Moon Sweepers Money: How Lunar Dust Gets Paid

The path that is actually documented

Official copy: collect dust, deliver it to a depot, launch the shipment, get paid, then buy tools and carrying capacity. Players add a second path. A conveyor into the main hub sells dust on its own. A port beside the garage can pull dust off a vehicle and onto that belt.

The vending machine has a side opening that accepts a belt, according to the auto-sell request thread. Without the belt, players stand at the machine and press E and F over and over.

Numbers players cite, and where they clash

One 16.9-hour review says processed goods top out around seven times the price of raw dust. That is a single measurement. I am not treating it as a rate card.

Sand conversion is unresolved. One post says 20 crates of dust become 5 crates of sand that sell for the value of 15 dust crates, a loss. Another says 5 kg of dust equals 5 kg of sand, a wash. Run a small batch yourself before you commit a line to sand.

Stone and sand sent by conveyor do not auto-sell, players report. Only plain dust does. Containers that reach a base port can also vanish without a credit. Both are open bugs as of October 24, because the news feed has zero patch notes.

A practical order while the formula is missing

Sell raw dust on a direct belt to the hub before you build a processing chain. Add machines only after a small test batch pays more than the dust you put in. Demolition returns about 75% in player reports, so a wrong processor costs a quarter of its price.