Independent field archive · checked 2026-08-16
Source-backed Sandustry guides for the first factory, world exploration, materials, machines, platform facts, and careful troubleshooting.
About Sandustry
Sandustry centers on a fully destructible open world and production systems built from moving, heating, cooling, separating, and transforming materials. A useful manual therefore has to connect world navigation, material states, machines, and failure recovery.
This site leads with current terminology and direct answers. Facts that can change by version, platform, or subscription are dated, and competitor-derived research is never presented as primary evidence.
Factory index
Launch batch
Begin by learning the Minimap, stabilizing one simple Gold chain, and researching only what removes the next bottleneck. Keep inputs and outputs visible, leave room around machines, and treat exploration as a way to find Artifacts and Augments after the first production loop works.
As checked on August 16, 2026, the Xbox product page listed Sandustry for PC and included it with Game Pass Ultimate. This is a dated catalog snapshot, not a permanent entitlement, and it does not by itself confirm an Xbox console release.
Sandustry is presented as one large, fully destructible open-world sandbox, and the current beginner guidance confirms an in-game Minimap. Use the Minimap, objectives, and recognizable factory landmarks; do not assume that community biome names, seeds, or secret-location lists are official fixed map data.
Artifacts are scattered through Sandustry's world and grant Augments. Search by exploring deliberately with the Minimap and enough tools to investigate structures, but expect some ancient puzzles to require equipment or resources you have not obtained yet; mark them and return later.
Water is a current Sandustry liquid used in the Wet Sand, Wet Seed, and Steam chains. Build a visible, controllable Water path, keep unrelated materials out of it, and diagnose problems by checking source, transport, destination capacity, and temperature in that order.
Lava is a current liquid entity, while Scoria and Cinder are also present in the current material index. The official guidance describes freezing Lava for solid transport and heating it again later, so design the route around controlled phase changes instead of moving exposed liquid across the whole factory.
Evidence policy
Quick orientation
Use the launch batch for the current foundation. Planned pages remain visible locally for review but stay out of the first sitemap until their release scope is approved.
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