DYSON SPHERE PROGRAM ►ANOTHER 10 NOT Blindingly Obvious Tips ► New Factory Sim Strategy Game 2021

[@SkyeStorme]

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[@g-aro184]

newer do the output whit a slower belt in fractonatior

[@SOTGAce]

I know you like your little shopping store of chests. You can use the large towers as well. Go into planet view, spin the planet around to find the tower with the supplies you need and pull them out. No more flying around to find what you need.

[@danielsonpoland]

Just FYI, you can copy sorters with filters using shift click as well. Newly placed sorters this way will have same filters set up.

[@moarsaur]

Yep, I find that quickest with sorters in any big array, though I'll use the triangle brackets and tab key when placing a little bit, too: all great little QoL features.

[@SkyeStorme]

That is a great NOT Blindingly Obvious tip :)

[@nickllama5296]

@@moarsaur There is so much QoL in this game, it's going to make it absolutely terrible to go back to Satisfactory or something where none of those features exist.

[@davidinchcliff4560]

Everyone makes a big deal about that

[@MaxTheDragon]

Another not blindingly obvious tip: When you are in demolition mode to for example remove belts and you want to quickly remove the belt segments of one path but not affect any other paths that are nearby and could possibly be hovered over by your mouse cursor, don't be afraid to hold the left mouse button and just swipe over the path you want to remove, because: Once you've clicked on one belt segment of a path to remove and keep holding the mouse button to hover over other segments, *it will only remove segments belonging to that path*. So if your mouse cursor crosses over segments belonging to different paths, it won't delete them. This lets you safely and quickly remove belt paths that for example go under other paths.

[@gwanael34]

What I do too is cut out the section I want to remove and use shift. It deletes the entire belt in one shot.

[@JanBreuer]

@@gwanael34 Yeah, but the shift delete function is newer than @MaxTheDragons comment.

[@Kelven486]

For the Deuterium fractionator loop losing efficiency the more fractionators you put on. Another good way to do it instead of going smaller loops, is merging more hydrogen on the line in intervals. I have a loop of 60 fractionators, and a 2nd hydrogen line splitting and merging into the loop every 10 fractionators. Same effect, different approach.

[@SkyeStorme]

Yeah it's the same idea .. it's just how often you add extra hydrogen to the line :)

[@kkacpersky]

Tip nr 2 is false in my opinion as one water gives you 1% of deuterium particle. Which meant ratio is 100/1

[@Hyalthin]

@@kkacpersky 1/100 is the chance to produce it. The consumption ratio of hydrogen to deuterium is indeed 1 to 1 and not 2 to 1 as in the colliders

[@Darkendragon]

@@SkyeStorme I was just about the post the same idea, but you dont have to do it every so often, instead just insert a line every fractionator. and since its only taking 1 hydrogen every 100th pass, you dont need a fast line. the standard one should be good enough. so that every time it takes a hydrogen the secondary line will always put another hydrogen back in, thus you always have 30 hydrogen pass by per second no matter what. giving you the most efficient line. though you will have a lot of splitters, basically 1 for every fractionator, so there is that. so if you want it 100% efficient with each fractionator scanning 30 hydrogen per second. then you'd want this after every fractionator. but if you dont mind having less efficiency, then just do it every so often. the more you skip, the less efficient it gets, the more often you do it, the more efficient it becomes.

[@Skellitor301_VA]

@@Darkendragon That's actually not true, while yes it's a 1% chance, that doesn't mean you'll go through 100 hydrogen and you'll get 1 deuterium. That 1% chance can happen any time hydrogen goes into the fractionator. The fast line is to increase the rate this chance happens, as Skye mentioned the fractionator processes this recipe based on the belt that's feeding it. That means the faster you put hydrogen into the machine the faster the recipe is used. Basically you do want to take the idea you have of using one fractionator, but you will want the fastest line going into that fractionator. Splitters work just as fast as the belts going into it as well though with hydrogen, you can just as easily achieve the same thing with tanks since they have 4 ports, so you can double the tanks as splitters. I was on the side of particle accelerators last video but after seeing the actual numbers it actually does make sense to use fractionators over the other method. Sure it's not 100% guaranteed but the chance is high for it to produce deuterium at a faster rate.

