What does the Packager do in Moon Sweepers?

How do I hook it up?

Footprint on the wiki is 2.82 by 3.1 meters, 2.35 meters tall, under the Logistics tab. The belt leaves one port. Point that belt at a station intake if you want the capsules to become money. I have seen two stories about a catcher paying you directly versus a belt that must reach a station. The Packager page itself says to connect the belt to a station intake. I follow that sentence for this machine and I leave the catcher argument on the catcher page.

A foundation is an optional $120 building piece in the wiki, not a prerequisite for the Packager. Official patch 1.0.5 (28 Oct 2026) lets every building piece be placed directly on dusty ground and makes machines snap to foundations when used. There is no kilowatt rating on the Packager row, so I do not invent a power draw. Throughput in kilograms per minute is also blank there. A community belt measurement of 80 to 100 kg per minute lives on the conveyor page and is not a Packager spec.

Where it sits in the line

Dust capsules are the only thing a hand-packed load and this box seem to share: 1 kg each. The six-arm robot later fires 20 kg capsules, which is a different object. If a capsule backs up, check direction arrows on the belt before you buy a second Packager. Splitters downstream are $5 and have no ratio dial, so a jammed line is often a port facing the wrong way rather than a missing upgrade. I would build this box, one belt, and a station drop before I look at a $500 chamber.

Jams I would check first

One belt out means a second output port is not hiding on the back. If two machines need feed, split after the belt, do not expect the Packager to choose. The hold of 100 kg is the buffer. When it is full and the belt is stopped, loading more with E will not create a second queue. Clear the belt, then load. I leave any claim about an in-game speed upgrade off this page because the conveyor write-ups say the belt rate is fixed.