Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment orderA few years ago we played this for a few weeks at the office over Christmas break when things were otherwise slow. We had maybe a dozen players, and played in Survival mode which I believe is infinite with difficulty ramping up. We split into four teams, with one providing power, one providing ammo, one building defenses, and the rest just running around trying to help out where we needed it the most. There was a ton of potential. I…
Mindustry is such a great game. I sunk tons of hours in both campaigns with a friend of mine. For those who come from a Factorio background, Mindustry has less automation and more combat. Also a Mindustry map does not take 50 hours to complete; rather it will take a few hours and may sometimes take several tries as some maps can be fairly hard. Space is limited as compared to Factorio, so space-efficient designs do matter, especially for defense…
Popular in: 2023 (567 points, 115 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38732542 2022 (600 points, 135 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32422522
https://linuxfr.org/news/mindustry-le-tower-defense-industri...
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 1170
- Total comments
- 249
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-11-08 | Mindustry Game | based2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022-08-11 | Mindustry – Open-Source GameFirst breakout · Best thread | gigel82 | 600 | 135 |
| 2023-12-22 | Mindustry: Open-source automation tower defense gameLatest 20+ point return | 0x000042 | 567 | 112 |
| 2025-10-29 | Mindustry: Open-source sandbox tower-defense game | baobun | 2 | 1 |