Shaker
Your first Gold machine — shakes Wet Sand into Residue with a ~25% chance of Gold per unit.
Stats
- Function
- Processes Wet Sand into Residue, with roughly a 25% chance to also extract Gold
- Unlocked by
- Early research
Every unit of Wet Sand a Shaker processes comes out as Residue, and roughly one in four also yields Gold. That steady Gold trickle is what funds Research, so the Shaker is usually the first machine a new player should build — it converts common Sand into the currency that unlocks everything else.
Appears in these guides
Sandustry Water Guide: Loop Basics and Infinite Setups
How the sandustry water guide loop works, from Wet Sand Gold production and flow rules to Lumling pens and the Steam rain cycle for infinite water.
Sandustry Water Guide: Flow, Sources, and the Gold Loop
How water works in Sandustry, where to find it, how it flows and reacts with Fire and Snow, the Wet Sand to Gold loop, and infinite water from Lumlings.
Sandustry Beginner Guide — Production Chains, Gold & Research
A structured path through Sandustry's opening hours — build your first Sand-to-Gold chain, spend Gold on Research, master logistics, and handle Water and Lava correctly.
Sandustry Tips & Tricks — Copy, Grabber, Fluid Lines & Filters
Four small habits with outsized payoff — duplicate repeated structures with copy-paste, level the Grabber early, split fluids into their own lines, and let Filters isolate byproducts.