{"rewrite":{"id":"r_80e44d8f08953413a294127f","clusterId":"c_f721d879620f1d19c5fe47f2","slug":"substructure-from-factorio-ultracube-team-passes-100k-steam-wishlists","model":"deepseek-v4-flash","headline":"Substructure, from Factorio UltraCube Team, Passes 100K Steam Wishlists","summary":"Dubious Design, the UK studio founded in 2024 by the makers of the Factorio mod UltraCube, showed its new automation game Substructure at gamescom. The game is set on a floating planet approaching the solar system, where players build factories and dig through layered underground cavities. Steam wishlists have passed 100,000. A hands-off demo covered farming, catalysts, lift platforms, and a live multiplayer session.","whyItMatters":"Substructure is drawing attention before release, and the developers' stated position that making scale bigger should not be the solution to every problem is visible in the demo's farming and multi-layer mechanics.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe demo opened with the player landing on the planet with almost nothing. Titanium and silicate ore come first, and the Moon Crystal resource can only be mined at night, a deliberate early stumbling point. Farming is a production chain: seeds go into Farm Plots, crops feed combustion generators, and the Farm Silo automates planting and harvesting, though converting crops back to seeds succeeds only about 85 percent of the time.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe new Belt Converter changes items directly on a conveyor belt rather than passing them through a machine. Underground, the Lift Platform moves between layers, and farm plots can ride it to stack catalyst effects from different biomes. A live multiplayer session closed the demo, with a developer in the UK joining in.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Substructure, the new automation game from the Factorio UltraCube team, passed 100K Steam wishlists. The gamescom demo showed farming, multi-layer excavation, and a Belt Converter that changes items on the conveyor itself. The devs say making scale bigger should not be the answer to every problem.","twitterPost":"Substructure, from the Factorio UltraCube team, passed 100K Steam wishlists. The gamescom demo showed farming, layered underground excavation, and a Belt Converter that changes items on the conveyor itself. The devs: making scale bigger should not be the answer to every problem.","threadsPost":null,"newsletterBlurb":"Substructure, the new automation game from Dubious Design, the studio behind the Factorio mod UltraCube, passed 100,000 Steam wishlists. The gamescom demo showed a farming and industry balance, multi-layer underground excavation, and a Belt Converter that alters items on the conveyor. The developers say making scale bigger should not be the solution to every problem.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Game Spark\",\"url\":\"http://www.gamespark.jp/article/2026/09/04/171743.html\",\"title\":\"『Factorio』の人気MOD開発者が送る新たな自動化ゲーム『サブストラクチャー』インタビュー。「規模を大きくすることが全ての問題の解決策になるべきではない」\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":6154,"outputTokens":5056,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":null,"createdAt":"2026-09-03T22:42:19.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-09-03T22:46:40.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-03T22:46:40.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_f721d879620f1d19c5fe47f2","canonicalTitle":"『Factorio』の人気MOD開発者が送る新たな自動化ゲーム『サブストラクチャー』インタビュー。「規模を大きくすることが全ての問題の解決策になるべきではない」","representativeArticleId":"a_674e23682d8b5b530c6dc35b","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"Substructure\"],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[],\"type\":\"news\",\"domain\":\"games\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-09-03T22:00:03.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-09-03T22:00:03.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-03T22:46:40.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Game Spark","url":"http://www.gamespark.jp/article/2026/09/04/171743.html","title":"『Factorio』の人気MOD開発者が送る新たな自動化ゲーム『サブストラクチャー』インタビュー。「規模を大きくすることが全ての問題の解決策になるべきではない」"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["Substructure"],"studios":[],"people":[],"type":"news","domain":"games","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}