Moon Sweepers: stone press not making stone

Machines now snap squarely to the aimed foundation, flush with its edge or centred, otherwise on a 0.5 m grid. The mouse wheel rotates them in 90-degree steps (30 on hexagonal foundations); F permits free placement. The patch also fixes a row of presses being refused as not fully on a flat foundation.

Every piece can be built on dusty ground, and removing a piece now refunds its full price rather than 75%. With the building tool, R moves a piece and what stands on it for free; right-click puts it back, X switches to remove mode, and R or Escape exits. On controller, Y enters Move Mode from remove mode. These published controls are untested by Kingy; the older input-port and power evidence below is unchanged.

The pressure chamber ($500, Build menu, Production tab) presses moon dust into moon sand, up to 5 kg every 12 seconds, and needs 10 kW from solar panels in range. Its card in the build menu also says sand sells for three times as much as dust. The stone press ($1,000, same tab) then turns dust plus sand into moon stone.

1. Open the Build menu, go to the Production tab and place a pressure chamber, then run a belt of dust capsules into it.

   Checked on screen · Oct 31, 2026

   0:56–1:06 · 10 sBuild menu, Production tab, and a fed pressure chamber

   0:56–1:06Build menu, Production tab, and a fed pressure chamber

Players whose press took dust and sand by hand but stalled on belts found the same cause: the press's input ports are labelled, and their sand belt ran into the dust port and the dust belt into the sand port. Swapping the belts fixed it. If the press says there is a sand or dust capsule on the belt, one of them is at the wrong input.

Players also report that a splitter only divides a belt; it doesn't sort sand from dust. A splitter in front of the press fills both of its inputs with the same product and jams. Split the dust line before the pressure chamber instead, so part of the dust becomes sand and part goes straight on to the press.

1. Place the stone press and read the label on each input port. Run the sand belt from the pressure chamber into the sand port and a dust belt into the dust port. Its panel should show dust and sand filling, power at 18/18 kW and stone coming out.

   Checked on screen · Oct 31, 2026

   2:38–2:41 · 3 sA working stone press: dust and sand in, 18 kW, stone out

   2:38–2:41A working stone press: dust and sand in, 18 kW, stone out

The stone press draws 18 kW and the pressure chamber 10 kW. Solar trackers power machines wirelessly within 24 m, and at night their batteries run the grid. One player says a single panel only runs machines by day; another runs three solar trackers per production building to last the night, and a third needs seven for two pressure chambers and two stone presses. Night power has its own page.

Several players feed two or more stone presses from one pressure chamber with splitters. The chamber's own card gives up to 5 kg of sand every 12 seconds (25 kg a minute); one player calculates that a press uses about 10 sand a minute, so two chambers can feed about five presses. That press figure is one player's, not an official number.

If every machine stops with "Could not pack a capsule", the belts aren't the problem: see the capsule bug page.

Patch 1.0.3 (October 24) made splitters and mergers built by crewmates work and let them snap straight onto each other, port to port, and let machines such as pressure chambers and stone presses stand across several foundations. Patch 1.0.4 (October 25) made mergers alternate between their inputs and lets any crewmate place splitters and mergers on belts other players built.