you want to use it efficiently to make power you need them in constant sight of the sun (they also get a bonus if they have sun for a longer period of time), so to achieve this you need to place the recievers roughly at the poles, where exactly depends on the angle of the axis of the planet, idk how much your planets axis is tilted but for me i basically had to use both poles so you maybe want to keep them clear for now, i dont know how much yours is tilted but mine is at about 3° and i have to use a pretty big area since the recievers themself are huge so well... Cheers have fun!

[@thegamerdudeabides]

Shouldn't have told him. Would be fun to see how he adapts.

[@Zanbatoss]

I have more trouble shooting the sails, I did place them on a circular north pole. Even though I make the sail orbit vertically so the gun can shoot even at awkward angle it just refuses to shoot for long time. Maybe Ill just put the guns encircling the equator..

[@Zarytex]

@@Zanbatoss for me it worked best using a not orbit with a tilt of about 10° and placing the cannon themself a bit off (~30-50 squares) from the southpole

[@jeremyherrmann97]

the best place is the equator, the line around the planet that has the most sun. I placed receivers every 45 degrees latitude to encircle the entire planet so I constantly recieve energy from the Dyson swarm

[@Zarytex]

@@jeremyherrmann97 hat is probably the worst spot for them.... you need a lot of recievers and at best only half of them work, sure you might get a lot of power but you also need way more recievers than the pole method... it's basically the brute force way of getting them to work, sure it won't be efficent/cheap but it's simple and works

[@steveaustin4118]

So the future of Human's is to be hooked to a VR headset and a computer takes care of us

[@mystics7787]

Better living idealistic lives where anything is possible and we don’t have to obey the laws of psychics (in vr) and taken after by a robot than.... Yknow Being enslaved by them 😅 I will take this future in a heartbeat thank you lol

[@K-o-R]

Wasn't that how Total Annihilation started? I recall that didn't end well.

[@56bturn]

@@K-o-R The difference was the CORE mandated it and the ARM objected to being forced into such an existence. Here it seems everyone agreed.

[@thegamerdudeabides]

THe only difference between this, and the matrix, is these people plugged in willingly.

[@ThalosEvansquire]

Do they actually mention anything about humankind? Seems possible to me that we're playing as a sentient AI that is separate from center brain.

[@MrKoval-nm9ky]

wow, amazing, 1st episode, 5h in, resumed in a 45 min episode... I want to see more...

[@tricorius9653]

Man, those radial belts at the pole look gorgeous.

[@janniszimbalski6652]

I would have prefered it if they were moving in opposite directions, but it still looks very neat, yeah.

[@awreece]

I really appreciate the cuts you're doing, both here and in the Factorio series. It makes a much more enjoyable stream for me :)

[@robbieruthig6131]

When placing the miners (I’ve seen on other videos) their is a button you can hold that gives you a non grid locked way to place it and get the most resources from 1 miner

[@galloinfligo]

Its the Shift key if i remember right Shift + R

[@HellRaiser1st]

Just R key and u can rotate also do your best to get as many nodes under a miner i get between 8-9 anything less is not worth the time

[@masterphillips]

43:06 I think the word you're looking for is "meridian" (longitudinal line). This game looks awesome!

[@itswonky573]

Love the north pole location gives the building a Frostpunk feel.

[@Nortonius_]

A compromise: “Insorters” 🤣

[@amateurishauthor2202]

I love it

[@danielpiche2346]

I just can't get used to the name. My brain won't allow it.

[@einerdek69]

This man is a genius 🤣🤣🤣

[@themoran2]

Pardon my French, but bloody hell, I'm mightily impressed by the way they've handled the poles!

[@still34u]

Yeah, much better than the Germans.

[@MrLordZenki]

Personal pet peeve: silicone != silicon. (The tutorial thing wrote silicon but the narrator said silicone.)

