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Moon Sweepers Money Guide
Money in Moon Sweepers is weight. Dust sells for $1 per kilogram at a station. Every world hex you finish adds $10 for the crew. Sand pays 3 times dust. Moon stone pays 7 times. Those three rates are the whole economy I can source.
What to process
A pressure chamber turns 1,500 kg of dust an hour into sand worth $4,500 instead of $1,500, a gain of $3,000 an hour. Chamber plus the cheapest panels is $725, so the write-up says it pays back after 363 kg. A stone press at 600 blocks an hour makes 1,200 kg of stone, $8,400 gross. The dust and sand you fed it would have sold for $2,400, so the added value is about $6,000 an hour. One chamber feeds about 2.5 presses if you believe that same note. Patch 1.0.5 refunds 100 percent when you delete a building, so a bad layout is cheaper to undo than it was at launch.
Vehicles, by job
| Vehicle | Price | Sweep | Tank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Push Sweeper | $300 | 1.35 m | 100 kg |
| Ride-on Sweeper | $1,000 | 2.0 m | 500 kg |
| Crew Transport | $2,000 | none — 4 capsules | moves the crew |
| Lunar Sweeper | $2,500 | 2.8 m | 1,200 kg |
| Mega Vacuum Rover | $6,000 | 3.7 m | 3,000 kg |
Solo cleaning wants the rover once you can afford the jump from the lunar sweeper. A crew that is ferrying capsules wants the transport plus a sweeper, not the transport alone. The garage is $200 and is a building, not a vehicle. I have no dollars-per-hour test for each rover, so I will not rank them by income.
Deposits, shipments, and bonuses
Each flag pays $100 according to IndiaTimes. The wiki only says a flag pays a bonus and does not print $100, so I show both wordings. A lunar survey site pays $250 on the IndiaTimes page. Finishing a sector pays a bonus whose amount is not published. Capsule catchers pay when a capsule lands. That is the deposit path. There is no separate shipment queue in any of these sources.
Questions
What is the best vehicle?
For width and tank size, Mega Vacuum Rover ($6,000, 3.7 m, 3,000 kg). Lunar Sweeper ($2,500) is the mid step. Crew Transport moves people and four capsules; it does not sweep.
How fast does a stone press pay back?
A fully fed press is described as adding about $6,000 an hour versus selling the inputs raw. That assumes power, belts, and no downtime.
Is there a shipment priority?
Steam calls depot deliveries shipments. The sources here do not document shipment tiers, a priority queue, or priority bonuses. Sales are described at the depot intake or a capsule catcher.
Sources
- Steam — depot deliveries and shipments — checked 2026-11-02
- Fextralife — Vehicles — checked 2026-11-02
- Fextralife — Stone Press — checked 2026-11-02
- IndiaTimes — flags — checked 2026-11-02