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Asciilands Wiki

The player-run wiki for Asciilands: every item, recipe, creature and region, straight from the game's data, with live prices, live towns and a route planner. Made by players for players and updated with every game update (now 0.3.5); values marked tested were measured in play.

Popular: Steel · Where's iron? · Best pickaxe · Weapon builder · Prices · Trade board · Live 3D map

World map

Get from A to B

Quick answers

Where's tin?: Pan at any water's edge (highland and karst streams carry more), or mine tin ore in Limestone Karst (…Crags).
Where's iron?: Iron ore in Highlands (…Heights), bog iron in Cypress Swamp (…Fen). Both need a bronze pickaxe or better.
How do I get steel?: Smelter: 3 iron ingots + 2 charcoal (it was 2 ingots before 0.3.0). Since 0.3.3 an Emberstone can fire it instead of the charcoal, and one stone lasts 6 batches. Star Iron no longer smelts into steel. See Steel Ingot.
Where's obsidian?: Clusters of black and violet glass in the Volcanic Wastes, the 16 regions whose names end in "Ashlands"; most of them have some. The huge dark cliffs there are only scenery. Since 0.3.2 a vein grows back one piece every 2 hours, and now and then an empty vein comes back all at once as a big vein. Small obsidian finds lie around the Ashlands too. It isn't found anywhere else. Where exactly
How do I make Blacksteel?: 2 steel ingots + 1 obsidian + 1 Ember Core in a Blast Smelter, fired with 1 emberstone. The Blast Smelter is a smelter upgrade: 6 cut stone, 4 obsidian, 6 emberstone. Ember Cores come mostly from the Cinder Colossus, 6–10 a kill; ash monitors drop one 4% of the time dev · 0.3.3 · may change. See Blacksteel Ingot.
What does each animal drop?: Its own item plus meat and hides, every time. Ash monitors add a 4% Ember Core, and a pale animal (4% of spawns) adds a Pristine Trophy. dev · 0.3.1 · may change The full table
Where's quartz, silver or amber?: Hidden finds. Carry a Wayfinder Lens to see the five nearest as gold ◆ on your map. Quartz also comes from Plains.
What happens when I die?: The goods in your Pack (materials, ingots, food, arrows) drop where you fell, and anyone can pick them up for 20 minutes. Tools and weapons stay with you but lose 15% of their max uses; armor, bags, kits and gold are safe. You respawn at your last rest point after 20 seconds, and since 0.3.4 a death marker on your map and compass leads you back for those 20 minutes. Set a rest point with Z at a campfire or camp. More
How much will X cost me?: Open any item, e.g. Bronze Pickaxe: the "From scratch" box adds up every raw material, station and minute of smelting.
How do I make gold?: Sell basics to the merchant at any market stall (it pays each character up to 300 gold a day), or list items at your own stall. Market shows what's worth crafting to sell.

The wiki inside the game

Press ` in the game (^ on German keyboards) and this wiki opens beside it. Point at an item first, in your Pack, hotbar, a trade or a recipe, and you land on that item's page. Press it again, or Esc inside the wiki, to close it. Drag the panel's left edge to resize it.

Install the mod It needs a userscript add-on for your browser, Tampermonkey or Violentmonkey. Add that first, then click the button, confirm, and reload the game.

Community made. It only shows this wiki in a panel: it never talks to the game server or presses keys for you, and it updates itself.

New in 0.3.5

Game update, 28 October 2026.

A third server for Asia and Oceania, whole buildings taken down at once, plots sold with the buildings on them, a camera tilt setting, and a long list of smithing, crafting and lag fixes.

Asia Pacific server: a new server in Singapore for players in Asia and Oceania, with its own saves, like Europe and North America. Its regions have the same names and places as the other two. Pick it with the server switch at the top of the wiki: prices, the map and the town directory follow it. World
Take down building: remove a whole building from the Build dock with a Wooden Hammer: it lights up what comes down, then you stand still for 5 seconds. You get back half the materials of the pieces you placed yourself. Anyone can take down an abandoned building that has fully decayed; it falls as debris anyone can pick up. Never a Town Hall. Building
Buying a plot now gives you the buildings on it: walls, floors, doors, stations, signs, fences and empty chests. Every chest and station on the plot must be empty first. Market stalls and fields stay with their owners. Towns
Town directory: the game's public list of every town is live, so the wiki shows every town, its residents and its plots for sale on the Towns page and on each region's page.
Smithing: you can't quench a piece before it's shaped ("Shape it closer to the outline first"; below 50% fit). Forge keys work on any keyboard layout, the arrow keys follow the way the head lies, and "Too hot. Cool before striking." shows when the metal is above the gold band. Exact smithing numbers now sit behind a toggle on Inspect. The steel and iron spear art and the engraving mark on sickles are fixed, here too. Smithing
Crafting: jobs no longer get stuck at stations, and a job can be finished at any station of the same kind. Finished items show in the station's pack view. Peat and sea salt work at the campfire: 2 peat make 3 charcoal, and 2 sea salt with 3 raw meat make 3 cooked meat, with a log, charcoal or Emberstone as fuel. Stations
Combat and lag: the short freeze that hit every region every 30 minutes now comes every 6 hours, players joining a region no longer freeze the others on that server, and boss loot goes only to fighters still alive at the kill. Fighting
Building: foundations can be damaged again, stacked signs can be read, and railings no longer float above pavilions.
Companions: the saddlebag works on a pet told to stay. Progress bars no longer freeze partway, and the buy order layout is fixed. Companions
Settings: a camera tilt setting from 20 to 40 degrees; a lower tilt shows farther but can lag more. Player names are unique, ignoring capital letters (existing duplicates keep theirs). Water no longer goes missing after loading or reconnecting, and the menu music no longer turns into noise.

Every update and its patch notes →

The gear path

Each better pickaxe lets you mine the next metal. Follow the steps from the top; click any item to see how to get it and where.

Shortcuts the game doesn't tell you

Items with more than one recipe. Pick the route that fits what you have.

All recipes and every alternative route →

Servers

Two realms: Europe and North America. Pick one on the title screen. The NA map may differ from the EU one shown here.
EU holds 160 players since 0.3.2, NA 150. Both moved to machines with twice the cores in 0.3.0: saves no longer queue behind each other, and joining a region with a big town is much faster. When a realm is full you queue; every 3rd queue spot goes to Ko-fi supporters.
Updates close the servers with a "Closed for update!" message until everything is updated, so nobody stays on an old version. It's usually back within a minute or two.
Play in the browser at asciilands.io or on itch.io.
The clock in the corner names the time of day: Dawn 05–07, Day 07–17, Dusk 17–19, Night 19–05. Glowcaps only come out at night.
The tutorial: V skips a step, X skips it all.
Idle for 14 minutes and you get a warning; at 15 minutes you're disconnected to free the slot.
A character stuck under the ground or out at sea spawns somewhere safe when it logs in (since 0.3.2).
Your progress saves on the server. Guest characters belong to the browser that made them: clearing its data loses them. Connect Discord to play the same character anywhere.
You can also start the game from a Discord voice channel, under Activities (desktop Discord only).
World all black? Your browser has 3D graphics (WebGL) off: turn on hardware acceleration, or try Chrome or Edge. In Firefox or Waterfox it can also be canvas protection: allow canvas with the icon in the address bar. The game now says which one it is.

Deer

Passive

32 HP

Runs away. One of two animals that drop sinew, with the alpine ibex.

Where to find it

Forest, Plains, Bamboo forest, Highlands: 105 regions. Alder Bracken Groves, Alder Hollowmere Groves, Alder Longshadow Groves, Alder Longshadow Meadows, Alder Moss Isle, Amber Briar Woods, Amber Hearth Woods, Amber Moss Woods, Amber Windmere Woods, Bracken Alder Heights, Bracken Crow Woods, Bracken Drift Isle, Bracken Moss Meadows, Bracken Raven Heights and 91 more.

What it drops

Drop	Amount	Chance
Antler	1	100%
Hide	2	100%
Raw Meat	2	100%
Sinew	1	100%

Pale ones (4% of spawns) drop 1 Pristine Trophy on top. from the game's developer · may change

Fighting it

It never attacks. It has 32 HP. How fast your weapon and spells bring it down: Time to kill. Dodging, guarding and food: Fighting.

All creatures · Materials & biomes · Regions

Updates

Every Asciilands update since 0.3.0 in plain words, newest first: what changed and what it means for you, with links to the wiki pages it touched. The wiki is brought up to date the day each one comes out.

New in 0.3.5

Game update, 28 October 2026.

A third server for Asia and Oceania, whole buildings taken down at once, plots sold with the buildings on them, a camera tilt setting, and a long list of smithing, crafting and lag fixes.

Asia Pacific server: a new server in Singapore for players in Asia and Oceania, with its own saves, like Europe and North America. Its regions have the same names and places as the other two. Pick it with the server switch at the top of the wiki: prices, the map and the town directory follow it. World
Take down building: remove a whole building from the Build dock with a Wooden Hammer: it lights up what comes down, then you stand still for 5 seconds. You get back half the materials of the pieces you placed yourself. Anyone can take down an abandoned building that has fully decayed; it falls as debris anyone can pick up. Never a Town Hall. Building
Buying a plot now gives you the buildings on it: walls, floors, doors, stations, signs, fences and empty chests. Every chest and station on the plot must be empty first. Market stalls and fields stay with their owners. Towns
Town directory: the game's public list of every town is live, so the wiki shows every town, its residents and its plots for sale on the Towns page and on each region's page.
Smithing: you can't quench a piece before it's shaped ("Shape it closer to the outline first"; below 50% fit). Forge keys work on any keyboard layout, the arrow keys follow the way the head lies, and "Too hot. Cool before striking." shows when the metal is above the gold band. Exact smithing numbers now sit behind a toggle on Inspect. The steel and iron spear art and the engraving mark on sickles are fixed, here too. Smithing
Crafting: jobs no longer get stuck at stations, and a job can be finished at any station of the same kind. Finished items show in the station's pack view. Peat and sea salt work at the campfire: 2 peat make 3 charcoal, and 2 sea salt with 3 raw meat make 3 cooked meat, with a log, charcoal or Emberstone as fuel. Stations
Combat and lag: the short freeze that hit every region every 30 minutes now comes every 6 hours, players joining a region no longer freeze the others on that server, and boss loot goes only to fighters still alive at the kill. Fighting
Building: foundations can be damaged again, stacked signs can be read, and railings no longer float above pavilions.
Companions: the saddlebag works on a pet told to stay. Progress bars no longer freeze partway, and the buy order layout is fixed. Companions
Settings: a camera tilt setting from 20 to 40 degrees; a lower tilt shows farther but can lag more. Player names are unique, ignoring capital letters (existing duplicates keep theirs). Water no longer goes missing after loading or reconnecting, and the menu music no longer turns into noise.

