About this game
Blockwild is a free 3D sandbox where you explore, dig and build in a world made of blocks. Every world grows from a seed number that shapes its plains, forests, beaches, lakes and caves, so no two seeds look alike. Walk, jump and swim in first person, break any block you can reach, and place new ones from a ten-slot toolbar of grass, dirt, cobblestone, sand, logs, planks, glass, brick, doors and torches. A day and night cycle moves the sun and moon across the sky, casts real shadows and brings out the stars after sunset. The seed is also your join code. Type the same seed as a friend on any device and you arrive in the same world together: you see each other move, and every block either of you breaks or places appears for both of you and is kept on our server for your next visit. If the connection drops, you simply carry on alone. Your builds are saved in your own browser too, and it all runs with no download on desktop, phones and tablets.
Controls
- Keyboard and mouse: W, A, S and D to move, mouse to look around. Space to jump, and hold Shift to sprint.
- Break and place: left click places your selected block against whatever you are looking at; right click breaks it. Clicking directly on a door opens or closes it instead, whatever you have selected.
- Toolbar: press 1 to 9, or 0 for the 10th slot (Torch), or scroll the mouse wheel (or just tap a slot on touch), to choose a block to place.
- Pause: press Esc at any time to open the pause menu, adjust settings, or save and quit.
- Touch screens: the left thumbstick moves you, the JUMP button jumps, and anywhere else on the screen you drag to look around, tap to place a block, or press and hold to break one.
Tips and strategy
- Punch downward sparingly. Falling into an open cave or a lake can mean a long climb back up, so it helps to check what is below before you dig straight down.
- Chop a whole tree in one visit. Logs and leaves do not respawn on their own, so gather what you need for planks and building while you are already there.
- Glass lets light and view through but still blocks movement, which makes it a good choice for windows without giving up shelter.
- Night does not add any creatures, but it still makes ledges, cave mouths and open water much harder to spot, so placing a torch or two or waiting until morning can save you a fall.
- A torch can only be placed against a solid block, doesn't block your path the way other blocks do, and lights up the area around it — good for marking a cave entrance or lighting up a house from the inside.
- A Door starts closed and blocks the way, just like a wall. Click it to open or close it instead of placing another block — handy for keeping a house sealed up until you actually want to walk through.
- Sand only appears close to sea level, so if you are hunting for a beach to build on, head for the lowest, flattest ground you can find.
- To build with a friend, agree on a seed first (a short number is easiest to read out), both type it on the New World screen, and fill in a name so you can tell each other apart. Anyone who knows that seed can join the same world, so only share it with people you want building alongside you.
- Your world autosaves every few seconds and again whenever you leave the tab, but using Save & Quit from the pause menu is the surest way to lock in a big build before closing the browser.