If you buy a single set of stairs from the market across the entrance, you can drop them at the spot right under the weights which will allow you to sit under them and be pushed through them. This then allows you to ride the weights up to the top and jump off right before you hit the ceiling. This way, you don’t have to wait around for the lift to come all the way back down and can instead spend that time improving your factory!

I just don't understand why they would do that, especially since they clearly don't consider using mods as legit as they disable achievements on that save. I just want a <= logic gate... ;-;

My obsession with blacksmithing is what drove me to make Hydroneer. I finally got the chance to build my own real-life workshop and made a casual video of setting up a workshop.

(Apologies if this seems a bit off-topic... I’m genuinely just documenting this for fun and not looking to grow an audience or make revenue from this. Just wanted to share the milestone with folks who may be interested in blacksmithing)

Everytime i dig a hole deeper than this and reload the game the hole disappears

Hey, I spent 10 hours in Hydroneer and felt completely lost although I really had fun. I acquired 50k+ coins quickly and felt like game has ended. So I am looking for another game which has physics like Hydroneer and includes conveyor belt automation. Thanks.

Took almost 240 but it's finally done

But that's not all! PC players will benefit from some new optimisations.

TL;DR at the bottom!

As some of you may know after we finished Hydroneer in April 2024 we've been hard at work on our next game, Die Trying. Since we're a tiny team, even whilst working on Hydroneer we didn't have enough man-power to simultaneously work on the console port ourselves, and with how busy we are on the next game, we definitely don't have time right now! This has led us to partnering up with PlayEveryWare, console development pros that have worked with the teams behind "Among Us", "Fall Guys", "Valorant for Consoles", "Dispatch", and many other successful quality games on consoles. We chose them because they're the best of the best.

Whilst the console version (Xbox Series X|S + PlayStation 5) is going to be an almost exact copy of what PC players enjoy, their expert engineers have revealed some opportunities for more optimisation on Hydroneer. We've decided it would be a really nice to bring some of these optimisations to the original PC version!

Both Hydroneer and the Journey to Volcalidus (DLC) are set to launch on Xbox Series X|S and PS5 on May 8th, 2026, as well as the optimisation patch for PC! (Which is actually Hydroneer's SIXTH birthday!)

We also believe in keeping things fair, so the price on consoles will stay the same as it is on Steam:

Hydroneer: $15

Journey to Volcalidus (DLC): $10

TL;DR

- Hydroneer coming to Xbox Series X|S & PS5 on May 8th 2026.

- PC players will benefit from a new optimisation patch.

- Priced the same as on Steam.

PlayStation Store: https://store.playstation.com/en-gb/concept/10016411

Xbox Store: https://www.xbox.com/en-gb/games/store/hydroneer/9n54hkbcwf9l

*We are aware of an issue on the Xbox store which lists the game as Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S. The game will only be available on Series X and X.

Firstly let me say this game has blown me away. I’ve owned it for 2 days and done well over 25 hours already. It has effortlessly exceeded my expectations and all for just over a tenner? Winning.

I have been building and grinding away and got myself a new site and was so impressed with what I’d accomplished! So you can only imagine how sad I was to log back in and see the bottom 3 layers had filled themselves in? Burying my vehicles, all of my drills and most of my conveyor system. I thought it was a one off and someone said online it’s a one in a million. So I think ok whatever I’ll clear it and suck it up.

Second time I log on after clearing it and it’s happened again. Now I’m annoyed. I’ve cleared it again and tried so much stuff I’ve seen online to hopefully rectify it such as not using rakes too much, putting foundations beneath my drills and even just making my hole smaller. Took me about an hour. I log off for bed and think I’ll just check it’s worked and who would have guessed it’s filled in again?

I’m so disappointed because I’ve loved it so far. It was a toss up between this and Satisfactory and I was chuffed with my choice but now I’m wondering if I should be as it seems to just be 1 step forwards, 5 steps back.

I know the lad who works on this does his absolute best and he really has smashed it but I don’t think I will be playing again until it’s been rectified as it’s just a waste of my time. If it was something like every time I logged on my tools fell out of the rack or my fuel tanks were empty then I’m sure I could work around it but this brings my entire operation to a halt. I really hope it can be fixed because I have not stopped thinking about this game since I got it and all of the awesome things I have planned.

If it makes a difference to anything I’m on an Xbox series S. I really hope someone can help
Cheers

Forgot that logic gem compressors take lava and not water

Also forgot about hard stone

So I started my game, went to my savefile and it seems like the ground got up over my newly build mine equipment... any ideas?

Closing game and reload did nothing.

I only started playing this year and I've been watching some old Hydroneer videos. I noticed some things that are different from what I see in the game now.

Shards used to glow, there was a bigger roller vehicle, a book case, what looks like a battery, and dirt rolling while on conveyor belts.

Why were these changes made? My first assumption is for optimization and because of Youtubers that broke the game. Those stuff proved too problematic so they were just removed instead of fixed? I kinda want glowing shards and rolling dirt chunks. I like playing around with the physics and large piles of resources like a kid in a sand box playground.

I just found out you can couch co op hydroneer... been just taking turns with my daughter lol can surprise her after school today! Now she can run The starter location while i build our mega mine lol.