[@davidr5597]

Hey Skye - here's a tip I haven't seen you cover yet. I recall in one of your live streams someone asked if it was possible to name things in DSP like it is in TF2, the response at the time was "No". I discovered this accidentally. Open up one of your Logistics towers and it will have a main title like "Planetary Logistics Station", now click your mouse on the Subtitle which defaults to something like "Local Station #xx", you can edit that to be whatever you want! It's just a vanity thing for now as there is no way to look up your towers and see a summary of what each of them is supplying or demanding - that would be a super useful addition to the game for those that use Logistics towers instead of conveyor buses. You're welcome Charles! ;-)

[@SkyeStorme]

That is a great NOT Blindingly Obvious tip :)

[@liu3gz]

@@SkyeStorme and your cargo ship fetch items from the station with a smaller number first, this is now to control priority of the LTS.

[@pharaway05]

Got 20 stacks of water in your inventory from moving a water belt? Ctrl + click a single water stack in your inventory to gather up all stacks into your cursor then the delete key to get rid of all stacks at once!

[@rev7989]

Another tip about sorters. After setting the filter you can also Shit+click that set sorter to make more sorters with tat filter applied.

[@GlizzyTrefoil]

will work on refineries and particle colliders and storages that already have the item that the copied filter chooses. But not on an empty storage, for now at least.

[@richardhensman104]

Safer way to do infinite transport - if you pick up an inventory full of raw materials, you can start production of a thing (the more complex the better) - this will take all the ingredients from your inventory. Pick up more, queue more production, repeat as many times as you like. Then fly home. As long as you get there before you produce more than your inventory can hold, you won't lose anything. And once you've emptied your inventory, you can cancel the production and get raw ingredients back if you want them instead of the produced item.

[@BeefIntoCake]

You can actually copy the WHOLE structure INCLUDING sorters. So, built the belts...place the smelter, place the input sorter AND the output sorter on the belts. Then press SHIFT CLICK on that building...when you place rows, it will copy the entire setup.

[@TheFishman201]

I hate the fact that this is how I learn that deuterium can be stored in a liquid container

[@onred_]

Fluid* container. Gasses are fluids, but I think people just assume fluid = liquid. These words are NOT guaranteed to be interchangeable

[@SkyeStorme]

As long as you learned .. it's all good :)

[@moarsaur]

I've seen several articles and vids miss it with hydrogen - guess it's NOT blindingly obvious.

[@SilvyReacts]

@@moarsaur Yep, when I first played, I didn't realize you could put hydrogen in the tank lol. When I found that out ... I was kind of face palming a bit lol.

[@peripateticguy55]

@@onred_ •-• 俺のうんちは美味しい。どうぞ、食べろ

[@HenryElfin]

I didn't think about the efficiency of fractionators thanks! Did a little math and found that though it is most fractionator efficient to just have one fractionator to form its own loop, having say 10 in a loop instead of 1 will only decrease the efficiency by about 4%. So don't over engineer it guys!

[@berticus0001]

Tip: Stacked containers fill the bottom container first (when the input is at ground level, not sure about inputing above) then the next up, then the next and so on. If you raise your output conveyer two steps per container you can connect to the upper containers and it will only deplete that container and above and leave the lower container(s) untouched so you always have a reserve without the need to take up more land. Long belt slopes though.

[@jetah50]

tip1: read the keybinds before playing any game!! (seriously, it's there!) my tip: use the 1x1 foundation square to flatten what you need. it'll actually fix a 4x4 area but use 1 item.

[@thegeogian]

I didnt see it on any tips, but I just figured this out, when you are in dismantle mode (aka, after pressing X), you can shift+click a line to delete the whole conveyor line (or just part of it, depending on where you position your cursor). I felt dumb for not seeing this earlier!

[@SkyeStorme]

That is a great NOT Blindingly Obvious tip :)

[@Aconaut89]

That was added fairly recently, so don't feel dumb, since there wasn't anything not to notice before :)

[@sinanuygur5273]

Good tip on the fractionator, especially the energy economics. It will come in handy since im moving on to green cubes finally, after beefing up the rest of the production for 2 days now (and by beefing up I mean: thats 260 smelters, 175 assemblers, 915 inserters, several thousands of belts, producing 120 iron plates, 40 copper plates, 40 gears, 95 magnets, 5 energetic graphite, 40 electric motors, 80 magnetic coils, 10 electromagnetic turbines, just to feed 5 super-magnetic ring assemblers, that will produce 100 units a minute... times the rest of the higher end stuff). We NEED blueprints!!

[@Aussie_Tom]

Not long before we get a 'top 10 top 10 tips' video :p

[@SkyeStorme]

LOL .. I hope I never get THAT bad ;)

[@obsidianmoon13]

The maximum number of chargers you can charge from has been upped to 13 now. You can fit one extra one in if you do it at the pole.

