Flag Locations and How to Find Them

There is no verified map or coordinate list of Moon Sweepers flag locations yet. The flags are real national flags planted across the whole lunar surface, and the total is roughly 195 to 196: the flag prompt that several players read out says 195, while one Moon Map counter shows 196. They are far apart, so the practical way to find them is to explore by vehicle, watch the horizon, and use the Moon Map's flag counter to track how many you have found.

What matters before you start:

• Each flag pays cash. Several players report $100 for untangling one, which is a big boost early in a run.
• You must interact with it. Driving past or sweeping around a flag does not count. Use the untangle prompt and let it finish.
• Flags are spread out. Players driving more than a thousand metres from base reported finding only a handful.
• Survey sites are separate. Historic landing sites are a different interaction with their own reward and counter.

Any page that gives you exact flag coordinates for Moon Sweepers would need to be checked against your own game, because no reliable list exists in the published material as of patch 1.0.3.

What Is Known About Flags

The figure of 195 is consistent across separate streams, but a Moon Map screenshot reads "Flags untangled 2/196", and the developers have not published a number themselves. Treat the counter on your own Moon Map as the total for your version.

Why There Is No Flag Location Map Yet

Moon Sweepers launched on October 23, 2026, and the Moon is enormous. The Moon Map shows more than 163,000 sectors, and even dedicated players report cleaning well under one percent of the surface in their first days.

That scale explains why nobody has published a full flag map:

• Flags are found one at a time during long drives, not in clusters.
• Players describe the surface as featureless, which makes it hard to describe where a flag stood.
• Each crew explores from its own starting base, so directions like "two kilometres left of the station" mean nothing in another world unless every world shares the same layout, which has not been confirmed.

Until a community map exists and has been confirmed in multiple worlds, the best flag location guide is a search method.

How to Collect a Flag

1. Get close enough for the interaction prompt to appear.
2. Use Untangle the flag and wait for the action to complete.
3. Check that the $100 arrived in your balance.
4. Note the flag's country and its rough direction from your base if you want to track your finds.

Flags stand upright and are visible from a distance, so the first sign is often a small shape on the horizon that does not look like rock. One player stopped a long drive because they spotted what looked like a sign, and it turned out to be a flag.

Before You Head Out

Hunting flags on foot with a Toothbrush is slow. Players who tried early found that the return trip cost more time than the flag was worth. Prepare first:

• Get a vehicle. The Garage costs $200, and the cheapest vehicle, the Push Sweeper, costs $300. A drivable vehicle such as the Ride-on Sweeper at $1,000 makes long searches far more practical.
• Bring capacity. A bigger hopper lets you clean fresh ground on the way, so the trip still pays even if you find few flags.
• Plan for darkness. The Moon has a day-night cycle. Your helmet lamp switches on at night and upgrades make it brighter; vehicles can also be fitted with lights. Spotting a flag in daylight is much easier.
• Check the movement upgrades. One player bought faster movement specifically before going out to search for flags.

Use the Moon Map and Waypoints

The Moon Map sits on each station's main console. It colours untouched ground orange, started ground blue and finished ground green. One early guide also describes a flag counter and a surveyed-sites counter on the map, separate from cleaning progress.

Use it like this:

1. Check the flag counter before and after each trip so you know whether the route paid off.
2. Look for large orange areas you have never visited. Unexplored ground is where unfound flags must be.
3. Place a waypoint at the edge of the area you plan to search. The Field Manual notes that waypoints placed on the map are visible to your crew.
4. When you return, place a new waypoint at the point where you turned back, so the next trip continues from there instead of repeating ground.

Since patch 1.0.3, the compass shows separate coloured icons for dust stations, crewmates, waypoints and the sector readout. Players exploring far out have used the compass to find their way home.

A Search Routine That Works

Flags are too scattered to hunt randomly. A routine helps you cover new ground every trip.

1. Pick one direction from base and drive in a straight line toward unexplored terrain.
2. Scan the horizon, not the ground. Flags stick up, so look ahead and to both sides as you drive.
3. Clean while you travel if your vehicle has a cleaning head. The trip then earns money even when no flag appears.
4. Turn back before the hopper is full or before night falls, whichever comes first.
5. Shift your line sideways on the next trip so you sweep a new strip of the Moon.
6. Note each country you find. Your own list helps you spot when a later sighting is one you already collected.

Expect long gaps. One streamer drove a full hopper's distance without seeing a single flag, then found two close together later. Another found three flags after travelling roughly a thousand metres from home.

Flags Players Have Already Found

The following countries are flags that players reported untangling during launch-week runs. No positions were given, and these are listed only so you know the flags really are national flags and can recognise them when you see one:

• Albania, Austria, Benin, Brazil and Chad
• China, Eswatini, Ghana, Lebanon and Libya
• Madagascar, Mozambique, Poland and South Africa
• Switzerland and Tonga

Several players admitted guessing which country a flag belonged to before the prompt showed its name, so rely on the name shown in your own game.

Flags Versus Survey Sites

While searching for flags you will also find lunar survey sites. These are historic landing sites, and players have reported sites such as Apollo 14, Apollo 15, Apollo 16, India's Vikram lander from Chandrayaan-2 in 2019 and the Odysseus lander from 2024.

At the Apollo 15 site, one player noticed the American flag did not need untangling; it is part of the landing site rather than one of the untangle flags. The total number of survey sites is not confirmed either: one stream suggested 25, while a Moon Map screenshot shows 26, so check the counter on your own map.

Keep Your Own Flag Log

Because no shared map exists, a simple log of your own finds is the most reliable flag location record you can have. Write one line per flag:

Fill it in right after each untangle, while the trip is fresh. Over a few sessions the log shows which directions you have already covered, and it gives you something concrete to compare if a community map appears later.

Co-op Flag Hunting

With a crew, flag hunting gets much faster:

• Split by direction. Send each driver out along a different line from base.
• Share waypoints. Mark searched edges on the Moon Map so nobody repeats ground.
• Call out finds. Shout the country name so the group avoids chasing the same flag.
• Keep someone at base. While others explore, one player can keep production and selling running.

Money is shared in co-op, so every flag one crewmate untangles helps the whole group.

Is Flag Hunting Worth It

Early in a run, yes. A $100 flag equals a lot of small capsule deliveries when your best tool is still a cheap brush, and a combined flag and survey find can fund a Garage on its own. Several players called finding flags and landmarks one of the most enjoyable parts of the game.

Later, the value drops. Once a production line makes money steadily, a long drive for one $100 flag is mostly for completion. There is no flag achievement among the game's 33 achievements, so a full set is a personal goal rather than an unlock.

A good balance is to combine trips: clean fresh ground, collect any flags and survey sites you pass, and come home with a full hopper.