Sandustry Wiki: Items, Buildings & Systems

The official Sandustry wiki is the Sandustry Official Wiki on Hooded Horse's publishing wiki platform, credited to developer Lantto Games and linked from the game's Steam community hub. This page does not mirror that wiki — it is a task-oriented index. Pick what you are looking for below, and we route you to the authoritative reference: an official wiki section, an official Steam support thread, or one of our own dated guides. Everything here was last verified on August 15, 2026.

A Sandustry wiki lookup works best when you arrive with the game's own vocabulary. Early Access names are precise — "wet sand" and "sand" are separate entries, and a "filter" is a building rather than a hand tool — so search the exact in-game label first and only fall back to synonyms when that returns nothing.

Find the right reference by task

• Materials — "what is this pixel and what does it do?" The official wiki's Materials index is the canonical list, split into Terrains, Solid, Liquid, Gas, Slushy, and Wisp groups: diggable ground sits in Terrains, while the other five groups track resources by physical state. When a Sandustry wiki entry names a material you met underground, confirm its group before anything else — the group alone tells you how the pixel will behave. For hands-on walkthroughs of headline materials on this site, see the Crackstone guide and the Flux Emanator guide.
• Tools — "how do I dig, move, or destroy?" The Sandustry wiki index splits tools into Excavation, Utility, and Construction — digging and demolition gear, handling gadgets, and placement instruments respectively. Our beginner guide covers the practical unlock order for the early tool set.
• Buildings — "what does this machine do?" The Sandustry wiki Buildings index spans eight groups from Logistics to Thermal, so a machine's group already hints at its job before you open the entry. On this site, dedicated guides cover the Kinetic Press, the Filter, the Slag Burner, Haulers, and full layouts in the Processing Plant guide.
• Systems and mechanics — "why did my factory jam?" Production chains, pixel physics, and artifact puzzles span many entries at once, which makes them the questions a Sandustry wiki answers worst as single pages: start with the beginner guide, the Processing Plant guide, and the Artifact guide.
• Mods and custom maps — the Sandustry wiki does not host modding walkthroughs, and the community toolchain keeps its own versioned documentation. Route those questions to the mods page and the custom maps page.
• Troubleshooting — crashes, save files, and text issues are tracked through pinned topics on the official Steam discussions hub, not the wiki. Language-specific problems route to the language settings page, and debug/cheat questions to the cheats reference.

How the official Sandustry wiki is organized

As of August 15, 2026, the official wiki's landing page groups every game object like this. Names below are the official index entries; Early Access updates can add or rename entries, so treat the official page as the live list. Each Sandustry wiki entry sits under exactly one of these groups, which makes the index the fastest way to confirm a spelling or an official name.

Materials index

• Terrains — Auralite Crystal, Copper Ore, Crackstone, Dirt, Dune, Fluxite, Frostbed, Ice, Limestone, Mooncrystal, Redsoil, Scoria, Shatterstone, Solidite, Stone, and Vine.
• Solid — Aurixite, Burnt Residue, Cinder, Copper, Flower, Gold, Ice, Moonhop, Prismite, Redsand, Sand, Seed, Sunsand, Voidbloom, Void Husk, Void Petal, and Void Seed.
• Liquid — Florinol, Lava, Liquid Copper, Liquid Gold, Void Juice, and Water.
• Gas — Auralite, Depleted Steam, Florin, Prismaline, and Steam.
• Slushy — Residue, Wet Sand, and Wet Seed.
• Wisp — Amethelis, Dry Amethelis, and Snow.

Tools index

• Excavation — Shovel, Gun, Rocket Launcher, Drill, Laser, and Void Gun.
• Utility — Grabber, Flamethrower, Flare Gun, Cryoblaster, Corraller, Flashlight, Vacuum, Grappling Hook, Locator, Recall Shard, and Volcanizer.
• Construction — Coloring Tool, Caulk Blaster, Precision Laser, Prefabulator, Wall Tool, Demolisher, Marquee, and Pipe Remover.

Buildings index

• Logistics — Conveyor Belt, Conveyor Belt Mk.2, Launcher, Launcher Mk.2, Filter, Advanced Filter, Conveyor Portal, Clearing Frame, and Aerokinetic Fan.
• Production — Shaker, Kinetic Press, Planter Box, and Synthesizer.
• Blocks — Foundation, Critter Fence, Door, and Glass Foundation.
• Economy — Collector.
• Lighting — Wall Light.
• Fluids — Pipe, Pump, and Liquid Vent.
• Special — Void Rift, Flux Emanator, Aura Extractor, Prismite Well, and Prismaline Well.
• Thermal — Steam Dryer and Condenser.

Reading a wiki entry during Early Access

A reference page is only as good as its edit date, so keep three habits whenever a Sandustry wiki page feeds a build decision:

• Check freshness before trusting a value. Recipes, processing rates, and unlock costs are the first things Early Access patches move; an undated page is a rumor, not a reference.
• Expect empty entries right after content drops. The index entry often appears before the article does — during the August 2026 launch week, one Steam discussion thread asked what to do after creating Auralite Crystal precisely because the reference entry was still unwritten. An empty page means "not documented yet," not "does nothing."
• Cross-check numbers in game. If a factory layout depends on an exact rate, verify it against your installed build before scaling around it. The wiki names things authoritatively; your patch level is the final word on values.

Which source to trust for what

Not every page that calls itself a wiki carries the same authority. Use this ladder when two sources disagree:

• The official Sandustry wiki (first party) — publisher-run and grouped by game object. Best for names, taxonomy, and the current object list. Still volatile during Early Access, so check page dates.
• Steam community hub (official, operational) — the discussions hub pins the FAQ, crash/bug reporting, save-file location, localization, official-wiki, and Discord topics. Treat it as an update and troubleshooting index, not a stable encyclopedia.
• Steam guides (community) — player-created, filterable by Gameplay Basics, Maps or Levels, Modding or Configuration, Secrets, Walkthroughs, and Workshop. Useful as a discovery layer; never present an unverified player guide as official documentation, and expect titles and ratings to change.
• Fan wikis (community, unaffiliated) — several independent sites, including sandustrywiki.wiki and sandustry.wiki, publish guide hubs, materials pages, and tier lists while describing themselves as unofficial fan projects. Read a fan Sandustry wiki for workflows and opinions, but confirm any name or value against the official index before repeating it as fact.
• Community tool wikis (project-scoped) — the Custom Map Loader wiki on GitHub is versioned (v4.1.3 at our check) and authoritative for that one tool, but only for that tool.

Contributing to the official wiki

The official wiki's landing page invites readers to sign in through Steam to create a wiki account. That is the contributor pathway if you want to fix or add an entry — a wiki account is not required to play the game, and editing is optional. As of August 15, 2026 the Sandustry wiki is actively recruiting contributors, and the official announcement routes volunteers through the #wiki channel on the official Discord — our Discord page covers joining. An empty index entry is an open invitation: if you just worked out what a new material does, that gap is exactly what a new account exists to fill.

A note on Early Access drift

Sandustry is in Early Access, and object names, recipes, and values can change between patches. Every fact on this site carries a verification date, and where an official page disagrees with an undated fan page, the dated official page wins. If an official page is temporarily unavailable, we mark the fact as unverified rather than filling the gap with snippets — recheck the source before you build a factory around a number.

Bookmark this page as your Sandustry wiki front door: when the question changes, come back to the task index above and take the route that fits.