[@Mircheeks]

The ‘del’ key. I’m face palming my stupidity so hard right now 🤦‍♂️.

[@deneb3525]

oh good, I'm not the only one.

[@NandoP07]

Same

[@reyhaz]

Hey Skye have you noticed that the hydrogen that came out of the tank were a bit backed up when they already made a full circle? Well, same goes for, let's say if you introduce another miner to get more materials for the smelters. Right. Now, how to make sure that everything works well and not having a huge backing up on either side? SPLITTER! Yes, you read it right, put a splitter in with two input and one output and it will work like a zipper. The flow of materials will be more smooth and even.

[@obsidianmoon13]

Another not-obvious tip: If you set a limit on a storage chest, any items in the red area will still be used by the machine. I found this out by making hydrogen fuel rods and I set the limit to 6. I dumped a bunch of titanium in the red area and attached sorters going to and from the assembler.

if you load storage boxes from at the bottom, you can take out stuff from 2nd foor only when lower tier is full and actual items are placed in that level storage. I use this to have a buffers in the start of the game.

[@Vatharian]

The same goes when you invert it - if you insert items from belt on second level, it will never fill the bottom one. There are very few cases, when it's useful, though.

[@richardirons584]

Tip: Making short conveyors on corners. As applying a conveyor to a corner will be longer Make the track straight first. Apply conveyors. Then run your corner

[@nickllama5296]

Ooooh, thank you!!!!

[@Abydos01]

I probably wont say any new to you but you can direct chain 2 factory with sorters, and you can chain 2 belts wit sorters too. This is a good way to build a compact main bus and get items from and on it.

[@SkyeStorme]

Yeah I use that a lot :)

[@sinanuygur5273]

The concept of main bus is obsolete, though, as soon as you get the logistics stations. I started with a main bus +1 elevation, +1 distance from each other to fit in the 3x3 splitter for feeding. The game is not built around this concept like Factorio. Im gradually replacing the bus with production islands now.

[@Abydos01]

@@sinanuygur5273 Yes you are right With multiple planets and stars system the bulk of logistics are done via ships. And on planets a mega planetary wide main bus system is also not he best solution do to the low belt speeds. But as you said if you make a production island and want to organize input and output side a local, vertically stacked bus still makes sens to me.

[@GlizzyTrefoil]

Here is a tip: filling a belt mk1 form a storage takes exactly 4 sorters mk1 or 2 sorters mk2 filling a belt mk2 form storage takes exactly 8 sorters mk1 or 4 sorters mk2 filling a belt mk3 takes exactly 20 sorters mk1 or 10 sorters mk2. this is "important" when doing sushi belts. another tip: the sorter mk3 takes the least amount of energy when the stacking upgrades are used, without the stacking upgrade all sorters mk1, mk2 and mk3 use the same amount of energy per item delivered. In all the production lines with dedicated belts for all inputs and outputs its most efficient to use mk3 sorters with full stacking, yes even with a simple smelter they are not really "wasteful". this is only important if energy is a problem, which it shouldn't be for long.

[@Nc-en9ce]

The deuterium tip is so helpful, I didn't do the math, I just thought high tier tech should produce more to make sense and went for the particle collider.

[@GlizzyTrefoil]

you can squeeze twice the amount of particle colliders into the space of the fractionators, than skye showed, and sushi belt the inputs with the outputs(theoretically possible, just not useful when you have stil lots and lots of space on the planet. Energywise the particle collider takes lots but that is not a problem once you use antimatter.

[@clementj2588]

@@GlizzyTrefoil well antimatter ? nah just a few solar equator ring and you don't need anything else

[@GlizzyTrefoil]

@@clementj2588 you make universe matrices how exactly???

[@clementj2588]

@@GlizzyTrefoil You make them from all the other matrices and antimatter in the research facility

[@TheOneTrueGriswel]

Thanks again. Count me as one who had no idea you could delete junk. No more searching for a place that needs it or dumping random junk into storage.

[@garretthorton163]

New tip suggestion for you. I was expanding a factory and I was placing more assemblers and then lining up the belts on the side and because I was going out towards the pole, the grids were getting smaller and it wouldn't let me place the belts next to the assemblers. But when I placed the belts FIRST, then I could place the assemblers in the spaces just fine, no problem. This saved me from having a janky line for the last 4 or so assemblers before a grid change. Very nice.

[@v0Xx60]

I didn't know about the delete! I guess I was still stuck in the Factorio mind-set where you have to manually destroy stuff instead of just selecting an item and pressing a key!

