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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"; since 0.4.0 each has 2 to 14 veins. 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 (a few of the 0.4.0 animals have only a chance at theirs). 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 (on the lawless jungle isle everything but gold drops). 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, or sleep in a bed (0.4.0). 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 up to 300 gold a day across all your characters), or list items at your own stall. Market shows what's worth crafting to sell.

The wiki inside the game

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

• Three realms: Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. Pick one on the title screen. The NA and AP maps 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. Since 0.4.0 Discord sign-in works on game portal sites too.
• 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.

Items

Every item in the game. Click one for its stats, live price, every way to make it, what it's used for, and a from-scratch shopping list.

Recipes

All recipes from the game's data, grouped by where you make them. Processing recipes (campfire, smelter) also need fuel and take time; forge recipes are made in the smithing mini-game.

Alternative routes

Everything that can be made more than one way.

Infographics

The printable guide sheets. Click one to open it full size.

Your First Hour Ores & Materials Where to farm what Tools & Gear Every Sword Stations & Crafting Magic & Inscriptions Companions & Pets Building & Towns

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.

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

1. Gather by hand. Left click trees and rocks (hold to keep going). F on fiber plants.
2. Planks → Workbench. Crafting C: 1 log → 1 plank. Build B a Workbench (4 planks).
3. Sticks and rope. Craft them by hand in C: 1 log → 2 sticks, 3 fiber → 1 rope. Every early tool needs them.
4. Stone tools. At the workbench F: Axe = 1 stick + 1 stone + 1 rope, Pickaxe = 2 sticks + 2 stone + 1 rope. Then Pack I → Equip.
5. 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.
6. Campfire + respawn. 4 stone + 3 logs. Cook meat and fish. Sit with Z to set your respawn point.
7. Storage chest. 4 planks + 1 rope. Anyone nearby can open it, so keep it behind walls and a closed door.
8. Copper + charcoal. Mine copper with the stone pickaxe. Burn 2 logs at the campfire for charcoal.
9. Pan for tin. Panning Tray (2 planks) at the water's edge. Hold F, release in the green band. See Panning.
10. 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.
11. Stonecutter + Forge. The stonecutter (12 stone + 2 sticks) makes cut stone; the forge needs 10 cut stone + 4 charcoal.
12. Bronze pickaxe! Forge the head (3 bronze ingots), assemble it at the workbench. Now you can mine iron.

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

Movement keys, sprint and petting can be changed in Settings > Controls, which also has Toggle sprint; since 0.4.0 Attack, Telescope, Eat and the spell keys can be bound to keys or mouse buttons too. The indoor view is under Settings > Gameplay > Interior view. Settings > Gameplay can hide join and leave notices in chat.

Phones and tablets (0.4.0)

• Touch mode turns on by itself on phones and tablets, in full screen. Add ?touch=0 to the game's address to turn it off. Since 0.4.3 the Discord Activity plays in touch mode on phones too. Chat stays clear of the buttons and shows "Chat (!)" while whispers are unread.
• The main button is named after your tool: Gather, Chop, Mine, Cut or Hit. You can tap the hotbar while walking, and pushing the stick to the edge sprints.
• Bows and spells fire where you face. At the anvil, tap an edge to aim and tap again to strike.
• Pack and Storage scroll on swipe; hold an item to drag it.
• The minimap is hidden; tap the region panel to open the map.
• Settings > UI Size: Small, Normal or Large.

Good to know since 0.4.0

• Smaller download: about 14 to 19 MB (under 6 MB compressed), kept between visits.
• GPU renderer (Settings > Video): on by itself with WebGL 2 and a separate graphics card, off on built-in graphics unless you turn it on. It switches itself off where it's slower, and your own choice always wins. Busy towns run almost twice as fast.
• Other players and creatures show within about 250 m.
• Journal goals pay 810 gold in all. New goals: set a place to wake up, an iron pickaxe, a steel pickaxe and a first anvil.
• Mining: bronze and iron pickaxes mine 2 ore a swing, steel 3.
• Names are 3 to 24 characters: Latin letters (accents are fine), digits, spaces, _ and -. Look-alike names are blocked and staff names reserved.
• Chat: three dots show over a player who's typing, a whisper while chat is closed marks Chat with (!), you keep moving when you open chat, and chat history stays when you change region.
• Taking damage with a menu or the map open flashes the screen border. The Pack sorts by weight, Build search covers every category, and items dropped in water float.
• Helpers: a new staff role with a green HELPER tag, from the Discord Helper role. Helpers can warn, kick, mute for up to a day and look players up; they can't ban or use town tools.

