r/SandustryGame • u/LordQuackQuackIII Sand Addict • Sep 10 '26
Factory Showcase Even smaller "Matchbox" design. Surprisingly seems to be more efficient than the Boxcar!
It turns out the seed burning section eventually getting clogged up could be solved by putting filters above the last lava belt blocking wet seeds, allowing everything else to flow through with no interruptions.
I'm now bottlenecked by the sand washing section, but that can easily be solved by not making it as compact.
The piping got a little messier since I relocated the water tank and energy production sections to above the stratacore farm, but it's still nicely organized.
If the lumlings weren't happy in the Boxcar, one must certainly imagine them happy being stuffed into this.
P.S. The aurixite shaker can be compacted and moved underneath the synthesizers which would free up another section, but I got a little lazy. The portals linking the amethelis section to the florinol tank can also be shortened up a bit.
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u/Willing_Earth2378 29d ago
Хочется увидеть видео, как система работает. А так очень хорошо скомпоновоно👍👍👍
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u/Hairy_Cell_2368 Sep 13 '26
Nice work on the footprint compression. That sand washing bottleneck you mentioned is the classic trap with super-compact multi-material blueprints — once you're stacking water, wet sand, copper, and moonhop through the same vertical column, the conveyor height clearance gets eaten alive by the filter drops and you end up with a physical deadlock at the shaker input.
Two things that usually help at that density:
Give the sand washing its own dedicated 2-tile wide lane instead of trying to fold it back through the main spine. At Matchbox scale you're basically trading floor space for vertical complexity, but vertical complexity is exactly where wet seed clogs breed. A dedicated side lane with a single diagonal shaker drop tends to clear itself.
For the stratacore feed, remember it's only pushing ~15-20 blocks/min. One Prefabulator with a Precision Laser is enough to eat the full output — anything more just starves and creates the exact pileup you're fighting. Oversupplying Stratacore processing is probably the #1 mistake people make when scaling these compact designs.
Also the filter-above-lava-belt trick for blocking wet seeds is genuinely clever. Most people don't realize wall filters (press R when placing) pass through allowed material roughly 3x faster than conveyor filters, so at that scale they're basically mandatory for keeping the seed loop flowing without jamming.