[@Purplethesheep]

A lot of the tutorial lines make no sense. It's very funny hearing the voice actor read broken english with such confidence

[@Swarm509]

@@Purplethesheep I honestly wonder if they are using voice to text for this since they are not an English studio. If not the actor did a good job reading what he was given. Hopefully this game is successful enough, and they are willing, to redo them at some point.

[@cookiecakeeater6340]

I personally dislike how quickly it disappears, like let me click off when I want to I’m doing something right now

[@IaIaCthulhuFtagn]

@Locke Dunnegan To play devil's advocate, how would they know you changed what they said if you don't speak the language?

[@BenignViewer]

Using "Silica(te)" would be better for the raw mineral deposits too, for clarity.

[@skyesfury8511]

A lot of people had their eye on this, but I don't think anyone was expecting an Early Access title that feels more like a full release than Early Access. This is easily on the same level as Factorio and Satisfactory. And the best part? EVERYTHING you build you can go to and see it. Yes, even the dyson sphere itself!

[@jensenofc2011]

It's Sunday, I'm hungover and just discovered I haven't watched your previous episodes. Lifes goooooood!!!😍😍😍

[@Memphis321]

Oh my this game is gorgeous. Also breathtaking like you. Realy going to love this LP. I wana see evrithing throu this game. And you sir you deliver.

[@thegamerdudeabides]

YOU'RE BREATHTAKING!

[@ivankenobenko5554]

If you're building solar panels around the equator, you don't need accumulators (I using 1-wind turbines then 2 -solars panels rotation that way its 220-221 panels 110 turbines )

[@jacebeleren429]

Ohhh good tip

[@thegamerdudeabides]

Are you talking about a 2 wide strip around the whole equator? I was gonna try that myself.

[@MuttMutts]

Just started watching this series after catching up with some of your Factorio play throughs... and all I can think about this game is; Factorio Players: Man I bet this game would look great in 3D Satisfactory Players: Id love to be able to see more of the bases I build. DSP Devs: im about to do whats called a pro gamer move. Look forward to the other episodes you released and seeing where this series go! Althougth I must say, your ONI Playthrough is my top watch atm.

[@JohnMeinel]

Very interesting to see a more heavily edited build from you. I miss having the sense of how long it would take me to do something similar, but it is nice to see the high points of the build. The new game looks pretty (especially for early access). I look forward to seeing how this evolves.

[@Nilaus]

Thank you for the feedback. About 5 hours of play time for this episode

[@tonton_1964]

Really, I love this game. Also, I'm a fan of this format. The YT version is fast paced. The stream was great and there were so many people in the stream when you started! But that means the comments were going to fast to read :) I hope to see the number of subscribers rise seriously, because you are really doing an awesome job, producing regular content, editing the videos to make them more valuable etc. Thank you again and good luck with the expansion of the channel.

[@whataboutsharks4646]

I was so waiting for your series on this game. Thanks!

[@clintgrimes628]

I never considered building at the poles before, but now I can't imagine not.

[@TheCreat]

It's a nice idea, but starting in the mid game it has downsides. You kinda need the poles for other structures that really want to be there (don't want to name then, to avoid spoilers). It's not a hard "must", but any other place is really inefficient.

[@isaiah8407]

Thanks for the playthrough series, I just started. Dyson has been a very interesting learning curve, but I’m glad you’re not a boring play through to watch. Blue boxes of science and inserters made me laugh.

[@gscurd75]

You had me at, "And we have F for freaking hand crafting"

[@halbouma6720]

Thanks for starting a series on this game Nilaus, I'm excited to play it!

[@IaIaCthulhuFtagn]

Lol, he called it a long episode. For the amount of content you covered in the game it was really short. Other KZbinrs that have put out about 10 episodes to get this far. They didn't make (m)any cuts. Keep up the good work

[@AwkwardSmileMeme]

I mean this in the best way possible, but the number of times I've fallen asleep watching this series is very high lmao. I rewatch later to actually follow the series but it is very good asmr.