New in 0.3.4

Game update, 26 October 2026.

Waypoints and death markers on the map, Inspect for items, founders can move their Town Hall, buildings no longer vanish from decay, iron and steel spears, and maces hit players a bit harder again.

Inspect: items in your Pack, at stalls and in trades have Inspect, with melee damage, windup and recovery, attack stamina, reach, attack arc, gathering time and yield, protection, uses, weight, and for forged pieces grade, quality, shape, traits and maker. The same numbers are now in the game's data, so every weapon and tool page on this wiki shows its base damage, attack time, stamina, reach and arc. Iron swords hit for 28, steel maces for 46, Blacksteel battleaxes for 55.
Waypoints: right-click the World or Local map to place a marker; click one to rename or remove it. Each character keeps one primary destination and up to 10 waypoints. The primary one has a bigger flag and guides you across regions; the others show in their own region. Controls
Death markers: your last five deaths show on your maps and compass for 20 minutes, only to you. A new death becomes your destination until you pick another waypoint. Death
Towns: founders can move their Town Hall from Town T onto an unassigned plot the town already owns, on dry, level, clear ground within 18 m of where they stand, with a preview on the local map. It costs seven days of upkeep, 7 × (2 + plots + plots² ÷ 25) gold, can be done once every seven days, and claims and membership stay as they are. Founders and officers see when members were last online, leadership offers ask to confirm, and a public town directory (names, hall locations, residents and plot counts) is in the game's API. Towns
Decay: buildings no longer disappear from decay. They stop at 1% as Decayed, which Edit shows; out in the wild one hit with a suitable tool clears such a piece, and Maintain (with a wooden hammer) restores it. In crowded regions the game can clear empty, unused crafting stations that have been decayed for 7 days, and isolated building pieces after 30 days; connected buildings stay. The Field Guide now lists every decay time: wood 14 days, stone 60, metal 120, stations 6 hours of grace and then 7 times faster. Decay
Building: doorways next to uneven stairs and raised floors can be walked through again, and roofs and walls cut away indoors in more split-level houses. Building
Smithing: iron spear heads (3 iron ingots) and steel spear heads (2 steel ingots) at the Forge, put together into spears at the Workbench. Saved blanks stay workable after a long break or a reconnect, and forged items show their own icons in saddlebags. Smithing
Fighting: maces now deal 10% less to players instead of 15%. Reconnecting to the same character during the combat logout window picks it up right away with its health and cooldowns, without a new protection shield and without leaving the fight by changing region. Fighting
Other: Journal goals and hints cover the current stations, steel and Blacksteel tools, fuels, inscriptions and trading; the companion lookout goal needs a warning and a region crossing. Creatures no longer keep attacking a disconnected character, and frozen lines of wildlife are gone.

New in 0.3.3

Game update, 25 October 2026.

Meals fill much more but take more to make, fields beyond the first 10 cost 1 gold a day per 5, armor counts more against players' melee and maces hit players less, Masterwork needs a shaped blank, and spare tools are back.

Food: meals fill much more and their effect lasts longer, but they take more to make and longer to cook: a meat pie is 8 wheat + 2 cooked meat (95 fullness, was 70), a meat stew 2 cooked meat + 3 apples (85, was 50), a berry tart 12 berries + 6 wheat (85, was 45) and honey fish 3 cooked fish + 2 honey (80, was 40). Raw food fills less: an apple 6 (was 18), berries 4 (was 12) and trail mix 30 (was 60). Food
Farming: the first 10 fields stay free. After that every started group of 5 fields costs 1 gold a day (11–15 fields 1 gold, 16–20 fields 2 gold), instead of 1 gold for each extra field. Farming
Fighting: PvP melee hits no longer land late, armor counts 1.25 times against players' melee (up to 65%), and maces deal 15% less damage to players, get past at most 20% of their armor and get no bonus for hits from behind. Crossing into another region no longer clears the combat logout timer, and dagger swings look as quick as they are. Fighting
Smithing: Masterwork needs a shaped blank. The forge now caps the score by how far you moved the edges, so a barely worked blank stays Standard; every template in the game moves far enough. Emberstone fuels steel too (one stone lasts 6 batches), custom armor names survive forging, hammer designs preview as hammers, and polished tool portraits are cleaner. Quality
Tools: carry spare working tools again, as many axes or pickaxes as you like. Only the Wayfinder Lens and the Simple Bag are still one each. Tools
Building: metal chests have metal durability: they are much harder to break, axes barely hurt them, and they decay over about 121 days instead of 15. Roofs open up beneath pavilions too. Shift+I no longer switches the interior view by accident; choose it in Settings → Gameplay → Interior view. Building
Wildlife and resources: animals on town land are protected (a shield icon shows it), tamed pale animals stay pale, and water checks are better. Rare deposits and obsidian that lay outside a region's bounds were moved inside, and plants and iron outside the bounds are gone. Creatures
Meteorites: hints point the right way within 5 regions (north and south were swapped), and meteorites no longer land underwater. EU and NA both had Star Iron craters somewhere when 0.3.3 came out. Meteorites
Other: new listings show in My trades right away, and announcements pop up and are highlighted in chat.

New in 0.3.2

Game update, 24 October 2026.

Mineable obsidian got its own look and regrows piece by piece, Emberstone lasts more batches, you can carry many weapons and armor pieces again, fields beyond the first 10 cost gold, and logging out mid-fight keeps you in the world for 15 seconds.

Obsidian: what you can mine is now a cluster of black and violet glass, easy to tell from the huge dark cliffs, which are scenery. A vein grows back one piece every 2 hours, an empty vein now and then comes back all at once as a big vein, and small obsidian finds lie around the Ashlands for explorers. The old recipe that turned obsidian into a stone sickle is gone. Where to find it
Fuel and recipes: one Emberstone now lasts 12 campfire batches or 6 smelter batches. 2 acacia resin + 1 log make 3 charcoal at a campfire again, and a smelter makes 2 bronze ingots straight from 2 copper ore, 3 tin grains and 1 charcoal. Stations
Gear: carry as many weapons and armor pieces as you like again; only working tools are one of each type. Star Iron smith rank goes up now (it was stuck at Apprentice), and any recipe at the forge shows your rank and what the next one needs. Forged pickaxes look like pickaxes, Blacksteel and Star Iron axes and pickaxes can damage buildings, and forged names can be 32 characters long. Smithing
Farming: your first 10 fields are free. Each extra field costs 1 gold a day, taken from the gold you carry, even while you're offline; after 7 days unpaid the extra fields turn back to dirt. Existing farms get a week's grace, so billing starts around 31 October. An empty field clears after 7 days without planting, fields outside towns can be damaged, and a region holds 320 fields (was 256). Farming
Fighting: log out on purpose during a fight and your character stays in the world for 15 seconds. Town members can fight back against visitors, and attacking someone drops your own town protection for 30 seconds after your last attack. Nobody can attack you while a region is still loading for you. Combat is smoother, and melee hits on players allow for a little lag. Fighting
Market: take back part of a listing (an amount or Max, in My trades), Trade still opens when your last stall is gone so you can take your listings back, and the merchant asks you to confirm large trades. Market
Other: EU holds 160 players (was 150). Fences span a full building edge and join up at the corners. Settings has Toggle sprint and a filter for join and leave notices, petting has its own key (Y, can be rebound), and a held pan no longer takes F from doors and stations. Characters stuck under the ground or out at sea spawn somewhere safe, and the game's Help now links this wiki next to its search box.

New in 0.3.1

Game update, 23 October 2026.

Obsidian comes to most Ashlands regions and grows back twice as fast, plus fixes for frozen fights and lag.

Obsidian: most Ashlands regions have it now, and a deposit grows back one obsidian every 4 hours (was 8). Deposits have their own look, big black glass rocks; plain Ashlands stone no longer looks like obsidian, and the big black ridges are only scenery. Where to find it
Fixes: swinging a battleaxe at empty air no longer freezes fights in the whole region, ash monitors and other lone hunters chasing the same player no longer break combat in the Ashlands, and there's much less lag at busy times.
Other: tighter movement checks, boss kill announcements show for 4 seconds (was 12), and updates now close the servers with a "Closed for update!" message so nobody gets stuck on an old version.

New in 0.3.0: The Tempered Update

Game update, on the wiki since 23 October 2026.

The Tempered Update: design-your-own smithing with quality and smith ranks, daggers, maces, battleaxes and plate armor, Blacksteel, parries, death drops, three new creatures including the Cinder Colossus, and a reworked economy.

