Game version: 154
Look for dry branches and a small stone. With an empty hand, collect one branch from a conifer or deciduous tree in 5 seconds without felling it. Each crown provides a branch once.
For your first campfire, choose free dry ground and a stack of at least three branches in a quick slot. Hold placement for 60 seconds to light it without a torch.
Watch your fullness and gather food. A stone and branch make a stone axe; charcoal and a branch make a torch. See crafting for recipes.
On a computer, move with WASD or arrow keys. Keys 1–6 select a quick slot, and Enter opens the backpack. Use the on-screen action, E, or Space; hold it for gathering until the progress meter finishes.
Place with the on-screen button, Q, or Command on Mac. + and − adjust zoom; 0 resets it. On touchscreens, touch and drag to move, and pinch with two fingers to zoom.
The cursor beside your character shows the action direction. Face the target and select a suitable item: a stump needs a stone or axe.
The published game has 18 slots: 6 quick slots and 12 backpack slots. Normal stacks hold up to 60 units of one resource. Each torch and axe occupies one slot and tracks its own remaining use.
A tool works while selected in one of the six quick slots; carrying it in the backpack is not enough. Move items between slots and combine matching stacks up to the limit.
Craft by dragging one ingredient onto another. The result needs an empty slot, including one freed by consuming an ingredient. While a campfire is open, use the backpack to transfer fuel and food.
Current recipes are made in the backpack. Drag one dry branch onto one small stone, or vice versa, for a stone axe. One branch and one charcoal make a torch.
Each recipe consumes one unit of each ingredient. The finished tool appears in an empty slot, including a slot freed by an ingredient. If all slots remain occupied, make room first.
A campfire is created separately: select at least three branches in a quick slot and place them on free dry ground. The current official game has no separate three-slot crafting area.
To light a fire, select at least three dry branches in a quick slot, target free dry ground, and hold placement for 60 seconds. Releasing interrupts initial ignition. With a burning torch selected and three branches available, ignition takes 5 seconds.
The initial branches provide 3 minutes of fire. A campfire lights a radius of 10 cells, protects against predators, and enables cooking. Add fuel: two slots hold fuel and two hold mushrooms.
When fuel runs out, smoking embers remain. Add fuel within 30 minutes to revive them. Once cold, collect the charcoal and create a new fire. Standing in a burning campfire cell drains energy.
A campfire burns branches for 60 seconds each, wood for 10 minutes, grass for 5 seconds, and charcoal for 10 minutes. Each of the two fuel slots holds up to 10 units.
Drag fuel from the backpack into a fuel slot. While the window is open, double-tapping suitable fuel loads an appropriate slot. An occupied slot must contain the same fuel type.
Fuel burns sequentially. Waiting portions are ordered by burn duration without interrupting the current piece. Burnt wood yields charcoal that also keeps burning. Cold embers must be collected before starting a new fire.
Cook raw mushrooms on a burning campfire. Open the fire and move mushrooms into either food slot. Each holds 3 mushrooms, so up to 6 can cook at once.
Each mushroom needs 5 minutes of burning time. Adding more does not reset existing progress. Cooking pauses when fuel runs out and resumes when the fire burns again.
Take cooked mushrooms into the backpack. Unfinished raw mushrooms cannot be taken while the fire burns; they can be retrieved after it goes out. The first three-branch fire lasts only 3 minutes, so add fuel to finish cooking.
You can eat berries, fruit, and cooked mushrooms. Raw mushrooms need cooking first. Food restores energy gradually.
With standard balance, berries restore 10 energy units, fruit 20, and cooked mushrooms 35. Finish absorbing one serving before eating another. The fullness meter must have space for a whole serving.
Food also affects expenditure: berries are spent faster and cooked mushrooms more slowly than fruit. Wild food returns over time; you can also grow fruit and berries.
Fullness is displayed in twenty cells. Food restores energy in servings, with colors indicating the food type. Energy drains at rest and faster while moving or working.
Low fullness slows your character. Zero energy does not delete the character or save: movement continues at minimum speed. Contact with predators or a burning campfire drains extra energy.
Eat suitable food from the backpack. Wait until the previous serving is absorbed. The game prevents eating if there is no room for a complete serving.
Make it from one charcoal and one dry branch, dragging either onto the other in the backpack. A free result slot is required.
It burns for 5 minutes. Selected in a quick slot, it lights a radius of 5 cells around the player; when placed, around its cell. Light stops predators from chasing.
Pick up a placed torch with fuel remaining. An unselected backpack torch does not burn; a selected torch burns during active play. It lights a new three-branch campfire in 5 seconds.
