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Sandustry Items: Core Materials, Ores, and Rare Finds

This index covers the materials that show up most often in Sandustry progression: basic ores like Copper, the upgrade resource Fluxite, the organic Seed and flower loop, the machine-gated Auralite Crystal, and the Artifacts that reward exploration.

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Material pages

  • Sand: the base material every loop starts from
  • Gold: sifted from sand and dropped by flowers
  • Flower: the renewable head of 4 Amethelis and 1 Gold
  • Copper Ore: mined underground, yields Copper
  • Fluxite: upgrades tools, weapons, and drones
  • Spores and Seeds: the organic loop that grows flowers
  • Redsand: the Tier 4 resource that combines with Amethelis
  • Voidbloom: the bridge to automatic Fluxite
  • Cinder: the transportable form of Lava
  • Scoria: the frozen form of Lava that drops Cinder
  • Artifacts: exploration rewards and boons

Item Pages by Role

Every material has a source, a purpose, and a next system it feeds, so you can jump to the resource behind your current bottleneck.

Base

Sand

Dropped by Dirt and doubled by water into Wet Sand, the input of your first Gold machine.

Early

Gold

Sifted from sand and dropped by flowers, gold marks the first working production loop.

Organic

Flower

Grown from a Wet Seed on a Planter Box; each head holds 4 Amethelis and 1 Gold.

Ore

Copper Ore

Found in small underground veins and dug into Copper for later processing steps.

Upgrade

Fluxite

The resource used to upgrade tools, weapons, and drones; also made by the Flux Emanator.

Organic

Spores and Seeds

Seeds come from Burnt Residue on a Kinetic Press and grow into flowers that drop Gold and Amethelis.

Special

Auralite Crystal

Mined only by the Aura Extractor's nanobots and refined into Aura.

Late-game

Amethelis

Drops from flowers and becomes Dry Amethelis in a Steam Dryer for late-game crafting.

Tier 4

Redsand

Mined from Redsoil and combined with Amethelis to create Voidbloom.

Energy

Florinol

A liquid condensed from Florin that generates Energy and powers the late-game factory.

Late-game

Voidbloom

Feeds the Flux Emanator to grow Fluxite over time at a one-to-one rate.

Thermal

Cinder

Dropped by Scoria and re-ignited into Lava by a Flamethrower, the movable form of heat.

Thermal

Scoria

What Snow turns Lava into; break it apart to collect Cinder.

Exploration

Artifacts

Ancient objects found underground that grant boons when you unlock them.

By bottleneck

Match the resource to your bottleneck

  • Stuck on gear? Read the Fluxite page.
  • Want renewable Gold? Follow Seeds into flowers.
  • Planning the Tier 5 unlock? Check Amethelis.
  • Exploring deep routes? Look at Artifacts.
Notes

Facts stay conservative in Early Access

The item set is still in Early Access, so this index keeps to where each material comes from and what it is for, based on the official wiki and store descriptions, rather than quoting recipe numbers that can change.