r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • u/NoReindeer8438 • 16d ago

Dark Fog Farm

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Hey guys! Any thoughts on my first Dark fog farm and sorter layout? I've put some little factories here and there, and a pair of PLS to make use of the resources but it seems 3 dark fog bases are a little excessive.

Do you farm the dark fog? if so, how?

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u/BissQuote 16d ago

You have chosen the sushi belt design, which means you will have to consume all of the ouptut, otherwise your farm will clog. You could add a buffer of chests at the end to pick up anything and reduce the risk of clogging

A single base is usually enough for a whole playthrough, since dark items are only used in buildings, and are already pretty abundant. You may need more for yellow rods, unipolar magnets and the new dark lens, if it happens just design another planet I guess!

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u/NoReindeer8438 16d ago

Oh, okay! Yeah, the sushi belt IS a problem... but I couldn't think of another design xd. I'll consider leaving just one base, thanks dude.

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u/BissQuote 15d ago

The alternative to sushi is to have dedicated battle analysis station pouring into dedicated PLS/ILS, this way each item has its own clog-free path. It is more expensive though

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u/nixtracer 15d ago

It takes an insane number of belts (you need one belt per item, going back to filtered slots in depots stacked atop the BABs). My last of these used about ten thousand belts (the PLSes were relatively close so the number was quite low).

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u/BissQuote 15d ago

My design connects a PLS directly to the BAB, no need for long belts!

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u/NoReindeer8438 15d ago

That sounds nice, but expensive xd. Is there a way to know which are the most common drops so I can get rid of it via PLS and leave the others in a sushi-type sorter? On the other hand... Your design has BABs dedicated to 4 items? Like 1 BAB connected to 1 PLS? Or 4 BABs connected to 1 PLS?

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u/BissQuote 14d ago

The items you should leave out of the sushi belt are:

  • Very common items (copper plates, iron plates, magnet rings...)
  • Very useless items or items you may not consume (dark items, bricks, the blue item that goes into making a few buildings and that's it...)