Research Components — SAND: Raiders of Sophie

What Research Components Do

Twenty-three physical materials feed hangar tech and landmark reactor crafting — unlike auto-converting valuables. Targeted farming beats random hoarding — hover tech nodes before each deploy. Twenty-three physical materials feed hangar tech and landmark reactor crafting — unlike auto-converting valuables.

Targeted farming beats random hoarding — hover tech nodes before each deploy. Twenty-three physical materials feed hangar tech and landmark reactor crafting — unlike auto-converting valuables. Targeted farming beats random hoarding — hover tech nodes before each deploy.

Complete List (23)

All components in Early Access — names may shift on patches.

• Fabric — crafting and tech input
• Gunpowder — crafting and tech input
• Leather Scraps — crafting and tech input
• Iron Ingots — crafting and tech input
• Copper Wire — crafting and tech input
• Glass Shards — crafting and tech input
• Rubber Sheets — crafting and tech input
• Acid Vials — crafting and tech input
• Leviathan Meat — crafting and tech input
• Aurogen Crystal — crafting and tech input
• Phosphor Dust — crafting and tech input
• Sophie Salt — crafting and tech input
• Coal Bricks — crafting and tech input
• Titanite Ore — crafting and tech input
• Mercury Ampoules — crafting and tech input
• Spice Pods — crafting and tech input
• Dune Silk — crafting and tech input
• Obsidian Fragments — crafting and tech input
• Magnetite — crafting and tech input
• Ether Residue — crafting and tech input
• Petroleum Jelly — crafting and tech input
• Nickel Plates — crafting and tech input
• Carbon Filament — crafting and tech input

Acquisition Routes

Farm guide and landmark crafting. Common: towns and brown/green crates. Rare: forts, Dreadnought, Sandworm Pit. Farm guide and landmark crafting.

Common: towns and brown/green crates. Rare: forts, Dreadnought, Sandworm Pit. Farm guide and landmark crafting. Common: towns and brown/green crates. Rare: forts, Dreadnought, Sandworm Pit.

Farm guide and landmark crafting. Common: towns and brown/green crates. Rare: forts, Dreadnought, Sandworm Pit. Farm guide and landmark crafting.

Extended Context for Raiders

Mechanical Parts rebuild destroyed walkers — mechanical parts. Landmark crafting at reactors consumes fuel rods and components — landmark crafting. Dreadnought and Sandworm Pit are secret endgame POIs — secret locations.

Iron Fortress, Sand Runner, Raider Hybrid, Maze Builder are meta build archetypes — Trampler builds. Personal weapons include Blitz Pistol, EB Revolver, 866/9 Rifle, M82, 1874 Petros, Anti-Reactor Rifle — weapons. SAND: Raiders of Sophie is a dieselpunk PvPvE extraction shooter on Sophie where you build and crew giant walking mechs called Tramplers.

Extract via radio towers using a Radio Beacon Box (~2000 crowns), green smoke, and a two-minute defense window documented on extraction points. Voyage mode is the standard loop; Storm Dive is high-stakes endgame with stronger rivals and better loot per Storm Dive guide. Black Boxes sell for roughly 500 crowns and appear in industrial POIs — see valuables and Black Box guide.

Mount 40mm cannons for sustained fire; 80mm cannons pierce heavy armor on enemy Tramplers and Ironclad robots per cannons tier list. Research components and blueprints feed the tech tree — 23 components and unlock order. Keyboard controls use WASD, F interact, Tab inventory — full reference at keyboard controls.

Squad Coordination Notes

SAND: Raiders of Sophie is a dieselpunk PvPvE extraction shooter on Sophie where you build and crew giant walking mechs called Tramplers. Extract via radio towers using a Radio Beacon Box (~2000 crowns), green smoke, and a two-minute defense window documented on extraction points. Voyage mode is the standard loop; Storm Dive is high-stakes endgame with stronger rivals and better loot per Storm Dive guide.

Black Boxes sell for roughly 500 crowns and appear in industrial POIs — see valuables and Black Box guide. Mount 40mm cannons for sustained fire; 80mm cannons pierce heavy armor on enemy Tramplers and Ironclad robots per cannons tier list. Research components and blueprints feed the tech tree — 23 components and unlock order.

Keyboard controls use WASD, F interact, Tab inventory — full reference at keyboard controls. Only secured loot extracts: inventory, Trampler storage, loaded turret ammo. Floor loot is lost — storage safety. Towns like Segen, Kaiserplatz, and Venedig hold mixed crates — towns map. Forts need 80mm for red doors — forts.

Artifacts include Orbital Strike Pointer, Deflector Shield, Turbo Rod, Bio Emitter — artifacts. Steam Early Access launches June 22, 2026 — date and platforms. Tier lists rank weapons, builds, cannons, artifacts at tier list hub.

Solo Player Considerations

Research components and blueprints feed the tech tree — 23 components and unlock order. Keyboard controls use WASD, F interact, Tab inventory — full reference at keyboard controls. Only secured loot extracts: inventory, Trampler storage, loaded turret ammo. Floor loot is lost — storage safety.

Towns like Segen, Kaiserplatz, and Venedig hold mixed crates — towns map. Forts need 80mm for red doors — forts. Artifacts include Orbital Strike Pointer, Deflector Shield, Turbo Rod, Bio Emitter — artifacts. Steam Early Access launches June 22, 2026 — date and platforms.

Tier lists rank weapons, builds, cannons, artifacts at tier list hub. No official promo codes at EA launch — codes FAQ. Roadmap links Discord and Steam forums at roadmap. Pre-deploy with fuel rods, ammo, Radio Beacon per pre-deploy checklist.

Boarding offense and defense decide PvP Trampler fights — boarding offense. Mechanical Parts rebuild destroyed walkers — mechanical parts. Landmark crafting at reactors consumes fuel rods and components — landmark crafting.

Storm Dive vs Voyage Differences

Steam Early Access launches June 22, 2026 — date and platforms. Tier lists rank weapons, builds, cannons, artifacts at tier list hub. No official promo codes at EA launch — codes FAQ. Roadmap links Discord and Steam forums at roadmap.

Pre-deploy with fuel rods, ammo, Radio Beacon per pre-deploy checklist. Boarding offense and defense decide PvP Trampler fights — boarding offense. Mechanical Parts rebuild destroyed walkers — mechanical parts.

Landmark crafting at reactors consumes fuel rods and components — landmark crafting. Dreadnought and Sandworm Pit are secret endgame POIs — secret locations. Iron Fortress, Sand Runner, Raider Hybrid, Maze Builder are meta build archetypes — Trampler builds.

Personal weapons include Blitz Pistol, EB Revolver, 866/9 Rifle, M82, 1874 Petros, Anti-Reactor Rifle — weapons. SAND: Raiders of Sophie is a dieselpunk PvPvE extraction shooter on Sophie where you build and crew giant walking mechs called Tramplers. Extract via radio towers using a Radio Beacon Box (~2000 crowns), green smoke, and a two-minute defense window documented on extraction points.