Smithing: design a piece before you forge it, watch the heat drift, and finish with a Tap. Every piece gets a quality score, every metal has smith ranks, and iron and better can be quenched and tempered. Smithing
New gear: daggers, maces, battleaxes, plate armor and helmets in every metal, smithing hammers, and a new top metal: Blacksteel (2 steel ingots, 1 obsidian, 1 Ember Core, fired with emberstone).
Combat: guard just before a hit to parry it, heavy weapons break tired guards, hits from behind deal 25% more, and getting hit interrupts a light swing or a bow draw. Town land now only protects that town's own members. Fighting
Death: you drop the goods in your Pack where you fell (anyone can take them for 20 minutes), tools and weapons lose 15% of their max uses, and respawning takes 20 seconds. Death
Wildlife: the Frost rhino, the Quillback (its quills make you bleed: carry a Bandage) and the Cinder Colossus, an Ashlands boss that drops Ember Cores. Wolves hunt as a pack, boars charge, bears swipe wide. Creatures
Economy: the merchant pays each character up to 300 gold a day, Gold Flecks sell for 25 gold outside that limit, market sales pay a 4% fee from 25 gold up, a new town costs 50 gold, and steel takes 3 iron ingots. Market
Servers: both realms now hold 150 players. Journal: smithing quests, a Hunting discipline and an Achievements tab. In-game Help now links to this wiki.

Getting started

From empty hands to a bronze pickaxe. Stuck? Open the Journal J and pin a goal: it shows your progress on screen. The full Field Guide is in the menu Esc.

Your first hour

Gather by hand. Left click trees and rocks (hold to keep going). F on fiber plants.
Planks → Workbench. Crafting C: 1 log → 1 plank. Build B a Workbench (4 planks).
Sticks and rope. Craft them by hand in C: 1 log → 2 sticks, 3 fiber → 1 rope. Every early tool needs them.
Stone tools. At the workbench F: Axe = 1 stick + 1 stone + 1 rope, Pickaxe = 2 sticks + 2 stone + 1 rope. Then Pack I → Equip.
Food. Trees drop apples, fiber plants drop berries. Eat from the Pack. Since 0.3.3 they fill only a little, so cook meat at a campfire as soon as you can.
Campfire + respawn. 4 stone + 3 logs. Cook meat and fish. Sit with Z to set your respawn point.
Storage chest. 4 planks + 1 rope. Anyone nearby can open it, so keep it behind walls and a closed door.
Copper + charcoal. Mine copper with the stone pickaxe. Burn 2 logs at the campfire for charcoal.
Pan for tin. Panning Tray (2 planks) at the water's edge. Hold F, release in the green band. See Panning.
Smelter → bronze. Smelter = 16 stone + 6 logs. 1 copper ore → copper ingot, 3 tin grains → tin ingot, 2 copper ingots + 1 tin ingot → 2 bronze ingots. Or skip the ingots: 2 copper ore + 3 tin grains + 1 charcoal → 2 bronze ingots. Each batch burns 1 charcoal or 3 logs.
Stonecutter + Forge. The stonecutter (12 stone + 2 sticks) makes cut stone; the forge needs 10 cut stone + 4 charcoal.
Bronze pickaxe! Forge the head (3 bronze ingots), assemble it at the workbench. Now you can mine iron.

Next goals: iron and steel tools, a house with a door, magic (Glyph Wand), and later your own town.

What comes next

Once you have a stone pickaxe, this is the whole road to the best gear. Click any item for how to get it and where.

Controls

Key	Action	Key	Action
`WASD`	Move	`I`	Pack (inventory). Number keys pick equipment; 1 is always Hands. Since 0.3.4 items in the Pack and on the market have Inspect, with damage, timing, stamina, reach, protection, condition, quality and maker. To set the hotbar, drag a tool onto slot 2–9, or hover it in the Pack and press the number. The layout is saved in this browser only.
`Space`	Jump	`J`	Journal (goals)
`Shift`	Sprint (can be rebound, or set to toggle)	`M`	Map. Choose World for the atlas. Right-click the World or Local map to place a waypoint (since 0.3.4): one primary destination that guides you across regions, plus up to 10 more per character. Click a marker to rename or remove it.
`Left click`	Gather / attack (hold to keep going)	`P`	Magic
`Right mouse`	Guard with a melee weapon, draw a bow, drag the camera while building	`K`	Trade (at a stall)
`F`	Use stations, doors, chests; pick up items (next to a chest, the closer one wins); harvest fiber; pan (doors and stations come first)	`N`	Social (friends, party)
`C`	Crafting	`T`	Town
`B`	Build	`G`	Show town plot edges
`R`	Rotate a piece / cast and reel a fishing rod	`O`	Settings (mouse sensitivity, zoom, sound)
`Z`	Rest (sets your respawn point)	`[` `]`	Zoom (or scroll)
`Alt`	Free the cursor	`Esc`	Menu, Field Guide
`Y`	Pet your companion (can be rebound)	`/unstuck`	Type in chat to get out of a locked building
`F8` (hold)	Telescope: look farther ahead	`Shift`+`I`	Cycle the indoor view

Movement keys, sprint and petting can be changed in Settings > Controls, which also has Toggle sprint. Settings > Gameplay can hide join and leave notices in chat.

Tricks the game doesn't tell you

Telescope. Hold F8 to look farther ahead and let go to come back. Scan with the mouse or the arrow keys (30° to each side). You stand still while you look.
Indoor view. Settings → Gameplay → Interior view sets how a house opens up when you walk in: Dollhouse, Roof only, Circle, Sight lines or Off. Since 0.3.3 Shift+I no longer switches it.
Aim with the mouse. With the cursor freed (Alt), bows and wands shoot toward the pointer instead of where you face.
Switch tools mid-sprint. Shift+1–9 still works, even on keyboards where Shift+1 types “!”.
World map. Double-click a region you have visited to open its local map. The scroll wheel zooms toward the pointer.
Easy to spot. Berry bushes shimmer only while fruit is left. Magic flowers glow in their own colour, brighter after dark, so night is a good time to look for them.
Always daylight. Settings > Video can keep noon light on your screen (the world clock keeps running), or try the experimental moving sun.

Did you know? The sun never really moves. Every shade on a slope is a different ASCII letter, so moving the light would re-letter whole hillsides; day and night is a colour tint laid on top. And after your first few launches, the title music plays in a different key each time (mostly major, now and then a sad minor).

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Survival & combat

Four bars to watch, what food does, what happens when you die, and what bites back.

Staying alive

Health	Attacks, fire and poison hurt you. Health comes back slowly once you stop taking damage (about 0.5 HP/s tested), but not while Hungry. Eating and resting help; fire and a roof heal faster while you rest.
Stamina	Sprinting, gathering and fighting use it. Walk or stand still to recover. Low stamina slows your swings, but you can keep harvesting on an empty bar. Food and resting at a fire speed it up.
Hunger	Work and sprinting burn food. When Hungry, stamina returns slower and you stop healing. Any bite fixes it. Snacks add a little fullness, cooked food more.
Weight	Never blocks pickups. Over your carry limit you can't sprint and walk slower, down to a crawl at 150%. A Simple Bag raises the limit (450 → 750 kg tested, just by carrying it). Taking things out of a campfire or station is never blocked by weight either.

Status effects

Effect	Damage	Stacks	Lasts	Ends with
Bleeding	2 per second a stack	up to 3	6 s	A Bandage or the Mend spell (Purify too). Quillback quills cause it.
Poisoned	1 per second a stack	up to 3	8 s	The Purify spell
Burning	2 per second	1	6 s	Getting wet puts it out and stops it starting (Purify too)
Slowed	30% slower		2 s	Only affects wildlife

Numbers from the game's developer (0.3.0). Three stacks of bleeding cost 6 HP a second, up to 36 HP if nothing stops it.

Food

Eat from the Pack I. Fullness rises right away; recovery builds over 30 seconds. A prepared dish gives one effect while it digests. Only your newest one counts. Since 0.3.3 meals fill far more and their effect lasts longer, but they need more ingredients; raw apples, berries and trail mix fill less.

Death and respawning

Your Pack goods drop where you fell: materials, ingots, food and arrows. Anyone can pick them up for 20 minutes, so go back quickly or bring friends.
Tools and weapons stay with you but lose 15% of their max uses each death. Armor, bags, kits and gold always stay.
Respawning takes 20 seconds (it was 5). Choose Respawn to return to your last rest point, even from another region.
Death markers (since 0.3.4): your five most recent deaths show on your maps and compass for 20 minutes, only to you. The newest becomes your destination, so the compass leads you back to your goods; pick another waypoint to change it.
Starving costs a quarter of your max stamina.
Set a rest point with Z next to a campfire or camp (within about 9 m). Look for "Rest point set". Moving or fighting makes you stand up. You can rest once a minute, and not within 10 s of taking damage.
If your campfire or camp is gone, you return to where you started. On EU new characters start in Hollowmere Redleaf Woods.
A Camp (10 logs + 2 rope) is a rest point out in the wild: build one before a long trip.

