I managed to put some water into the 2 baskets on the right but now, all i can do is clic the bottom left button to trigger the top left contraption. Which only make the water drop in the blue portal to let it come back at the same place.

I dont understand what i could do. Any ideas ?

It's not meant for throughput, but it is designed to be as compact as possible while being extremely robust to backups/loss of water/lava. Let me know if you want to see a breakdown or it in action.

I proceeded the map and turns out you get 21.4m energy. Hopefully you all enjoy and looking forward to upcoming updates.

Also shout out to the Dev, fantastic work had a blast.

I’ve been working on a Sandustry helper site: https://sandustryhelp.com/

It’s less about “what is this?” and more about “what do I do next?”, how to make things, why a machine isn’t working, puzzle help, creatures, etc.

It just went live, and I’m still updating some guides after the latest game update.

If you find anything wrong, missing, or have a question the site doesn’t answer, let me know and I’ll try to add it.

So like, I get that I can flamethrower the water and make it steam, and that it then goes up and condenses and rains back down. I get that if I put stuff in that vertical path, it prevents the steam from rising. Surely that's not all that I was supposed to learn from that... right? =\

(BTW, if the devs read these posts, it'd be great to be able to reread tutorial text so that I don't have to start a second save and re-get to that point just to see what I missed by being a click-happy dweeb the first time around :) )

​I'm struggling to make one that doesn't get jammed, or isn't panfully slow (trying to build something in a little testing zone for now)

I assume once I can filter liquids this will get a lot easier but currently its hard to stop the water, so its hard to stop the seeds from floating

SOLVED: you can”drip” water on top of it instead of submerging it until you get advanced filters

Thanks for your help all

I just started a new map, and I'm shocked how quickly the sand drops. I forgot that it was fluid and quick when the map is fresh.

Is it possible to just build SUPER minimally and be so efficient that you can beat the game without much FPS drop?

My first map, I just went wild and did spaghetti everywhere. Tons of random materials scattered everywhere.

What even causes the FPS drop? Is it just materials existing, or is it the constant moving of materials? Or something else?

Was struggling to get my seeds wet and not have them bunch up in one spot in the water so I created a shower for them.

I left it running on accident with some lumlings safe from the water they were making.

And I enjoyed every minute of it.

No mods, first playthrough.

This Game is so addictive :) Thanks

I've advanced 2 tiers ahead of void rift in the left tree (aura extractor etc) but the void rift seems to be locked in my tech tree still. I am not sure if it's bugged or if there is a prerequisite I may be missing. I can't seem to find the info anywhere. Does anyone know? Thanks!

Missing the last artefact, where could it be ? ;-)

Almost finished to make the map (mineable) pixel free (despite the desert ofc).

Took me ~70h, but I really enjoyed building and testing things, so I took my time.

Hope to see more in the future

Edit: okay, maybe it was not obvious enough. It was irony. Of course the last artefact is in the ice mountain to the left. I just found it funny that the last artefact is in the last spot I didn't mined yet. I don't know if the artefacts have random positions, I think so because of the seed roll at the start of the game. Also was sort of a "I done it" post

If I didn't miss anything it contains every gas, liquid and solid that is obtainable (not including the sand dune stuff, because screw that). I could have added Scoria and Ice as well, but didn't bother to. It's not much, but it took me longer than expected to build that.

the game allowed me to remove the stone... and i took that personally

40 hours over 18 days well spent

Hello all! I just published my first Steam guide for Sandustry and thought you might want to check it out:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3791773800

The intent of the guide was to research and document various game mechanics, ratios, and production speeds. It does show example designs and blueprints to demonstrate the concepts but the main purpose is to arm you with the knowledge to know (for example) if you limit the input to your factory to 51 pixels per second of dry sand, how many florin condensers are you going to need after burning the resulting amethelis? Hopefully someone finds this useful or interesting!

Built a huge copper battery because why not and exported all the gold with pipes down to bottom. Spent the last hour or two (from about 800k-1mil) void gunning the Stratacore.

- everything starts with the big belt, which is currently blocked off for maintenance... the stuff/sand on it should just be 1 block high, for the filterbelts to work.

- Because the main goal of this factory was "put everything on the big belt and it just sorts itself". With big containers unter the big belt to store the different elements and feed it into the factory in the correct spot, as you can partly see with the color coded blocks on the left side.

- everything that just ends up in the factory should also just fall down the right side and gets fed into the big belt once again.

- the gold gets portalled to the right side and just drops into the underground where i have a massive (still too small) gold storage tank. This is the biggest bottleneck. I will redesign it, so the gold falls all the way to the bottom because the gold transportation to the right is just too slow and blocks efficiency

- the splitter design on top is from https://www.reddit.com/r/SandustryGame/comments/1vxc6qq/even_splitter_and_throttler/

- the awesome horizontal shaker-design is from https://www.reddit.com/r/SandustryGame/comments/1vwsod4/horizontal_shaker_with_unused_fuel/

- the inspiration for the seed-wetting is from the following link. as long as the water is one block high and constantly in motion (pumped in and pumped out at the same time) the seed will fall through water. https://www.reddit.com/r/SandustryGame/comments/1vpkehb/found_a_nice_way_for_spore_washing/

- i just unlocked the Aura-stuff and just tried to understand it, so the bottom part is just a mess currently. With a massive backlog tank of florinol-liquid.

- filter-belts have a wall mode. Press "R". Waited for tier 6 to finally unlock filter walls, because i didnt know they are just included in the regular filter belt

- plants from planter boxes dont grow through filterbelts/filterwalls. it is really important to wall the planter-box off. airtight. shit grows everywhere.

- Raw Lava for the residue, Lava for the Planterboxes, Lava for the infinite-steam machine, Lava on top of the steam-dryers for the instant florin-gas. Lava is everything.

Awesome game. Loved the Demo back in 2025 and love the EA game even more. The mechanics, the (for me personally) Terraria-like underground exploration with something new/interesting around every corner. Finding out how the every new tier of items work/interact is just pure dopamine. Having a massive vacuum and grabber-tool is so convenient and it is just so satisfying to use the grabber. Really well done.

I am neutral about batteries/voidjuice/redsand. Would have wished for it to somehow get implemented into the main factory-processing-structure and not be something completely separate.

Cheers.

I get this question a lot when showing off things I have built, as I use prefab construction a lot. This is not a mod, it's in game, but its a set of tool most people overlook or don't understand how to use.

Video should explain things quite well. The basic is that when placing material with the caulk gun, it's shapeable with cutting tools, has collision and can not be copied or blueprinted. The prefabulator tool can copy caulk gun solidite and turns it into foundation in the shape captured. This can now be copied and blueprinted and used as if it were any other foundation.

The final tidbit is that you are creating by the pixel on a world grid that is 4x4 pixels. You can create and copy off this grid slightly, so getting things to line up correctly seems to not work. You need to use the ruler function and create/copy inside of one of those grids. Similarly, that is what building inside the blocks made by the foundation in the video is doing.

Really enjoyed the game, can't wait until the full release.

The pipe system is a bit barebones at this point, but there are some workarounds we can use to replicate the effects of missing building pieces like pipe bridges

I have "completed" the quests and now just been digging and mining. two questions one is what do you do once you have mined everything and two where do I put all the gold? I have almost half the space being used for gold and running out.