Recipe: one small stone and one dry branch. Drag one onto the other in the backpack, leaving a free result slot.
Select the axe in a quick slot. It fells a conifer or deciduous tree in 10 seconds and a stump in 20. A log takes half the bare-hand time.
It has 120 seconds of use on trees and stumps and disappears when exhausted. Axes do not stack. It cannot mine natural rocks.
Small loose stones occur on free ground. Gather them with the normal action; they are different from large natural rocks.
Selected in a quick slot, a stone fells a tree in 60 seconds or a stump in 90. It does not wear out. Ordinary actions on other objects take three times as long while holding it.
One stone and a dry branch make a stone axe. A small stone cannot be placed as a building block: a brick uses the separate Stones resource.
Find them in bog areas, or collect one from a conifer or deciduous tree crown with an empty hand in 5 seconds. Each crown supplies one branch once; an uncollected branch also drops when the tree is felled.
Three branches start a campfire. Each provides 60 seconds of fuel. One branch is consumed by a torch or axe recipe.
They stack to 60. Placing with branches starts a campfire rather than installing a separate branch block.
They remain after a campfire. Gather the embers after the flames go out: the fire site yields one unit, with additional charcoal retained from burnt wood.
Charcoal provides 10 minutes of fuel per unit and combines with a branch for a torch. It stacks, but cannot be placed as a separate block.
Smoking embers can be revived with fuel for 30 minutes. Cold fire remains must be removed first. Gathering the site also returns any raw and cooked food left inside.
Select a building resource in a quick slot, aim at suitable free ground, and hold placement. A log costs one wood, a brick one stone resource; grass and mud can also be placed.
The surface must allow building. Water does not. Placement consumes resources; dismantling placed blocks returns the corresponding material.
Logs and bricks obstruct players and animals. You cannot wall in a cell occupied by another player. Place fruit and berries in the same way for growing.
Select fruit or berries and place it on suitable free ground. One fruit creates a growing tree, and one berry a berry sprout.
A tree grows for 10 minutes, then produces first fruit 5 minutes later. A berry sprout grows for 5 minutes and produces berries 3 minutes later. Harvesting leaves the parent tree or grass; later harvests take 5 and 3 minutes respectively.
Deer can eat crops. Campfire and torch light helps protect them. Wild fruit, berries, and mushrooms also regrow within their region: after 3 minutes, a suitable free cell is sought, not necessarily the original one.
The world contains bears, wolves, and deer. Animals move and route around impassable cells. Logs, bricks, trees, natural rocks, and water affect routes.
Bears and wolves are predators that chase unprotected players. Deer seek fruit and berries, including crops. Light helps protect players and harvests.
Building barriers can restrict animal movement. Fencing in a predator does not make it a harmless pet: light and aggression rules still apply.
Wolves and bears notice unprotected players within 20 cells and seek a path to them. Their names turn red during a chase. Contact drains energy.
Campfire light reaches 10 cells and torch light 5; both stop the chase. A predator also retreats when a structure blocks any route.
If that animal fully exhausts a player on contact, it will not attack again for 5 minutes. This cooldown applies to that animal, not to every predator.
The base ground of deciduous forests and clearings. It allows normal walking speed. Earth itself cannot be gathered and does not occupy backpack space.
Free earth supports building, planting, and campfires. Grass or another object on top may prevent placement until removed.
The surface of bog regions. Walking is reduced to 40% of earth speed. It is not a collectable resource.
Free bog ground allows placement, unlike water. It can contain mud deposits, dry branches, and loose stones.
The base surface of coniferous taiga, different from large rocks. Walking speed is normal; the surface cannot be collected.
It hosts conifers and mushrooms. Free cells support structures and campfires.
Grows in deciduous forests and occasionally clearings. It blocks passage; some trees carry fruit. An empty hand gathers one branch in 5 seconds.
Felling takes 60 seconds with a stone or 10 with a stone axe. It yields one wood and leaves a deciduous stump. Grow a new tree by planting fruit.
Large rocks occur in several regions and block passage. They differ from gatherable small stones.
In the current published game, natural rocks cannot be broken by hand, a small stone, or a stone axe. They are obstacles, not a currently mineable building resource. A stone brick is a separate placeable block.
Fell trees and clear stumps for one wood per stage. The backpack resource is Wood; on the map it is placed as a log.
One log costs one wood. Logs block passage, join neighboring logs, and form structures. Dismantling returns one wood. A stone axe breaks a log twice as fast as a bare hand.
Wood also fuels a campfire for 10 minutes per unit, then produces charcoal.
