


And if it gets backed up, then your refineries will stop producing Graphite, halting your Matrix cube production. You haven't solved every problem though, because excess Hydrogen needs somewhere to go, or it'll get backed up.

Just pay close attention to the video, remember to put filters on the Sorters and priorities on the Splitters, and you'll soon have a powerful blueprint for your own Dyson Sphere Program game, which will take care of almost all of the early issues surrounding Oil and Hydrogen. The belts may make it look complex, but after you've built one or two sets it becomes fairly simple to churn out these modules. For this approach, the correct ratio is 4 sets to 9 Matrix Labs. Alternatively you can create just enough Hydrogen for your needs, and then make up for the lack of Graphite by smelting some from coal nearby. This will leave you with some Hydrogen leftover, which you can store in Tanks until you have need of it (and you certainly will have need of it once you get to the later Matrix Cubes!). For every 3 Matrix Labs producing Red Matrix Cubes, you'll need 2 sets to give you enough Graphite. Don't forget to set the priority on each Splitter, or this build won't work properly.Įach module creates 0.75 Hydrogen and 0.5 Graphite every second, so you can build as many as you need and feed them into one another as shown in the video. This way, you'll never run into a Hydrogen deficit. This is a perfectly efficient ratio: 1 Plasma Refining, 2 X-Ray Cracking.Īn important aspect of this and similar builds is the use of the Splitter at the front of the build, which I've set to prioritise pushing Hydrogen back into the refineries. Each module is comprised of 3 Oil Refineries: the first uses basic Plasma Refining to turn Crude Oil into Refined Oil and Hydrogen, and the other two use X-Ray Cracking to produce Hydrogen and Graphite. The above video shows me creating a set of 6 Hydrogen and Graphite production modules. Then use those two products to create 400 red Matrix cubes - just enough to unlock X-Ray Cracking.Īfter X-Ray Cracking is unlocked, I'd suggest deconstructing your existing oil build and replacing it with my tileable build below.Īfter a lot of playing around and calculating ratios, I figured out a good tileable Hydrogen and Graphite build that can be used to easily break down Crude Oil and feed its products directly into Matrix Labs to craft red Matrix cubes. Elsewhere, smelt some coal into Energetic Graphite. The only thing you can do is put up a temporary and inefficient Oil Refining section in your factory which generates Hydrogen, and pump the Refined Oil into a liquid Storage Tank for now. The downside is that you need red Matrix cubes in order to unlock the X-Ray Cracking tech in the first place. The second: the byproduct is Energetic Graphite, which is the other half of the recipe for creating red Matrix cubes. The first: you're getting an extra Hydrogen every time you go through this process. Instead of 2 Crude Oil becoming 2 Refined Oil and 1 Hydrogen, the new X-Ray Cracking recipe converts 2 Hydrogen and 1 Refined Oil into 3 Hydrogen and 1 Energetic Graphite. X-Ray Cracking is a technology which unlocks a new recipe in the Oil Refinery. X-Ray Cracking is a marvellous technology, and you should make it the very first thing you unlock with red Matrix cubes.
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Which isn't a great ratio, because we're going to need a lot of Hydrogen if we want to automate production of those pesky red Matrix cubes.įor anyone confused about how to get some good Hydrogen production started, the answer is: X-Ray Cracking. The Plasma Extract Refining tech also unlocks the Oil Refinery, which breaks down 2 Crude Oil into 2 Refined Oil and 1 Hydrogen.

These buildings can only go on top of Crude Oil Seeps, which you'll find dotted all over your starting planet. The possibility of oil production in Dyson Sphere Program arrives with the Plasma Extract Refining tech, which gives you the ability to construct an Oil Extractor building. Watch on YouTube Dyson Sphere Program Hydrogen and Oil overview