Fighting

Left click strikes. Hold Right mouse with a melee weapon to guard against attacks from the front. Attacks use stamina.
Parry: raise your guard as an attack winds up. Your shield glows gold while a parry is ready (a short window, at most once a second). A parry costs no stamina, staggers the attacker and leaves an attacking player open.
Heavy weapons (maces and battleaxes) cost a guard twice the stamina; with too little stamina the guard breaks. They also swing through a hit that would interrupt a lighter weapon. A battleaxe sweeps up to three targets. A mace ignores 40% of a creature's armor, but only 20% of a player's (the cap against players). Separately, a mace deals 90% damage to players (since 0.3.4; 85% in 0.3.3) dev · 0.3.5 · may change.
Hits from behind deal 25% more, except a mace against a player (since 0.3.3). Getting hit interrupts a light weapon swing or a bow draw.
How hard weapons hit: a Standard sword hits for 23 in copper up to 46 in Star Iron; daggers deal 75% of that, battleaxes 130% and maces 135%. Fine adds 10% and Masterwork 20%, rounded up, then the forged design and temper change it dev · 0.3.5 · may change. Every metal and weapon: Base damage.
Swing speed: a sword swing takes 0.64 s and its hit lands after 0.24 s. A dagger swings in 0.7 times that, a spear 1.1, a battleaxe 1.35 and a mace 1.45, and the design's swing time from the forge multiplies on top. The wait before the hit grows only a third as much: a mace still hits after 0.28 s. Since 0.3.3 the animation matches.
Bleeding: Quillback quills make you bleed. A Bandage (1 cloth + 2 fiber make 2, by hand) stops it, and so do the Mend and Purify spells.
Reach and swing arc depend on the weapon, as Inspect shows them since 0.3.4: a dagger reaches 3.5 m, swords, maces, axes and tools 4.5 m, a battleaxe 5 m and a spear 6.5 m. The arc is 126.5° for most (about 63° to each side), 168.5° for a battleaxe and 73.7° for a spear, so a spear has to point at its target. A swing hits whoever is closest to straight ahead, so it can hit a bystander. tested
Bows: hold Right mouse to draw (a full draw takes one second and slows you), release to fire. Release within 0.2 s and the shot is cancelled; before the full second it flies weaker and shorter: a quick release hits for 10, a full one-second draw for 34 dev · 0.3.5 · may change. Arrows reach 60 m. You can't guard while holding a bow. Each shot uses an arrow.
PvP: players can fight you anywhere outside towns. Town land only protects that town's own members: visitors on it can be attacked (since 0.3.0), and since 0.3.2 members can fight back against them. Attacking someone drops your own town protection until 30 seconds after your last attack.
No logging out of a fight: since 0.3.2, logging out on purpose during a fight leaves your character in the world for 15 seconds. Dropped connections, crashes and update reloads don't count. Since 0.3.3 crossing into another region doesn't clear that timer. Since 0.3.4 reconnecting to the same character within that window picks it straight back up with its health, attacks and cooldowns, but gives no new protection shield and doesn't get you out of the fight. The 15 seconds start when you disconnect and don't get longer if you keep taking hits dev · 0.3.5 · may change.
Armor softens hits, and body and head add up: a full Star Iron set gives 46% (Armor and helmets). Since 0.3.3 armor counts 1.25 times against players' melee, up to 65%: a full standard set gives 35% in iron, 41.25% in steel, 50% in Blacksteel and 57.5% in Star Iron, and a Masterwork Star Iron set reaches the 65% cap. Arrows and spells use the normal value. dev · 0.3.3 · may change
Time to kill: the calculator plans the fastest mix of swings and spells against a player in any armor, or any creature and boss.
Nobody can attack you while a region is still loading for you. That protection ends as soon as you move or act.
Defeated animals give meat and hides.

Creatures

Wolves, boars, mossbacks, the Cinder Colossus and 20 more: what each one does, what it drops and which ones you can tame are on Creatures. On the map, peach diamonds mark wildlife. How fast your weapon and spells bring each one down: Time to kill.

Moving around

Walk to a region's edge to travel. A hint near the edge names the next region. See World map.
Slopes slow you down a lot when climbing tested: about 7 m/s at a 1-in-2 grade, 1–2 m/s at 1-in-1, and almost nothing on steeper ground. Going downhill is as fast as the flat (11–13 m/s). Walk around ridges.
Shallow water (about 1.5 m deep) is waded at full speed. Deep water is swum at about 3 m/s. tested
Sprinting is roughly three times walking speed but costs stamina.
A region can hang on "Preparing the terrain… taking longer than expected" for about 90 s and then load by itself. "Retry loading" reloads the whole page.

Creatures

Every animal in the game, drawn from its own sprite: what it does, what it drops and which ones you can tame.

How wildlife works

Three temperaments. Aggressive animals attack you on sight (mossbacks, wisps). Neutral ones leave you alone until you hit them, then fight back (wolves, boars). Passive ones never attack: deer run away, and the tameable ones let you walk right up.
Loot. Every animal always drops its own item plus meat and hides; a few have an extra chance. The Drops table below has the exact amounts. dev · 0.3.1 · may change
Watch the wind-up. Attacks are telegraphed: a wolf winds up before it lunges, a mossback marks its slam with a ring on the ground, a wisp flares up before it fires. Step out of the way.
Smarter since 0.3.0. Wolves circle you as a pack and run when badly hurt. Boars charge along a straight lane, so step sideways. Bears swipe a wide arc in front of them.
Bosses. The Cinder Colossus walks the Ashlands. It moves somewhere else after each respawn and comes back every 6 to 8 hours. It drops 6–10 Ember Cores dev · 0.3.3 · may change, and they're shared by damage like its coins, so everyone who fought gets a cut. A kill is announced to the region for 4 seconds.
They have a home. Animals stay within about 130 m of where they live (wolves 180 m) and turn back when you run farther. Rest inside that circle and they come for you again. tested
Make room first. Loot rises above your head and goes straight into your pack. When it is full, the game tells you "Pack full: Could not carry" for what didn't fit.
They are solid. You bump into animals instead of walking through them.
Reach. Your reach counts from the animal's edge, so big ones can be hit from a little farther away, even up to 7 m above or below you. A bow shot hits the first animal along its line, up to 60 m.
Armor. The toughest animals have armor (on their card), which softens every hit: wild and marsh boars 2, quillbacks 3, bears 4, frost rhinos 6, the Old Mossback 8 and the Cinder Colossus 16. Bring your best weapon.
Pale animals. 4% of animals spawn as a pale variant, a washed-out version of their normal colours, and a pale kill always adds 1 Pristine Trophy to the normal drops. Wolf pups, the Old Mossback and the Cinder Colossus are never pale. Since 0.3.3 a tamed pale animal keeps its pale look. dev · 0.3.1 · may change
Safe in towns. Since 0.3.3 wildlife on claimed town land is protected and can't be attacked; a shield icon shows it.
Apex creatures. When one falls, a notice names who beat it and in which region.
On the map, peach diamonds mark wildlife. Companions can help: see Companions.

Every creature

Pictures are the game's own sprites, seen from the side. HP and armor come from the game's developer (0.3.0). Where they live comes from a visit to 41 EU regions on 21 October 2026, and the patch notes for the three new animals. Wisps were in every one of those regions; 24 had exactly one mossback, the rest none. No desert or swamp was among them, so we haven't seen where scorpions, fennecs, marsh boars and old mossbacks live. A card without a temperament is an animal we haven't tested yet.

Drops

Materials & biomes

Each kind of land has its own materials. A deposit holds a few units and grows them back one at a time. Some regions have none, so explore or trade. Finding a new material reveals its recipes and a Journal discovery.

What to gather, and with what

Each tile names where to look and the tool it takes. Click one for the deposits, a map and every pickaxe's speed on it.

What the nodes look like

Every node you can gather from, drawn from the game's own 3D models in its text-cell style, on a patch of the land it grows on. The small picture in the corner of an item page is the clean model. Click a node for its tools, map and market.

Rendered by the wiki from the game's models (checked against game 0.3.2), not screenshots: the game's own lighting differs a little by time of day and land. Each one is drawn to fit its tile, so they don't show their size. Since 0.3.2 obsidian is a cluster of black and violet glass; the huge dark cliffs in the Ashlands are only scenery.

Biomes and their rare material

The last word of a region's name tells you its biome: Cloudrest Longshadow Crags is Limestone Karst, so it has tin.

Biome	Name ends in	Regions	Rare material
Limestone Karst	…Crags	43	Tin ore; best streams for panning
Forest	…Woods	40	Glowcap (only 18:00–06:00 game time), copper, lots of wood
Plains	…Meadows	28	Quartz
Snowy Alpine	…Snowfields	27	Frost crystal
Highlands	…Heights	20	Copper ore, iron ore
Bamboo Forest	…Groves	17	Bamboo culm
Volcanic Wastes	…Ashlands	16	Obsidian, Emberstone (a long-burning fuel, very rare anywhere else), the Cinder Colossus and its Ember Cores
Desert	…Dunes	15	Desert gypsum
Cypress Swamp	…Fen	13	Bog iron
Savanna	…Grasslands	13	Acacia resin
Tropical Coast	…Coast	12	Pearl
Ocean	…Sea	82	58 of the "Sea" regions still hold some land (an island or a stretch of coast).

Four regions end in "Isle" instead: two Plains, two Forest.

Hidden finds

Quartz, silver ore and amber can turn up as hidden finds anywhere. Craft a Wayfinder Lens at a workbench and carry it: your map marks the five nearest finds as gold ◆.

Market: amber · quartz · silver ore · gold fleck

Obsidian, emberstone and Ember Cores

All three come from the Volcanic Wastes, the 16 regions whose names end in "Ashlands". Together with steel they make Blacksteel, the new metal of 0.3.0, so expect obsidian to be wanted on the market.

Obsidian: look for clusters of black and violet glass (their look since 0.3.2). The huge dark cliffs and plain Ashlands stone aren't obsidian. Most Ashlands regions have some. A vein grows back one piece every 2 hours, and now and then an empty vein comes back all at once as a big vein; other players mine them too. Small obsidian finds lie around the Ashlands for explorers. The game names no special pickaxe for it. Obsidian shows the deposits and what's on sale.
Emberstone: emberstone seams, also in the Ashlands. It fires the Blast Smelter for Blacksteel and Star Iron ingots, and since 0.3.3 it can fuel steel too (one stone for 6 batches).
The upgrades want them too: a Blast Smelter costs 4 obsidian and 6 emberstone (plus 6 cut stone), a Crucible Forge 6 of each (plus 8 cut stone), and a Blacksteel Anvil 2 obsidian and 4 Blacksteel ingots.
Ember Cores: mostly from the Cinder Colossus, 6–10 a kill, shared by damage, so hunt it as a group. Ash monitors drop one 4% of the time dev · 0.3.3 · may change, and emberstone now and then.

The Ashlands: Alder Briar, Alder Moss, Briar Redleaf, Cloudrest Whitefall, Drift Briar, Foxglove Silver, Hearth Amber, Hollowmere Hearth, Longshadow Amber, Longshadow Briar, Longshadow Elder, Raven Crow, Redleaf Amber, Silver Crow, Sunward Briar and Whitefall Alder Ashlands. Eleven of them form one connected stretch, from Longshadow Elder to Silver Crow. Briar Redleaf, Alder Briar, Longshadow Briar and Cloudrest Whitefall make a second group, four regions' walk away, and Whitefall Alder Ashlands stands alone, far from the rest. The NA map may differ.