[@SkyeStorme]

I'm so glad that was useful to someone :)

[@Skellitor301_VA]

another great tip is all the functions actually work with each other, and I do mean ALL. What I mean is for example the ctrl+left click on an empty spot = modifies the entire inventory delete = deletes a selected item. you can go as far as to put the two together and delete an entire inventory by ctrl+delete.

[@ATLaracheClub]

Dude, the delete tip is a life saver lol

[@timothyewing4009]

Can’t tell you how many various fluid fuels I’ve burned through just to get rid of them 😅

[@Trion3]

you can also shift click on a sorter with a filter and copy place sorters with filter set

[@skysoftware4581]

Great to see my tip from last video get shown here 😃

[@cerberes]

Hey Skye have you found out how to pick up from a conveyor? if not, click on the conveyor then click and hold in the circle of the pop-up.

[@liu3gz]

if you have item on your cursor, then click and hold in the circle will put those items back to the conveyor, given it is not full already.

[@miguelmackay4851]

12:00 i think this is the best tip ever, no more 1000 trips for titanium

[@vadimgoltser8975]

i think it will get patched soon

[@nickllama5296]

I'm pretty sure it's a bug that's going to get patched. And really you should only have to make 2 or maybe 3 trips for titanium and be advanced enough that you can get an interplanetary logistics center going.

[@somerandom3247]

Tip for building. If you make a mistake, press x to get onto delete mode, then press x again to go back to your previous selection without having to click it again.

[@grimnar6725]

Good tips. I get my deuterium from an orbital collector on a gas giant though.

[@zj6074]

I believe its relatively uncommon for the starting gas giant to have deuterium as its second resource. It is possible though. Arguably I found having fire ice more useful since I needed way more graphene.

[@grimnar6725]

@@zj6074 probably is. It wasn't my starting gas giant. But I found it in the gas giant at the first new star system I hopped to.

[@Larbydarg]

@@zj6074 My starting gas giant has hydrogen and deuterium but the deuterium yield is so low (0.03/s) that none of it hardly ever arrives on my home planet since the orbital stations consume part of what they collect to keep them powered. Would have preferred fire ice. : \

[@UnintentionalFan]

It looks like this series might be discontinued, but one thing I learned that helped me out is that the sorters can go from one conveyor to another conveyor. You don't have to bridge them, you can just sort them over a gap of up to 3 spaces. Additionally, I was having trouble with priority coming out of a storage container. I wanted things coming out of it to go one way before another. I ended up using the sorters to bring the input line to the priority line before it even hit the storage. That made it so that the priority line filled up first without me needing to use a bulky splitter to handle priority.

[@Arxeon.]

Something I do a lot that others may not know is that belts don't have to always be flat to work with a sorter. My example for this would be on an assembler line of items that require 4 inputs. On one side I'll have 3 "supply" belts at ground level running past the assemblers then have the 4th belt out raised 1 space up. I'd then place a 2 tile long belt ground level running in the gap between the assemblers coming from against (but not connected to) the 1st belt to the center line of the assemblers. At this point connect a sorter from the start of the short belt into the assembler. Next I would run a raised 2 tile long belt from (but not connected to) the raised 4th belt in line with each of the belts in between the assemblers and connect the to different height belts across the single tile gap. Then all that remains is to delete the belt tile that pokes past the ground level sorter and place a sorter on each of the belts leading away from the raised 4th belt. Doing it this way leaves room for power lines in between the assemblers and the "output" belt from the next line of assemblers can be run underneath the 4th raised belt to keep things nice and tight.

[@roeshambo]

Tip: When sailing across a planet, if you turn with your middle mouse, it causes your perspective to get all wonky because of the yaw (start flying sideways). If you hold middle mouse and hold right click, you can steer left and right without the camera tilting.

[@zach31194]

I feel so blind and noobish for not knowing about the delete option. It never occured to me to use it... I would go around and try to put things back in their storages or belts or throw it in a random chest somewhere. lmao. Thanks Skye!

[@llljustcallhimdave]

If you shift click on a sorter with a filter already set you can copy it and it will already have the item selected when placed.

[@SkyeStorme]

That is a great NOT Blindingly Obvious tip :)

[@djaluby]

When you delete a building and right-click right after, you'll select that building again. Very helpful when - accidently deleting a building - placing 10 chests to gather soil, remove them and re-build them further down the area

[@drakedbz]

If you right-click out of delete mode, it just returns you to what mode you were in prior. If you weren't placing that building prior to hitting delete ('x' key), it won't go back to placing it.

