Dyson Sphere Program – Useful Tips and Tricks

Gameplay Tips and Tricks

How to get the receiving logistics station to put stuff onto belts

• When you place your exit belt you have to choose the filter.

About enegry and fuel

• Energy is used for moving, replicating items in the replicator (crafting) and launching construction drones.
• As you get higher in tier you’ll get access to more robust fuel sources that give a bonus to energy gen when used in the mechs fuel core.
• Invest in the Upgrades, theres a second Tab in the Research trees. Also stock up on Wood, Plants or Coal. Press C to open the Mech UI, Shift RMB or drag/drop fuel into the mech, you also start with 5 Fuel cells.

How to delete items on inventory

• Pick item up with cursor and hit delete key.

How to make or find Titanium Ore

• Planets have varied resource availability. It’s unlikely a single planet will possess every resource. Titanium ore can be extracted from stone, but this requires specific research. To acquire resources from other planets, you must research off-world travel and establish mining outposts. Transporting materials between planets, such as steel, necessitates an interplanetary transport route. This route is unlocked through research that requires steel to produce the yellow matrix, which reduces travel time between planets from 10-30 minutes.

How to extract oil from the oil extractor

• Start dragging with your transport belt while hovering over the Oil Extractor despite the red “Collide with other Object”.

How to use the secondary recipes

• Use X-ray cracking tech.

How to move oil from the refinery to a storage tank

• Conveyors and sorters, if it’s from a refinery you need to use sorters to load products onto a conveyor to then ship to liquid storage.
• Use the light oil early game for thermal power plants which will free up coal for other items that and infinite power since the oil seems don’t run dry.
• Remember you can stack the tank just like storage crates if you need compressed storage.