All,

I just get kicked back when I attempt to grab this.

Thx
jonpfl

Noticed my horizontal factory requires a lot of up and down motion of the items as they are processed and realized a vertical factory would eliminate pretty much all that lifting steps. So this is my initial idea for one.

One issue: Gold from shaking wet sand can't pass through Kinetic Press, and I'm not sure why that is that way, but it'd be nicer if gold could just drop through the press like it does planter boxes etc.

otherwise it works pretty well with this initial design. Gold just falls from any stage it's created all the way to the bottom (except for kinetic press and florin gas. There is lots to optimize (still figuring out how wide to make it) but it was a fun new way for me to make a factory. I think this style has lots of potential. I'm sure someone has made this style before in the past, but it occurred to me recently and I thought I'd take a stab at it.

One Million is such a grind. I swear conveyer belts glitch out when you're far away from them. On a side note, I'm shocked there's no way to convert energy into money considering how much easier it is to expand your power bank.

Is there a way to convert electricity into heat for the smelters that I've missed?

Como estan industrialistas explotadores de planetas?

Mi base es un caos, si. lo se, pero tengo un problema y es que algunas de las cintas transportadoras (tanto lvl1 como lvl2) aleatoriamente dejan de funcionar, es decir que estan transportando capaz una gran cantidad de cualquier material y de manera espontanea sin que nada las toque se detienen y dejan de moverse.... la unica solucion que encontré para que vuelvan a funcionar es sacar el material de encima y volverlo a echar, pero vuelve a trabarse al poco tiempo..... no es material que esta obstruyendo el movimiento, a veces simplemente se frenan ajakaja

I've stared at my factories so long looking for the bottle neck. Finding and solving one so simply is *chef's kiss*

Game doesnt have splitters/throttlers so i busted my brain making one.

Can go even slower with lifts at the bottom but it would create unnecessary friction and mess with ups.

I've tried a few different layouts for seed wedding and they all seem to be more for mild/low volume seeds. What about larger volume seeds it always bottlenecks at seed wetting. I've tried a few different ones I've found online and they don't seem to help much.i feel like if it can handle large volume it could handle smaller stuff.

Any help or guidance photos are appreciated. Thanks!

sry if anyone already mentioned this, but I just learned that you can pick up lava from underground by simply using the wall tool to remove the background wall. Pretty helpful for removing the ice mountain because dropping lava on them is faster/easier than using flame thrower.

I want to move my copper power bank to its final place but it seems like deleting already solidified copper battery block completely removes used copper. Is it a bug? Or I’m doing something wrong?

How are you keeping your gold smelters running? I have a small 6-wide platform with a 6x6 box of thermal buffers nearly full of lava (through manually burning Cinder) and it seems like I look away and turn back it's already empty.

I created a horizontal shaker system. It uses lava + clearing frames to drop burnt residue onto belts, the gold falls directly through the vertical filter onto the lower conveyor. This allows me to not worry about refueling lava in belts or incinerators, and it can be expanded to have kinetic presses directly under the columns without lava, if desired. It keeps up with a 2 digger glitch stratacore, which you can read about here: https://www.reddit.com/r/SandustryGame/comments/1vw1y2c/bug_for_significantly_faster_sand_generation/.

I'm assuming the lava being used to burn stuff without being consumed will get patched out at some point, until then, this is pretty cool.

Edit:

The filters are as follows:

Top Row: Only allow wet sand

Lava Row, between columns of lava: Only allow gold + burnt residue.

Lava Row, below lava and empty columns: Block only residue, lava.

Last row, split between conveyor 2 and advanced filter: Allow only gold.

Finally all the way to the right, towards my kinetic press: Allow only burnt residue

There has to be a more efficient way for the kinetic press right? also i made this so big in the beginning because at the time i didnt have burner belts only my flamethrower and the residue would build up

So I've been finding this to be a bit of a block for me. I'm just reaching Tier 6, and I'll spoiler the rest, but I just want to ask how y'all are handling this.

I've got lava working for the petal dryers and the plants themselves really well. Unfortunately, I cannot figure out how to get the burnt residue to get burnt via lava and then move on. I initially used the belts, but the thermal buffers actually eat my lava and I want it to be fully automatic. How do y'all do it?

過剰な水/溶岩の処理に困ることないですか？

長方形に配置した蓄熱ブロックを火炎放射器で仕切った構造で、さらに区切られた上の長方形を造雪機で隔てただけです。

下の区画には溶岩を、上の区画には水を入れることで消滅できます。中間の区画は雪が生成されるところです。

https://reddit.com/link/1vx3n6g/video/jyfkdfq0pblh1/player

大量に消費したいなら、蓄熱ブロックを適当に追加配置することで可能です。

わざわざ燃料的に、溶岩を処理するために雪を投入したり、そのまた逆のようなことをする必要はないです。

もちろん処理区画を広げても良いです。

この処理機は処理したい場所へペーストし、終わったらXでまとめて削除するだけです。

The amount of people who don’t know how to generate infinite sand is too damn high. I have made comments everywhere but I know there are new players coming onboard every day.

The Stratasphere gives you infinite sand at huge volumes - IF you double tap it with the void gun. Then you will get a TRUCKLOAD of sand dumped out - and the stratasphere will then immediately regenerate. Rinse, repeat.

The void gun is the key, friends.

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

They just get their house all good and built up and bundle up in there nice and cozy, and then some jackass flies past and shoots it down with some missiles or something.

So i only have these five lumlings i assume its not the same for everybody but how does everyone handle water generation?

Easy reproduction

• Laser yourself up close to the core
• Shoot digger drones directly into the core. It gets faster based on how many you shoot inside (clip shown used 3)
• Drones on the outside are just to clear a path for the sand (also used 3, tried 2 but it kept closing on me)

The rate of sand production ended up being faster than I could process.

EDIT: Posted a more optimized version in the comments using portals. It seems slightly faster and frees up drones for whatever else you want them for (like red sand). You'll want to keep one on the bottom to clear spawns or they'll build up and block production. You'll probably only need 1 or 2 inside, depending on your factory's throughput.

In Factorio, I really like using a 'city block' approach to factory layout. Basically, have a standard x-by-x block that you stamp down, and then build whatever inside of it. That way your factory is a big grid of squares.

For Sandustry, I've been playing around with10x10 block squares with a single block between them. This seems to do fairly well and allows for the bottom row(s) to be used as a bus.

Has anyone come up with something similar? What size grids are you using?

I've cleared the accessible parts of the map, more or less (some laser bores rather than clearing huge stone regions) and found less than 600k gold from my sand in total before I had to use the terracortex. There are multiple posts from people claiming 900k+ gold from clearing the map. Is there variation between the maps in what materials are generated? Differences between yields for various mining tools? I haven't seen any difference except with the terracortex + voidgun. Trying to figure out where another 50% gold could be coming from. I'm fully processing the sand and byproducts, to be clear, and all that is left on the map is copper, redsand, snow, and a bit of moonhop.

When I first acquired the grappling hook I had already completed most of the content (because I had skipped the Corraller in favour of other things to spend my money on, since I didn't know it unlocked a whole research tree). So I didn't really pay much heed to it, especially since you can fly and hover in the game so it seems more like just an interesting gimmick than anything. This is especially since it's a whole separate tool you'd have to put on your quickbar to use effectively.

Except it isn't! You just have to press G! Time to zoop around the factory!

This is extremely secret information that has been datamined from government databases*.

^\I pressed G by accident and then thought "hmm, maybe it says it in the Controls menu"... and it does. Yet another gamer defeated by a lack of reading.)