[@zolfo6899]

one thing you missed in a previous video is sorters can also have a priority input so you can have multiple inputs with one taking priority. i use this to empty a storage box before a belt takes from a factory or logistics tower

[@Rogerfoulger]

I created a loop with 5 fracationators and filled up so may large containers (didn't realise at the time it was a liquid) about 15 in quite short space of time with a mark 2 belt, my next one wil have mark 3

[@chelfyn]

Here's a good one I've just discovered: When you are on construction or surface formation mode, you can move your guy around without leaving the mode by holding down shift and WASD.

[@shandromand1675]

I don't think I've seen this one mentioned yet, but for those of you going interstellar, just a couple of tips: 1. As your starmap begins to fill up with names, sometimes when you warp, being able to read the distance marker on your crosshairs gets a little tricky - If you're aimed directly at your target, the display on the lower right of your mecha readout (opposite from the speed indicator) will give you the distance in a nice, easy to read big number. 2. If you don't mind spending a little time in interstellar space for recharge, don't feel like you have to limit yourself to whatever systems are in single-jump range. That's silly. Just bring enough fuel and warpers. [rant about RNG and inner-systems resource quantities tabled for NOW]. Of course, this works better if you have universe exploration fully upgraded (pick and choose your targets) but if you have an abundance of warpers/fuel and want to cowboy it up, go for it! IMO it's more fun that way. :P 3. In fact, the first chance you can get to gravity matrix, carry a few of those instead of graviton lenses and quantum processors. You can probably hang on to just a few and get quite far. ^_^

[@garretthorton163]

11:30 if you close your own inventory after opening up a storage unit and then use control click, it all goes into your hand without any going in the inventory. Useful for not cluttering your inventory and having it all in one place.

[@alh4z7]

I built 100 fractionators on a loop fed with one mk3 belt. You then loop each fractionators back on itself with priority input from the main feed and priority output on each individual feedback loop. This allows for 100% saturation of each fractionators and consistent 30 per sec deuterium from 30 per sec hydrogen.

[@MovieMation]

Thank you so much for the deleting tip, I was having to create random chests dotted around to store stuff when I wanted to clear out my inventory. Thought it was just something they didn't implement yet since it's early access, had no idea it was so easy to do!

[@TheSkepticSkwerl]

Thanks for this series. As a new player these really save me a ton of time.

[@bamatrainfan]

On coping buildings, if you fully set up a building with all the connections needed and the recipe and then copy it, it will paste that entire setup and save a lot of time

[@Nick-B78]

Went from “yay another DSP video from Skye” finally(!!) but it’s just another (very cool) tips video. When’s the next video/stream???? Come on dude, you e got me hooked. Give me my fix!!! 😉🤣

[@SkyeStorme]

Probably tomorrow! :)

[@Nick-B78]

@@SkyeStorme Tomorrow??? Another 1440 minutes?!?! 😭😭😭

[@loganwalker8537]

@@Nick-B78 seems legit

[@meepleaderalpha2959]

Didn’t figure this out until today, but when in upgrade mode, if you hold shift and cursor over a conveyor belt line, you can bulk upgrade the entire line. I’m sure others already knew that though

[@smash_that_like]

A cool tip is that solar panels on the poles will produce power 24/7. Even the ones on the night side will still produce 70% or so. Another one is the equatorial main bus - put a loop of belts with the most used resources - iron, copper, processors, electronics etc around the entire equator and you easily and cleanly can get what you need from any point on the planet. And since it's a loop, you can also feed into it from any point, so you can just build mining bases and smelters wherever there are resources and feed it into the bus.

[@SkyeStorme]

I think you need to watch the second tips video ... there is no need for buses :)

[@sundeki8880]

Hey in case you didn't know there is a way to build in "God mode". It makes building large construction way easier. Also solar belts. Go in the settings and the third tap should have an option to switch building mode from third person to God mode. Now you can move your Meka by pressing the shift key and build everywhere around you. Also you can fly while building which makes building the solar belts a lot faster.

[@TurboAchiever]

If you plan to build massive setups go to settings - gameplay and change view from third person to god mode. Camera will detach from mech in build mode making it easier to place buildings around. If you get out of building range just shift right click and mach will follow. You can hide/unhide resource nodes, option for that is in environment modification tab (where you have pavement). That way you can build over nodes you're not using. You can delete items from inventory by picking them up (all at once with ctr) and pressing delete key.

[@christiangunther7128]

After watching all the videos and catching up with the streams (awesome content btw) I was finally able to get my hands on the game :-) now I can build my own Dyson Sphere while following your progress!

