The Duster's main purpose is to move sands between different areas of a level. Sands that fall or flow (e.g. Sand, Water, Pixelium) can be collected using excavation with Excavation Lathes, which is collected into a global sand inventory. Dusters can deploy sands from the global inventory into any area they can travel to.

• Requires 41.9 Energy to construct.
• Fits in a box of 12 by 10 terrain pixels.
• Equipped with:
  • 1x Sand Dropper

When selected, the user can navigate the Duster's Sand dropper inventory through the UI panel in top left. Any collected sands will appear in the inventory box, available to be dropped.

Hover over the colored square boxes to see how much of each sand you have available to drop. Clicking on a square will designate the selected sand for dropping, and the Duster will begin dropping it directly underneath itself. Clicking the square again will cancel the dropping order.

The large Embers button can be used to drop ember, a quickly decaying sand able to set other sands on fire. For example, embers can interact with wood to light it on fire, or with Boomzene to trigger an explosion. There is no limit to how much ember can be dropped.

The On switch to the left turns the dropper off, even if a sand is selected for dropping in the inventory.

Moving sands can be used to an advantage against creeper, flooding its chambers and structures with sands that may damage it or cause other havoc.

Alternatively, the Duster is excellent at aiding the player in performing sand chemistry. By digging out a hole for the ship to deposit sands into, the Duster can efficiently combine different sands, for example Pixelium and Acid can be dropped in one spot to create and harvest Creeper Eater.