Dyson Sphere Program – Production Chain Layouts

Updates

2021-01-27 
– Fixed 6/s Processor layout not having any output sorters (rofl) 
 
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2021-01-26 
– Fixed 4/s Sails layout having 3 Graphite smelters instead of 6 
– Fixed 4/s Sails layout again 
– Added 6/s Electromagnetic Turbine layout 
– Fixed Yellow/Red using Assemblers instead of Smelters for diamond (lol) 
– Added 6/s Processor layout 
 
 
 

Description

I made these for my own use but thought I might as well throw them up with a little formatting 
 
notes: 
– Generally going to cover things that need to be produced infinitely so the layout can be set up, fed the inputs and have outputs with minimal fuss. 
– Can be repeated over and over to scale up 
– Will likely add alternative layouts that use rare resources (i.e. FireIce cuts out a lot from Solar Sail and Purple Research) 
– Layouts will generally use the most basic resources as inputs, or commonly used parts which are recommended to be manufactured en-masse on different planets and shipped over due to landmass constraints. Pretty much antithesis of requiring a main bus, but still can be integrated into one 😛 
 
 
 

DSP Grid Shenanigans

Since the game exists on a square-ish grid mapped to spherical surfaces, the grid is mostly square but exhibits ‘grid crush’ closer to the poles. 
 
Many buildings have two different bounding boxes in practice- how closely you can squeeze buildings together, and how close you can place belts. 
 
e.g. 
– Smelters occupy a 3×3 grid, and you can place belts around them in a 5×5 square. 
– Assemblers are ‘larger’ in that they occupy a 3×3 grid and you can place belts around them in a 5×5 square, but the closest you can place adjacent Assemblers are 4 tiles apart. You can also place power poles in this space. 
 
Regarding grid crush vs layouts 
– The ‘grid crush’ effect affects these bounding boxes and in common cases anywhere but the equator, you e.g. cannot place north-south running belts in that mandatory gap between Assemblers. 
– The vertical axis generally does not suffer from grid crush- sorters will always be able to reach 3 tiles away running north-south. 
– These layouts therefore are best placed closer to the equator. I made it so most sorters straddle vertically, so orienting the top of the image to North or South works best to guarantee sorters can reach the things they need to reach 
– Therefore, since most sorters are aligned this way, it’s generally not necessary to build as compact on the east-west dimension. Just space things out a little more if affected by grid crush 
 
 
 

Red & Yellow Research

Default/no rares layout 
 
1:1 correlation to match research requirements 
 
 
 
Note on Red Research: 
The feedback loop for Hydrogen is cool, but virtually useless in the game right now. When starting Red Research, the game needs more Hydrogen than Refined Oil which makes the loop appealing, but this lasts about a few hours at most and then the game swings over to needing far more Refined Oil than Hydrogen for Yellow Research, Sulfur etc. 
 
By the time it swings around to needing Hydrogen again late-game you can have a couple dozen Gas Giant orbiters for a virtually infinite supply as fast as you can use it up. 
 
It does have its use at absolute endgame, but hilariously enough it’s for getting an infinite supply of Energized Graphite after Coal runs out. 
 
 
 

Solar Sails

 
 
4/s is plenty to get a swarm going. If you have enough guns to shoot them all into space it should result in ~6k active sails in the swarm, going up to ~10k and beyond as research extends their lifespan. 
 
Sails eat a planet’s stone supply very very fast. 
 
 
 

Electromagnetic Turbine

Turbines are used in a lot of medium and lategame recipes as a part and thus make for a good candidate for manufacturing en-masse on a different planet. Pick one with lots of iron ore. 
 
 
 
 
 

Processor

Large-scale processor manufacturing meant to be made on a planet with lots of silicon for exporting elsewhere 
 
 
 
(Newer image, expect some errors) 
 

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