Meteorites and Star Iron

Meteorites fall in the wilderness, days apart. Watch for the streak across the sky.
"A meteorite has fallen!" means somewhere in your region (no coordinates). "A distant star falls … to the direction" means a farther one, within 5 regions. Since 0.3.3 that direction is right (north and south used to be swapped), and meteorites no longer land underwater.
When 0.3.3 came out, EU and NA both had Star Iron craters somewhere.
A glowing crater holds 3 Star Iron. Once mined out, it's gone. Mining it takes a steel pickaxe.
Star Iron weighs 2.5 kg. Since 0.3.0 it is first smelted into a Star Iron Ingot at a Blast Smelter (1 Star Iron + 1 emberstone), and the heads are forged from ingots: 3 for a sword or pickaxe head. It no longer smelts into steel.

Panning for tin

Make a Panning Tray at a workbench (2 planks).
Equip it and stand right at the water's edge, facing the water.
Hold F to wash and release while the marker is in the green band. Each gentle wash speeds up the next and narrows the band. Two earn extra tin, three earn the most. Hold F early to queue the next wash.
Wait for "Tin retained", then repeat until the pan fills. After three gentle washes, hold F to finish. Holding throughout still gives a little tin. Walking away cancels the pan.

The first pan of a new character gave 3 tin grains and finished both tin goals. tested

Fishing

Make a fishing rod (120 uses), equip it and face open water. Hold R to choose the cast distance, release, stay still and watch the float. When BITE appears, press R to reel in. Walking away breaks the line. Cook the catch at a campfire.

Magic flowers

Flower	Where	Used for
Asterisk ✱	Forests	Fire spells
Tildereed ~	Tropical Coast (found in Hollowmere Crow Coast)	Water spells, Purify
Hashfern #	Forests (rare)	Shield spells
Crosswort +	Highlands (e.g. Hearth Drift Heights)	Healing spells
P-ony	Forests	Renewal
Glowcap	Forests, 18:00 to 06:00	Mend (alternative recipe)

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Regions

Every hex is a region, drawn from the game's own map and shaded by its real heights (or one colour per land type, if you prefer). Hexes ringed in gold have players selling there, blue ones only have buy orders. Hover or tap a hex for details and the height under the pointer.

All regions

Sort by any column. The search box above filters this list and lights up the map with it: try a name, a land type, sale>0, wanted>0 or towns:*.

Region	Towns	Land type	Finds	For sale	Wanted	Town halls	Built	Hex

How regions work

The world is a grid of hexagonal regions, each about 1.5 km across. Walk across any side of the hex and you enter the neighbour on that side, arriving on its opposite edge.
You cross as soon as you pass the seam, about 736 m from the region centre. Cutting across a hex corner can drop you into the wrong neighbour.
Every region has its own buildings, deposits, wildlife and market stalls. Each holds at most 4,096 placed pieces.
The map M shows the local area. Choose World for the atlas: regions start unknown and become discovered or visited per character. A heron companion can Scout one more ring.
Meeting friends? Their region names show in Social N.

Places worth knowing (EU)

Hollowmere Redleaf Woods	World spawn: where new characters, and anyone without a rest point, start.
Hearth Drift Heights	Its west exit sits on a 550 m ridge, so cross further south.
Ancient ruins	Broken arches and weathered stonework. Search the courtyard for supplies and the occasional old inscription.

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Stations & recipes

Build with B, use with F. Crafting C also shows what the next station up could make, and Can make filters to what you can craft right now. Stay near the station until your item is ready.

The crafting chain

Wood (by hand) → planks, sticks · Fiber (hand / loom) → rope, cloth · Stone (stonecutter) → cut stone · 2 logs (campfire) → charcoal · Ore (smelter) → ingots · Ingots (forge) → heads · Head + handle (workbench) → tool.

Stations

Campfire and smelter

Processing stations work in batches: load a batch with its fuel, it finishes over time, then take the output. Smelters burn 1 charcoal or 3 logs per batch, or 1 Emberstone; bog iron takes charcoal only, steel 2 charcoal or (since 0.3.3) 1 Emberstone, and Star Iron and Blacksteel ingots burn emberstone in a Blast Smelter (the smelter's upgrade, paid at the smelter: 6 cut stone, 4 obsidian, 6 emberstone). At the campfire one charcoal lasts 2 batches and one Emberstone 12, and in a smelter one Emberstone lasts 6 (since 0.3.2; it was 3 and 1): the station shows how many more batches the lit fuel covers, and you can load the next batch without fuel while it lasts. The input sits inside the station, and stations are open to anyone in reach, so use your own and stay close. Since 0.3.5 peat (2 peat → 3 charcoal) and sea salt (2 sea salt + 3 raw meat → 3 cooked meat) are campfire batches like the rest, with a log, charcoal or Emberstone as fuel, and finished items show in the station's pack view. A step-by-step job you started at a station can be finished at any station of the same kind, or cancelled to get the materials back.

By hand `C`

All recipes, by station →

Farming

Craft seeds C, build a matching plot on open, dry ground, and press F to plant. Berries grow in 10 minutes, wheat in 15, even while you're offline.
Equip a hoe and F on a growing crop to tend it for 50% more produce. Or fertilize with compost for double produce, ready sooner. A hoe also adds produce at harvest; better metal and finer forging add more.
Press F when ripe to collect produce and replacement seeds. Ready crops wait until you have room for the whole harvest.
Town members with building permission can work your plots. Removing a plot destroys its crop.
Upkeep: your first 10 fields are free. After that every started group of 5 fields costs 1 gold a day: 11–15 fields cost 1 gold, 16–20 fields 2 gold, 21–25 fields 3 gold (since 0.3.3; in 0.3.2 it was 1 gold for each extra field). It's taken from the gold you carry, even while you're offline. After 7 days unpaid the extra fields turn back to dirt. Fields from before 0.3.2 got a week's grace, so billing starts around 31 October. Build mode shows your fields, the daily cost and anything owed.
An empty field clears after 7 days without planting. Fields outside towns can be damaged and cleared like other wooden builds. A region holds up to 320 fields.

Chests and storage

Chests and stations work from 9 m away (12 m up or down), doors from 3.5 m; a floor or roof in between blocks them. Anyone that close can take what's in a storage chest or station. Keep supplies behind walls and a closed door, and watch out for open windows. A metal chest opens only for its owner.
Stacks go up to 999. A chest with goods in it can't be removed; empty it first. Chest Store and the pet bag have MAX and ALL buttons, and stations have Make all.
In chests and stations: Left click picks up or puts down a stack, Right click picks up half or puts down one, Shift+Left click moves a whole stack.
Craft weight counts the whole output: it must fit in your free carry capacity before the inputs are used up. tested

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Tools

Forge the metal head at a Forge, then Assemble it with a handle at a Workbench. Better metal gathers faster, uses less stamina and lasts longer. Tools only wear when they hit something; once one is worn out, repair it before you use it again.

Spare tools: since 0.3.3 you can carry as many working tools as you like again, spares included. Only the Wayfinder Lens and the Simple Bag are still one each. In 0.3.2 it was one of each tool type.

Which pickaxe mines what

Each tile shows what that pickaxe adds over the one before. Gold tiles open up new ores. Click one for everything it can mine.

Every tool × metal

Speed and stamina

From the game's tool data. Pickaxes cost more stamina and swing slower on ore, shown after the slash.

Other tools

Tool	Recipe	Use
Panning Tray	2 planks · workbench	Pan tin grains at the water's edge.
Wood Bow	Workbench · 120 uses	Hold right mouse to draw, release to shoot. Each shot uses an arrow.
Arrows	2 sticks + 1 stone + 1 fiber → 6, or 1 bronze ingot + 4 sticks + 2 fiber → 12	Ammunition.
Fishing Rod	120 uses	Hold `R` to cast, press `R` on BITE.
Wooden Hammer	For building	Repairs buildings (Maintain) and upgrades wood to stone.
Glyph Wand	2 sticks, 2 fiber, 1 charcoal · workbench	Casts your spells. Carrying it shows the mana bar.
Wayfinder Lens	Workbench	Shows the 5 nearest hidden finds as gold ◆.
Simple Bag	3 cloth + 2 rope · workbench	Carry more weight, and 999 of one item instead of 250 (the game says when you hit an item's carry limit).

Repairs and sharpening

Repair at an Anvil F: drag the tool into the slot and the Anvil shows the material cost. For plain tools it was half the head material for the wear (at least 1) when we tested. Anyone's anvil works. tested
Sharpen with a whetstone (2 stone at a stonecutter): select a tool in your Pack and choose Sharpen. The sharp edge lasts 20 uses: 10% more melee damage and less stamina per swing. It doesn't add uses or repair wear. A whetstone lasts 5 sharpenings.
Fine and Masterwork forging add 5% and 10% gathering speed. See Smithing.

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Smithing & weapons

Design the piece, forge it at a Forge, quench and temper it if the metal allows, then fit a handle at a Workbench. Every piece gets a quality score and your name, and every metal has its own smith rank. Pieces forged before 0.3.0 are Relics: they stay as they were made and can't be engraved.

Forging, step by step

Design. Pick a template, then shape it as far as your metal allows: copper uses the templates as they are, bronze changes the width of each row, iron sets the length of swords and spears (Short, Standard, Long), and steel, Blacksteel and Star Iron can curve a sword.
Heat (+25, up to 100) until the marker sits in the metal's gold band. Cool takes 10 off.
Strike to match the dashed outline: Draw narrows, Widen spreads. In the band a light blow moves an edge ½, a heavy one 1 and a Tap ⅛ (Tap from bronze up). Outside the band every blow moves only a little and adds stress.
Mind the drift. From bronze up, blows in the band run a little long when the metal is hotter than the middle and short when it's cooler. Strike near mid-band and finish with Taps.
Clear the stress. Blows outside the band add stress (light and tap +1, heavy +2). A light blow inside the band takes one off. Any stress left makes the piece Standard.
Quench and temper (optional, iron and up, not plate armor): see below. Quenching ends the shaping.