From the devlog and the game's developer dev · 0.4.0 · may change.

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.

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Survival & combat

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

Staying alive

Status effects

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.

The new lands' food (0.4.0)

Nine new campfire dishes, each cooked with a log, give small effects that last while that serving still has energy; a newer dish replaces the effect. Seeing a dish's regional ingredient reveals its recipe. They're all in the table above.

• Eaten raw (fullness): dates and bananas 6, cloudberries, prickly pears and huckleberries 5, lingonberries and bilberries 4, pine nuts 3.
• Regional meat: since 0.4.2 caribou, moose, elk and black bears drop their own meat (before that the dishes couldn't be cooked). Each roasts into 1 cooked meat in 12 s.
• Fields regrow in 45 to 90 minutes, depending on the food.
• Regional crops: cacao (rainforest), dates (oasis) and cloudberries (tundra) grow in 30, 30 and 25 minutes and give 3 plus the seed back. Huckleberries can be farmed too, only where they grow wild. They plant in a Berry Plot or Berry Planter, only in their home biome; anywhere else the plot sows berries. New seeds only come from picking the wild plant, 1 in 8 picks.

From the game's developer dev · 0.4.0 · may change.

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 stay, except on lawless land (below).
• 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.
• Since 0.4.0 a bed (6 logs + 4 fiber) sets where you wake up, like a campfire or camp. On the lawless jungle isle death drops your whole Pack, tools, weapons, worn armor and bags included; your gold stays dev · 0.4.0 · may change.
• 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 (the 400 ms before the hit lands; you can parry again after 1 s dev · 0.4.0 · may change). 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 50 in Star Iron (since 0.4.0; Jadesteel 46); 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. Special arrows: Arrows.
• 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. Since 0.4.0 there's no friendly fire inside a party, and on the lawless jungle isle PvP is always on.
• 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 0.4.0 the 15 s count from the last damage you dealt or took, and a creature chasing you alone doesn't count dev · 0.4.0 · may change. 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.
• 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.

Arrows

A full draw spends boss arrows first, then venom, eagle and owl arrows; "quick shots use plain arrows until you run out". From the game's developer dev · 0.4.0 · may change; the recipes are the game's own.

Creatures

Wolves, boars, mossbacks, the four bosses and 41 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. Since 0.4.0 jumping and climbing cost 2 stamina for each metre you rise; slopes and stairs stay free.
• Open deep water drowns you since 0.4.0, once your stamina and breath run out: Drowning. Boats: Sailing.
• 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 from before 0.4.0 always drops its own item plus meat and hides; a few have an extra chance, and some of the new ones (hornet swarm, mire eel, jaguar) drop theirs only 1 time in 10. 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. Since 0.4.0 there are four: the Cinder Colossus and the three of the new lands (see 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 says "Pack full", and since 0.4.0 what didn't fit drops at your feet and the message lists it "On the ground".
• 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, the mangrove crocodile 10, Rimetusk and the Dune Tyrant 12, the Jadecoil 14 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 every boss are never pale, and neither are the animals of the new lands dev · 0.4.0 · may change. 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.

Bosses of the new lands

• Cores are shared by damage, so everyone who fought gets a cut. The trophy is 1 a kill, and "the killing blow takes the rest of the loot".
• No tracking from afar. You only see a boss when you're near it (about 240 m). After a respawn it settles somewhere new in its region, at a random time in the range that the game doesn't show. Defeat notices reach only its region and the neighbours.
• Below 40% health a boss staggers, drops to half armor and fights harder.
• Boss music starts when one is after anyone within 120 m.

The Jadecoil's attacks

From the game's developer dev · 0.4.0 · may change. Parrying: Fighting.