[@SkyeStorme]

That's awesome!

[@Piemur1]

I have another tip for when building conveyors at altitude and your groundspace is kind of busy, you can hold shift and it will let you plan the build without the cursor trying to snap on other conveyors below or stuff like that.

[@ralvek9265]

Skye, your tips have changed ALOT about how I will play from now on! Thank you very much for making these videos!!!

[@st_cuthbert544]

I already seen you use it, but when you start deleting a conveyorbelt, as long as you keep left mous button pressed you wil ONLY delete that conveyorbeld not ANYTHING else you accidentally mouse over. I found that an amazing feature when replacing belts for load balancing.

[@majidalobeidli6145]

actually regarding tip # 5, you can copy the smelter with all the sorters connected to it also with their filters and paste them all together next to it or somewhere else. however pasting the sorters requires already built conveyor belts only. that all with the shift click

[@kalskirata42]

Hey Skye, another tip. Logistics towers only require power if they're home to vessels or drones, so you basically have stupidly large storage containers that take up exactly 0 power on any energy grid. You could have metric tons of interstellar towers just stockpiling entire systems' worth of raw ores, and all of your demanding towers would be the only ones that would require power bc they're drone hosts.

[@ChaoticNeutralMatt]

This is true. You do have power blip though.

[@paulstelian97]

Stupidly large AND you can access them from planet view.

[@kalskirata42]

@@paulstelian97 yes. But the important part is that it's basically free storage that you don't need power for.

[@kalskirata42]

Also, Skye, don't credit me, I'm bringing this over from... I believe it was One Last Midnight that found this out? Pretty sure it was him.

[@Valdore66]

Sorters can have filters set in the same way as conveyors out of transport stations as well, TAB to set the filter as you’re placing, automatically picks up on relevant materials from the building in question (anything it can use if no recipe is set, or relevant recipe materials if it has been set.)

[@archcarrier]

a few things I've found out lately that might not be blindingly obvious 1- you can mass-deconstruct an entire conveyor belt by holding shift at the time of deconstructing. 2- if you shift-click on a sorter with a filter you copy it with the filter, but the interesting part is that if you shift to another filter (after shift-clicking a sorter), the next sorter you place will have that new filter.

[@rrralpop157]

To effectively use fractionator loop, you gotta use the fastest belt too. It's obvious but i think Skye should've mention it too. Mk3 belt moves 30items/second, so the first fractionator actually produce deuterium at 30% per second instead of 1%, with decreased efficiency of the following fractionators. Thanks for the video too

[@EmoNemoNinja]

If you happen to make another video maybe talk about hitting R to redraw the belts diagonally. It's really useful for going low to high or vice versa quickly. Thanks for the great little series. I learned a lot.

[@richardirons584]

Putting the vertical splitters closer (2 above on each end, the skinnier ones). Place all the splinters you want before the drones can build them. Or run to 0 power and place them so they show in the green pending but the drones can't build then with no power. You can get the vertical ones one block closer on either side

[@AwesomeRage15]

You can select what the sorter will filter if you use the "Tab" key!

[@mangoscrub]

Great tips! I feel that the stack tip might also be a bug that's patched out later (possible softlock if you don't have enough storage?), but that deuterium tip is amazing.

[@Tantalus7Aura]

Did you know that you can take items from the conveyor belt by clicking the left mouse button on it and then clicking the icon of the resource from the conveyor panel that opens (holding left mouse button down gets multiply items). In addition you can place items on empty conveyor belts by dropping them from your inventory to the empty icon at the conveyor panel (constant holding left mouse button down places multiply items).

[@peterpike]

Another tip I just discovered is that if you have a miner on nodes and then you bury the nodes, the miner still works. This lets you set up miners and run belts over the resource if you're in a place where you need to grab the resource but have to have space for belts, etc.

[@ChaoticNeutralMatt]

Similar to water pumps and strange belt behavior. Still early but wonderfully polished game. Small beautiful team.

[@peterpike]

@@ChaoticNeutralMatt -- True, I hope they leave this behavior in the game too, even though it's not "realistic". It's just so useful. But, as you say, it's still early on so it might get patched.

