Find The Needle scanners and needles

How many needles?

The Early Access FAQ on the Steam store page says you can play through to finding all 24 needles. The Demo is a shorter build; treat its counter as Demo-only.

You start the hunt by hand with a metal detector. Belts, balers, scanners and robotic arms take over more of the search while you expand.

Why scanners sit on the money path

Packaging machines can put a needle inside a hay product (for example a Silo hay wad). If that product sells at the Hay Sell Stand, the needle returns to the pile. Route packaging output through a scanner before the booth. See sell hay and money and the machines index.

Checklist when a needle “vanishes”

1. Read machine status on anything that stores or packages hay (especially the Silo)
2. Trace every output belt toward a scanner, including side routes and merges after a splitter
3. Watch a few products travel the route — a belt that only passes nearby is not a scan
4. Pause nearby collectors before grabbing an exposed needle by hand, then restore the line
5. Keep a save before dismantling packaging machines; some actions warn about destroying contents