Jungle isle creatures

• Birds: some fly away when you get close, and can't be hit in the air.
• New animals elsewhere: caribou, moose, Roosevelt elk and black bears drop their own meat for the new dishes (since 0.4.2) (see Food). Moose, elk, Rimetusk ivory and animal pelts make the new handles and bindings; feathers, horns and fangs carve into arrows at a workbench.

From the game's developer dev · 0.4.0 · may change. The new animals' cards below come from the game's own sprites and items; where each lives, the wiki leaves for you to find.

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; the new lands' creatures 0.4.0). 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.

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. Since 0.4.0 every Ashlands region has 2 to 14 veins, at least 40 m apart dev · 0.4.0 · may change. 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, Jadesteel 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

1. Make a Panning Tray at a workbench (2 planks).
2. Equip it and stand right at the water's edge, facing the water.
3. 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.
4. 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

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Live map

Every build and every market across every region, from the game's public API. Switch layers on and off in the Layers panel. Drag to move, right-drag (or two fingers) to turn, scroll or pinch to zoom, double-click to fly in.

Busiest building sites

How to read it

• Each hex is one region, about 1.5 km across, coloured by land type. The map has no hills, so every base sits on its hex at its own floor level.
• Pieces are to scale: a foundation is a 6 m square and a wall is one 6 m storey. Town halls show gold, market stalls amber.
• Buildings come from the game's public API: changed regions within minutes, every region at least once an hour. This page checks for new data every minute and redraws when it changes.

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:*.

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 6,144 placed pieces (4,096 before 0.4.0). New lands across the sea since 0.4.0: New lands.
• 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. Since 0.4.2 the world map shows region names when you zoom in.
• Meeting friends? Their region names show in Social N.

Places worth knowing (EU)

Player groups on NA

On NA, players have shared out land among their groups: the north-east of the map, the subcontinent of Ester, and the south-west peninsula, which the Federal Republic of the Southwest holds. With NA as your realm the wiki's maps draw their borders: the overview map, the one above and each region's terrain, and a region's page says who holds it (EU's land there looks different, so they show on NA only). These are the borders as drawn on 25 October 2026 (Ester) and 27 October 2026 (the south-west); they change, so take them as a guide.

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New lands

The Horizon Update (0.4.0) adds three lands across the sea: a cold continent in the north, a hot continent in the south and the lawless jungle isle in the east, plus islands. The game keeps them off its own world map until players have seen them. The wiki's maps and region list show each region as soon as players build there (the game's public API names it then), its land type read from its name; the parts nobody has reached yet show as ?.

The three lands

From the devlog and the game's developer dev · 0.4.0 · may change. Huckleberries, chanterelles and bilberries grow in the new lands too: those are left for players to find.

Finding them

• Your atlas: a new land stays off your world map until you reach it, then it's added to your atlas. The map shows ? over sea you haven't explored, and a storm line marks the world's edge.
• Getting there: row a raft from any shore, or sail a dhow or cog from a town's dockyard. Since 0.4.3 boats keep their speed when they cross into the next region. Sailing
• Swimming is risky: open deep water drowns you once your stamina and breath run out (about 67 s of swimming, then 15 s of breath). Drowning
• Low trees: you can push through trees whose leaves hang low, slowly.
• Towns: you can found one town and belong to one town on each server, wherever it stands. The jungle isle takes no Town Halls. Towns

New rare deposits

No recipe uses Frostbloom, Sunstone, Moon Orchid or Sea Glass yet dev · 0.4.0 · may change. Islands have richer rare deposits.

Lawless land

The jungle isle and its islet are lawless:

• No Town Halls.
• Buildings weather away: they get 12 hours of grace, then wear down over 3 days (wood) or 4 days (stone and metal). There is no 1% floor. A broken piece drops a quarter of its cost as debris.
• PvP is always on, and town claims don't protect you there.
• Death drops your whole Pack, including tools and weapons, worn armor and bags. Your gold stays with you.
• The game warns you before you cross in and when you arrive.

From the game's developer dev · 0.4.0 · may change.

