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Dyson Sphere Program Research: how Research works, Matrix Labs and Cubes explainedMaster new technologies in Dyson Sphere Program
Master new technologies in Dyson Sphere Program
Research is the backbone ofDyson Sphere Program. To progress and enhance your factory you’ll need to unlock new technologies, and each technology requires a certain number of items of different types. Soon the quantity of items becomes far too great to manually produce, so you’ll need to let Matrix Labs do the bulk of the work. But these buildings can be pretty confusing for new players to understand.
ThisDyson Sphere Program Research guidewill explain how Research and Matrix Labs work, before diving into the different Matrix Cubes and the materials required to craft each one.
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Dyson Sphere Program Research explained
In a game ofDyson Sphere Program, the big button in the bottom-right corner will open the Tech Tree. Each technology has a recipe, just like items in the game. For example, the very first tech you can research (Electromagnetism) has a recipe of 10 Magnetic Coils. Once you’ve queued up this technology, the game will take 10 Magnetic Coils from your inventory and slowly work through them, one at a time, until the research is complete. In essence, this is how all research in Dyson Sphere Program works.
Tech Tree & Upgrades Tree
The technologies in the Upgrades tree work in exactly the same way as regular technologies. They go into the same research queue, and they require certain numbers of items just like normal techs. The only difference is that the upgrade technologies, as you may have guessed, directly upgrade your mech, along with your building abilities, and the functions of certain buildings, items, and overlays.
Manual Research vs Matrix Labs
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This is where Matrix Labs come in. You’ll unlock the Matrix Lab very early on (with the Electromagnetic Matrix tech). These buildings have two modes: production, and research.
A single Matrix Lab in Research mode does the equivalent of what you were doing with manual research. But the beauty is that you can have multiple Matrix Labs working at once in Research mode, which speeds up the process enormously.
The other reason Matrix Labs are so important is that they’re the only building that can automate production of Matrix Cubes. Assemblers aren’t allowed to produce Matrix Cubes, so Matrix Labs act as your assemblers when it comes to these cubes.
Once you set a Matrix Lab to production mode, you can choose the type of Matrix cube you’d like it to produce (out of the cubes you’ve unlocked so far). Then supply it the required materials and it’ll busily get to producing those cubes. You can then feed those cubes into your other Matrix Labs that are set to research mode.
Matrix Cubes & Recipes
There are 6 different types of Matrix cubes in Dyson Sphere Program, and they get progressively more difficult to make. But you’ll need to figure out how to make them, because you’ll need them in order to reach the end of the tech tree.
Here are the 6 Matrix cubes and their recipes:
Electromagnetic Matrix (Blue)
Energy Matrix (Red)
Structure Matrix (Yellow)
Information Matrix (Purple)
Gravity Matrix (Green)
Universe Matrix (White)
And with that, we’ll wrap up this short introduction to Research in Dyson Sphere Program. If you’re hankering for more top tips and strategies, you’d best head over to ourtips and trickspage.
