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Sandustry guides
Browse 28 focused Sandustry guides covering the beginner route, resources, automation, progression, maps, puzzles, artifacts, blueprints, and Steam mods.
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A practical early factory route for research, core production, and common blockers.
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Resources
Material states, processing chains, storage, and the interactions that cause jams.
Sandustry Void Seed: grow and collect Void PetalsStart with an unlocked Void Rift, plant Void Seeds directly, harvest Void Flower Soil manually and collect petals for Voidbloom or Void Juice.Manual route ยท limited scopeSandustry Void Juice: mix, charge and recycleMake Void Juice from Void Petal and Moonhop, fix a mixture that will not react, charge the Locator or Void Gun, and recycle Void Husk.Updated for 0.5.7Sandustry Redsand: sources and Voidbloom mixingFind Redsand in Redsoil, keep a Redweaver producing, and combine Redsand with Void Petal for the Voidbloom-to-Fluxite chain.Updated for 0.5.7Sandustry lava guideLearn how Sandustry lava behaves, why pumps cannot move it, how to freeze it into Cinder for transport, restore it with heat, and isolate water safely.Verified mechanicsSandustry water guideUnderstand Sandustry water sources, pumps and vents, Wet Sand production, Steam and rain recovery, Snow and Ice interactions, leaks, and fluid-line limits.Updated for 0.5.7Sandustry copper guideFind and process Sandustry copper, use a Smelter with heat, control liquid Copper, fill Copper Molds, store energy in Power Bricks, and avoid leaks.Verified productionSandustry flower guideGrow Sandustry Flowers from Wet Seed, burn them safely, separate Gold and Amethelis, prevent regrowth and escaped plant material, and connect later chains.Verified productionSandustry Florin guideMake Florinol from Florin with the correct Condenser contacts, separate Gold, and diagnose gas that escapes or turns back into Dry Amethelis.Verified chainSandustry Amethelis guideSeparate Amethelis from Gold, place Steam below the Steam Dryer and petals above it, then diagnose drying failures before the Florin stage.Verified productionSandustry Wet Seed guideMake Sandustry Wet Seed reliably, use buoyancy and filters to separate it from dry Seed, build a return loop, prevent water leaks, and diagnose blockages.Updated for 0.5.7Sandustry Dune and Sunsand: what can you use them for?Understand why Dune reforms, why Sunsand cannot replace ordinary Sand, and what the current base-game references say about processing it.Early Access referenceSandustry gold guideCompare Sandustry Gold production from Wet Sand, Burnt Residue, and Flowers, then separate byproducts, size storage, recycle inputs, and clear jams.Verified production
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Automation
Repeatable builds, filter logic, machines, and layouts that recover from impurities.
Sandustry factory throughput: find and fix the bottleneckDiagnose a Sandustry factory that jams under mixed input. Check sorting, gate the feed, clear downstream outputs and test each stage before scaling.Diagnostic methodSandustry infinite Sand: use the StratacoreRun out of Sand? Place the claimed Stratacore, mine its regrowing terrain, recover a missing core, and understand the conditions for a Lava mining loop.Updated for 0.5.7Sandustry filters not working: find the blockageDiagnose the filter type, allowed material, orientation, mixed-pile blockage and the Wet Seed washer changes after Sandustry 0.5.7.Updated for 0.5.7Sandustry power: Steam Turbines and Copper storageConnect Steam Turbines to Power Bricks with free capacity, transfer existing energy with the Siphon, and diagnose a turbine that produces no usable power.Updated for 0.5.7Sandustry Blueprints guideUse Sandustry Blueprints with verified shortcuts: select with C, copy and paste, find automatic saves, export or import strings, and flip layouts horizontally.Updated for 0.5.7Sandustry Kinetic Press guideSet up the Sandustry Kinetic Press with Burnt Residue, enough drop height, Gold and Seed separation, impurity filters, overflow space, and a jam checklist.Verified mechanicsSandustry renewable water guideCompare renewable Sandustry water sources using Cryoblast Snow, Steam and rain recovery, condensers, and contained Lumlings, including throughput limits and losses.Verified methodsSandustry Planter Box setupBuild a reliable Sandustry Planter Box setup with Wet Seed delivery, controlled heat, fans, filters, Conveyor Portals, output sorting, and recovery space.Verified layout logic
03 guides
Progression
Late research routes, special events, and the systems behind factory expansion.
Sandustry 1 million Gold: storage and achievement checksPlan Collector storage for Heliodyne Tycoon, compare solid and Liquid Gold, control production bottlenecks and check an achievement that has not unlocked.Goal & troubleshootingSandustry Aura: saturate the field and reach T7Follow Florinol through Aurixite and Auralite, feed the Aura Extractor, aim the Nanobot swarm and diagnose a saturation counter that will not move.Updated for 0.5.7Sandustry Stratacore guidePrepare for the Sandustry Strataform event, follow the objective arrow, reach and neutralize the core, claim the Fluxbound Stratacore, and unlock its route.Verified event route
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Exploration
Map tools, environmental puzzles, artifacts, and procedural-world limits.
Sandustry Map guideUse the Sandustry Map to read world scale and Activity Heat, follow yellow objective arrows, revisit puzzle areas, and avoid false fixed coordinates.Source-backed featuresSandustry puzzles guideSolve Sandustry environmental puzzles by reading arrows, tool icons, fire, ice, water, lava, buttons, and Foundation hints, with safe recovery advice.Examples verifiedSandustry Artifacts guideFind Sandustry Artifacts through puzzles, fuel the basic Locator with Void Juice, add Triangulation Lens for exact guidance, and build tool sockets.Verified mechanics
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Modding
Dated Workshop installation notes, branch compatibility, and save precautions.