Choose Your Sweeper and Plan Where to Unload
Choose the Push Sweeper for the cheapest start, the Ride-on Sweeper for drivable cleaning, or the Lunar Sweeper for wider coverage and a larger hopper. Use a Garage to buy and manage them, then send unloaded Dust through the collector pad, silo and Conveyor route to the Depot.
Vehicle Prices, Capacity and Uses
| Option | Details |
|---|---|
| Push Sweeper | $300. A walk-behind entry into vehicle cleaning with a 100 kg hopper. Choose it when you want the lowest vehicle purchase price and have enough work ahead to justify a Garage. |
| Ride-on Sweeper | $1,000. A drivable upgrade for longer cleaning strips, with a 500 kg hopper. Choose it when you want to move beyond the Push Sweeper while keeping the purchase below the larger cleaners. |
| Crew Transport Van | $2,000. Moves the crew rather than sweeping Dust directly. Choose it for group transport; choose a sweeper when your immediate goal is collecting Dust. |
| Lunar Sweeper | $2,500. Three brushes sweep a 2.8 m strip into a 1,200 kg hopper. A useful target when vehicle cleaning is your main activity and you can empty large loads reliably. |
| Mega Vacuum Rover | $6,000. A 4 m intake and 3,000 kg starting tank suit large collection runs. Adjustable suction trades travel speed for wider coverage, so match the setting to the ground you are cleaning. |
The Garage costs another $200, so a Garage plus a Push Sweeper comes to $500 before extra supporting equipment. Treat that as the vehicle entry cost rather than a finished logistics budget. Keep money aside for a Conveyor connection, because purchasing a cleaner does not complete its delivery route.
Buy, Recall, Store and Upgrade Through a Garage
- Place a Garage using the Building Tool to gain access to vehicle purchases and storage.
Aim at the Garage and press E to open its vehicle menu.Playing this video connects to YouTube.
- Purchase your chosen model from the Garage shop to make it available for deployment in the central bay.
- Move the selected vehicle out of the bay before bringing another in, so the space stays available.
- Recall an owned vehicle through any Garage when you need it back for management or deployment.
Select your sweeper in the Vehicles tab and use Store on the right to put it away.Playing this video connects to YouTube.
Choose Between More Storage, Speed and Suction
Tuned Motors improves top speed and acceleration, while Big Hopper increases storage. Suction Control offers a different choice: higher suction clears a wider strip but holds the vehicle to a lower speed. Use wider coverage on dirty ground and prioritize travel speed when crossing cleaned terrain.
For the Ride-on Sweeper, Big Hopper costs $200 and adds 30% hopper capacity. Compare that investment with saving for the Lunar Sweeper instead. Buy it when extra carrying space will help you use the current vehicle longer.
A larger hopper is useful when unloading interrupts otherwise productive cleaning. If Dust is already waiting in the silo, repair its outgoing route before buying more collection capacity. Choose the next purchase by what delays a complete cleaning and selling trip.
Unload Vehicle Dust and Send It to the Depot
Connect a Conveyor to a capsule output at the back of the silo so Dust has a route out of storage; the silo provides two back ports.Playing this video connects to YouTube.
- Run the outgoing Conveyor to the Depot intake so collected Dust reaches the selling system.
Stop your loaded vehicle on the collector pad under the hood to unload automatically into the silo.Playing this video connects to YouTube.
- Follow the outgoing capsules until they reach the Depot to confirm the route ends in a sale.
Unloading can succeed while your balance stays unchanged because the Dust is still waiting inside the logistics network. An empty vehicle hopper tells you the load has left the vehicle; it does not prove the material reached the Depot. If you add a Pressure Chamber for Moon Sand production, keep its output connected onward to the Depot.
Fix Cleaning, Garage and Unloading Problems
- Garage will not deploy another vehicle: move the currently selected vehicle out of the central bay or store it before trying again.
- Dust unloads but earns no money: inspect the silo's outgoing Conveyor and follow its capsules to the Depot instead of buying another cleaner.
- Capsules queue before a Pressure Chamber: check input orientation and power before increasing how much Dust your vehicles collect.
- Garage will not fit your foundation layout: allow its footprint to span foundations rather than trying to fit the entire building onto a single square foundation.
- Vehicle unavailable after Garage demolition: check another Garage, or build the next Garage so the waiting vehicles have somewhere to return.
Garage, Crew Upgrade and Payment Changes
Patch 1.0.3 lets any Garage recall, store and upgrade your owned vehicles, and the shop no longer offers you a vehicle you already own. Demolishing a Garage moves its stored vehicles to another Garage or keeps them waiting until you build another. Garages can also span several square foundations.
The crew now shares the host's upgrade matrix, and a purchase by any player upgrades everyone. Older saves retain the highest upgrade level anyone purchased. Coordinate spending with your crew around that shared progress.
The deposit intake now pays exactly what its screen displays. Dust and stone arriving by belt are paid as they enter. Check that arrival and payout when testing a new vehicle unloading route.