Music

• Area themes play only in their own land: new day and night music for the Ashlands, Groves, Fens and Jungle, a night theme for the Dunes, and since 0.4.2 a night theme at sea. Day themes play at dawn, day and dusk; night themes at dusk and night. They take turns with the older tracks.
• Walking into a themed land after 90 s or more of quiet starts its theme early.
• Boss music starts when the boss is after anyone within 120 m: the Cinder Colossus, the Jadecoil and the Dune Tyrant have their own.
• Player combat music plays while you've traded blows with another player in the last 20 s. A boss theme wins over it.
• After a fight the theme holds 8 s, then fades over 4 s. There are 4 to 9 minutes of silence between tracks.
• Composers: Lab of the Ocean (Warzone, Emberstone Hearths, Cricket Choir, Bamboo Bridges, Mosciitos, Bog, Jungle, Jungle Night, Ember Core Catastrophe, Jade Coil, Sciilcheck) and JTrent, called JamesT in the devlog (Dunes Night, Dune Tyrant).
• Listen outside the game: the Asciilands OST playlist on YouTube (since 0.4.2).

Sailing & boats

Three boats since 0.4.0: a raft you carry in your pack and row anywhere, and the dhow and trade cog that a town builds at its dockyard and that sail on the wind. Wood piers take you out over shallow water.

The three boats

Numbers from the game's developer dev · 0.4.0 · may change. Cargo slows a boat: with a full hold (the weight in the table) it loses the share of speed shown.

On board

• Raft: a 20 kg item in your pack. Put it in the water anywhere and row it. It has no sails, but the wind adds up to 7 to its speed. Out at sea the game may say "The swell out here is too much for a raft": that needs a ship with a sail.
• Dhow and cog: they sail on the wind. Their sails turn with it, and the compass shows where it blows from (see Wind). Pick your sail colour. A dhow's small sail can't take the strongest wind ("A bigger ship can handle it"), and no sail fills close to the wind: "Turn away and zigzag upwind."
• Crew: friends can ride along. The captain chooses who may come aboard, and the crew can take the helm. Since 0.4.3: "To come aboard, press [F] at the boat. Partymates and townmates walk on. Anyone else asks, and the captain holds [Alt] to let them on." No friendly fire inside a party. Since 0.4.2 joining a ship puts you on its deck, crews ride smoothly while it moves, and you climb down off a moored dhow or cog with F.
• Mooring: since 0.4.2 a ship moored at sea stays where you left it, and server restarts no longer leave its crew in the water.
• The hold shows on your Inventory page. Only the owner can open it: "Only you can open its hold." It uses a slot grid like chests: click to move a stack, right-click to move one, or drag.
• Your boat is yours for good (the game's Help, Your boat, 0.4.2): only you can break it up, and nobody can damage it with tools. Anyone else needs your OK to come aboard. Townmates can sail it while it's moored on your town land; out in the wild only you can. Anyone on deck can take the helm when nobody holds it, so "moor and step ashore with people you trust."
• Logging off at sea: your boat stops where it is and you come back standing on its deck. A passenger who logs off leaves the crew; if the boat sails on, they come back in the water.
• Captain knocked out: the boat moors and its hold opens to anyone for 20 minutes.
• Running aground: hit a beach above 45% of top speed and you stick. Hold S to pull free. Since 0.4.2 a cog stuck in shallow water can work its way back out.
• Crossing regions: since 0.4.3 a boat keeps its speed over a region edge (it kept 70% before), its crew stays aboard, and it floats off a beach after crossing. A boat that got stuck crossing comes back to where it left from. The world edge turns boats back without pinning them.
• Stuck? Since 0.4.3 /unstuck on a boat moves it into deep water, and a captain leaving in the shallows no longer moors it on sand.
• Rowing astern (backwards) no longer beats the wind since 0.4.1. Rowing in calm water is unchanged.
• Fishing works from a boat.
• Rot: an unused boat starts rotting after the time in the table. A fully rotted boat breaks up 7 days later, and its hold spills.
• Settings can turn off the sailing tips. Storm warnings always show. When a boat action is refused, the game says why, and Help has an entry on it: Your boat (0.4.2).

Piers and building over water

• A wood pier costs 5 planks and 2 logs. It starts at the water's edge and reaches out over water up to 5 m deep.
• Every other piece stops where the sea gets 5 m deep. Lakes and rivers have no such limit.

