Sandustry Wet Spore (Wet Seed)

If you searched sandustry wet spore or sandustry sand washer, you are looking at the same plant-automation chain the Early Access build calls Wet Seed and the Seed Washer. "Wet spore" and "spore washing machine" are demo-era names; "sand washer" is how some players label the cleaning step when the feed still looks like wet sand. Official terms are Seed / Wet Seed / Seed Washer / Planter Box. The loop is fixed: get Seed, add water → Wet Seed, wash, plant, harvest Gold and Amethelis.

Wet spore, Wet Seed, and "sand washer" naming

What you typed	What the EA build means
wet spore / spores	Wet Seed (and the plant chain)
spore washing machine	Seed Washer
sand washer	Usually the Seed Washer (or a Filter line cleaning wet sand/seed mix) — not a separate official machine name

Search "wet spore" and you mostly hit older videos; search "wet seed" for current write-ups. There is no dedicated official sandustry.com wet-seed page and no wet-seed Steam achievement, so community guides carry this chain. Body text below uses EA names and keeps the old labels so demo blueprints still map.

The plant chain: Seed to gold

This is one of the three gold pillars next to the Shaker and the Kinetic Press. The official design pitch is literal: a watered seed blooms and burns for resources.

1. Seed — best early source is the Kinetic Press line on Burnt Residue: split Gold and Seed immediately so seed is not buried under gold.
2. Wet Seed — Seed + water = Wet Seed (multiple guides open with this).
3. Seed Washer — clean/sort when the stream still carries sand, wet sand, or Residue.
4. Planter Box — place Wet Seed on the box.
5. Harvest — flowers → Gold + Amethelis.

Making Wet Seed (before the washer)

• Short, visible wetting channel; add water from the side or top so water is not riding the same belt path as dry goods.
• Put a Filter between the wet zone and gold storage so wet material does not drift into the vault.
• Small buffer before the Planter / Washer — drip feed beats a stuffed chute.
• If the farm starves, cut input first; overfeeding is the usual clog starter.
• Fluxite can upgrade wet-seed / petal handling on tools like the Grabber (per official guide notes).

Seed Washer (the "sand washer" step)

The Seed Washer sits between messy extraction and controlled planting. Use it when the incoming belt still contains sand, wet sand, or Residue mixed with seeds. sandustry.org frames it as clean-and-sort before the Planter Box — that is the job people mean by sand washer in search logs.

What it is for

• Accept a dirty seed/wet-seed stream
• Separate junk solids so the Planter only sees plantable feed
• Give you a debug point: if flowers die, check washer output before redesigning the whole farm

What usually "breaks" the washer (almost never a unique machine bug):

1. Wrong Filter rule before/after the washer
2. Blocked belt or full output chest
3. Low upstream water so Wet Seed production stalls and the washer idles on dry seed/sand

Check those three before demolishing the module.

Density tip: the community settling table lists Wet Seed slightly denser than Seed (both medium-light). They layer when mixed, so a Filter that distinguishes Seed vs Wet Seed keeps lines honest verify in current build. Pair washer + Filter the same way you pair Shaker + Filter on gold lines — see the Filter guide for Allow/Block and vertical stacks.

Demo blueprints: titles like "double spore washing / no clogging" and EA clips still saying "spore washing machine" are the same slot in the chain. Names and unlocks moved with EA — re-check Research before copying a year-old layout. Lava-heat spore tricks from the demo may not match the current build verify in current build.

Planter Box farm layout

Prefer small filtered modules over one giant greenhouse.

• Top: Seed / Wet Seed in — no gold, Residue, or lava
• Growth grid: expand + burn zone
• Bottom: drop collection — unfiltered seed should not dump here
• Side: seed return or petal storage

Wall or Filter the growth pocket, collect drops below, return seed on the side. Do not scale until one module runs clean for several minutes. Keep five streams apart: seed, water, gold, petals, waste.

Common problems and fixes

• Seed never reaches the Planter — last Filter rule before the box; washer output path
• Grows once then stops — starved, flooded, or old drops blocking output
• Gold mixed with petals — branch early; light/heavy layers punish late sorting
• Washer backs up with wet sand — you are using it as a general sand dump; strip sand upstream with Filters, keep washer on the seed lane
• Clogs at the wash station — classic pain point; reduce feed, add overflow, fix Filter rules before adding a second washer
• Flower calamity / runaway seedlings (v0.5.6): shooting or digging a growing seedling tries to convert it back to Wet Seeds. A seedling stuck between buildings gives up and tries the same. Official note: flowers are zero-sum — one Wet Seed becomes exactly one flower; a seedling that grows through extra Wet Seeds consumes them and tries to sprout one flower per seed, which looks like infinite growth.