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All published answers
Only pages with a developer or publisher source, or two independent public sources that agree, appear in this index.
Evidence-cleared pages
25 published- 01How do I get enough water early, and what do Lumlings do?WATER SUPPLY
Use natural deposits or melted ice first, then contain Lumlings for a small continuous supply.
- 02How do I solve the yellow, green and blue Artifact puzzle?ARTIFACT PUZZLE
Guide each water drop over yellow build cells to the three green collectors; blue cells remove the water.
- 03How do I solve the flame, snow and rocket puzzle?ARTIFACT PUZZLE
Expose the hint, then use the angled channel to drop rocket heat onto the orange material.
- 04How do I unlock Factory Tier 5?PROGRESSION
Tier 5 has two gates: 10,000 Florinol produced and the Anomaly investigation completed.
- 05How do Allow, Block and multi-select work on Advanced Filters?FILTERS
Allow passes selected materials; Block passes everything except them. Advanced Filters support multiple selections.
- 06How does the Florinol Battery make renewable Energy?ENERGY
Each filled Battery tile provides 16 Energy; ignite the hardened Florinol to release it again.
- 07Why did my Pump or Liquid Vent stop moving fluid?FLUIDS
A line stops when its level conditions fail; mixed fluids can also make an unfiltered Vent choose the wrong liquid.
- 08Is infinite water with the Cryoblaster a bug or a mechanic?RENEWABLE WATER
The documented loop makes unlimited snow with a Cryoblaster, then converts it through water, steam and rain.
- 09How do I reach the Anomaly?ANOMALY OBJECTIVE
The scan tags the coordinates for you, so read your own objective marker instead of copying a route.
- 10How do I get stored material back out of the Vacuum?VACUUM CONTROLS
Right click shoots the load back out; the tank it comes from is chosen in the Vacuum's own panel.
- 11Does Sandustry have co-op or multiplayer?MULTIPLAYER
No official co-op. One dated developer reply, and one community mod that fills the gap.
- 12I subscribed to a mod and nothing loaded. How do Sandustry mods install?MODS
Subscribing is not installing. The developer put mod loading on a separate, unstable branch.
- 13Where is the Sandustry log file, and what does the GPU launch option do?TROUBLESHOOTING
Both facts live inside patch announcements. They are restated here with the developer's own hedges intact.
- 14Red blocks in my world will not break. How do I remove them?TROUBLESHOOTING
The workaround has a hard numeric ceiling, and the developer says the real fix is written but deliberately unshipped.
- 15How do I zoom out in Sandustry to see more of my factory?CONTROLS
The keys exist and are rebindable. The zoom-out most players want does not exist yet, and the developer says why.
- 16How do I switch Sandustry between fullscreen and windowed, or move it to my other monitor?CONTROLS
Two adjacent questions, both answered by one changelog entry that no menu surfaces.
- 17Where do I report a Sandustry bug or suggest a feature?COMMUNITY
One channel is current and explicit. The other is nineteen months old, and this page says so rather than smoothing it over.
- 18How many achievements does Sandustry have, and what are they?ACHIEVEMENTS
Sixteen entries, listed as written. The four gold ones are stockpile checks, and that wording decides how you play them.
- 19How do signals and logic gates work in Sandustry?AUTOMATION
Sandustry has a complete wired logic system and almost no published tutorial for it. This page lists every part the official wiki documents, with the two behaviours that will catch you out.
- 20What do the critters in Sandustry do, and how do I tame them?CREATURES
Every critter is a small permanent production building that walks. Here is what the official wiki says each one makes, and the two that stop making it if you leave them alone.
- 21How do I move around Sandustry faster, and how does fast travel work?MOVEMENT
Two tools, two different problems. One makes crossing your own factory quick; the other makes going back to it free.
- 22How do I move materials upwards in Sandustry? My conveyor belt will not go vertical.LOGISTICS
This is not a placement bug. Belts and Launchers are two different buildings with two different axes, and the publisher's guide says so outright.
- 23How do I copy a build instead of placing it again, and how do blueprints work?BUILDING
The copy tools are taught once in the tutorial and never mentioned again. Three separate channels demonstrate the same sequence, so this page states it as fact.
- 24Which Sandustry keys actually matter, and where do I rebind them?CONTROLS
Sandustry lists shortcuts in a corner of the screen and rebinds them in a menu most players never open. These are the ones that change how the game feels.
- 25My filter only builds sideways. How do I make one that blocks material moving up?AUTOMATION
The filter you place by default is a conveyor filter. The same building has a wall mode that most players never find because nothing on screen suggests pressing R.