Demonsions: Industry

Demonsions: Industry is an open-world crafting and building game set in a procedurally generated world made of mineable blocks. You gather materials, craft tools and machines, build a base and automate survival, from mining and smelting to crafting.

Mining and crafting

You can mine ores by hand with a Pickaxe or use machines to automate mining, smelting and crafting. Ore can also be picked up and moved with a Pry Bar; it must be at least as hard as the ore to move it without destroying it. The Scanner identifies an ore’s type and hardness, while harder ores require harder Pickaxes or Miner machines for efficient mining. Terrain can be mined for Stone, Dirt and Sand, and some ores are underground.

Crafted items can inherit properties from the materials used to make them. Building uses a local grid, allowing most items to snap into place. You can find materials for a basic Pickaxe on the ground, then smelt Ore Piles in a Furnace to make tools, machines or a base. A Pickaxe is crafted from a Pickaxe Head and a Tool Handle. Cotton, used to make Beds, grows on plants near water.

Automate your base

Machines are crafted and placed, and some, such as Miners, work differently depending on the metal used to make them. Machines need sufficient power to operate. Generators produce power using sources such as fuel or solar energy; Power Boxes route it underground to nearby machines and other Power Boxes. Metal Platforms can separate power grids, while Battery Backups store surplus power and supplement the grid when demand rises.

Conveyors connect to machine ports and give or take items according to their direction. Multiple Conveyors can attach to the same port and to one another, enabling items to be split or merged. Storage Racks hold items from Conveyors and can send items back out, while Filters attached to machine ports restrict which items are output.

A basic automated mining and smelting setup requires a Generator, Power Box, Miner, Smelter, Storage and Conveyors.

Nights and exploration

When night falls, you need to craft a Bed or wait for it to pass using the flashlight in your Scanner to see. You can look for ores on the surface and underground, and encounter a Coppie, described as a jumpy treasure chest that is probably hungry.