Top 15 Dyson Sphere Tips and Tricks 🤖 Tips for Beginners and Veterans 🤖 Tutorial, New Player Guide

[@JDPlays]

Anything I missed? What should of I added? Comment below!

[@hardkur]

naaah U nailed it ,its a mona lisa of game tutorials , so perfect we dont need to play the game anymore ;-)

[@zacharywhitmore4785]

Instead of hitting control and clicking an empty square in your inventory to sort it just click the button beside the x in the inventory

[@SergioLeRoux]

Don't bother sending your hydrogen production belt back into the oil cracking refineries, just add an input sorter right after the output sorter. Each cycle uses 2 H and produces 3, meaning it will take 2 back and send one. Until it's full and then it's almost all profit. Another tip: don't bother setting filters in your output sorters, just send everything down the same belt (one regular belt should be enough for about 3 or 4 machines) and filter it down the line using a splitter.

[@JDPlays]

@@zacharywhitmore4785 I did that, but its way faster to find a empty square at the bottom and click that :)

[@zacharywhitmore4785]

@@JDPlays ..... How is that faster? Open inventory click the sort button vs open inventory hit control and click empty spot?

[@Sotales07]

Not sure if mentioned below, but when placing items, you can swap between Placing and Deconstructing just by hitting 'X' and it remembers what you were placing.

[@svealyn]

I watched this video today, after finally buying DSP yesterday and sinking 8 hours into it already... :D These tips help me out so much, they will make my next hundred hours of playing this so much easier!

[@JDPlays]

Glad I could help!

[@youtubiuttoni]

The bonus of burning fuel is to the actual speed of the burning. It is REALLY important in latter game when flying between stars...

[@JDPlays]

VERY important, sucks running out of power 3 light years from the closest star... ask me how i know!

[@youtubiuttoni]

@@JDPlays we need more! Where are you? :D

[@Fewe00]

@@JDPlays what do you even do when that happens? Do you just sit there and boost at sublight for 5 hours?

[@CB-lh8gw]

@@Fewe00 That or reload your save if you've done so recently lol

[@thejuggernautofspades9453]

At that point you should be guzzling anti matter fuel and warpers

[@TheSkepticSkwerl]

Ctrl clicking a blank space also fills anything your attached to with what ever you have that fits. You can instantly supply an assembler or logistics tower this way

[@Slybby]

the 3x3 grid only gives you 8 charging poles. you can do 12 if you build a 2 row + shaped charging station.

[@stahmedpendragonguinevere2711]

Great vids on Dyson matey! Bloody good job!

[@JDPlays]

Thanks!

[@SteveWhipp]

Here's an issue that came up last night. Fairly early game (graphite in thermals as my main source of base power) I had decided to tap all my home planet oil wells to a main equatorial bus. I thought I had generated enough power for this, but quickly found I was way oversubscribed. Turns out the long-distance poles actually take 90kW each, even when idle. This means when I was using around 30 of them I was using a significant amount of power, for nothing. I had to fly around and replace them all with multiple normal power poles. Lesson: Don't use the long-distance poles, for mass collection, before you get your other power sources up such as hydrogen thermal or your dyson swarm.

[@JDPlays]

Correct, and the substations (which are awesome BTW) use 900MW of power form memory to just run! (and thats NOT written on the tool tip!)

[@SteveWhipp]

@@JDPlays 900kW I assume. 900MW is more than I get from my swarm!

[@jacoblaughbon3323]

The fuel cells/rods work the best for fuel, as they will recharge with two pips while in sail mode.

[@thefrimpf3235]

Nice endcard :D

[@Luca-lg7ns]

does anyone know how to change the research queue?

[@TheBakmoi]

Thanks mate. Learnt lots of stuffs. Could you please do a guide on the belts management? I tried playing like factorio and it's seems like so different. When mining, how do i combine multiple miner to into a "belt-like". The problem i having is the miner is not mining as much but the belt of ore is not enough

[@insomniacjack729]

He covered that with side loading. Hook up another miner and side load the belt. It'll help fill in any gaps left by the first miner. Factorio gives the same speeds and ratios every game, With this game if varies by how many nodes are covered by the miner and in the case of oil or gas it's just a random value

[@JDPlays]

Belts ill be covering probably much later, as they are tricky.... Miner kzbin.info/www/bejne/hpbcpnqmmq6rhMk

[@TheBakmoi]

Alright.. Let me try to readjust probably too many things draining the belt

[@jeffreymelton2200]

IDK why but when the video cut to in game and the Icarus was standing on a splitter, I thought it was funny for some reason.