[@jamesjerauld9572]

You can set up 1 machine stacked with sorters and a recipe and as long as the belts are there for the sorters to attach to you can click and drag an entire row of building

[@drakedbz]

My "not blindingly obvious tip" is that they just added a mass-dismantle and mass-upgrade feature. When in delete mode ('x' key by default), hold shift to chain-delete a whole stack or line. This works with conveyor belts and (I think) stacked buildings. The new upgrade mode is accessed by pressing 'u'. In that mode, you can upgrade any building that has a higher level variant that takes up the same ground space, just by clicking it. It will upgrade it "in place", meaning the things it is holding stay put and don't go into your inventory. This is especially helpful for sorters and assemblers. If you hold 'shift' in upgrade mode, it will chain-upgrade all of the attached items that are identical. I think this only works with conveyor belts, and only within your build range, but super helpful nonetheless. This made upgrading my main bus from mk II sorters to mk III much simpler.

[@droppingpins6244]

TIP: IF YOUR BELT IS GLING CRAZY ON A BEND. Bring the belt where you want the bend to start, then put a sorter on it, then put the bend in. It traps the belt in place. Helps when you're building by a fault line, or crazy north pole builds.

[@thakillman7]

If you want a good tip: Specialize your planets. It makes it much easier to expand production lines as you need them (however big you think they need to be, they need to be 10x bigger), free power from dyson spheres is rather limited so it's better to have a system with multiple planets powered by a dyson sphere, and it makes logistics much easier. Gold chips can be made from just Iron, Silicon and Copper. Green engines are made from iron and copper only. Chemicals can be made infinitely easier from either acid ocean planets, or fire ice giants. Strange matter and Deuterium cell production become much easier when you have access to a gas giant, especially a deuterium/hydrogen one. Location matters. Advanced titanium alloy production becomes trivial on an acid ocean world. Dump energy-heavy industry on a 150% solar multiplier world.

[@shanec.]

Love your vids Skye! If anyone cares, you can press F11 to hide to HUD to take screenshots. You can even press it again to hide your mech!

[@Boergen78]

The "infinite carry" ability seems more like a UI bug that needs to be fixed. Great tips nonetheless. Many thanks!

[@Mythikal13]

Idk I think its intentional. I just discovered it and it's only really useful for manually moving large amounts of goods, you cant do anything else when you're carrying the items

[@Mythikal13]

@@frontrider3240 I get what you're saying, I discovered it by using the options the game gives me so you're probably right. I like the mechanic, but maybe shouldnt be able to fly stuff from planet to planet like that

[@Mythikal13]

@@frontrider3240 Everyone has a different playstyle and it is okay for there to be beneficial features in a game. I could see it being limited to only being able to carry a chest-full of items at a time and them removing the ability to carry items across planets, you shouldn't be able to transfer items from planet to planet (excluding inventory) until mid-late game

[@Harley002]

Yea definitely seems like an oversight in the ui design. Simplest fix is to place limits on the stack size the mech can pick up

[@atleastsmiles]

Imagine scooting over any logistics towers without being able to hold like this, would take ages.

[@ryankl1984]

Small tip: when making the tiny belt bridge once you complete it you can delete one piece and make it do a 90 degree bend. It looks a little weird but it works. Only useful in very specific circumstances

[@SkyeStorme]

Nice :)

[@thakillman7]

Another tip: advanced resources matter. Fire ice is an excellent source of both hydrogen and graphene. This avoids the nasty acid production line. Spinoidal stalactites produce nanotubes, cutting out a lot of production steps. Organic crystal mining avoids large chemical plant setups (Avoids a plastic step and all the oil processing to feed it). Monopoles make particle container production trivial (no need to dedicate half a planet to green engines). Others like kimberlite and the fractal silicone are fairly useless (how the hell do you not overproduce energized graphite? and silicone is abundant!)

[@ClockworkOuroborous]

I burn a ton of graphite from oil production in power plants

[@ZaranaraZarazua]

If u put the chargers on any of the poles u can manage to charge up with 14 at the same time

[@nowakjim]

The number of the counting shall not be eleven unless thou proceedeth directly to twelve. Thirteen is right out!

[@HedelTorres]

I saw a few of these, so not sure if you mentioned this one... just started playing the game... i was on another planet and ran out of resources.... i used your tip on aligning my solar cells with the equator, which is an awesome tip... i was short on transmission towers and solar arrays, so i alternated them.. solar cell - tower- solar cell - tower -solar cell, etc etc.. it allows you to extend much further. I found putting the solar cells in serial, it doesn't you don't cover as much distance but connecting it to the transmission tower, it takes increases the distance much further..

[@Parax77]

When building long conveyors It can be shorter to build conveyors towards the poles then East/West, (as opposed to east/west then north/south) as east/west is shorter nearer the poles.

[@aty55]

Skye I am going to try out the deuterium on my game I can make alot of fuel rods. When will we see another video of you going further into the game ?