A building block made from the Stones resource: one unit per brick. Place it on suitable free ground; it blocks passage and joins neighboring bricks.
Dismantle a placed brick to recover one stone resource. A small stone is different and cannot place a brick. Natural rocks are not currently mineable in the published version.
Use bricks for walls and enclosures. See building for placement rules.
Mud deposits occur in bog regions. Gathering yields one mud resource and reveals the original ground.
Carry it in the backpack and place it again for one unit per block. It is passable but reduces speed to 30%. It differs from uncollectable bog ground.
Found on rocky ground in coniferous taiga. Gathering yields one mushroom and leaves the ground. Wild mushrooms follow food regrowth rules.
They cannot be eaten raw. Put them in a campfire food slot and cook for 5 minutes to get cooked mushrooms. Raw mushrooms cannot be planted.
Produced from raw mushrooms after 5 minutes of cooking at a campfire. Take the finished serving from a food slot.
This food restores 35 energy with standard balance and is spent more slowly than fruit. There must be room for a complete serving. It cannot be planted or used as a building block.
Grows on deciduous trees. Gathering gives one fruit and leaves the tree. Wild fruit can return on another suitable tree in the region; planted trees produce their next harvest on the same parent.
Eat it raw for 20 energy with standard balance, or plant one fruit to create a growing tree.
Deer also eat fruit. Protect crops with campfire or torch light.
Grows on grass, mainly in clearings. Gathering yields one berry and leaves grass. Wild berries return on suitable grass in their region.
Raw berries are food: a standard serving restores 10 energy and is spent faster than fruit. Plant one to create a berry sprout.
Deer can eat wild and cultivated berries. Campfire and torch light helps protect crops.
Created by planting one fruit. It grows through stages into a deciduous tree in 10 minutes, then produces first fruit 5 minutes later.
The young sprout is passable. Removing it returns a fruit; the mature tree blocks its cell like a normal tree. Harvesting fruit preserves the parent tree.
This is the appearance of an unlit campfire made from three branches. No separate backpack kit is required for the first fire: select branches and hold placement.
Its appearance changes during ignition. Without a torch it takes 60 seconds continuously; with a torch, 5. Until lit, kindling provides neither light nor cooking.
This depicts cooking, not a separate stick recipe. Put raw mushrooms in the food slots of a burning campfire.
Each mushroom has individual progress. After 5 minutes of fire it becomes a cooked mushroom. Maintain fuel or cooking pauses until the flames resume.
A forest predator. It can notice an unlit player within 20 cells and chase. Its name turns red when aggressive, and contact drains energy.
Stay in campfire or torch light, or block the route with a barrier. Water, trees, natural rocks, logs, and bricks affect its route. If this animal fully exhausts a player, its next attack is delayed for 5 minutes.
A forest predator. It can notice an unlit player within 20 cells and chase. Its name turns red when aggressive, and contact drains energy.
Stay in campfire or torch light, or block the route with a barrier. Water, trees, natural rocks, logs, and bricks affect its route. If this animal fully exhausts a player, its next attack is delayed for 5 minutes.
An herbivorous animal that seeks fruit and berries within 20 cells. It may eat crops, so campfire or torch light near plants is useful.
It does not chase players like a predator. Eating fruit leaves the tree; eating berries leaves ground or planted parent grass. Harvests regrow according to their source. Structures can restrict its route.
The world connects coniferous taiga, deciduous forest, clearings, bog, and water. The region determines its base surface and natural resources.
Look for mushrooms on rocky conifer ground, fruit on deciduous trees, and berries in clearing grass. Bogs contain mud and dry branches. Resources are unevenly distributed.
Bog, grass, mud, and water slow movement. Consider resources and animal routes when choosing a camp.
A region of conifers on rocky ground. Find mushrooms, grass, and natural rocks. Trees provide wood and branches; mushrooms need cooking.
Leave space between trees when making a camp and use light against predators.
Deciduous trees grow on earth, with grass, rocks, and fruit-bearing trees. Eat or plant fruit; trees provide camp materials.
Fruit also attracts deer. A lit planting is safer than crops without a campfire.
The base is bog ground, which slows movement noticeably. Find branches, stones, and mud patches.
Bog is not water: free ground permits placement. Account for slower travel, especially near predators.
Players enter one shared world with their characters. Position, inventory, energy, and changed cells are saved by the server. Internet is required.
Structures, plants, and campfires belong to the world, not just an open game window. Other players can see changes and interact with shared objects. Cooking and plant growth follow world time.
Use the same character on another device and allow actions to save before leaving. Unreleased test-version menus are outside these rules.