[@jeffreymelton2200]

What do you mean by "crack" your hydrogen?

[@siyad7288]

can you name me one DSP veteran who didn't know those tips? xD

[@JDPlays]

Less than a week after the release of the game, I would say there went many Veterans yet lol But I have seen people who have been playing for at least 100 hours and didnt know about the different splitter patens, or belt elevators!

[@Pablanz]

So i built a Dyson Sphere to promote my KZbin channel, oh boy these are weird times.

[@JDPlays]

Nope i built a dyson sphere, then had a BETTER idea :)

[@Pablanz]

@@JDPlays hahahaha 😂

[@urstaxfetish1206]

Can't wait to see Elon Musk written in a dyson sphere around our sun in 100 years.....

[@JDPlays]

MuskCoin

[@jAnarion6246]

Beginners and Veterans? I don't think this game has been out long enough for anyone to truly be called a Veteran XD

[@JDPlays]

Funny enough Ive already had a few people send me end game saves

[@jAnarion6246]

Huh, I stand corrected I suppose! :D

[@Pimpmedown]

@@jAnarion6246 i guess you are called a veteran if you know how the game works. its not that hard if you got experience with similar games. so some people are veterans really fast while others are new to this type of game.

[@lippyausletzeburg1455]

@@Pimpmedown Hallo Fick Dich Ich geb Dir recht. Dyson Sphere Programme is after 800 Houers Factorio simpel to understand. Other mecanics an Belt stuff and lalala but I know how to builde a Base. others new to this type of game have a rufer time. MFG Have Fun

[@joshuarubin171]

I'm quiete the veteran myself as I got it launch day, 8 whole days ago

[@JDPlays]

Many people have finished the game already

[@lippyausletzeburg1455]

21.01.2021 Check I am In

[@CB-lh8gw]

@@JDPlays I'm close enough now but I'm doing a ton of replicator work instead of automation. a lot of manual transportation too because I'm just too effing lazy to setup everything all nice and I'm out of room on my favorite planet lol...

[@pedrogonzaleznunez2197]

Couple more tips: - R not only rotates buildings, it also changes the curvature of conveyors (e.g. from going north then west to going west then north - you can hit the delete key to remove a stack of items you have selected. - you can click on a belt to see and pick the item it has. - Setting a recipe on a building and then copying the building will have the recipe also carry over. This also apply to sorter filters.

[@JDPlays]

Yep i probably should of added deleting from your hand and rotating belts, as well as copying buildings as i hate the current copy paste

[@thierrydebakker]

Hey JD, did you know you can also drop items on a belt that has empty spaces in them by clicking the belt, open your inventory, take the stack of items and click-hold it on that belt item slot ;)

[@JDPlays]

WHAT? Mind BLOWN!

[@CB-lh8gw]

@@JDPlays This is how I've been transferring my Hydrogen since watching this video lol occasionally I'll just sort it onto the proper belt but sometimes I need a container quickly so I'll just manually set it on the belts, only goes as fast as the belt can go so Mk III's all the way to the tanks....

[@CB-lh8gw]

I've been storing my hydrogen in the wrong container this entire time! D: lmao overhaul time

[@coltonbrooks2664]

new to mention this but the latest update made oil a finite resource that will dwindle over time

[@SergioLeRoux]

Don't forget to work the cost of cracking or processing fuel into the savings from using the higher level fuel. If it take 10s and costs 100kW that´s 1000 kJ you've spent creating it. Re: feeding Hydrogen back to your cracking process, just put an input sorter right after the output sorter and it will pick up its own hydrogen as long as it's not full, no need to reroute it back using splitters.

[@JDPlays]

I use extra splitters so i can turn it on and off easily

[@nikosnikolaidis3762]

The biggest problem i have with this type of games is that there is no Build In way to label my production. I always log back to a 10 hour playthrough and i get amnesia. No clue what this does and why that is there. How do I solve that?

