THE INDEPENDENT PLAYER WIKI
Find The NeedleA needle hunt.
A whole factory.
Start with a handful of hay. Learn the tools, connect your first machines, and follow the research that keeps your factory moving.
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What are you looking for?
All 280 pages →Make sense of the hay
All guides →Getting started
A practical introduction to the hay, money and machinery loop.
Read guide →PLAYER GUIDENeedles and collection effects
Read the specimen catalog, research values and collection bonuses.
Read guide →PLAYER GUIDEPlanning a factory line
Connect collection, transport and processing without losing sight of the bottleneck.
Read guide →PLAYER GUIDEResearch and unlocks
Separate construction prices, research costs and demo restrictions.
Read guide →ABOUT THE GAME
From handfuls to production lines.
Find The Needle turns a search through hay into a growing automation project. This wiki brings the game’s specimens, machinery and research into one place, with readable explanations alongside the recorded data.
Some packaged entries may be unavailable in the demo. Catalog values describe extracted defaults; strategy tips are editorial inferences.