Your first day

1. Choose Survival and create or open a world. Click Enter world when it finishes loading.
2. Walk up to a tree and left-click a log. Keep the crosshair on it until it breaks, then walk over the drop to collect it.
3. Press E. Turn logs into planks, then arrange four planks in a square for a crafting table. Equip it in your hotbar, place it with right-click, then right-click it to open the 3×3 grid.
4. Earn XP by mining, crafting, fighting and discovering biomes. Level 2 unlocks the crafting table and rowboats. Level 3 unlocks iron armor. Level 4 unlocks the Amber Deep. X shows your equipped armor in third person.
5. Craft sticks and a wooden pickaxe. Mine coal and copper, bring torches, and build a shelter before night. Craft a bed and use it after sunset to set a respawn point.

Modes and saves

Survival

Gather resources, fight enemies, build, and explore. The saved-world picker lets you return to an existing world or create another.

Flatworld

A level world with starter materials.

Creative

Stocked inventory, quick mining, unlimited block placement, flight, and immunity to damage.

Test

A flat sandbox with every item, a block display, a pool, stairs, and a combat area. Press Y to cycle through swing, sleep, damage, creature, boat, and falling-leaf tests.

Multiplayer

Play Survival with friends. Create a room to get a code, or enter a code someone shared with you.

Solo saves live in the browser you play in. New worlds get a permanent seed. The Survival picker and pause screen show your seed. Use Esc → Save & title when leaving. The loading screen runs for at least six seconds while the game prepares nearby chunks.

Default controls

Touch: Drag the world to look, use the arrows to move, and tap Mine, Place, Jump, Crouch, Pack, or Menu. Aim at a crafting table and tap Place to use it. Hold Jump to swim up.

Change the defaults under M → Key bindings. Select an action, press its new key, or choose Restore defaults. Click Resume world after pausing to capture the mouse again. If capture is unavailable, drag to look and use your Mine and Place key bindings.

Inventory, crafting, and building

• The backpack shows collected items and counts. Select or hover over an item for details. Drag items to reorder them or equip a hotbar slot. You can also select an item and choose a hotbar slot without dragging.
• Drag ingredients into the grid, or click a recipe to fill the pattern when you have the materials. Take the output to craft it. Building recipes show a rendered preview of the placed block.
• Right-click villagers to trade. Village lanterns are protected. Right-click a chest to open it. Click to move one item or Shift-click for up to 16. Empty chests before breaking them. Press Q or Shift+Q to drop one item.
• E opens personal 2×2 crafting. Right-click a placed crafting table for 3×3 recipes, including tools, armor, boats, beds, and Amber Glowstone. Some small patterns still require the table.
• Equip a block and aim at a face to place it beside that face. Hold Shift to place against a crafting table instead of opening it. To mine, keep the crosshair on the cracking block until it breaks.

Recipe reference

Read each line as a row from top to bottom. A dash is an empty slot. Your in-game recipe book also shows the ingredients and counts you have.

Mining, ores, and durability

Follow the upgrades wood → copper → iron → sapphire. Dig lower for rarer ores. Use pickaxes on rock, axes for wood, shovels for dirt, and swords for combat. Tools lose durability as you use them. Check the hotbar label or item details before a tool breaks.

Mine blocks or defeat creatures to drop loot. Walk close to collect it before it disappears after three minutes. Unsupported natural leaves fall after the logs supporting them are removed. Craft torches from coal and sticks to light caves. Lanterns and Amber Glowstone also light nearby blocks.

Hearts, sleep, and combat

• Daylight lasts five minutes and night lasts four. Mirewalkers run toward you at night and burn in direct daylight. Crouching reduces how far hostile mobs notice you. Grove hares can drop trail meat.
• Aim at an enemy and attack with left click. A stone sword hits harder than your hands. Select berries, trail meat, or a trail wrap and use it to heal. Select iron armor and use it to equip or remove it. It reduces damage from attacks.
• Watch your hearts when falling, fighting, or diving. You recover health slowly between hits. Sapphire diving gear works while carried and improves swimming speed and underwater air.
• Place a trail bed and use it after sunset. It saves your checkpoint and advances the night to dawn. If you die, you return to the last usable bed or to spawn. Your items drop at the spot where you fell and expire after three minutes. Turn on Keep inventory on death under M to keep them. R takes you to spawn directly.

Water, boats, flight, and the map

New solo Survival and Creative worlds have a village near spawn, with more to discover farther out. Look for stone paths, lit houses, and villagers. Use the interact control on a villager to talk.

Hold Space to swim up and C or Ctrl to dive. Watch the air meter. In solo worlds, water can flow into newly opened passages.

Craft a rowboat, equip it, and use it while aiming at open water or level ground. Right-click the boat to board, steer with the movement keys, and press Q or use again to dismount. It moves fast on water and slowly on land. Left-click an empty boat to recover it.

Unmoored boats drift. Use mooring rope on an empty boat near a log, wood panel, or camp crate to tie it. Use the tied boat to untie it. In multiplayer, rowboats are shared and stay where you leave them.

In Creative, Test, or a solo world with the flight cheat enabled, double-tap jump to start or stop flying. Press M for the chunk map and switch between nearby terrain and all explored chunks. North is up, and the yellow marker is you.

Field Journal and the Amber Deep

Open the Field Journal under M for the story of the lost survey party. Discover amber and explore the Amber Deep to unlock more entries.

1. Mine amber with a wooden pickaxe or better. At a crafting table, arrange four amber ore in a 2×2 square to make Amber Glowstone.
2. Place the glowstone and right-click it at level 4. Bring food, armor, and a sword. Beds cannot set a checkpoint in the Amber Deep.
3. Watch for Cinder Husks, Ash Hounds, and Rift Sentinels. The Amber Warden waits north of the entrance. Defeat it to earn the Warden Heart.
4. Use the glowstone near the entrance to return to the Overworld.

Creative and combat

Press E in Creative to browse the full building inventory. Multiplayer melee can damage other players. Lost Miners rush explorers in deep, unlit caves.

Biomes and soundtrack

New worlds start in Flat Grasslands (common). Explore outward to find Desert and Forest (uncommon), Mountains (rare), and Snowy Mountains (ultra rare).

Music rotates through I Found a Rare Biome, Building with Passion, Adventure, and Wonder.

Multiplayer and chat

Open Multiplayer on the title screen. Enter a display name, then create a room or join with a 10-character code. The host can copy the code from the pause menu. The room saves shared block changes and individual player progress. You can see other players, their names, and the items they hold.

Press T to open room chat, Enter to send, and Esc to close. You and your friends can build together. Each player fights their own enemies. Use shared rowboats and explore the Amber Deep together. Play solo to or dig channels for flowing water.

Settings and quick fixes

Game feels slow?

Press M and set graphics to Low. Use Medium or High if the game runs smoothly.

Solo world cheats

Open M for flight, invulnerability, peaceful mode, clock freeze, and the day and night controls. Double-tap jump to start or stop flying.

Can’t join your friend?

Check that you’re online and copy the full 10-character code from your friend. If you still can’t join, tell the room host what error you see.

Mouse won’t look around?

Click Resume world or press F to capture your mouse. You can also drag to look.