You are on the moon, and your job is to clean it. This isn’t the plot of a sci-fi movie. It is the setting of a new game called Moon Sweepers. The name itself is the best intro!
This Moon Sweepers guide explains how to turn that tiny start into a cleanup operation, beginning with your first dust shipment and the upgrades it pays for. The Lunar Surface Department clearly had ambitious plans. Its equipment budget had other ideas.
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How to Play Moon Sweepers
Start by cleaning dusty ground with your toothbrush. The dust you collect fills your storage, and a full load signals it is time to head to the depot.
That delivery starts the process that turns the cleaning work into money!
Try to keep your first working area manageable to learn the routine fast and not get confused. A clean surface is obvious from kilometers away. Therefore, use the difference between dusty and clean ground to track your progress. Try using patches systematically to keep yourself organized.
Lunar Dust and Make Money: A Profitable Approach
The main routine for making money in Moon Sweepers is like this:
- Deliver lunar dust to the depot
- Launch shipments to get paid
The payment you receive is the main source for further improvements to the base and better equipment. Getting dust off the ground is only the collection stage. The shipment is what connects that work to your next purchase. Make your first paid shipment an early priority.
Once you understand the delivery process, you can judge what is slowing down the next run and spend your earnings with a specific improvement in mind.
First Upgrades in Moon Sweepers
The earnings can be used to buy better cleaning tools and increase carrying capacity. More capacity lets you handle larger loads between deliveries, giving you more time to work before returning to a depot.
I would choose between them by looking at the part of the job that keeps interrupting you. If collecting dust feels slow, consider a better cleaning tool. If your storage fills quickly and you keep leaving the work area, extra capacity may be more useful. Also consider the distance to your depot before committing to another purchase. A storage upgrade and a shorter delivery route address different parts of the same problem.
Compare the available options with the way you are currently working instead of buying upgrades simply because you can afford them.
What Does the Packager Do in Moon Sweepers?
The Packager is described as an external dust-storage machine with a conveyor output. The suggested setup connects that output to the base, where the material should sell automatically when it arrives. That could give you a way to send dust back without making every delivery yourself.
Where to Place Depots
Depots can be placed near the area you are cleaning. As your work moves across the Moon, nearby delivery points help keep collection and shipping connected.
Think about the trip you will repeat after every load. If most of that trip is spent crossing ground you have already cleared, it is worth considering a depot closer to the dust. The aim is to make each delivery convenient enough that it does not constantly pull you away from the job.
Cleaning Vehicles and Conveyor Belts
Cleaning vehicles becomes part of your operation as you progress. The game supports cleaning while driving a vehicle, and conveyor belts can transport dust. These systems give you more to work with as you expand beyond the starting toothbrush.
Before investing in a vehicle, think about where you will unload its dust. A collection upgrade is more useful when you have a convenient delivery route to go with it.
Playing Solo or With Friends
Moon Sweepers supports single-player and online co-op with up to 16 people in the same session. A group can divide the work across different areas or clean the same patch together. Co-op purchases need a little planning. The launch evidence points to shared money with tools and upgrades purchased separately for each person.
Those accounts do not identify their installed build, so check who receives an upgrade before spending the shared balance.
Agree on the next purchase with your crew. Coordinating spending is easier than discovering that two people had very different plans for the same money.
Launch Issues to Know Before Expanding
The following issues were documented during October 23 and 24. Their status in the newest build is unconfirmed, so the workarounds below should be treated as suggestions rather than guaranteed fixes.
Take Care When Removing a Garage
Garage demolition has been linked to disappearing vehicles and cargo in launch discussions. Parking vehicles outside the garage did not prevent the loss in one documented case, so it should not be treated as a reliable safeguard.
Choose the garage location carefully, and approach dismantling an established garage with caution.
If Mergers or Splitters Stop Working
If capsules stop at a merger or splitter in co-op, having the host place the device is one workaround described in the launch discussions. It helped in several accounts, but another discussion describes a merger failing even for the host.
That makes host placement an option to try, not a universal building rule. Avoid rebuilding a large conveyor network on the assumption that it will definitely solve the problem.
