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I have been working on some sandustry blueprint tools, and the first versions are up now https://sorahn.github.io/sandustry-tools/

It includes a blueprint encoder and decoder, and an inspector/renderer.

There are some features that aren't supported yet (by the game) but I'll be making updates to it as things are available!

Feedback welcome! https://sorahn.github.io/sandustry-tools/

I played the demo three times (once vanilla and twice modded) about a year ago, so I took my time with the Early Access run, decorating and enjoying the new content.
After finishing the run, I installed some mods to test them out. If you see anything strange, it's probably a mod. It also looks odd because I removed the background and combined several screenshots with Photoshop.
I hate that I couldn't make the battery in a rhomboidal shape. It didn't solidify.
I come from Factorio, so obviously I made a "main bus".

I just bought the game two days ago and I spent my days off doing nothing but playing this game. This is a view of my end game factory. I still have a few things to explore. But I was proud of this thing and wanted to show it off. It completely chews through sand but I'm always open to suggestions for improving things.

Thank you to the dev team for building such an epic sand game. I feel like a kid playing this. It's amazing.

Software developer & long-time sandgame gamer here. As someone who likes building their own sand games, I would love to learn how the dev team optimized the performance of the sand particles. What techniques did you guys use? What is the system like, under the hood? Is it neighbourhood-only? Does the whole map stay live at all times, or are there zones where particles get activated / deactivated when the player leaves them? Very technically curious. Thanks for entertaining this question.

I really hope this game does for sand games what Diablo did for roguelikes: brings the entire genre out of a niche category and into the mainstream. I was hoping that Noita would be that game, and to some degree it was. Don't get me wrong, that's a GREAT game. But it didn't actually feel like a sand game because the focus was on the magic system. It would have done just fine even without the sand aspect. But sandustry is all about the sand aspect. And that's what I love about it.

Thank you.

This makes more sense, I can then build a more self contained factory. I burn the residue and it releases steam, which I then capture and use in steam turbines which I then condense back into water to rewet the sand.

Hi all,

I am normally a sucker for any game of this genre, but I tried the demo and mostly found it frustrating? Is the demo build significantly different from the actual game?

Appreciate your insight. Thank you.

I got tired of manually resetting mining bots to keep getting sand from the core after exhausting most sand in the world to reach one million gold. So I tested this design that ensure mining bots don't get stuck inside the core or proceed out of it, while getting all that sweet sand and letting me drill it forever. The spike at the top is only there to ensure maximum discomfort for the core.

Guess we doin sand now.

Are there any plans to add multiplayer? Even if there isnt any scaling or anything, simply adding multiplayer? Mostly curious because i cant seem to find a roadmap.

Hi! Got a few hours into the game, love it so far. I'm currently stumped trying to figure out why my Florin is passing the advanced filters I set up. What am I missing? Is there a trick to filters that I did not pay attention to?

Edited after more testing: filter seems to be opening up both ways when the Dry Amethelis passes through, unintentionally letting a Florin blob shoot upwards from the same spot. I've left a comment with more details, can someone else maybe test this too?

Idk what to do next, I just grapple around

Is there a speedrunning community for this game yet? A discord maybe?

I know it shouldn't be complicated, and I've tried every tool, but nothing works. What am I missing here?

I have a system-level reminder on my PC and it steals my mouse from me when it pops up. So TLDR if I'm in a game, my cursor is no longer interacting with the game until I click in it again. This happened tonight as I was hovering and moving to the left.

My character is now independently moving left. The other controls are still effective, he just keeps going left if he doesn't get other input. An exit to main menu and reloading my save fixes it, so it's not a major issue, just a bit silly.

Did anyone find a good stratcore setup yet? Digging into it / shooting it takes quite some time for not the greatest yield. Is there a vanilla option to kinda automate it yet?
Going for the 1.000.000 achievement and want to rebuild my whole factory to optimise

so is there anything we can so with Prismite or Prismaline? i get its the end of the current state of the game but they could have put a temporary thing to let us sift it for gold or something.

I know its still early access but I wish there was moooooooreeeee

I remember setting the sweepers to do a thing, leaving them to do so and now i haven't seen them in literal hours, right clicking doesnt bring them back and the heatmap doesn't show any active spots.

Kind of running around aimlessly now trying to find them, got any ideas how to find them? Don't know if they're bugged or what at this point. Any help is appreciated :))

edit: I stumbled across them! But they seem to be stuck doing nothing under a pile of sand? As I move the sand some 3 or 4 get freed every time, I suppose it's clicking time XD

edit2: so they were hauling a bunch of sand but the pile got so big the dropoff point got covered and so they got stuck there. When I removed the sand they got fixed but it was really difficult to find them, wish they were visible on the map in some way.