Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Welcome back to Sandustry!

Apparently Episode 22 wasn't the end after all.

You guys voted, and the response was pretty overwhelming:

keep the series going.

So we're back for Episode 23, and almost immediately I discover that I've been overlooking one of the most important tools in the entire game Hauler Drones.

Instead of modding a way to get rid of the sandstone we can just bypass it with the Hauler Drones.

And that changes everything.

We start moving enormous amounts of material across the map, reorganising production, fixing bottlenecks and trying to get the factory ready to process everything we've mined.

Then the gold starts arriving.

And it does not stop.

Eventually we hit the huge milestone of 1 MILLION GOLD, only for the sheer amount of gold flowing through the factory to become a problem of its own, clogging up belts and forcing even more changes to the processing system.

As if that wasn't enough, the factory is now sitting at around 30 MILLION POWER as well.

Towards the end, I also start experimenting with a new Plinko-style smelting setup to see if we can process all that gold more efficiently although that one may still need a little work.

So in this episode:

Sandustry is back
Hauler Drones completely change the trajectory
we hit 1 MILLION GOLD
the gold immediately starts breaking everything
and the factory reaches absurd levels of power

Turns out ending the series might have been slightly premature.