[@isaacedmund5682]

You deserve lots of more credit for these amazing videos!

[@PpVolto]

The Sorters/Inserters can filter ;)

[@LoreleiBlaine]

i wondered about that! it seemed like it's false advertising to call something a "sorter" if they can't even sort, so i was confused why he wasn't doing that with them

[@TheWoozly]

Just picked this up today. I've not played Factorio or Satisfactory, and I'm loving it. Seems very polished, fleshed-out and content-rich for Early Access. This series is off to a great start as well. Good, clever narration and neat designs. I'm happily Subscribed now. I'm really looking forward to the rest of the series! (Eagerly anticipating a 100% foundation'd science nightmare planet in the future)

[@friarjon7948]

That circular science lab facility looks amazing. The science cubes on the belt remind me of the light paths in the movie Tron

[@K-o-R]

The Little (Robot) Prince. Pedantic niggle: the satellite of Kappa Sagittarii II would be IIa rather than III. Also silicon (rhymes with sun) is very different from silicone (rhymes with tone).

[@user-ph7qx8ik2h]

I haven't been able to catch this series yet, will probably watch it once the reverse megabase is done. I've been enjoying your content so much. Thanks for making so many great series. Don't listen to the haters.

[@ArchAngelThomas]

More of this. Please more of this. Yes, I still love factorio, but I also want more of this.

[@edinborogh]

Awesome first episode Christian. Very well done!

[@sylviebizadvisor]

Thank you Nilaus, this is a super compact build for blue matrix and eventual power plant design.

[@sharashka510]

I'm about 20 hours in on figuring out this game. Found this vid and thought I'd take some inspiration. My jaw hit the floor with the symmetry on the north pole. Take my subscribe damn you.

[@puritan7473]

Great to see you playing this, I can't wait to see what you do with this game judging from your awesome factorio builds it will be epic!

[@Antone0218]

Totally love the build at the N Pole.

[@jeffreyblack666]

Remember, it is early access. I would say the look of items on the belt would be one of the last things worked on. But if you are making a game, there is no point making all the fancy assets before you have a functional system. A simple box with a texture on it is a lot simpler than a full model.

[@MantisToboggan777]

The way you did the oil refineries was genius

[@terakahn]

Just found out about you from Day9. It's so cool the way you build. I never thought to converge science on a pole.

[@Nilaus]

Welcome, I've been a big fan of Day9 for 10+ years now

[@terakahn]

@@Nilaus me too! Now I can be a fan of both of you. Maybe you can do a stream together someday.

[@jonohashmo849]

This is AWESOME Nilaus! I love the speed at which this episode ran :) keep it up!!

[@gregorewart5946]

This is the first dyson sphere from your channel ive watched. Im really glad you blasted through the first big steps because watching other channels dragging it out i dont think i could watch another... lol Its an awesome game and happy youre sharing it with us too!

[@guiltyspark3576]

im so glad you go in depth on how you organize things since i love this game but am not great at organizing my production

[@HellRaiser1st]

I started the same my first game now on the third game in dyson sphere i got a better path i belive. I accentuated on geting all the ore nodes with miners smelter and deposits after i concebtrated on energy especialy coal power then make sure u have a strong production of materials and parts for each part then get them conveyor belts all togheter and into a research area as that is the goal to research and produce those colorfull cubes. After i got the blue cube sorted production/research i concebtrated in geting the oil refinery and extractor and also researched the x ray cracking then build oil exteactors on all oil wells conect them and bring then in an area were we can refine them with first recepy and then use the crackling recepy to make 3 hidrogen and 1 coal .... Only go for next planet after u research the drone logistics for interplanetary as u can set the redources to be taking to a certain anet withc will give u an easy build life on other planets

[@pfqniet]

One thing I'm noticing is that you're sticking to the grid for miners, which makes it difficult to cover multiple nodes. Hold Shift to override the grid snapping and you can make your miners much more efficient!

