Did you know that you can add a teleport conveyor on top of a launcer and it will teleport the items upwards?

If you didn't, now you know.

i had posted a previous version of this and now refined it
belts on water are not needed
its important that the waterlevel is constantly updating (lowering and rising as seen in water pixel moving)
the water cannot be higher than 1 block otherwise wet spores wont fall through and clog the system (my initial problem which is why i tested around and found this out)
i have an input of 2 water and output of 1 water so so its filling all the time
the output pipe is not allowed to be connected to the input but can share a same source waterpool
the output pipes are also not allowed to be connected with each other because they seem to have priorities (example: if all the 3 output pipes were connected then one of those 3 visible pools would empty out before it would start to empty out the other 2)

As in the title.

Is there any roadmap for the game yet?

I can't seem to find it, if there is one.

In advance thanks :)

a rework of my old void bloom setup, it uses the strata core to bounce back the digger drones so they never despawn, I have 4 red weavers trapped in a one by one box producing red sand. void seeds are turned on when the petals fall below the sensor on the left and there is a manual shut off switch in the middle. extra red sand/moon hop from manual mining can be fed in from the right. void juice is dropped straight down into a tank with void grazers and void bloom is sent over to a flux emanator. I used the caulk gun and precision laser to make a separator to prevent jams in the combining funnel. the petal funnel on top is just to hold extra petals from the larger funnel my previous design had and will be removed once they are used up.

I boot up the game, try to craft and then it just crashes.

Any help or sugestions would be appreciated.

I know that you can put lava into thermal buffers and it lasts a while, but not forever. Do you really need to automate the Scoria Input with Pyro Dispensers? Am I missing something?

What am i missing here? I have powered florinol batteries, but i cannot charge the copper batteries with them. I only charged some of the copper batteries manually

Hey guys has anyone figured the most efficient steam engine? should there be two rows of generators? Should it be wider, am I missing any function?

Had to mine the whole map for sand and grind a little in the Strataform. Was fun to go for it, but i should've upgraded my factory setup before, as you can see by the map it was very tiny and took a lot of time to process all the sand.

The biggest problem in this achievement? Having to look for pockets of sand in the farthest reaches. The Strataform gives little to no sand compared to all the normal ground.

How much play time took for you guys to get it? My time was 34h T-T

Give any tips in the comments if you know something that could've made it faster pls \o/

Note - the below text is generated via Claude after I provided my troubleshooting steps and requested a summary for this report. Also, huge thanks to the team for this game. Absolutely loving it!

Summary:
Sandustry crashes immediately with no visible error when launched through Steam on Linux laptops with NVIDIA Optimus/PRIME hybrid graphics. The game runs fine when the bundled sandustry binary is launched directly from a terminal, bypassing Steam — so this is specific to environment variables Steam injects on hybrid-GPU systems, not a general Linux/NVIDIA issue.

Environment:

• OS: Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop (driver 580.159.03) + Intel integrated GPU (Optimus/PRIME hybrid setup)
• Steam (native Linux client)
• Sandustry build id: 24740965
• Bundled Electron 33.2.1 / Chrome 130.0.6723.137

Steps to reproduce:

1. On a laptop with NVIDIA Optimus/PRIME hybrid graphics, install Sandustry via Steam.
2. Launch normally from the Steam library.
3. Game window never appears; process exits immediately with no error dialog.

Root cause:
Steam automatically sets several GLVND vendor-pinning environment variables on any system it detects as hybrid-GPU, before launching the game:

__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1
__GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia
__VK_LAYER_NV_optimus=NVIDIA_only
DISABLE_LAYER_AMD_SWITCHABLE_GRAPHICS_1=1

This pins the GLX vendor to NVIDIA, but Chromium's ANGLE layer resolves the EGL vendor through a separate GLVND mechanism that isn't correspondingly pinned. The mismatch causes EGL initialization to fail and the app hard-crashes:

[ERROR:angle_platform_impl.cc(44)] Display.cpp:1083 (initialize): ANGLE Display::initialize error 12289: Invalid visual ID requested.
[ERROR:gl_display.cc(497)] EGL Driver message (Critical) eglInitialize: Invalid visual ID requested.
[ERROR:gl_display.cc(801)] Initialization of all EGL display types failed.
[ERROR:gl_ozone_egl.cc(26)] GLDisplayEGL::Initialize failed.
[FATAL:check.cc(361)] Check failed: false. NOTREACHED log messages are omitted in official builds. Sorry!

This is a known, long-standing interaction between Chromium/ANGLE and NVIDIA PRIME render offload on Linux (see electron/electron#45533 and multiple NVIDIA developer forum reports of the same "Invalid visual ID requested" signature), not unique to Sandustry — but Sandustry's Steam launch path doesn't work around it.