[@JDPlays]

Recent updates let you tag belts so u at least know what they should be doing

[@Cifer77]

I had no idea Hydrogen can go in a liquid tank like Oil, had been using a normal storage box for some reason. Now I'm curious if Oil can do the same. (I know a tank would be better since it hold more, just curious lol)

[@JDPlays]

anything can go into a storage box, BUT liquids (and gasses) can go into a liquid storage... they DO store a LOT more then normal storage container

[@CB-lh8gw]

I was also doing the same... I've since found that a lot of things can go into tanks that I'd never considered lol... I even tried Antimatter.. that one didn't work though sadly :( I hate the stack caps being 20ea but oh well

[@UrbanNilssonOssian]

@@CB-lh8gw Stupid game doesn't realize I have *liquid* antimatter!

[@Gt4wayDr1vR]

Fun fact you can also burn hydrogen In the mecha

[@nirapable]

Wish i knew about the sort inventory button sooner.

[@voldemor007]

Is there anyway to limit the amount of each items in storage box when you store more than one type of materials in the same storage?

[@JDPlays]

Nope 2 storage boxes is the best option

[@CaZaKoJa]

SPLITTERS HAVE PATTERNS??

[@JDPlays]

yes!

[@speeddemon7678]

Here's an interesting tip: You can go to map mode and select a transport station and then pull the items from the tower from anywhere on the planet. Cause of this, I tend to transport everything via drones.

[@JDPlays]

Oh i knew you could do it line of sight but i had no idea i could do it from map view!

[@CB-lh8gw]

@@JDPlays It's not as awesome but still pretty cool to me, When you pull resources from a tower using your minimap you can then use the minimap to drop the items into a storage container but only if it's near you. I only figured that out a few minutes ago but still it's kinda neat lol

[@DmitrijKudriavcev]

I seen this wrong idea in a bunch of streans. People, you dont need sorters to fill up or empty your storage boxes. Build the box on top of a splitter, splitter will put items into box if there are no room on outgoing belts and will pull items out of the box if there no items on incoming belt. Bels will always have a priority, but the box will take any overflow. Limit the box so no overproduce items.

[@benetedmunds]

A couple of years later, these are still great tips, but - and I think it's probably an improvement - oil wells are no longer infinite. So if you're looking for infinite - well, hydrogen as a fuel source, then it's off to the gas giant we go...

[@yalkn2073]

Oil is no longer infinite

[@JDPlays]

I know, but funny enough having 'finite' oil doesn't really matter I tried mining out my home planet of oil, and it took over 50 hours to remove all the oil and drop down to 0.1/s per node

[@lippyausletzeburg1455]

Bonus Tipp is best enyoj have a great Day

[@JDPlays]

thanks u 2!

[@laweh]

+

[@GeneralFrontier]

Your can transfer out all of item between your inventory and cargo by Ctrl + click on empty slot in the inventory you want to empty out

[@JDPlays]

Good point!

[@UrbanNilssonOssian]

Also, ctrl+clicking on an item while having inventory closed will transfer the item to the mouse pointer. The pointer has no limit on how much it can carry, so you can do this on consecutive containers of the same stuff. This is very useful when you leave your starter planet for the titanium planet for the first time. You can bring tens of thousands of titanium home in one trip. Well, at least until they patch it, because I don't think it was the intention :)

[@larsscholz3762]

Great Video, I learned a lot! One further tip, maybe for a next video: You can distribute fuel from one thermal power station to the next using a direct sorter connection. I saw you doing it in your video, but maybe it's worth mentioning. (Edit: typo)

[@JDPlays]

Yep I don't know if/when ill add that, mainly because it doesnt work 100% of the time, trying to get fast enough sorters is a problem

[@florianfaure9202]

Is send fuel if the first one is full

[@Benjogeejessejacket]

I'm a bit late with my comment, but I found a way how you can use the energy exchanger as a giant accumulator. It's not obvious because by default, an energy exchanger set to discharge will always discharge with maximum power, 45 MW that is even if you are producing power at a surplus. So you won't have the energy available when you really need whenever you have a deficit. The solution is to build a loop with two exchangers set to "charge" and one set to "discharge" with buffer chests in between them in both directions if the loop. Because the charging exchanger will offset the constantly discharging one. Now if you have a spike in power consumption and you need power, the exchangers which are charging will stop doing so, taking power out of the system. Once you're overproducing power again, the two chargers will charge faster than the one discharger thus recharging your accumulator.