[@Nilaus]

You need 12 nodes to fill a belt. If you cannot get 12 in one miner, then you need 2 miners and with 2 miners it is easy to get 6 each. Anything more is wasted anyway

[@pfqniet]

@@Nilaus Maybe you just got luckier than me with node spawning, I had to use the free rotation/placement option to get more than 4-5 per miner. 6 definitely seems like the "optimal" amount to aim for, anything more is probably overkill.

[@thegamerdudeabides]

@@pfqniet most of my miners get 8 total. I haven't been able to get any more, but I am still basically in my starting area.

[@Heinrick192]

I've never played Factorio, so I had no clue what was getting myself into. I'm super stoked to remake an efficient setup like this! Thanks!

[@rhu7074]

I am going to enjoy watching this series. Glad you are doing this on KZbin in addition to Twitch. Your cuts and edits are good and improve the experience.

[@dicksonZero]

Super nice to know that there are the VODs in your second channel!

[@azralan618]

I‘ve been looking forward to this game for most of a year. Sadly, I‘m mostly certain my PC won‘t be able to handle it so for now I shall enjoy watching you play. I‘m quite glad you‘re covering this game on your channel.

[@ThorRuneHansen]

Same :( I just baught it but had to return it because of endless lag. After checking 2nd hand market for cheap gaming PCs, sadly none to find.

[@m4gn0x]

Def would like to see some more content from the Master Class guy on this game, really enjoy your content keep up the good work :)

[@22ndaccountduetocensorship57]

Been here since the golden days of from the depths. You may have noticed that people love this seroes :) keep it up!

[@coastlund]

That North Pole idea was SO worth it :D

[@ArnabAnimeshDas]

This is where it all started. Now we are going from one end of the universe to the other like another day.

[@viniciusstucki]

Where is the Ep2????? Great Job Nilaus!

[@MrKoval-nm9ky]

very clever and well organized episode, I like it

[@AskZch]

Love your Dyson Sphere Program stuff and your style so dropping the comment and the like for da Algorithm of d00m since I can't afford to support you in other way. 🙏

[@shadowhenge7118]

So have you decided how you're going to do your city blocks, yet?

[@MrLordZenki]

Thanks for start a KZbin series for this game Nilaus! I really like it, and I really love watching your content!

[@hexramdass2644]

North pole looks very cool!

[@BeardPolicy]

Loving this series!

[@paoweeo]

Just started playing. Love your videos! They’re adding combat soon!

[@scottfowler]

With the variable-length sorter/inserters and the ability to raise belts vertically, I can foresee some VERY creative and compact builds in your future :) Looking forward to more of this game!

[@codysweaton2089]

Great video! Followed through a ton of your factorio play throughs and really enjoyed them! Can’t wait to see more of this game! Love the content!

[@DanielEnyart]

not sure if these are things that you've noticed or not, however, if you hold shift when rotating to take off snapping, I've found that to be very useful when placing miners on resources.

[@BenignViewer]

@43:14 That line is the Prime Meridian of the planet (AKA 0 degrees longitude). It will be an unbroken longitudinal line that doesn't warp to converge at either pole when projecting a 2D grid onto an ellipsoid.

[@Nilaus]

there are 20 Meridians on the global that go unbroken betwee North to South

[@Narego2477]

Thats how Spore's Galactic Phase should have been!

[@kinito992]

i feel ashamed that my setups look like a horrible spider and this looks so smoooooth

[@NZ_Wanderer]

Just wanted to say a big thank you for the effort you went into to explain what you were doing etc to us... - I have been following along and just finished my north pole creation :) :) - It is really great to see a very easy to follow walkthrough, can't wait to move onto your next video to see where you are going to take me next...

[@rikkupaine5754]

you cough to hide the names Factorio and Satisfactory, but your end credits remain the music of factorio ... long live the wink.

