Dyson Sphere Program News

Hi engineers,

One of Dyson Sphere Program producers, Kat, is going to stream at
https://www.douyu.com/topic/DSQ?rid=10546606
The stream will introduce the "The Icarus' Evolution" update and some game developing stories.



The streaming will begin at Jan 23, 15:00 (UTC+8). Please notice that the streaming is only available in Chinese.

Happy weekend, engineers!



“The Icarus' Evolution" version is out now, and our light industrial mecha Icarus finally has its own “Dressing Room” – the Mecha Customization panel, where every engineer can modify Icarus from head to toe!
Are these modifications just to turn Icarus into a "heavy industrial mecha", or a "Waifu", or something else coming... well, don't rush to peek into the mysterious future, but grasp the present!

Show the community how you "dress up" Icarus on Discord, Twitter, or Reddit, and you may receive a gift from CentreBrain!



[h3]How to participate?[/h3]

Use the in-game "Mecha Customization" function to design an appearance for your Icarus (NOTICE: You don't have to apply it!) and screenshot it. 1-3 screenshots are allowed for each design.
Choose one of the following community channels to upload your design screenshots:

- Discord: mecha-contest channel
- Reddit: Under this post
- Twitter: with Tag #DSPMechaContest

[h3]!Rules![/h3]
1. Use the in-game "Mecha Customization" feature to design an appearance for your Icarus, and take screenshots!
2. You must be the author of that design, NO PLAGIARISM.
3. For each design, you can submit 1-3 screenshots of various angles.
4. No Photoshop or other post-processing, ONLY EXCEPT for ID watermarking.
5. Screenshot design will be accepted from January 22th, until February 12th, 15 p.m. (UTC +8) (Saturday, February 12, 2022, 3:00 PM in 21 days)
6. An engineer can submit multiple kinds of design, but an engineer will only receive one award.


[h3]Dev's Favorite[/h3]
This Prize will be chosen among ALL the platform's participants, and each winner will win Steam Gift Card valued at 500 US dollars.
The winners will be announced through community channels on February 23rd, 2022

See you in the contest!!!

Hi engineers,
We just fixed A-Little-Bugs, hope you have a nice weekend with Icarus!

[Version 0.9.24.11209]

Bugfix：

• Fixed a bug that it may report an error placing pro-building ghost when applied Blueprints from pevious version.
  
• Fixed a bug that the upper limit of the Traffic Monitor was when it was actually 7200.
  
• Fixed a bug that the Dyson Shell refreshing may delay after a style changing.
  
• Fixed a bug when multiple sorters fed mixed cargos into a multi-storey storage, some sorters would stop working when the first storage was full.
  
• Fixed a bug in Tech Tree when the predecessor of a technology was the max level of a stacked tech.
  
• Now you will see an error message if the mining machine is covering more than one veins.
  
• Fixed bugs that some production data was misjudged as abnormal.
  

Thank you for your continuing support! You can send your feedback in Discord and Google Form! See you next time!

Dear Dyson sphere engineers,
The first major update in 2022 "The Icarus' Evolution" is already available. The Mecha Customization, Advanced Mining Machine, and Dyson sphere Blueprint... New content is ready for your exploration.

Thank you for your love and support towards us in the previous 1 year. You guys are always the unique light of the Dyson sphere universe to us, engineers!


[Version 0.9.24.11182]

Features:

• Added mecha customization system, now you can customize your own mecha in the editor.
  

• Remade Dyson Sphere editor.
  
• Remade inner logistics of Dyson shell and its performance is greatly optimized (Dyson shells in your old savedata can also gain a 10% increase in power generation if you load it after this update) .
  
• Added Dyson Sphere blueprint system.
  
• Added Dyson Sphere layer hiding function.
  
• Added new styles of Dyson sphere frame and Dyson shell.
  
• Added Spray Coater. It can be built on the conveyor belt and it can spary the Proliferator onto the cargos.
  
• Added Proliferator. Cargos can receive Proliferator points when they are sprayed. The Proliferator points brings several kinds of buff to the production.
  
• Added Automatic Piler. IIt will automatically stack 2 consecutive incoming cargos from the low port and output 1 stacked cargo at the high port, and greatly increase the capacity of conveyor belt.
  