From the game's developer dev · 0.4.0 · may change.

The dockyard: a town project

Dhows and cogs are built at a town's dockyard. The town raises it together, stage by stage.

• Where: a footprint of 27 × 45 m on your town's land. The log pile end stands on dry land, and the far end needs water at least 2 m deep.
• Who: only the founder or an officer can place it, one per town (since 0.4.3 it's easier to place on a coast). Since 0.4.2 it can be removed from the shore, and it keeps working when a town disbands and a new one is founded on the same land. Anyone can deliver materials, and since 0.4.3 everyone sees when a stage is finished ("… finished! The … needs new materials."). The slip builds one boat at a time: while one is on it, "The slip is busy." Nation members can order boats at any dockyard in their nation (0.4.3). Town members work it by holding F on site with a hammer (forged and well-used ones too, since 0.4.1), and more hands work faster.

From the game's developer dev · 0.4.0 · may change. Work times are for one player; more hands are faster.

Wind

• Day and night: from 10:00 to 19:00 game time the breeze blows onto land. From 23:00 to 09:00 it blows out to sea.
• The wind lane: a strong lane of wind circles the world once every 3 days.
• Gales blow at the world's outer edge (the storm line on the map), and storms bring stronger wind.
• The rest is for sailors to learn: the dev says the wind follows patterns you can learn at sea.

Weather and drowning

• Weather: clouds, rain, thunderstorms, and snow in cold regions and the sea beside them. Dry lands get clouds instead of rain. A setting turns the rain and snow visuals down. Since 0.4.2 rain and snow fall as text across the screen, and indoors you hear rain patter on the roof.
• Shallow coastal seas can be walked in (again since 0.4.1).
• Drowning only happens in open deep water. Swimming drains 1.5 stamina a second (about 67 s from full). Then you have 15 s of breath, and after that you lose 10% of your max health every second. Reaching water you can stand in refills your breath at once.
• Hornet swarms on the jungle isle give up when you reach deep water (see Creatures).

From the game's developer dev · 0.4.0 · may change. Where to sail: the new lands.

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, Jadesteel 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.
• Field upkeep (0.4.0): 10 fields are free; each extra 5 cost 1 gold a day (rounded up), "paid from your gold, even offline". Unpaid extra fields clear after 7 days. Build mode shows your fields and upkeep.
• 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.
• Since 0.4.0: harvesting with a hoe and a matching seed in your Pack replants the crop. Berry and Wheat Planters (4 planks and 2 compost) go on a wooden floor or foundation. Cacao, dates, cloudberries and huckleberries grow only in their own land: Regional crops.
• 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. Since 0.4.2 worn-out tools from your hotbar can go into chests too.
• Since 0.4.0 chests, the companion saddlebag and boat holds are slot grids: click a stack to move as much as fits, right-click to move one, or drag it across. At campfires and smelters, as the Field Guide puts it: 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

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.

New in 0.4.0

• Jadesteel, a seventh forge metal between Blacksteel and Star Iron. Jadesteel
• Star Iron got a buff: its gear lasts 620 uses (up from 560; a head below Masterwork counts 568, as the Workbench shows) and repairs with Star Iron Ingots only, and it hits harder: sword 50, spear 47, axe 40, pickaxe 32, sickle 32, hoe 22 (Masterwork starts from 52, 49, 42 and 33). It stays the strongest metal.
• Sickles in six metals, made at the Forge without forging. Sickles
• 8 new handles and 7 new bindings, each trading one strength for another. Built tools show their colours. New handles and bindings
• Burl inlay: 1 Redwood Burl on a Steel Anvil. It only changes the look.
• Naming: you can name a forged piece, once.
• Obsidian veins now spread across each Ashlands region: 2 to 14 a region, at least 40 m apart (other signature materials 12 m), each regrowing 1 unit every 2 hours.
• Pickaxes mine more ore: bronze and iron pickaxes mine 2 ore a swing, steel 3. Each pickaxe's page shows its own number.

From the devlog and the game's developer dev · 0.4.0 · may change.

