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Mindustry: Build & Defend Your Factory

Learn to think like an engineer by building a factory and blowing things up!

EngineeringSquads
Organized by Recess

Hosted by 2 expert guides

⚠️ This class requires you to have a Steam account. We will buy you the game when you register. ⚠️

What You’ll Do

  • Join a tight group of 4 students and meet once a week in an ongoing class
  • Build a factory, iterate on problems, work with your teammates, and destroy enemies
  • Work through guided challenges that connect gameplay with real-world math, physics, and systems thinking
  • Collaborate with your peers to design, optimize, and automate complex production chains

What You’ll Learn

  • Math Skills: Ratios, proportions, resource optimization, rates, and geometric reasoning
  • Engineering Concepts: Energy systems, automation, fluid dynamics, and feedback loops
  • Systems Thinking: Planning, iteration, efficiency, and debugging under pressure

What You’ll Need

  • A laptop or desktop computer with a working microphone and camera
  • A mouse is highly recommended, but you can still play with a trackpad
  • A Steam account

Why Learn Through Mindustry?

Mindustry turns math and engineering into a living puzzle. Every conveyor, drill, and reactor becomes a chance to test ideas, measure results, and improve your designs. Students learn how real systems work by balancing inputs and outputs, optimizing resource flows, and solving problems with logic and creativity.

What comes after Mindustry?

  • You can join one of our larger advanced PvP cohorts. These groups focus on mastering team dynamics by playing PvP matches.
  • You can join an advanced challenge cohort. These cohorts focus on tackling the hardest Mindustry challenges.
  • You can move on to Factorio, commonly heralded by software engineers as the greatest engineering game in the world.

Meet the guides

Expert guides leading this course

Recess Community Director, Recess Guide/Royalty 💁, here for the vibes 😎. Ask me about Caspian!
professional challenge accepter. occasional denier.
$25 per week