Keys: Space strike, 1 2 3 Tap, Light, Heavy, Q Draw, E Widen, R Heat, F Cool, arrow keys pick the edge: on blades (swords, daggers, spears, maces, sickles) and plate ↑ ↓ pick the part and ← → the side; on axe, pickaxe, hammer and hoe heads, which lie across the haft, it's the other way round. Since 0.3.5 the letter and number keys go by their place on the keyboard, so they work on any layout. Help → Try smithing is free practice in bronze, iron, steel and Star Iron. Discarding a paid blank loses its materials.

Plan a piece before you heat the metal: the designer shows its stats, which presses copy it into the forge and the fewest blows to Masterwork.

Metals at the forge

Design and handling

A head heavier than the recipe's first template hits harder but swings slower and costs more stamina; weight toward the tip adds a little damage. Longer blades reach farther, curved ones sweep a wider arc. The forge shows these as the piece's traits. Every template against the first one:

Long (iron and up, swords and spears): +0.6 m reach, +12% swing time, +8% stamina. Short is the opposite.
Curved (steel and up, swords): a wider arc, but up to 0.3 m less reach. A curved sword sweeps when you swing; a thin one lunges, a broad one cleaves.
Tools (pickaxes, axes, hoes, sickles): only the weight of the head counts, not its balance, length or curve. A head heavier than the plain template gathers up to 10% faster, hits up to 10% harder and lasts up to 15% longer, but from heavy 0.5 it costs 1 stamina more a swing; a light one (−0.5 or lighter) saves 1 but gathers slower. A smithing hammer only gets durability (up to +15%).

The best outline for every weapon, metal and goal: Best weapons.

Quality

Every piece gets a score out of 100. It starts at 100 and loses 0.4 for each sixteenth of edge error, 1 for each blow beyond what a row needs, and 3 for each stress mark. You can't finish a piece below 50% fit, and since 0.3.5 you can't quench it either: "Shape it closer to the outline first. Quenching ends shaping."

Shape the blank (since 0.3.3). A blank starts with every edge at 4. The forge caps the score at 79, plus 21 for every 4 widths its twelve edges have moved from there in all, up to 100. A blank you barely touch stays Standard; Fine needs ¼ of movement and Masterwork just over 3 (49 sixteenths). Every template in the game moves far more (the Breastplate, the least, moves 10), so this only stops outlines that stay close to width 4, like a few wide battleaxes. The designer warns you when a design can't reach Masterwork. Pieces forged before 0.3.3 keep their grade.

Quality	Needs	Bonus
Standard	Under 80, or any stress left	None
Fine	Score 80+, no stress	+20% durability, +10% melee damage (rounded up), +5% gathering speed, 1 stamina less per swing
Masterwork	Score 95+, no stress, a shaped blank	+40% durability, +20% melee damage (rounded up), +10% gathering speed, 1 stamina less per swing

Masterwork plate armor and helmets protect 20% more than their base: a Masterwork Blacksteel armor shows 35% instead of 29%, a Star Iron one 40% instead of 33% (seen on real pieces: Masterwork iron armor 24%, steel armor 28.8%, iron helmet 9.6%). Fine pieces protect more too; we haven't seen one yet to say how much. Star Iron below Masterwork is capped at 440 uses instead of 560. A piece at 98% fit or better with no stress gets a gleaming edge.

Base damage

Quench and temper

Water hits hardest and oil lasts longest. Steel and up then take a temper: straw for the most damage, blue for the most durability.

Quench (iron and up)	Damage	Durability	Notes
Oil, in the gold band		+5%	The safe choice.
Water, in the gold band	+8%	−5%	Warps the piece if it's uneven (left and right edges differ by more than 1 in total) or very hot (above the top quarter of the band).
Either, outside the band (slack)	−3%

Temper colour	Heat	Damage	Durability
None (brittle)			−20%
Straw, keenest	40–50	+5%	−8%
Bronze	32–40	+2%
Purple	26–32		+6%
Blue, toughest	20–26	−3%	+12%

Tempering is for steel, Blacksteel and Star Iron after an oil or water quench: reheat, then temper as it cools through the colour you want. A quenched steel piece you never temper is brittle and loses 20% durability. Quench and temper multiply.

Handles, bindings and uses

Bonus uses add up. A Wooden Handle is made and fitted from 2 sticks in one step; craft Reinforced or Antler handles at the Workbench first. Sinew has no recipe: deer and alpine ibex drop it. Take apart at a Workbench gives back the head, handle and binding to swap a head onto a new handle; repair the tool first.

Handle × binding

Handle	No binding	Leather (+5%)	Sinew (+10%)
Wooden (2 sticks)	+0%	+5%	+10%
Reinforced (+10%)	+10%	+15%	+20%
Antler (+15%, +1 damage, −1 gathering stamina)	+15%	+20%	+25% best

Durability calculator

Works for every tool and weapon: handles, bindings and forging quality add up, as the Workbench shows when you assemble.

Final uses

Metal	Standard, wooden	Standard, antler + sinew	Fine, antler + sinew	Masterwork, antler + sinew
Copper	60	75	87	99
Bronze	160	200	232	264
Iron	240	300	348	396
Steel	320	400	464	528
Blacksteel	440	550	638	726
Star Iron	440*	550*	638*	924

*Below Masterwork, Star Iron counts as 440 base uses, the same as Blacksteel; only Masterwork unlocks its full 560. Sharpening doesn't add uses. Design, quench and temper change durability further (see above).

Longest-lasting: a Masterwork Star Iron head + antler handle + sinew: 924 uses, +20% and +1 damage, and +10% more for 20 uses after each sharpening. An oil quench and a blue temper raise its durability further.

Engraving

At the Anvil you can give a forged piece a surface, a pattern, an inlay, a hilt finish and one of 24 maker's marks. An inlay fills a pattern or mark. Clearing it all grinds the engraving off.

Unlocks at	Surface	Pattern	Hilt finish	Maker's marks
Apprentice	Polished, Hammered	Waves, Stars, Line	Plain, Blackened (2 charcoal)	♦ ♣ ♠ ♥ ☼ ♪ ♫ ▲
Journeyman	Etched	Runes, Vines, Scales	Gilded (2 gold flecks), Silvered (1 silver ingot)	Ω Σ Φ Θ δ ∞ ≡ §
Master		Knotwork, Flames, Lightning	Pearl-set (1 pearl), Ember-set (1 emberstone)	¶ ↑ ⌂ ☺ ♀ ♂ π µ

Inlay	Anvil	Costs
Copper	Any	1 copper ingot
Gold, Pearl, Silver	Steel Anvil	3 gold flecks · 1 pearl · 1 silver ingot
Ember, Star	Blacksteel Anvil	2 emberstone · 1 Star Iron ingot

Ranks, hammers and workshop

Rank, hammer and anvil all make your blows land truer: your rank and your hammer cut the random wobble, a better anvil the heat drift.

Smith ranks

Every metal from bronze up has its own rank: Apprentice, Journeyman, Master. A Master in iron is still an Apprentice in steel until they work steel. Copper and tin have no ranks.
Heat decides where a blow lands. From bronze up, a blow struck hotter than the middle of the gold band does more, a cooler one runs short, and one dead in the centre lands true. The heat label tells you which you'll get. Harder metals drift more (bronze least, Blacksteel and Star Iron most).
Rank only changes the wobble. On top of the heat there's a small random wobble: an Apprentice gets all of it, a Journeyman half, and a Master none, so every blow lands exactly where the heat says.
Ranking up: keep forging that metal. Every head or armor piece you finish counts the ingots it used, old heads too. Journeyman also takes 2 pieces at Fine or better; Master takes 2 Masterworks in bronze and 3 in every other metal. You're promoted the moment you finish the piece that meets the requirement.
Your progress: open any recipe at the forge. Since 0.3.2 it shows your rank in that metal and what the next one needs, like "6 of 10 ingots, 1 of 2 Fine pieces to Journeyman".
Engraving options unlock with your best rank in any metal.

Metal	Journeyman	Master
Bronze	10 ingots + 2 Fine	40 ingots + 2 Masterworks
Iron	16 ingots + 2 Fine	60 ingots + 3 Masterworks
Steel	21 ingots + 2 Fine	75 ingots + 3 Masterworks
Blacksteel	10 ingots + 2 Fine	36 ingots + 3 Masterworks
Star Iron	6 ingots + 2 Fine	24 ingots + 3 Masterworks

From the game's developer (0.3.0 and after 0.3.1; rechecked for 0.3.3 on 25 October 2026, unchanged). The counts are cumulative and kept per metal: everything you've worked in a metal counts towards Master too. Ingots count once they're worked into a finished head or armor piece. Star Iron ranks go up since 0.3.2; before that everyone was stuck at Apprentice. The forge recipe shows the current numbers.

Smithing hammers

A smithing hammer in your Pack takes some of the random wobble off your blows. Its forging quality sets how much: a Standard hammer leaves 80% of the wobble, Fine 60%, Masterwork 40%.

Carry it, don't equip it. It works from your Pack, not from a chest. It has to be a whole hammer: forge the head, then fit a handle at a Workbench. A loose head doesn't count.
Quality matters, metal doesn't. Of the hammers in your Pack that fit the work, the forge takes the best quality. A Masterwork bronze hammer steadies bronze as much as a Masterwork Star Iron one. A worn-out hammer doesn't count.
Check the forge. The workshop line at the top of the forge names the hammer it counts, like "Fine hammer"; hover over it for "A steadier hand". If no hammer is listed, none of yours fits this metal.
Where it helps most: Blacksteel and Star Iron while you're an Apprentice. A Masterwork hammer brings a heavy blow from ±3 down to ±1. On iron and steel a Standard hammer only steadies taps; heavy blows need a Fine one. On bronze only a Masterwork hammer steadies heavy blows.
What it doesn't change: heat still decides how far a blow runs (the drift; a better anvil cuts that), the forge decides how fast metal cools, and the score and Masterwork rules stay the same.
Not for building. The Wooden Hammer is a different item: Maintain, Upgrade to stone and Take down building all need it, and a smithing hammer doesn't count there. A Wooden Hammer doesn't steady the forge either.
A heavier hammer head only adds durability (up to +15%). The game doesn't say whether forging wears a hammer down.