Forging, step by step

1. 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, Jadesteel and Star Iron can curve a sword.
2. Heat (+25, up to 100) until the marker sits in the metal's gold band. Cool takes 10 off.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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

Jadesteel

• Ore: Jade Ore from Jade Seams on rocky ground in the jungle isle's rainforest and mangroves, at least 1 per region. A seam holds 3 ore and regrows 1 every 6 hours. Mining needs a steel pickaxe or better.
• Smelting: 2 Steel Ingots, 2 Jade Ore and 1 Verdant Core (from the Jadecoil) over emberstone, in a Blast Smelter only. 60 s per ingot.
• Gear: 530 uses. Damage: sword 46, spear 43, axe 37, pickaxe 30, hoe 21, sickle 31.
• At the forge: it shapes like Blacksteel (widths, length and curve), takes a quench and a temper, and cools 5 a second, the fastest of all.

From the game's developer dev · 0.4.0 · may change; the forge numbers are the game's own.

Sickles

Made at the Forge with no forging: 2 bars and a wooden handle (3 bars for iron). Each repairs with its own bar.

From the game's developer dev · 0.4.0 · may change.

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.

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. 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.

Tempering is for steel, Blacksteel, Jadesteel 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

New handles and bindings (0.4.0)

They stack. Durability, damage and gathering stamina add; swing time, gathering time and swing stamina multiply. The Workbench's Tool Bench shows what each part does, and a built tool wears its handle and binding colours.

From the game's developer dev · 0.4.0 · may change. The calculator and the designer still offer only the older handles and bindings.

Durability calculator

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

Final uses

Since 0.4.0 Star Iron has 620 base uses dev · 0.4.0 · may change, but the game's help says "Star Iron needs Masterwork to reach its full durability": below Masterwork the Workbench counts a Star Iron head as 568. Sharpening doesn't add uses. Design, quench and temper change durability further (see above).

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.

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.

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

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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Smithing designer

Design a sword, dagger, spear, mace, battleaxe, pickaxe, axe, hoe, sickle, smithing hammer, plate armor or helmet the way the forge lets you, and see it drawn by the game's own art with the handling the forge shows. Every link you copy from here opens the same piece.

Pick by what you care about

Fewest blows

Best weapons

What to forge: every weapon and metal with its best design and finish for the goal you pick, best first. Damage starts from the game's own base damage (in its data since 0.3.4, as Inspect shows it). Click a design to open it in the designer.

Time to kill

Pick a target, then the weapon and spells you bring. This finds the fastest way to kill with them: which spell to open with, when to switch to your weapon, and how many swings it takes, with every cooldown counted.

Magic

There are 12 spells in 4 schools. Every spell is learned from its own inscription: a spell scroll you write at an Inscription Table, then read in Magic P. You keep the spell forever and the scroll is used up.

Your first spell

1. Pick a magic flower. This unlocks the Magic menu P.
2. Make a Glyph Wand at a workbench: 2 sticks, 2 fiber, 1 charcoal.
3. Build an Inscription Table B: 6 planks, 4 stone, 2 charcoal.
4. Write an inscription F at the table, then choose Read inscription in P.
5. Equip the wand. Left click casts toward your aim, Right click switches to the next learned spell.

Learn each school in order: T1 → T2 → T3. Ingredients below are the inscription recipe.

The 12 spells

Spell recovery and keys (0.4.0)

• Recovery only holds back your next spell. You can still swing, guard and walk while a spell recovers. Spark recovers in 1.4 s, Purify 8 s, Maelstrom 10 s, Bastion 14 s and Nova 15 s.
• The wand's recovery shows on the hotbar.
• Casting ends a campfire rest.
• Keys: , and . switch the spell family, - and = step the level down and up (since 0.4.2; Q and E in 0.4.1, U and L in 0.4.0).
• No friendly fire inside a party.

From the devlog and the game's developer dev · 0.4.0 · may change.

