Find The Needle guides
Beginner steps for the first hour: dig and sell hay, buy your first machine, then build a line that keeps paying for the next one.
Find The Needle beginner guide
Start your first Find The Needle hour: dig hay by hand, sell at the stand, buy a mover, then snap a belt that keeps the yard earning.
Last updated: 10/31/2026
Find The Needle buying guide
Compare the free Demo with the full Steam listing. No regional price is posted yet. The developer plans to raise the price when Early Access ends.
Last updated: 10/31/2026
Find The Needle conveyors and power
Place conveyors with Demo V8 snap and pathfinding, use F for No Snap Mode, and shut the whole power network with E on a pole.
Last updated: 10/31/2026
Find The Needle production stages
Map the five Early Access production stages from hay bales and bricks up to paper, bioplastic and carbon fibre on the Steam plan.
Last updated: 10/31/2026
Find The Needle scanners and needles
Trace needles through scanners, silos and hay wads so packaged products do not sell a needle back into the pile before you collect it.
Last updated: 10/31/2026
Find The Needle sell hay and money
Learn how the Hay Sell Stand pays for tools and machines, what Demo V8 changed for snap, and how needles sold in products return to the pile.
Last updated: 10/31/2026
Find The Needle tech tree guide
Spend the 300-plus upgrade tech tree on the machines your production line needs first, then on speed, efficiency and factory size.
Last updated: 10/31/2026