[@JDPlays]

Ill give that a go... So far every attempt of making a battery box has failed

[@GaiaSteinbuch]

I watched this video in preparation for hopefully being able to play this game in a little while (once my new computer is build and up and running etc), while making some backups because it's always good to back up important files just before a big change like this, just in case. These tips all seem super helpful!! I'll definitely watch more of your Dyson Sphere tip / tutorial videos once I can actually play the game and test things out for myself.

[@JDPlays]

Good luck with the new PC, getting parts is HARD very hard

[@darken8864]

Great game, they just need to add the option to flip and upgrade belts/sorters in one go without removing them (should be coming soon)

[@JDPlays]

will be here within 2 weeks

[@Trojansteel-hh5xd]

you can upgrade 2 belt pieces at a time but doesn't work on inclines. It's slow but better then ripping it all up

[@naaskaii]

Good morning JD, a little off topic question. I have looked through the settings and I do not see where you can enable the FPS counter in the upper left and the N/S compass in the upper right.

[@JDPlays]

Shift + F12

[@TajTOne]

finally got my green science up and running. I don't understand these photons and where I should process them, so if you want to do a tutorial about it, I'll be there 👍

[@JDPlays]

More Tutorials will be coming!

[@smith2139]

How many planets are on one save not including stars

[@rekrn12345]

Probably at least 100

[@JDPlays]

From jumping around 10 stars, each one has had at least 3 planets (sometimes upto 5) so id say 200 easy maybe as high as 300!

[@Brennan068]

Spaghetti tastes great. Embrace the spagh :) until you can fly stuff around

[@JDPlays]

Then embrace the spaget of flying drones!

[@drasticbread249]

Tip 3 is not very time efficient, especially in the early game. Each time one of your drones flies off to build something it has to come back to the mech for a "reload" before it can go and build whatever you queue up next, so it's best to keep close to them whenever possible.

[@gamerelite3989]

an advanced tip for belts that i just found out myself today you know when youre trying to put a belt at a certain height and it just wont bloody clip into place always saying errors and giving you frustration well you can say place a little piece on the ground further down and start your elevated belt in the air till you hit the little piece and BOOM it magically clicks in place with a nice elevated curvature that you just wanted easy peasy just mind you dont hit structures on the way :) oh and it will automaticly adjust to the height of the piece you placed down be it flat ground or max elevation :) aww and i totally forgot that really usefull tip too please do stack the science labs as soon as possible to max height you save soo much space and can use science towers to crank up production ( alot ) and it uses so little space :)

[@JDPlays]

STACK EVERYTHING!

[@Hathwos]

Hold shift to disable unwanted snapping ;) (btw. works for every placeable)

[@dogishappy0]

The sorting tip would have saved me at least an hour had i know about it at the start of the game. At least now i know for the next 60 hours of game time!

[@JDPlays]

Next 60 hours? dont u mean 600 hours?

[@dogishappy0]

@@JDPlays Considering the amount of times i've accidentally stayed up till midnight on work days.... probably yes.

[@tiagopesce]

"megajewels" :D

[@TimeElf1]

Can you upgrade in place or do you need to tear down and replace?