Good to know

• Mana maxes at 100 and refills on its own, about 4 per second. To mix spells with your weapon in a fight, see Time to kill.
• Only your strongest shield counts, so shields don't stack. Every ward also covers the caster.
• All three Tilde spells make targets Wet, which puts out Burning. Tildewash also hits you, so it puts out your own fire. Purify cleanses burning, poison, slows and drenching.
• Slows only work on wildlife, not on players.
• Carrying the wand, even in your pack, shows the blue mana bar.
• Every inscription needs fiber, and most need charcoal (burn 2 logs at a campfire). Where the flowers grow: Materials.

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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

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.

* 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: 120 days of decay", as the Field Guide 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

1. Connect Discord and discover iron ingots.
2. 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.
3. A region takes new Town Halls while its towns hold fewer than 150 plots (a region has about 900); before 0.4.0 it stopped at 3 towns. Halls stand at least 200 m apart, with two empty plots between a new hall and another town's land. A refused Town Hall names nearby regions with room and the towns you could ask to join. You start with one 50 × 50 m plot. dev · 0.4.0 · may change
4. Not on the lawless jungle isle: it takes no Town Halls (Lawless land).
5. Open Town T to invite players nearby or share an invite link (they must accept). A link works for up to ten residents and expires after 24 hours.
6. Members contribute gold; the founder and officers spend it to claim neighbouring plots. Each new plot costs more: 30 + 12 × plots already owned.

Rules

Nations

Since 0.4.0 towns can band together in a nation. dev · 0.4.0 · may change

• Founding: a town's founder founds a nation from their town, which becomes its capital. Names are 3 to 24 characters and unique on each continent.
• Joining: the nation invites a town; only the invited town's founder can accept. Invitations last 7 days; since 0.4.3 they can be renewed at capacity and cancelled. A town belongs to one nation at a time.
• Size: up to 32 towns and 16 open invitations.
• Plots: since 0.4.2 members of a nation can buy member-only plots in any town of their nation. Since 0.4.3 a town can let nation members build and use doors (town policy "Nation members can build and use doors"), and nation members can order boats at any of the nation's dockyards.
• The capital can't leave. If it lapses, the longest-standing member town becomes the capital. A nation with no towns left is disbanded.
• Open Town T → Nation. The town directory below marks each town's nation, and ★ a nation's capital.

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.

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. Since 0.4.0 /who all shows regions only for your friends and party.

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	Lake 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

1. Carry its favourite food, walk up slowly and press F to offer it (from within about 7 m).
2. Three accepted offers make it your companion. Wait 5 s between offers.
3. 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.

1. Follows you. Pet it with Y (lifts its mood once a minute) and feed it.
2. Sniff out. Points out berries and rare materials nearby (heron: Scout instead).
3. Fetch. Right-click a ground item within 40 m with empty hands (slot 1) to send it.
4. Saddlebag. Carries items for you. Items already in the bag stay even over the limit.
5. 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 up to 300 gold a day for them across all your characters: 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 (1 to 9,999 gold per lot). 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. Since 0.4.0 you can sell and buy in lots (set the items per lot and the gold per lot), a listing holds up to 1,000 items, My trades has Add more, and prices can have decimals, like 2.5 gold. A new offer or buy order is reserved for its poster for 60 s before anyone else can take it.
• Buy orders: players also post "wanted" orders: what they'll pay for an item, "up to 999 of them, at 1 to 9,999g each". 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.

Direct trading (0.4.0)

• Ask to trade: click a nearby player's name, or use Social. They need to be within 10 m with a clear path. An invite times out after 30 s, and you can send one every 10 s.
• The trade window has item slots, your bag and item details. Put in up to 20 item types each. Any change clears both players' Ready mark, so check the other side, then Ready and Confirm.
• Forged and worn items trade with their exact stats. Equipped items are stowed if you trade them away.
• A trade ends after 2 minutes with no changes.
• Slot grids: chests, the saddlebag and boat holds now use slots: click to move a stack, right-click to move one, or drag.

From the devlog and the game's developer dev · 0.4.0 · may change.

The merchant

Since 0.3.0 the merchant pays up to 300 gold a day for supplies, across all your characters. 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

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.

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.

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.

Trade board

What players are selling right now and what they want to buy. Pick a category, biome or region and every part of the board follows. The realm switch is at the top.

Wanted

On offer

Where to trade

The busiest markets for these filters. Click one to show only that region; click it again to show all.