Workshop upgrades

Station	First upgrade	Second upgrade
Forge	Bellows Forge: metal cools 25% slower. 6 planks, 4 leather, 2 iron ingots	Crucible Forge: 50% slower. 8 cut stone, 6 obsidian, 6 emberstone
Anvil	Steel Anvil: blows run 20% truer (less heat drift); gold, pearl and silver inlays. 6 steel ingots	Blacksteel Anvil: 40% truer; ember and star inlays. 4 Blacksteel ingots, 2 obsidian
Smelter	Blast Smelter: the only smelter hot enough for Blacksteel and Star Iron ingots. 6 cut stone, 4 obsidian, 6 emberstone	--

The owner pays for an upgrade at the station (costs from the game's developer). The best anvil within 8 m of your forge counts.

Armor and helmets

Plate armor and helmets are forged like everything else (no handle needed) and worn from the Pack. Better metal protects more and weighs less. Masterwork adds 20% of the base on top (Blacksteel armor 29% → 35%, Star Iron 33% → 40%), and Fine adds some too. Compare pieces of the same quality: a Masterwork Blacksteel armor (35%) beats a Standard Star Iron one (33%). A leather tunic gives 10% and a hood 4%. Body and head add up, so a full set is armor plus helmet. Since 0.3.3 armor counts 1.25 times against players' melee, up to 65% damage reduction; arrows and spells use the normal value dev · 0.3.3 · may change. The full-set table below shows both.

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Building

Build B: start with a foundation on dry, level ground, then add walls, a doorway and a roof. A green preview means OK; red tells you why not. R rotates floors, roofs and stairs, walls turn to fit their edge, Esc finishes. Walls and floors always attach to a foundation or floor.

Building pieces

Keep it standing

Decay	Outside towns everything wears down: wooden pieces in 15 days, stone in 61, a workbench in about 2. Since 0.3.4 nothing vanishes from decay alone: a piece stops at 1% as Decayed, and out in the wild one hit with a suitable tool clears it. Town land stops decay. Every rate is under Decay outside towns below.
Go higher	Upgrade to stone with a wooden hammer; the button says what's missing. Stone supports allow a 3rd and 4th storey. Put upper floors at stair landings.
Damage	Axes damage wood, pickaxes damage stone and metal (Blacksteel and Star Iron ones too since 0.3.2). Town buildings are much tougher, and a Town Hall can't be damaged while its town exists. Fields outside towns can be damaged and cleared like wooden builds. Breaking a support can bring down the pieces above it.
Loot	A destroyed chest spills its contents, and anything left on the ground disappears after 5 minutes. Destroyed pieces drop ¼ of their materials; disassembling your own gives back ½ (rounded down). Remove chests and furnishings from a support first, and start at the top.
Take down a building	Since 0.3.5 you can remove a whole building at once: click Take down building in the Build dock, then the building. It lights up first: amber comes down, red falls with it, and the panel says what you get back. Confirm, then stand still for 5 seconds with a Wooden Hammer in your Pack; moving stops it. You get back half the materials of the pieces you placed yourself, and pieces resting on it fall too. It works on your own buildings and on abandoned ones that have fully decayed (those fall as debris anyone can pick up), never on a Town Hall. A very big building has to be taken apart in parts first.
Doors	Your own doors open for you. Town members need building permission, and a plot's owner can use the doors on their plot. Friends get no extra access. Chests and stations are open to anyone in reach.
Region cap	Each region holds 4,096 pieces for all players together, including stations, chests and doors. Build `B` shows the count. At the limit new pieces are refused and cost nothing.

Decay outside towns

Without town land under it, everything you build wears down. Until 0.3.4 it fell at 0%; now it stops at 1% and stays as a Decayed piece (see below). We measured this on about 100,000 buildings seen on EU on 20 October 2026. The rules below match 93–100% of the worn pieces of almost every type (doors 85%, the anvil about 75%). The rest had worn further than decay alone explains, most likely from damage. tested Version 0.2.11 then cut stone to 60 days and metal to 120, so those rows use the game's new numbers.

What	Safe for	Then wears down over	Maintain with
Wooden pieces (foundations, walls, floors, roofs, doors, stairs…)	1 day	14 days	Planks
Stone pieces	1 day	60 days	Cut stone
Storage chest, signs	1 day	14 days	Planks
Metal chest (since 0.3.3) dev · 0.3.3 · may change	1 day	120 days	not confirmed
Workbench, loom, inscription table, market stall, fence, camp	6 hours	2 days	Planks
Campfire, smelter, stonecutter, forge	6 hours	about 8½ days*	Cut stone
Anvil	6 hours	about 17 days*	Metal ingots
Wheat and berry plots	Don't decay, but an empty one clears after 7 days without planting, and outside towns they can be damaged (since 0.3.2).

* Before 0.2.11 stone stations took 52 days and the anvil 104, because stations wear 7 times faster than pieces. These two times assume that's still so; we haven't measured them since the update.

Stations wear 7 times faster than building pieces of the same material and get only 6 hours of grace instead of a day. A workbench out in the wild is fully decayed after about two and a quarter days.
Decay is steady and keeps running while you are offline. A wooden wall is at 50% seven days after its first day.
Maintain (Build B, wooden hammer in your pack, within 9 m) refills the piece and restarts its grace. It costs 1 material per 10% missing, rounded up: a wall at 95% costs 1 plank, at 50% it costs 5. At 90% or more it always costs just 1.
"Metal lasts 120 days", as the game's Maintain tip says, only applies to the anvil, the one metal station, and stations wear 7 times faster, so about 17 days. A metal chest wore like wood until 0.3.3. Since then it gets the full 120 days, about 0.83% a day, so about 121 days from new to gone without damage or maintenance; chests don't wear faster like stations do. It's also much harder to break, and axes barely hurt it. dev · 0.3.3 · may change
Decayed, not gone (since 0.3.4): passive decay stops at 1%. The piece stays and Edit shows it as Decayed. Maintain (it needs a wooden hammer) restores its condition and starts the grace period again. Out in the wild, one hit with a suitable tool clears a decayed piece. Before 0.3.4 a piece collapsed at 0%.
Clean-up in crowded regions (since 0.3.4): where a region fills up, the game can clear long-abandoned things: empty, unused crafting stations that have been decayed for 7 days, and isolated building pieces after 30 days. Connected buildings stay.
Town land stops decay for every building piece on it (all 34,683 we saw). It doesn't repair them: pieces that wore down before the land was claimed stay at that condition (about 1,700 did), so maintain them once. Stations and chests there are protected too, except 86 of about 2,900, almost all owned by players outside that town. The Field Guide (0.3.4) gives the rule: a station on town land must belong to a town member or stand on its owner's own plot. If a town's treasury runs dry and it doesn't pay within 7 days, the town lapses, its land is released and everything on it decays like the rest.

Tips from building

Build reach is 18 m up or down, and a foundation can attach up to 6 m lower than the one next to it, so a build can step down a slope.
Stations and chests go on slope decks, wheat and berry plots can go under a roof, and town halls and market stalls can stand on foundations and floors, even over water.
A foundation sits at the highest ground under it. On a slope its downhill edge can float metres up (3.8 m measured), and a doorway there can't be reached. Put doorways where the floor is within about 1 m of the ground. tested
You need to stand close to remove a piece (it worked within 6 m, failed at 11 m). Remove a doorway's door first. tested
Standing on a raised slab can put a station below you "out of reach". Step off. tested
Chests and stations can go indoors on a foundation; two chests fit on one 6 m tile. tested
Sign posts hold 3 lines of up to 24 characters, readable within 8 m, and follow the same language rules as chat.
Windows block you like walls. Roofs hide while you're inside, in rooms up to three storeys tall, and since 0.3.3 also while you stand beneath an open pavilion. A split-level build on uneven ground counts as one room, and flat roofs can sit at ridge height. Since 0.3.4 roofs and walls also cut away in split-level houses with small gaps in the walls.
Since 0.3.4 open doorways next to uneven stairs or raised floors can be walked through again.
Floors and roofs need a wall or post below them, or a connected deck edge.
Since 0.3.2: fences span a full building edge and join up at the corners, walking into a wall no longer makes you jump, and Town Hall placement says why it can't go somewhere.
Since 0.3.0: doors push people aside instead of closing on them, your own pet no longer blocks you, houses on slopes with raised sections count as one room, balconies stay visible indoors, and upper floors on high hills can be picked and built on. Jumps off roofs and decks are smoother, and wall jumps are back.

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Towns & friends

Why a town? Town buildings don't decay like wild ones and are much tougher, and town land protects its members from PvP.

Find a town Every town in the game, from its own town directory.

Founding a town

Connect Discord and discover iron ingots.
Build a Town Hall from Build B → Settlement: 40 planks, 24 cut stone, 8 rope, 2 iron ingots. Starting a town also costs 50 gold, and the new town begins with 50 gold in its treasury.
A region holds at most 3 towns. Halls stand at least 200 m apart, with two empty plots between a new hall and another town's land. You start with one 50 × 50 m plot.
Open Town T to invite players nearby or share an invite link (they must accept).
Members contribute gold; the founder and officers spend it to claim neighbouring plots. Each new plot costs more: 30 + 12 × plots already owned.