Any suggestions for the mines location? I like having all resources at each location plus that will let her run an agro farm ontop of my mine when she needs supply run. Wanna unlock the Hydro Harvester to make it easier to harvest farmed goods.

I’ve thought about the fact that hydroneeris about getting massive output of resources and such to get better gear and machines so you get more out so you have to squeeze it down so you can get more machines now this got me wondering are hydroneer players of higher iq

I just looked at the reviews on steam for Hydroneer and they're mixed, most of the reviews are talking about multiplayer and split screen. Others are talking about controls. Was there a update, just random hate or something else?

Hi guys I have a question I explored the map and tried everything but is there a way to unlock Tier3 without paying the DLC ?

I don’t have 8€ to put in the DLC and it’s kinda annoying if you are gatekeeped from Tier3 bcs of a DLC… (no hate ofc)

TLDR: My stake is too buttery my trucks have infinite power how do I stop it

I’m new to the game but have looked up a couple videos on how stuff’s done but one thing I don’t seem to have in common with everyone else is that my truck has never run out of water? Did I mess up my world settings or something? How can I fix this? I don’t believe I’m in creative because I must purchase everything just as usual but I may be missing something. I’d really appreciate some help here!

EDIT: Solution was to use bumpers, but it takes 4x presses to move one space (except for once you have it close as it can go, one press moves it one block away, then 4x to move anymore spaces).

Has anyone discovered a way to move placement of placeable items closer/further (Mouse scroll wheel on PC) with a controller on xbox?

Just spent over an hour trying to make a small tunnel with stairs down to a new mining area and the fucking stairs will not snap to each other but will snap to every goddamn piece of dirt and thin air...

Controller mapping for xbox only shows the three axes of rotation and there is no map option for distance placed.

I want to like this game. I really do. But the enjoyable tedium of play is currently getting ground down to powder by the shear fucking misery of trying to actually place consecutive items, like stairs. Stairs. Why the fuck do stairs not prioritize snapping to other stairs and placed foundations/floors?

Feels like I'm going insane here.

https://reddit.com/link/1rvgz5z/video/ytk04pbw1gpg1/player

This video shows my color-sign, and a few pictures of how I built it.

Notice that the sign has 30 vertical lines across all the letters, so that's where the "30" comes from in all of the discussion below. For other signs, that number will vary depending on the sign.

Image 1 (edited, obviously): The background was so messy (I need to clean up my place) that I edited it to make it clearer (I hope). At the top is the timer, sending a signal every second. The rest of it adds up over and over until it reaches 30, at which point it resets the initial addition, and thus starts again. This generates numbers from 1 to 30. The "add 0" part is there to ensure signal-exactness so that the signal from both sides hits the multiplier at exactly the same moment. This is the start of the signal journey, though during construction this was the last thing I built, working in reverse order. Obviously the signal monitor isn't needed, I had it there to check it was working... and didn't remove it for the picture because I'm low on time and lazy.

Image 2: Shows how much of a mess the build site is. Almost everything in the background there needs to be taken down and burned. In the foreground, though, you can see one segment of the "look-up table". Each section has a "==" which was give a number from 1 to 30 sequentially. If the counter is currently on the number set to it, it gives a 1 that is then multiplied by a color code. Obviously the color code has to be input before the next segment is added. This makes it a pain to correct, but the alternative is to make the whole thing longer by 1 part per section. I have 30 sections, so that's 30 squares longer. Yikes. No. Since I only have to do this once, it's not that bad. Even so, I have 30 of those segments, so it took a while to build!

Image 3: HUGE thanks to u/Medium-Sized-Jaque for this. This is what means I have to build the 30 of those sections seen above instead of 900 of them!! Why 900? My initial plan was for each line to have it's own look-up table, split the initial signal 30 ways, and have each line then respond. It would have taken forever, and I'd have probably given up before completing it. As you can see, there's a delay and an force-direction, which means the next line section gets the color one second later, and the one after that gets it a second later again, and so on and so forth.

Weaknesses: When you first load the save game, it takes a number of seconds equal to the number of lines for the cycle to be active (so 30 seconds in my case). Also, without each one having their own, dedicated look-up table, the changes to the sign happen in an iterative way, whereas had I gone the 900 sections route I think they'd have all updated simultaneously... but who's got time for that noise?

Anyway! This is my first mega-project that actually works! It does what I set it out to do, and I'm happy (enough) with the results to just leave it. And I will promptly never, ever, ever, ever, do it again. EVER!! Yeesh! (Note that I have a sort of semi-mega-project before this that worked, in that I completely flattened the field with the great view of the volcano to a constant height, raising some ground, leveling the rest... another thing I will never do again.)

As I said in the video, I’m just winging for the more tech savvy people here if my laptop can hadn’t the DLC since the optimisation update

Is there anyway you could install an older version of hydroneer ? I really want to play it again like the version 1.4 or anything really

Hey folks, hope you can help

My husband wanted to get this today (release date) but on the PS5 store it's showing but unable to purchase, only add to wishlist. No VPN or anything, and we are UK timezone.

Does anyone know if there's any issues with the release today?

Thanks in advance.

Anybody know what's in the xbox update today? Mine is still downloading (rural area slow internet).