Find The Needle
You have a shovel and a haystack with about six million strands in it. Somewhere inside there's a needle. Dig it out by hand, sell the hay, then spend the money on belts and machines until you don't have to dig anymore.
About
At least, you think you were.
Now you're stuck inside a strange warehouse, standing in front of an endless haystack. You don't remember how you got here, who brought you here, or why the doors won't open.
There is only one instruction:
Find the needles.
There are some in the pile. You start by hand, with a metal detector. You end up with belts, balers, scanners and robotic arms doing the looking for you. Place real machines, wire the power, feed them by belt. Sell the hay, buy more machines, get given a bigger pile.
Nobody has said what happens when you finish.
The pile
Begin By HandThe tools
Buy tools like shovels, buckets, wheelbarrows, pitchforks, vacuums. Anything that helps you process hay manually!Start Automating
Automate everything! Build robots, drones, conveyor belts, hay wrappers, paper machines, sorting machines, and advanced systems that process hay and search for needles while you focus on expanding your factory.Hay products
Turn ordinary hay into valuable products! Process it into hay pulp, compressed bales, eco bricks, hay paper, pellets, and much more. Build new production lines, unlock advanced machinery, and find better ways to turn your mountain of hay into profit.Tech tree
Progress through a huge tech tree with over 300 upgrades! Unlock new machines, improve production speed, increase efficiency, expand your factory, and discover entirely new ways to process hay.What happens when you collect all the needles?
- Who knows?Videos
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Achievements
Dig your first handful of hay.
Find your first needle.
Finish your first order.
Finish the big order for The Dairy.
Finish the big order for The Garden Centre.
Finish the big order for The Paper Merchant.
Finish the big order for The Builders' Merchant.
Finish the big order for The Engineering Works.
System requirements
Minimum OS: Windows 10 64-bit Processor: 4 cores / 8 threads, Intel i5-8400 or Ryzen 5 2600 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: dedicated GPU with Vulkan 1.3 support and 4 GB VRAM, GTX 1050 Ti or RX 570 DirectX: Version 12 Storage: 3 GB available space Additional Notes: Integrated graphics are not supported and may crash Recommended OS: Windows 11 64-bit Processor: 6+ cores, Ryzen 5 5600 or Intel i5-12400 Memory: 16 GB RAM Graphics: GTX 1660 Super, RTX 2060 with 6 GB VRAM DirectX: Version 12 Storage: 3 GB available space Additional Notes: Very large factories are CPU heavy. A faster CPU keeps the frame rate up late in the game