[@The_Very_Tall_Gnome]

This is a really awesome let's play here, its making me want to try this game out even more than before

[@Jordan-hr3yz]

The sacred path is back!

[@VexMexIndustries]

thanks for showing this off i bought it instantly, and sunk already countless hours into it xwx

[@moviescores9315]

Can't wait for the next episode

[@alanosta]

Just loving this series, thanks Nilaus.

[@doomrokk1206]

Great video Nilaus! Went out and bought the game to follow along...might take me a little more than 5 hours lol. I've played a lot of Factorio and Satisfactory so your right this is a cool blend of those but on a galactic scale. Looking forward to more letsplay!

[@jamesshelton308]

My Factorio brain is screaming at the circular building grid...

[@leegoslin3533]

Cool game. It's like a 3d factorio mini galaxy.

[@RDM1776]

I love the idea of a Polar Research area to minimize wasted space. Given the dsp wiki has 5 sciences and the anti-matter to win the game, I think you should put 3 lanes on both sides of the researching science labs, with an output on the side for the white matrix.

[@Nilaus]

I will, but not necesary at this stage. It will need to be rebuilt later (#12)

[@RDM1776]

@@Nilaus I look forward to watching the entire season and thank you for the reply.

[@jerzyboy1976]

ty nilaus, that was awesome :D i was trying to get my efficiency better since friday last week lol. i finally was able to work out some of my disaster of a base issues last night but my first coal deposit is about to be depleted. XD time to tap another coal vein. :P

[@mattbrassfield2291]

end game if you run the calculator... you going to need 450 research centers at 1800 items per belt 6 im-puts * 2... luckily the research centers stack 10 high so kinda be easy to figure the grid for it. ---- just saying the island going to get bigger... The upgrades can be research infinite with the white cubes.

[@harithdanial7583]

Really hype for this series leep up the good work

[@bush7788]

Great vid

[@jonathanrichards593]

A great circle which goes all the way to the pole is a meridian. If there is just one of the thick green meridians, then I guess it's the prime meridian, like the Greenwich meridian on Terra. Edit: OK, I see that four special meridians at 90 degrees meet at the pole. Good to see that in the far future the AI is still using Babylonian circle division :))

[@Demon-ft1th]

Man, when I saw the thumbnail on the store page of the game, I was thinking that it looked like Unicron

[@milanstevic8424]

sigh.. it's not a robot, it's a mecha. don't you people watch anime?

[@Demon-ft1th]

​@@milanstevic8424 Of course I do, and I assume your "people" do too

[@milanstevic8424]

@@Demon-ft1th Well, Unicron is a giant transformer robot, not a mecha. I just see these things mixed up everywhere I look, so I have to assume that no one can tell a difference.

[@Demon-ft1th]

@@milanstevic8424 Well, I don't know how far I am to getting a giant sphere around the sun, I have this game too so I'm still learning, but its still Early Access at the moment

[@bonden79]

Damn that's so good. Now I have to move my science location... :D

[@andrewgaspurr1152]

Very comprehensive and well done. Thank you :-)

[@GuyFromCanada]

26:16 I don’t know about you guys, but that feels like foreshadowing

[@Kriskke]

Keep 'em coming

[@end0skeleton404]

I think the box icons are just placeholders until they make a more viable graphic for the items. I cant wait honestly.

[@VIEBlitz]

Great video!

[@sebastianstarke6668]

Awesome game and thank you for running this let’s play!! I hope this is daily 😂

[@StickmanA]

Brilliant

[@foamtoaster9742]

It would be nice if you explained some things in more detail like how you get all of the belts and "inserters" to build the factory

[@Nilaus]

I have my first tutorial coming tomorrow on "Basic Mechanics and Ratios". I hope that will help

[@JobaerArman]

thank you so much for doing this. keep playing & uploading new episodes. just a request to make the power grid symmetrical.