Moon Sweepers Machines
Moon Sweepers has 19 things you can build or buy: 14 machines in the Build menu (Services, Logistics, Production, Power) and 5 vehicles in the Garage. Each row gives its cost, what it does and its power need.
| Name | Build menu tab | Cost | What it does | Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Services | ||||
 Capsule catcher | Services (robot support) | $1,500 | Catches the capsules J.O.O.N.A.S. fires at it from anywhere on the Moon and sends their dust to the Collector, paid at once. | No power need shown on its build panel (only machines that need power state a kW figure) |
 Robot vacuum Mk I | Services (robot) | $250 | A dock whose robot cleans the 19 world hexes around it (2 rings), brings the dust home and the dock packs it into capsules onto a belt. | No power need shown on its build panel (only machines that need power state a kW figure) |
| Services (robot) | $20,000 | "Just One Overpriced Nonessential Automated Sweeper": a six-armed robot that cleans the whole Moon one hex at a time, always the nearest dusty hex, and fires its dust in capsules at the nearest Capsule catcher anywhere on the Moon. | No power need shown on its build panel (only machines that need power state a kW figure) | |
 Garage | Services (vehicles) | $200 | Sells, stores and calls back your vehicles (one at a time in its hall); park a vehicle on its collector pad and it empties into the silo, whose two back ports send the dust out in capsules on belts. | No power need shown on its build panel (only machines that need power state a kW figure) |
 Robot vacuum Mk II | Services (robot) | $500 | Same as Mk I with a larger area: its robot cleans the 37 world hexes around the dock (3 rings) and the dock packs the dust into capsules onto a belt. | No power need shown on its build panel (only machines that need power state a kW figure) |
| Logistics | ||||
| Logistics | $100 | Takes the dust in your tool when you press E at it and sends it out as capsules on a conveyor belt, so you do not walk loads back to the hub. | No power need shown on its build panel (only machines that need power state a kW figure); one guide advises keeping it inside a solar panel’s range | |
 Conveyor belt | Logistics | $0.50 per metre | Carries dust capsules between machines and into the hub; up to 30 m per placement, 0.4–6 m high (height with Ctrl + scroll). | — |
 Splitter | Logistics | $5 | Divides one belt into two branches; it alternates outputs by itself (there is no switch). | — |
Merger | Logistics | $5 | Joins two belts into one; since 1.0.4 it alternates between its inputs. | — |
| Production | ||||
| Production | $500 | Presses moon dust into moon sand, up to 5 kg every 12 s; sand sells for 3x dust. | 10 kW from solar panels in range | |
| Production | $1,000 | Fires 1 kg of dust and 1 kg of sand into a 2 kg moon stone block every 6 s; stone sells for 7x dust. | 18 kW | |
| Power | ||||
 Solar post (S) | Power | $75 | 3 kW in full sun, fixed (face it toward the Sun); no battery; powers machines within 16 m wirelessly. | 3 kW (full sun) generated |
 Solar twin (M) | Power | $150 | 7.5 kW in full sun, fixed; a 4 kWh battery for the night; powers machines within 24 m wirelessly. | 7.5 kW (full sun) generated |
 Solar tracker (L) | Power | $300 | 16 kW in full sun, turning to follow it; a 10 kWh battery for the night; powers machines within 34 m wirelessly. | 16 kW (full sun) generated |
| Garage | ||||
 Push sweeper | Garage — cleaning vehicle | $300 | Walk-behind cleaning vehicle: a 1.35 m sweep and a 100 kg hopper. | — |
 Ride-on sweeper | Garage — cleaning vehicle | $1,000 | Drivable (sit-on) cleaning vehicle, the step after the Push sweeper. | — |
 Lunar sweeper | Garage — cleaning vehicle | $2,500 | Drive it from the cab: three brushes sweep a 2.8 m strip into a 1,200 kg hopper. | — |
 Mega vacuum rover | Garage — cleaning vehicle | $6,000 | Six wheels and a 4 m front intake roller vacuum a 3.7 m strip into a 3,000 kg tank; Suction Control trades strip width for speed. | — |
Crew transport | Garage — vehicle (transport) | $2,000 | A crew transport van for getting around the Moon; it does not clean. | — |
Build menu tabs and Garage vehicles
Every machine on this list comes from one of two places. The 14 machines are built with the Building tool, a $50 purchase at the Supply Wall that opens the Build menu. The 5 vehicles are bought inside a Garage, which is itself one of those machines ($200), and each player buys their own. Foundations, ramps and stairs in the Structures tab are building pieces, not machines, so they are left out.
- Services: the cleaning robots (Robot vacuum Mk I and Mk II, J.O.O.N.A.S.), the Capsule catcher J.O.O.N.A.S. needs, and the Garage.
- Logistics: Conveyor belt, Packager, Merger and Splitter move capsules toward the hub.
- Production: the Pressure chamber makes sand and the Stone press makes stone, the two ways to sell dust for more.
- Power: three solar panels that run the production machines; the larger two store power for the night.
- Garage: four cleaning vehicles from the Push sweeper to the Mega vacuum rover, plus the Crew transport van.