All Ore Factory Squad Guides
Browse every published Ore Factory Squad guide by task, system, and troubleshooting intent.
Start & Progression
Ore Factory Squad Beginner Guide: Level 1-5 Factory Setup
Build the best first Level 1-5 setup: one mining-to-sale loop, eligible Tutorial Skip, storage, production, Contracts, upgrades, and the Mining Lift.
BUYING GUIDEOre Factory Squad Price, Demo & Steam Details
Check the current Ore Factory Squad Steam price, free demo, release date, Windows requirements, and why your local store price may differ.
GUIDEHow Long Is Ore Factory Squad? Playtime and Endgame
There is no official universal completion time. Compare current-content, endgame-factory, achievement, and open-ended playtime goals.
GUIDEOre Factory Squad Level 6-12 Progression Guide
Choose the next useful path after Level 5 from the oil, employee, warehouse, or factory blocker visible in your current save.
GUIDEOre Factory Squad Stamina & Energy Drink Night Guide
Decide when an Energy Drink is useful for nighttime fatigue and when to stop, without relying on unverified duration, recovery, or stacking values.
GUIDEOre Factory Squad Lunchbox & Food Buffs Guide
Store up to four foods, eat away from the factory, and preserve buff time in the City before returning to an Ore Factory Squad digsite.
GUIDEOre Factory Squad Desert Property Guide
Prepare for the Desert property, its oil facility and old-pipe hazards, then route reserve searching into the current Masters of Oil workflow.
GUIDEOre Factory Squad Mobile Office: Computer & Free Coffee Guide
Unlock the Mobile Office, use its digsite computer, and decide when its free coffee helps you finish a focused night task.
Factory & Processing
Ore Factory Squad Automation Guide: Splitter Belts & Pallets
Trace Storage Output, Smart Filters, Merge, Splitter, Buffer, pallet, and Robot handoffs to fix current-version automation bottlenecks.
REFERENCE GUIDEOre Factory Squad Cement Recipe: Machine & Inputs
Make Limestone Blocks in the Stone Crusher, turn them into Cement in the Forming Press, and keep v1.0.9 Copper free of obsolete Coal advice.
DECISION GUIDEOre Factory Squad Practical Modular Factory Layout
Use a practical modular Ore Factory Squad layout for sorting, parallel production, pallet storage, Stock Sell, and Contracts without claiming an untested optimal blueprint.
GUIDEOre Factory Squad Employees, Handlers & Off-site Contracts
Use Miner and Handler employees, review v1.0.9 Off-Site Contract changes, and troubleshoot unloading and route access.
GUIDEOre Factory Squad Pallet Dispenser & Warehouse Robot Guide
Attach a Pallet Dispenser to a machine or belt, fix red placement, prove one Robot move, and recover a stuck pallet task.
GUIDEOre Factory Squad Elevated & Buffer Belt Layout Guide
Plan raised Elevated and Buffer Belt routes with current Merge, Splitter, and turn-piece limits, then verify each handoff in your factory.
GUIDEOre Factory Squad Masters of Oil Guide: Full Oil Workflow
Start the v1.1.1 oil workflow: find a reserve, extract Crude Oil, move it by Tanker, refine it, and choose the next product from the current recipe screen.
GUIDEOre Factory Squad Oil Refinery & Oil Processor Explained
Understand the oil-machine order: unlock petrochemicals, feed Crude Oil to the Refinery, then use the Oil Processor for named later products without guessing ratios.
REFERENCE GUIDEOre Factory Squad Oil Products: Fuel, Bitumen & More
See where the official named oil products belong in the new chain: Fuel and Bitumen from the Refinery, then Asphalt Mix, Lubricant, Rubber Sheet, and Tire later.
DECISION GUIDEOre Factory Squad Oil Factory Layout: A Four-Zone Plan
Use a simple four-zone oil layout for the Tanker lane, Oil Tank, Refinery, Processor, and existing lines. It is an editorial starting plan, not a measured best ratio.
GUIDEOre Factory Squad Petrochemical License: What It Unlocks
See what the Petrochemical License unlocks and prove the smallest Crude Oil, Oil Tank, and Oil Refinery handoff before expanding the chain.
DECISION GUIDEOre Factory Squad Off-Site Mining Training Guide
Choose crate capacity, efficiency, or oil extraction training from the bottleneck visible in your current Miner workflow.
GUIDEOre Factory Squad Merge Robot: Same-Item Pallet Guide
Use the red Merge Robot to consolidate same-item pallet stacks in one Pallet Drop Zone without confusing it with normal warehouse transport.
DECISION GUIDEOre Factory Squad Factory Size Upgrade & Four Storage Outputs
Decide whether the new factory-size upgrade solves a real space or output-access bottleneck, then give its four Storage Outputs traceable roles.
Transport & Logistics
Ore Factory Squad Mining Lift Guide: Lift Head & Elevator
Place the Lift Head, test each Extension and ladder, move packed mining boxes, and avoid treating the Lift as a rideable elevator.
GUIDEOre Factory Squad Secret Cave & Dynamite Guide
Find a generated Secret Cave with layer checks and Detector readings, use one controlled Dynamite throw, and keep a safe return route.
TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDEOre Factory Squad Co-op: Fix Invites & Lobby Codes
Troubleshoot Ore Factory Squad friend-joining problems with Steam invites, protected Lobby Codes, server-browser checks, Text Chat, and role permissions.
DECISION GUIDEWhere to Get Coal in Ore Factory Squad
Find Raw Coal, check Remaining Resources by depth, distinguish Crushed Coal, and note that Copper no longer requires Coal without assuming a shop or respawn rule.
