Satisfactory Update 1.2: The Complete Fluid & Tanker Truck Guide
Fluid Trucks finally let you skip the pipe spaghetti. Here's when to truck, when to pipe, and the head-lift rules that keep tripping people up.
Seth Tideward
Indie dev behind Tideward and lifelong factory game fan. Covering Factorio, Satisfactory, and the best automation and idle games twice a week.
Factorio 2.1: The Quality Train and Asteroid Nerf That Rewrite Your Late-Game
The final Factorio update just hit experimental — and it quietly kills the legendary asteroid farm. Here's how to rebuild your late-game around it.
Shapez 2 turns up the heat, and Factorio's finale lands
Happy Friday, factory friends. Here’s your roundup of what’s worth your attention this week. 📦 Patch Notes & News Shapez 2 just shipped its 1.1 update, aimed squarely at anyone who found Manufacture Mode too cozy. The new Manufacture Hard Mode ratchets up the shape-conversion demands so
Mindustry v8: A Factory-Game Fan's Guide to Your First Hours on Serpulo
Factorio with a countdown clock - and after three years, the campaign finally teaches you instead of throwing you off a cliff.
The Conveyor Belt: Factorio's final update hits experimental
Welcome back to the Conveyor Belt — your roundup of everything factory, automation, and idle, served quick enough to read before your coffee goes cold. 📦 Patch Notes & News Factorio 2.1 enters experimental — and it’s the last big one. Wube has slated 2.1 for an experimental release toward
⚙️ The Conveyor Belt: A factory game made entirely of text just launched
TEXTORIO turns the whole genre into living ASCII — and it's out today for under four bucks.
Dyson Sphere Program: A Late-Game Interstellar Logistics Guide
Five years in, your ILS network is the only thing still bottlenecking your sphere. Here's how to scale to white science without crashing your power grid.
⚙️ The Conveyor Belt: Satisfactory goes cross-platform, Factorio prepares its finale
Update 1.2 lands on PC, PS5 and Xbox the same day, plus Factorio's farewell update arrives end of June.
Factorio Pollution and Evolution: The 5 Numbers That Decide Your Endgame
Wube just announced that update 2.1 will be Factorio's final content patch. Eight months in development, dropping in experimental at the end of June, stable by summer's end — and then the studio moves on to new projects. If you're like most of us,
Tideward Dev Log
⚙️ The Conveyor Belt: Satisfactory hotfix lands, DSP turns five
Plus a Dyson Sphere Program anniversary patch, a Factorio module-swap trick most players never learn, and this week's confessional poll.
The Deep Dive
Shapez 2 Manufacture Mode: A Beginner's Guide to Your First Trade Station
What to build first in Shapez 2 1.0's new progression mode — and the copy-paste mistake that wrecks beginner factories.
Patch Notes Roundup
⚙️ The Conveyor Belt: Belts of Iron rolls in May 28
A new procedurally-generated factory game lands later this month, plus today's Satisfactory hotfix and a Factorio filter trick most players miss.