Find The Needle beginner guide

First steps in the warehouse

You start in a locked warehouse in front of an endless haystack. The instruction is to find the needles. You start by hand with a metal detector, dig hay, sell it, then buy tools and machines until belts and scanners do more of the looking.

The free build is the Demo.

Your first hour

1. Detect and dig. Keep the metal detector on you while you clear loose hay with the shovel or another mover from the tools index.
2. Sell early. Carry hay to the Hay Sell Stand and turn it into shop money before you freeze a belt layout. Details: sell hay and money.
3. Buy one better mover. Named movers include buckets, wheelbarrows, pitchforks and vacuums. Demo V8 cut Vacuum Yard price by 80% — check that station before doubling up on the same tool.
4. Snap a short sell belt. After Demo V8, the sell-stand conveyor snaps. A straight money line beats a decorative maze. See conveyors and power.
5. Add power when machines need it. Press E on a power pole only when you mean to shut the whole network down.

What to unlock next

Once the booth stays fed, put a scanner on any packaging route before products reach the counter (scanners and needles). Keep a clear patch beside the sell stand for the first baler and scanner, so the next belt has somewhere to land. Check system requirements before you build a big yard.