GUIDEOre Factory Squad Mini Excavator: Worth It, Controls & Storage
Use the Mini Excavator for shallow trenches and surface cleanup, choose ISO or SAE controls, unload rear storage, and recover from stuck cases.
GUIDEHow to Find Oil in Ore Factory Squad: Radar Mode & Reserves
Check the property oil-reserve panel, use Ore Detector Radar Mode, reach the reserve, and clean it with the Jackhammer without claiming fixed coordinates or depths.
GUIDEOre Factory Squad Tanker Truck & Oil Tank Transfer Guide
Load Crude Oil at the Pipe Head, move it by Tanker Truck, unload it into an Oil Tank, and diagnose a full truck or stalled transfer without guessing speeds.
GUIDEHow to Stack Building Boxes on Pallets in Ore Factory Squad
Place building boxes on pallets so several can be transported together while keeping the task separate from product-pallet and Merge Robot automation.
GUIDEOre Factory Squad Compass, Depth & Equipment Wheel
Use or disable the digsite compass and depth indicator, then find placeable buildings in the updated Equipment Wheel radial menu.
GUIDEOre Factory Squad Co-op Roles & Permissions Host Guide
Use the host computer's Roles app to give a joined guest only the access needed for their next co-op task.
GUIDEOre Factory Squad Ore Node Yield & Full Backpack Guide
Mine ore nodes through the normal path and clear backpack space before the drop to avoid losing part of the pickup.
Money & Contracts
Ore Factory Squad Contracts: Fix Softlocks & Make Money
Escape an impossible Contract with Stock Sell, choose orders you can finish, use the Pallet Packer correctly, and protect the deadline in v1.0.9.
GUIDEHow to Sell Products in Ore Factory Squad
Make finished products appear in Stock Sell, use marked pallet storage, read Demand and unit price, and keep Contract inventory from being sold.
DECISION GUIDEOre Factory Squad Best Upgrade Order & License Guide
Choose tools, licenses, the Excavator License, warehouse automation, and property upgrades by the bottleneck blocking your next production cycle.
DECISION GUIDEHow to Buy Another Property in Ore Factory Squad
Fix the one-Active-Property restriction, read Remaining Resources, recover Greenpark, and decide whether Forest solves your next production bottleneck.
GUIDEOre Factory Squad Antiques & Scrap: Where to Sell
Sell Antiques at the Pawn Shop and Scrap at the Waste Collection Center, keep the two routes separate, and avoid wasting storage or Dynamite.
DECISION GUIDEOre Factory Squad: Too Much Clay & No Money at Level 5
Turn a Level 5 Clay pile and cash shortage into the next useful sale, Contract, or production decision without wasting more time underground.
Updates & Troubleshooting
Ore Factory Squad Roadmap & Latest Update Tracker
Track Ore Factory Squad v1.1.1, the released Masters of Oil update, and the official roadmap without confusing future phases with playable content.
REFERENCE GUIDEOre Factory Squad Achievements Guide: All 35
Plan all 35 Ore Factory Squad achievements by stage, with routes for Mining Lift, employees, automation, properties, contracts, and city objectives.
TROUBLESHOOTING HUBOre Factory Squad Troubleshooting: Common Problems
Fix warehouse-full, tutorial, belt, pallet, Robot, Lift, Steam Cloud, co-op, crash, and input problems with non-destructive checks.
PLATFORM STATUS GUIDEIs Ore Factory Squad on Xbox, PS5, or Mobile?
See the verified Ore Factory Squad platform status for Steam, Windows, Steam Deck, Xbox, PS5, and mobile without confusing controller support with a port.
GUIDEOre Factory Squad Save File Location & Steam Cloud Backup
Open the Windows save file location, copy the whole Saves folder, then resolve a Steam Cloud conflict without deleting or overwriting first.
GUIDEOre Factory Squad Mods: Install, Uninstall & Compatibility
Choose a useful Ore Factory Squad mod, back up your save, follow the correct loader, avoid duplicate DLLs, and remove a broken mod safely.
TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDEOil Extraction Not Working? Pipe Head Fixes in Ore Factory Squad
Check the cleaned reserve, Pipe Head, continuous pipe run, power state, tanker capacity, and v1.1.1 hotfix boundary before rebuilding your oil route.
TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDEOre Factory Squad Won't Load After Update: Safe Fix Order
Use restart, update, file verification, mod isolation, and save protection in a safe order when Ore Factory Squad will not load after an update.
TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDEOre Factory Squad: Disable Controller for Keyboard & Mouse
Isolate controller input and test Steam Input for this game only when an attached device takes over keyboard and mouse controls.
TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDEOre Factory Squad Co-op Disconnect After Contract Completion
Isolate the narrow case where a connected guest disconnects at contract completion, protect the host save, and collect host and guest evidence.
GUIDEHow to Report an Ore Factory Squad Bug with Useful Evidence
Package the version, exact trigger, expected and observed result, role, save context, screenshots, video, and any specifically requested files.
TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDEOre Factory Squad Save Loads at Ground Zero: Protect It First
Protect a visible progressed save before testing Cloud or local recovery when loading opens at the beginning instead of the listed level and date.
TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDEOre Factory Squad Steam Deck Crash After New Digsite
Use a save-safe isolation order when Ore Factory Squad crashes on Steam Deck after selecting or loading a newly purchased digsite.
TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDEOre Factory Squad Inventory Box Overflow & Missing Items
Protect your save and inventory when a co-op Inventory Box transfer appears to lose items after the destination has too few free slots.