• Added logistic station integrated logistics technology. Now you can select the cargo stack count in the station panels.
  
• Added Geothermal Power Station. Now you can generate power from the magma.
  

• The capacity of Logistic Drones and Vessels are increased, and the upper limit of logistics station storage is also increased.
  
• Added Advanced Mining Machine. Now you can set the speed of mining and it can be placed more freely.
  
• Added 3 preset Mecha appearances in Mecha Customization system.
  
• Added 30 materials in Mecha Customization system.
  

• Added model and textures of Spray Coater.
  
• Added model and textures of Automatic Piler.
  
• Added model and textures of Geothermal Power Station.
  
• Added model and textures of Advanced Mining Machine.
  

• Added frame and animation of Mecha wings. It need to be created and applied in Mecha editor.
  
• Added LOD1 and LOD2 to Storage Tank and optimized its GPU efficiency.
  
• Added parameter of "Longitude of (AN)" in planet information panel.
  
• Added 6 new Background Music. They are applied in main UI, Dyson sphere planetary system, black hole planetary system, initial planet, Water Planet and planetary industrial complex.
  

Changes:

• Increased the maximum number of the total amount of production and consumption(2147483648 -> 9223372036854775808).
  
• Increased the maximum number of stacked for several items.
  
• Increased the maximum number of logistics drones in the Interstellar Logistics Station from 50 to 100.
  
• A brand new server for Milky Way System (with some error data clarified)
  

Bugfix:

• Fixed a bug that items may appear out of nothing when manually placing items in the assembler interface.
  
• Fixed a bug that ESC button not working when the loading of Milky Way failed.
  
• Some English translations were corrected.
  
• Fixed the some shader conflict between blackhole and Dyson shells.
  

Thank you for your continuing support! You can send your feedback in Discord and Google Form! See you next time!

Hi engineers,

Today we bring you the promised FAQ regarding the coming major update. Are you ready? Let's go ——

Q1. Is it required to start a new game to get the full experience of this major update? Will there be something went wrong with load an old version savedata?
A. You can experience all the new features and contents in this major update with an old savedata.

Q2. What systems are optimized in this major update?
We have completely re-do the Dyson sphere system, especially the performance of the Dyson shell. Besides, AGAIN the size/length of the savedata file has been optimized, so you can find the Dyson sphere related savedata's length are significantly cut after this major update.

Q3. What is Mecha Customization?
It is an in-game system that you can change the appearance of Icarus and allows you to design your own unique Mecha.

Q4. Do I need to upgrade my technology to customize my mech?
Under the current version you can use this system directly without unlocking any technology. However, the application of customized designs requires the consumption of production materials. If the design has a certain material with unlocked technology, you will not be able to apply the custom appearance of this armor.

Q5. Is there anyway I can share my customized Icarus?
The customized design will generate an exclusive blueprint file, so of course you can!

Q6. Does this customization feature have any other effect to Icaurs besides appearance?
Currently the customized mecha function can only change the appearance of Icarus, but in the future it may contain a certain impact on the basic values of Icarus, such as durability, weight, power consumption, etc... EVERYTHING ABOUT the COMBAT SYSTEM...!

Q7. Can Advanced Mining Machine unlock the Achievement of ?
Nope, this achievement is exclusive for the normal mining machine.

Q8. Does the Advanced Mining Machine have other functions besides a higher mining effeciency?
You can set the speed of mining for the Advanced Mining Machine, and it can be placed more freely as you want!

Q9. Can all products get extra output with the Proliferator?
The effect of items sprayed with Proliferator varies. Please enter the game to check the effect of each item by Hover over the item.

Q10. Can blueprints from older versions be used after this update?
Blueprints that worked in past versions will still work in the new version.

Q11. Can I change the savedata path?
Yes, you can find the path file through [Game installation path/Config/path.txt] and fill in the savedata path you want, save and close it. The savedata path will change after you completely shut down the game and restart it.

Q12. When will the combat system come?
The battle system is still scheduled in the second half of 2022.

Q13. How about the Steam Workshop?
It is already in plan, please stay tune with our announcement.

Q14. Then, the co-op...?
Well, up to now we still don't have any plans for co-op system.

Q15. We need Steam Cloud!
We are still facing some technical problem on the Steam Cloud. We are working hard on it, but it can't catch up with this major update.