[@JDPlays]

Tear down and replace, BUT devs just said a upgrade planner is coming within 2 weeks! Whoop

[@MasterSwisher]

Dude the JDPlays Dyson sphere was freakin genius. I had to subscribe 😂😂

[@rumguk]

This is an excellent video. My name is Rumguk and I vote this should be added as a link inside the game itself for enhanced video tutorials:-)

[@lordrazear]

I just finished my equator solar panel line it produces about 100 mw per sec with one row

[@JDPlays]

Nice

[@tamasnemeth1384]

Actually megawatt is not a time based measure, but MWh.... :)

[@lordrazear]

@@tamasnemeth1384 your right sorry brain was sleep deprived when I put that down so yes 100 MWH however with a 6 wide its about 600 MWH

[@killumallification]

For tip 2, you can only get power from a max of 8 towers not 9 so don’t bother with building the centre one

[@mementomori7825]

Or 12, in a + form. =||=

[@killumallification]

Memento Mori you are correct I just did that one myself. Thank you ☺️ 🙏 😊

[@timmietimmins3780]

A few things I would say. 1: storage is a waste of time and effort in most situations, but matrix cubes is a major exception. I would always funnel my matrix cubes into storage and then out again to use them, so that I have them buffered and don't waste production. It is extremely easy to produce research labs, compared to the difficulty of producing advanced matrix cubes, and your need is by no means constant. 2: if you feel lost, try to build the next matrix cube. I felt that a lot of the time, I was kind of aimless. I could build hundreds of things, but none of them seemed needed. The way I found to give structure to those production lines is just to try to build matrix cubes, which are fundamentally the win condition and motivates all your other advanced production. 3: early on, I feel it's silly to work on maximizing belts. Belts are an incredibly arbitrary and flexible unit of production. Focus instead on matching smelters to mines, to keep the mines running. Drop your miner, think "okay, that's 4 smelters worth of iron", so build your production around that. There is no need or reason to fill a belt, when you could instead match production to your mines. 4: do not build giant busses. this is silly. The reality is that there is a huge number of low end resources and each production chain does something completely different. There is no need to push tons of circuits past your electric motor factory. Electric motors don't need circuits. electromagnetic turbines don't. Supermagnetic rings don't. There is just no reason to build centralized buses in this game. It adds confusion, wastes space time and resources, and the end result is that a lot of resources just will never be needed elsewhere. If you need to join lines together, do it when and if you actually need to. An early omnibus makes no sense and just makes your base more confusing, costly, and space intensive. It's also just way easier to transport a finished resource, like say, electric motors, than a reagent, like magnetic rings. If I need a new advanced resource, I often just go out to the middle of nowhere to start mass producing it, rather than try to pull resources off some central bus and then add stuff TO a central bus. 5: for x ray cracking, I have seen a ton of overly complex designs. here's what you need to x-ray crack: hydrogen running past the refinery, and past that, oil. Going upstream to downstream, port 1 is hydrogen out, port 2 is oil, and port 3 is hydrogen IN. This means that the hydrogen output of the cracker feeds directly into it's own hydrogen input, which means it will not run out of input hydrogen. Then just send the graphite off to burn or join your matrix cube production or whatever. There is no need for any loop, or to tear out said loop when hydrogen becomes less desirable later. Just one hydrogen line, one oil line, and then a 1 tile gap every 2 refineries to collect the graphite.

[@JDPlays]

thats a list :) Yep i might incorporate some of these into a follow up video

[@FritzHugo3]

I have missed the titel. Tips and Tricks right? Ok 3 things was dont telling from the tutorial or are not self understandable. Mhhh. For me this is a bonus tip - dont say tips and tricks for the simple, normal thngs please.

[@MalinowyWampir]

To be honest this tips should be titled for noobs, for eg. you never gonna be able to charge from 9 towers simultaneously from 12 it's possible. There's no gifted content creator who play this game properly except one, and it's definitely not you. Unless you start talking about ratios instead noob news haha

[@Pimpmedown]

this is the craziest business-sign i ever imagined. Just imagine some civilisation doing this for real. like damn

[@JDPlays]

as soon as i realised it was a option i HAD to do it!

[@DocHogan]

Equal parts ridiculous and awesome! I haven’t started with vertical launch yet, hit purple and decided to tear down EVERY SINGLE ITEM on home world and build from scratch (note: this is/was an *incredibly* stupid idea : D ), so I’ve fallen way behind everyone’s current content...but now I have to catch back up to write my name on a star :)

[@Pimpmedown]

@@DocHogan work was so heav last week that i barely got 15 hours together which got me to start yellow cubes only - dyson swarm feels like a ressource-waste so i am gonne skip that and focus on the sphere. i really hope they gonne add planetary-orbital rings for additional building-space on a planet