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Sandustry Automation & Factory Guides

Sandustry guides for beginners, automation, production chains, machines, resources, logistics, factory layouts, and exploration.

PCmacOSLinux15 guides5 categoriesUpdated 2026-08-27

Game overview

About Sandustry

Sandustry is an Early Access factory automation game from Lantto Games in which every pixel can behave as a physical resource. The official description centers on mining, mixing, processing, and destroying materials inside a fully destructible open world. A new factory begins with simple transport and grows into connected production chains using conveyor belts, filters, drones, pipes, pumps, lifts, and other machinery. Because materials react with heat, water, terrain, and one another, reliable automation depends on understanding both logistics and the environment around a build.

KoalaFun organizes Sandustry around the decisions players repeatedly make: how to start without rebuilding everything, how to separate mixed materials, how to move solids and fluids, how to diagnose a stalled chain, and when to explore for artifacts instead of expanding production. Exact recipes, rates, unlock conditions, and machine values may change during Early Access, so these launch guides avoid inventing numbers and clearly separate confirmed systems from layout advice. A Factory Planner and Production Chain Calculator are reserved for a future verified data set; they are not active tools yet.

Quick Facts

Developer: Lantto Games
Publisher: Hooded Horse
Release date: 2026-08-13
Platforms: PC, macOS, Linux
Genre: Factory automation and simulation
Structure: Single-player Early Access sandbox
Last updated: 2026-08-27

Start Here

The clearest first steps for Sandustry.

First mission priorities

Observe one complete material path before automating it.
Keep inputs, processing, and outputs visually separated.
Add overflow space and maintenance access before scaling a line.
Use filters where mixed materials can contaminate downstream machines.
Treat water, steam, sand, and heat as interacting systems.
Explore when a missing technology or artifact is the real bottleneck.
Factory Planner and Production Chain Calculator: Coming Soon.

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Beginner path

Sandustry Automation Guide

Automate a process in stages: stabilize input, move material in one direction, separate mixed outputs, buffer the result, and only then increase throughput.
A line is automated only when it can recover from normal variation without constant manual clearing.

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Beginner path

Sandustry Beginner Guide

Start with one visible input-to-output path, leave space around every machine, and automate only after you can explain where material enters, changes, and exits.
Confirm that transport direction, filters, storage, and waste handling work before multiplying the line.

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Beginner path

Sandustry Production Chains

Treat every chain as a sequence of observable states.
Record what enters each stage, what leaves it, and what can block it.
Without verified recipe rates, balance by watching queues: growing input means the next stage is slow, while an empty input means the previous stage cannot supply it.

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Factory Planning / Right Now

Updated coverage

Sandustry Automation Guide

Automate a process in stages: stabilize input, move material in one direction, separate mixed outputs, buffer the result, and only then increase throughput. A line is automated only when it can recover from normal variation without constant manual clearing.

Read the update →