Moon Sweepers has no auto sell button or upgrade: you auto sell by running a conveyor belt into one of the intake windows on the outside of a station, the ones ringed in orange. Anything that arrives on that belt is sold and paid the moment it comes in, so once the belt is built you never carry a capsule inside again.
The confusing part is that the game has an upgrade called the Auto-Packer, and it does not sell anything. Below we explain how belt selling works, every way to feed it (by hand, from a garage, from machines and from J.O.O.N.A.S. robots), the station limit that caps it late in the game, and what to check when the money stops. Official details are verified against the Moon Sweepers Steam page and DragDrop Games’ patch notes up to version 1.0.5; tips from players on the game’s Steam forum are labeled as theirs.
How Auto Selling Works
Selling in Moon Sweepers always happens at a station. The store page sums up the basic loop: fill your storage with dust, deliver it to a depot and launch shipments to get paid. You can do that by hand inside the station, or you can let belts do it.
DragDrop Games’ 1.0.3 patch notes settled how belt deliveries pay: dust and stone arriving by belt are paid as they come in, and the deposit intake pays exactly what its screen shows. Players on the Steam forum confirm the other half: a conveyor belt connected to one of the station’s exterior intake windows sells whatever it carries, with no one standing at the depot.
That gives you a simple rule: if a belt ends at a station intake, everything on it sells itself. The rest of auto selling is just deciding what feeds that belt.
Five Ways to Feed an Auto Sell Belt
| Source | How capsules reach the belt | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| By hand | Carry a capsule and put it on the belt where you aim (added in patch 1.0.3) | The first hour |
| Packager | Players report you unload your tool into it and it outputs onto a belt | Brooms and push tools |
| Garage | Vehicles unload into the silo, which sends capsules out of its outfeed | Vehicle loads |
| Pressure chamber and stone press | Processed sand and stone leave on the machine’s output belt | Earning more per kilo |
| J.O.O.N.A.S. and Capsule Catchers | Robots launch capsules into catchers, which you belt to a station | The endgame |
A few notes on each:
- By hand: while carrying a capsule, aim at a belt to drop it right there. Players also say pressing Q packs a capsule from your tool, and patch 1.0.5 fixed a bug that stopped Q, the Auto-Packer and machines from packing in big bases.
- Packager: players describe it as the most convenient early setup, since you empty your tool into it and the belt does the walking. You do not strictly need one: a belt and capsules dropped on it work too.
- Garage: the vehicle version of the same idea. Our guide to selling from the garage has the full setup and the silo status messages patch 1.0.5 added.
- Machines: route dust through a pressure chamber (dust into sand) and a stone press (dust and sand into stone) before the intake, and the same belt earns far more.
- J.O.O.N.A.S.: since patch 1.0.4, the robots clean a sector and launch full capsules to the nearest Capsule Catcher, which holds 100 kg. Since patch 1.0.5, they fire at the emptiest catcher in the nearest group (catchers within 100 m of each other) and move on to the next group once every catcher there is over 80% full. Belt the catchers to a station and the whole chain runs without you.
The Auto-Packer Is Not Auto Sell
The Auto-Packer is a tool upgrade, and the in-game description players quote on the forum is clear about what it does: “When a container is full while you clean, the tool packs a capsule at your feet by itself.” That is all. The capsule sits on the ground until you pick it up, belt it or carry it in.
Players on the forum call it the one upgrade they would skip unless you have a belt or a pickup plan nearby. If you bought it hoping for auto selling, set up a belt to an intake instead.
The Station Intake Limit
Auto selling scales well until the late game, when the stations themselves become the bottleneck. Players report four stations (North, where you start, plus South, East and West) with about a dozen intakes each, and a belt moving roughly 100 kg a minute. With hundreds of J.O.O.N.A.S. robots, that is not enough to sell everything they collect.
Players have shared two workarounds:
- Process first. Turning dust into stone packs more value onto each belt. Players report one stone line can absorb about two belts of dust.
- Unconnected catchers. Several players report that a Capsule Catcher with no belt attached keeps accepting capsules without filling up, which keeps robots working. Most say the dust simply disappears and earns nothing, and they describe it as a bug, so expect a patch to change it.
Troubleshooting Auto Selling
- Capsules stop at the end of the belt. The belt does not quite reach the intake. Extend it until it snaps to the window.
- Nothing moves. Check the belt’s direction; a belt pointing back toward its source is the most common mistake players report.
- Splitters or mergers act strangely. Since patch 1.0.4, mergers alternate between their inputs and any crewmate can place splitters and mergers on someone else’s belts.
- Build mistakes. Since patch 1.0.5 you can move a piece with everything on it for free (press R with the building tool), and removing a piece refunds its full price.
Our beginner tips cover what to buy before your first belt.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is there an auto sell upgrade in Moon Sweepers? No. Auto selling is a belt you build into a station’s exterior intake window. Anything that arrives there is paid as it comes in.
What does the Auto-Packer do? It packs a capsule at your feet when your tool’s container fills while you clean. It does not carry or sell the capsule.
Do I need a Packager to auto sell? No. Players report that any capsule dropped onto a belt running into an intake sells. The Packager just makes unloading your tool faster.
Does auto selling count toward the deposit achievements? Players report it does not. Regular Customer, Depot Resident and Do You Live Here? only count deposits made by hand at the depot.
How do J.O.O.N.A.S. robots sell their dust? They launch capsules into Capsule Catchers. Belt the catchers to a station intake and the dust sells automatically.