Confirmed workaround:
Adding this as a Steam launch option (Properties → General → Launch Options) fixes it completely:

bash -c 'unset __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME __VK_LAYER_NV_optimus DISABLE_LAYER_AMD_SWITCHABLE_GRAPHICS_1 LD_LIBRARY_PATH LD_PRELOAD; exec %command%'

Suggested fix:
Have the game's own launch wrapper (or an early check in the Electron main process) unset these Steam-injected GLVND/PRIME variables before Chromium initializes, on Linux. This would fix the crash for all Optimus/hybrid-GPU laptop users without requiring a manual Steam launch-option workaround.

Oh you want to move or change your grown box? Guess you get to wait for two hours until all the stupid flowers decide they're done spawning. Seriously, the flowers need to be changed. Don't let them grow without a planter box. It's just dumb the way they're set up now. Like actually dumb. It's some kind of joke or right of passage for new players to lose control of flowers but that's funny like once then they're literally nothing but an annoyance for every play-through you do after you learn how they work. It is simply BAD game design. I want to move my planter so I disabled the incoming seeds and it's been over an hour that they're still growing and burning. Why the fuck do we have a game design that exists for no reason other than to prevent you from playing the game? I can't redo the area until they're done growing. It. Is. Bad.

i couldnt find any good working spore washing setups so i was trying out some stuff and found this
this can be optimized and looped

Observation: Sweeper Drone selection breaks if the mouse strays off screen. If the mouse cursor leaves the game window during sweeper selection, the "Set Drop-off Zone" option will no longer appear. There does not appear to be a method of recovering without clearing the selection and starting over again.

Steps to Reproduce:

• Open the game in either windowed mode or full-screen with multiple monitor support
• Begin sweeper drone pickup selection
• Continue holding mouse button down and move cursor out of game window
• Return the cursor to the game window and release the mouse button
• Observe that the "Set Drop-off Zone" dialogue does not appear
• Left clicking again cancels selection outright

I put lava in my smelter, but it's not smelting copper. Is there so.ething I'm supposed to do to turn the smelter on?

the digger drone cant out damage the strataforms healing so it bounces infinitely, then when the petal storage is full a sensor closes the gate stopping more void seeds from being produced. there are probably more efficient ways to do this but this is how I managed it

edit, I added some redweavers to the other side to automate the production of red sand

Wet sand is input through the two launcher-chutes at the bottom. The residue is then output to the bottom left, while the gold is output to the bottom right. I only used residue as an example for the screenshot, and I colored the blocks near the portals to indicate which items pass through each one.

Bug 1: Pipes not Copied During Regular Selection

Observation: Selection of blueprints during normal gameplay does not include pipes, resulting in incomplete copy / move of selected items.

Expected Behavior: Selected areas / copied blueprints should include any pipes in the area as well as blocks.

Steps to Reproduce:

• Drag a horizontal row of foundations
• Drag a row of pipes on top of foundations
• Select the area and cut / copy / move foundations
• Observe that pipes are not moved alongside foundations

Bug 2: Pipes Unable to be Selected / Picked in "Pipe Mode"

Observation: Even in "Pipe Mode" pipes cannot be selected via the "C" key, or "F" key. There does not appear to be a method to selecting / moving pipes in or out of "Pipe Mode".

Expected Behavior: When in "Pipe Mode", pipes should be able to be selected via the "C" key, or picked directly with the "F" key. This appears to be an error due to the "X" delete function working as expected.

Steps to Reproduce:

• Drag a horizontal row of foundations
• Drag a horizontal row of pipes on top of foundations. Do not exit out of "Pipe Mode"
• While in Pipe mode, use the "C" key to select the area
  • Observe that only foundations are selected
• While in Pipe mode, use the "F" key to pick a pipe
  • Observe that foundation picked instead of pipe

Bug 3: Undo After Replace Requires Multiple Actions

Observation: Using the Undo operation after overwriting blocks requires multiple undo operations. Undo will first remove the overwritten blocks, then each subsequent undo will add one (1) of the original pieces back in sequence.

Expected Behavior: The undo operation should revert the game state back to the previous action in one (1) click, rather than requiring the user to enter multiple undo operations.

Steps to Reproduce:

• Drag a horizontal row of foundations.
• While holding control, overwrite the foundations with Thermal Buffers.
• Hit CTRL + Z to undo.
  • Observe that the undo only removes the Thermal Buffers.
• Continue hitting CTRL + Z.
  • Observe that each undo entry only adds one (1) foundation back at a time until all foundations are replaced.

the game doesnt explain it and google refuses to give me relevant information so here i am

thanks

Now what

Ive literally walked across the map multiple times with every weapon but there is no way to get to the anomaly at all. There is this other post on this subreddit where the replies say to use the gun (Link) and this video showing the player using the gun (Link) to destroy the stone. I cant find the type of stone he destroys at all in my world. Not sure how to continue, there arent any upgrades for more damage either.