How to Get Gold in Sandustry

Fastest Ways To Get Gold

• Build Shakers diagonally — Gold separates cleanly and falls through
• Keep Shakers fed with a steady Wet Sand line
• Unlock Refining 1 first so you have Shakers at all
• Burn Slag into Burnt Slag, then press it with a Kinetic Slag Press
• Scale up with conveyors and drones so you are not hauling by hand

Maximize Shaker Yield

A Shaker is only as good as its feed. Keep Wet Sand flowing at a steady rate and route the output so Gold is collected before it can pile up and jam. Diagonal placement is the single biggest yield trick — it is what separates clean Gold from a messy mix.

The 1+1=2 wetting rule matters upstream: two units of Wet Sand come from one Sand and one Water, so a dry line starves your Shakers.

Slag: Your Hidden Second Income

Slag is not waste. Burn it with a Flamethrower or Lava into Burnt Slag, then feed the Burnt Slag into a Kinetic Slag Press (Refining 2) for extra Gold. On most factories this press line is your second-largest Gold source, so route Slag into a separate belt from day one.

What To Do With Excess Gold

There is no reason to hoard Gold — it has no use outside Research. Late-game upgrades eat huge sums (the top research tier costs 7,500 Gold), so push spare Gold straight into the tree rather than letting it pile up in storage.

If you genuinely have more Gold than research can absorb, expand production instead: add a second Shaker line, scale hauling with Drones, and keep the Slag press fed. Gold on a dead-end belt does nothing for your factory.

The Road To 1,000,000 Gold

Chasing a million Gold is the same loop as early game, just multiplied. A diagonal Shaker yields Gold from roughly 20-25% of the Wet Sand dropped on it, so a million is a throughput problem: keep every Shaker continuously fed with Wet Sand and never let output back up. The Kinetic Slag Press line is your multiplier — every unit of Slag burned into Burnt Slag and pressed is pure extra income on top of the Shakers.

Practical checklist: continuous Wet Sand supply (one Sand + one Water each), diagonal Shaker placement, a separate Slag-to-Press belt, conveyors and Drones so nothing waits on hand-hauling, and all spare Gold pushed into research that unlocks more throughput. Gold sitting in storage is the only real loss.