Rules

Upkeep	Paid every day from the treasury, more for bigger towns: Town `T` shows the amount. The game's code for moving the hall (0.3.4) charges seven days of upkeep as 7 × (2 + plots + plots² ÷ 25, rounded down), so a day costs about 3 gold with 1 plot, 16 with 10, 52 with 25 and 152 with 50. Unpaid upkeep must be cleared within 7 days or the town loses its land.
Daily tax	The founder can set a daily tax from 0 to 50 gold in Town `T`. Residents and officers pay it into the treasury, but only on days they spend in town.
See plots	Press `G` (or the Town border button; since 0.3.4 they stay in sync). Green = for sale, purple = yours. Walk onto a plot for sale and press `F` to buy it; the gold goes to the treasury. Since 0.3.5 the buildings on it come with it: walls, floors, doors, stations, signs, fences and empty chests become yours (the plot card says "Buildings, empty chests and stations included"). Every chest and station on the plot must be empty first ("Empty all chests on this plot before buying."). Market stalls and fields stay with their owners.
Your plot	You can always build on your own plot, even if your role can't. Only you and the founder build there. Buyers who aren't members stay visitors, but they can use the doors on their own plot. The hall plot can't be sold.
Selling plots	Founders and officers sell plots in Town → Plots: pick a plot, choose who can buy (anyone or residents) and set a price. The founder can claim unowned plots for free. An owned plot can only be taken back or sold again once its owner has been away for 7 days; its card says if they played this week. No refunds.
Roles	The founder appoints officers. Officers invite players, sell plots and spend gold. Residents build per town policy. New members joining by link start as residents. The founder can hand leadership to a resident or officer; it asks to confirm, and the founder steps down once they accept. Founders and officers see when members were last online (since 0.3.4; older records show unknown until that character plays again). Renamed characters update in the roster when they next visit the town's region.
Clearing land	Founders and officers can remove anything built on their own town land. Members can build onto each other's pieces there, old foundations too.
Name	A town without a name carries its founder's, like "Gary's Hold". Visitors see how many people live there.
Safety	Claimed town land protects that town's own members from combat. Visitors on it can be attacked (since 0.3.0), and since 0.3.2 members can fight back. Attacking someone drops your own protection until 30 seconds after your last attack. Outside towns anyone can fight you. Since 0.3.3 wildlife on town land is protected too (shield icon).
Market fee	A market stall on town land pays its 4% sales fee to that town's treasury.
Chests	Chests near a town hall can be opened again (0.3.0 fixed it).
Moving the hall	Since 0.3.4 the town owner can move the Town Hall from Town `T` (Relocate Town Hall), with a preview on the local map, once every 7 days. It costs seven days of upkeep from the treasury (112 gold for a 10-plot town, 364 for 25 plots), and the town can't be in upkeep debt. The new spot must be inside the town's own claimed land, not on a plot that's owned or for sale, on dry ground with a slope under about 22°, clear of other buildings and scenery, and within 18 m of where you stand. Nobody may stand on the old or the new spot, anything attached to the hall has to come off first, and you can't move it within 10 seconds of a fight. Only the hall moves: the town border and the plots stay as they are dev · 0.3.5 · may change.
Town directory	The game's public API lists every town: its name, where its hall stands, how many live there and how many plots are claimed, owned or for sale. Members, the treasury and other town details stay private. It went live with 0.3.5; the wiki shows it below and on every region's page.
Releasing land	The founder can give a plot back to the wilderness from its plot card (click Release land twice). No refund, never the hall plot, and every remaining plot must still connect to the Town Hall, so release from the outside in. To remove the Town Hall itself, release all other land first.
One per region	You can lead one town per region, also after a town is handed to you.
Leaving	Your buildings stay yours if you leave. A plot that was sold to members only goes back to the town.

Find a town

Every town in the game, from its own town directory: who has room, and who sells plots. Search a name or a region.

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Friends and parties

Open Social N. Connect Discord to add friends, form parties and join towns. Copy your friend code or enter theirs.
A party holds up to eight players. Invitation links last 24 hours; accept them in Social once you're in the world.
Blocking someone stops their invitations and hides their party chat and presence, but keeps you both in any shared party or town.
Your party stays together through reconnects. Party chat history clears when you reconnect.
Online friends have a Message button, and Tab completes a name after /w.

Companions

One animal friend at a time. Best picks: Boar for hauling (90 kg), Wolf Pup for fights, Fox for extra food.

Companion	Likes	Taming	Talent	Saddlebag
Fox	Berries	Easy starter.	Sniffs farther and is twice as likely to find bonus food when you gather ordinary trees and plants.	4 types · 30 kg
Fennec Fox	Berries	Offer berries.	Warns you about scorpions from farther away.	3 types · 15 kg
Red Panda	Berries	Offer berries.	Sniffs out fruit and honey in trees and helps you find it while gathering.	4 types · 30 kg
Wolf Pup	Raw Meat	Give it time to finish each mouthful.	At bond 5 it hits twice as hard as other companions when helping you fight wildlife.	5 types · 45 kg
Boar	Apples	Approach while it's calm. A hurt boar needs time to recover first.	The pack mule: by far the biggest saddlebag.	8 types · 90 kg
Heron	Raw Fish	Stand still with fish and let it come to you (3 s of stillness first; moving makes it cautious again).	At bond 2 it can Scout: reveals one more ring of terrain on the world map.	2 types · 10 kg

How to tame

Carry its favourite food, walk up slowly and press F to offer it (from within about 7 m).
Three accepted offers make it your companion. Wait 5 s between offers.
You can only have one. A new friend replaces the old one, so empty its saddlebag and finish any Fetch trip first. The game asks first: press F again within a few seconds to confirm.

Bond levels

It levels up by spending time with you.

Follows you. Pet it with Y (lifts its mood once a minute) and feed it.
Sniff out. Points out berries and rare materials nearby (heron: Scout instead).
Fetch. Right-click a ground item within 40 m with empty hands (slot 1) to send it.
Saddlebag. Carries items for you. Items already in the bag stay even over the limit.
Assist. Helps you fight wildlife.

Never dies. When badly hurt it limps home, rests 2 minutes and comes back with its items. Companions never starve.
Favourite food restores its hunger and mood. A happy pet uses its abilities sooner.
Talents only work while it's following you and nearby.

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Market & prices

Live player prices from every region's market stalls.

How trading works

Merchant: walk to any market stall and press F, or open Trade K. Trading needs a stall in reach. Under Supplies you buy from or sell to the merchant. It only trades the 8 basics below, and pays each character up to 300 gold a day for them: Left today in the trade window shows what's left. Gold Flecks sell for 25 gold each outside that limit. What you sell goes into the merchant's stock and what you buy comes out of it, so it can run out. Since 0.3.2 it asks you to confirm large trades: 100 or more items, 100 gold or more, or a buy that costs half your gold.
Fee: market sales and buy order fills pay 4% (sales under 25 gold are free). A stall on town land pays it to that town.
Player offers: each stall has its own offers. Its builder and their town can sell there; anyone can buy. Choose Sell, pick an item, set quantity and gold per item, and List. You get the gold when it sells, even offline. Buyers can take part of a stack. Take back unsold items in My trades; since 0.3.2 you can take back part of a listing (an amount or Max), and if your last stall is gone, Trade still opens so you can take your listings back. An offer at another stall tells you whose stall it is and which way to walk.
Buy orders: players also post "wanted" orders: what they'll pay for an item. The gold is held when you post one and paid out as sellers deliver; an order stays open 7 days. They stay open while you're offline. The best one shows as Best buy order below, and all of them on the Trade board.
Stalls behind your town walls are only reachable by townmates (doors stay shut for others). Put a stall outside if you want customers. A sign post nearby helps.

The merchant

Item	Merchant pays you	Merchant charges
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Since 0.3.0 the merchant pays each character up to 300 gold a day for supplies. When that's used up it says to come back tomorrow. Gold Flecks sell for 25 gold each and don't count toward that limit. Selling adds to the merchant's stock and buying takes from it.

Live prices

only items players are selling

Green = the cheapest a player is selling it for right now, and where. Blue = the best open buy order. Exchange = what the server exchange paid, for items it held in stock, as last read in the game. The game's public market data doesn't include the exchange, so that column isn't kept up to date. Click a column to sort; click a region to see it on the map.

Item	Cheapest	Qty	# listings	Where to buy	Best buy order	Exchange

Top buy order holders

Where the most gold sits in open buy orders: price × how many are still wanted, added up per region. The game's public data doesn't say which player posted an order, so this goes by region.

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Craft or buy?

Every craftable item on sale, compared with buying its raw materials at today's cheapest offers (or from the merchant). Doesn't count your time.

Asciilands Wiki

World map

Get from A to B

Contents

Quick answers

The wiki inside the game

New in 0.3.5

The gear path

Shortcuts the game doesn't tell you

Servers

Items

Deer

Where to find it

What it drops

Fighting it

Recipes

Alternative routes

Infographics

Updates

New in 0.3.5

New in 0.3.4

New in 0.3.3

New in 0.3.2

New in 0.3.1

New in 0.3.0: The Tempered Update

Getting started

Your first hour

What comes next

Controls

Tricks the game doesn't tell you

Survival & combat

Staying alive

Status effects

Food

Death and respawning

Fighting

Creatures

Moving around

Creatures

How wildlife works

Every creature

Drops

Materials & biomes

What to gather, and with what

What the nodes look like

Biomes and their rare material

Hidden finds

Obsidian, emberstone and Ember Cores

Meteorites and Star Iron

Panning for tin

Fishing

Magic flowers

Live map

Busiest building sites

How to read it

Regions

All regions

How regions work

Places worth knowing (EU)

Player groups on NA

Busiest markets right now

Stations & recipes

The crafting chain

Stations

Campfire and smelter

By hand C

Farming

Chests and storage

Tools

Which pickaxe mines what

Every tool × metal

Speed and stamina

Other tools

Repairs and sharpening

Smithing & weapons

Forging, step by step

Metals at the forge

Design and handling

Quality

Base damage

By hand `C`