[@Arthzil]

My not blindingly obvious tip for Fractionator loop - don't make smaller ones, they are not space efficient (a lot more belts), instead put additional 3 feeding belts (both ends and both middles) to improve efficiency, limit space and headache from having too many loops. Also feed it from Planetary Logistics base, this way it's auto refilled and you can use the same base for picking up Deuterium!

[@Tclans]

Loving the input from the community, it makes for a great series!

[@jamesr6268]

When you are placing mk2 and up sorters you can set the filter with tab just like the planetary logistics

[@filipcarvalho12]

NEW TIP: if you ever cant conect a sorter to a curved belt ( delete one point of the belt curve so it doenst curve anymore add the sorter connecting to it (tip) and then remake the curve and it all works

[@SkyeStorme]

I've done that myself .. it's a good NOT Blindingly Obvious tip :)

[@honestgoat]

These 3 videos were awesome man. Thanks heaps. I learned more in half an hour than in hours and hours of playing.

[@MagneVikjord]

I thought fractionators would destroy the hydrogen :O

[@drakedbz]

It only destroys the hydrogen if it creates a deuterium from it. Fractionators are fantastic :)

[@tyrialfrost4286]

Logistics towers can be used as large scale storage as well. Putting items in works as normal, but to take items out, right click +hold and use the slider to choose how many. Oh and logistic towers dont have to be powered, an unpowered tower will function as normal, and rely on other tower's drones for delivery.

[@Sup3r87]

these tips have helped me a lot, thank you so much!

[@SkyeStorme]

You're so welcome!

[@SuperTurbojelly]

Fractionator Efficiency Tip: Have ta 2nd Helium Loop going round the outside of the Fractionators. Have a splitter feeding Helium into the gaps between each Fractionator. This gives you a small belt buffer to keep topping up the main loop. Giving an uninterrupted supply to the next Fractionator. You can hold shift to auto select a large section of Belt. Great for upgrading or deleting.

[@Arkalius80]

Would love to know where to find Helium in the game...

[@SuperTurbojelly]

@@Arkalius80 Oil Refinery. Breaks down crude oil into oil and hydrogen

[@Arkalius80]

@@SuperTurbojelly Ok but what about helium?

[@jamiekawabata7101]

Landfill oceans with sparse placements of 1x1 foundation requires MUCH less foundation compared to covering 100%. (But requires just as much dirt.)

[@AnimatronicBadgerlord]

Just bought this game... yesterday. And, while some of these tips don't make sense to me as I don't have context for them YET, I'm sure I will get there soon, so thanks for these! (and the other two videos)

[@GTX2GvO]

Coming back at the filtered sorters tip. You can use Shift+Left click To COPY the whole sorter+Filter. (same as you did with the smelter) And then place said filtered sorters as long as the filter is valid. This is mostly a life saver on those machines that have recipes with Multiple outputs. Like turning oil into refined fuel and hydrogen. So. Place machine. Set recipe. Copy set machine over as many times you need. Place belts for outputs. Place AND filter sorters on ONE machine. Use shift+click to copy a filtered sorter. Place said filtered sorter without needing to worry about the filter. (just hook it up to the right belt ;P )

[@SkyeStorme]

That is a great NOT Blindingly Obvious tip :)

[@BrendonGreenNZL]

Is there actually any point in filtering the output products onto separate belts; or the inputs, for that matter; when splitters and sorters can be used to select the correct products later?

[@rafascd12]

The light and delete really impressed me.... 100 hours and did not Know this..

[@grotwurksmekshop6607]

I feel upset I did not think of the Cursor trick would of saved me a TON of time with Titanium and Silicone runs....

[@LikeGG]

Ok I think no one mentioned this before but there is a god building mode in settings... very handy to build bulk solar panel or pretty much anything. You can also still move the mecha while pressing shift Hope I helped someone ;)

[@SkyeStorme]

Well done :)

[@ChaoticNeutralMatt]

That and the L key I will find very useful :P

[@SteveWhipp]

So I made a ring of mk III belt around 70deg N for all my "spare" H since I had enough for Red cubes. This forms a natural loop and had inputs at four separate parts. This made, for me, using fractionators a no brainer since all I had to do was put them inline between the H inputs. I have a mountain of Duterium.

[@dumaskhan]

the infinite carry items is risky though, but a nice tip.

[@reyhaz]

and it can be done with a logistics station, so the drones will only go for another round if it's actually needed

[@nickllama5296]

Yeah don't accidentally hit delete while you're carrying 10000 rare crystals...