VoxelCraft Player Guide
Everything you need to go from your first block to ruling seven dimensions. This guide covers the controls, crafting, building, survival, abilities, travel, and how to handle the world's natural disasters.
1. Getting Started
When you first load VoxelCraft you spawn on the surface of a freshly generated world. The very first thing to do is gather materials. Walk up to a tree or a patch of stone and hold the break control — blocks pop out and go into your inventory. A few pieces of wood and stone are enough to open the crafting menu and make your first tools.
Your early goals are simple: collect wood and stone, craft what you need, and find or build a safe spot before nightfall. At night, hostile creatures appear on the surface, so having walls around you (or simply digging into a hillside) keeps you safe while you learn the ropes.
2. Controls
On a computer
| Move | W forward, S back, Q left, D right |
| Look around | Move the mouse (click the game first to capture the cursor) |
| Jump / swim / fly up | A or Space |
| Sprint / fast fly | Hold Ctrl |
| Break / place block | Left-click / right-click |
| Choose block | Number keys 1–9, or scroll the wheel |
| Abilities menu | L |
| Warp / dimensions | K |
| Earthquake / flood | G / J |
On a phone or tablet
Use the on-screen joystick in the bottom-left corner to move. Drag the right half of the screen to look around, and tap it to mine the block under your crosshair. The buttons on the right place blocks, jump, fly, and cast your unlocked spells; the row along the top opens your inventory, crafting, the Aeon Forge, the warp menu, and triggers earthquakes and floods.
3. Gathering & Crafting
Every block you break can be collected and re-placed elsewhere, and many can be combined into something more useful. Open the crafting menu to see what you can build from what you're carrying. Early on you'll want tools and torches; later you'll craft building blocks, decorative materials, portals to other dimensions, and even world-altering items.
Ores are found underground. Dig down (carefully — watch for lava and long drops) and you'll find coal, iron, gold, redstone, lapis, diamond and rarer materials the deeper you go. These feed the crafting recipes for the most powerful gear and items in the game.
4. Building
With over a hundred block types — stone bricks, planks, glass, wool in many colours, glowing blocks and more — building is where a lot of players spend their time. Place blocks one at a time to make houses, castles, bridges, or vast sculptures. Glowing blocks like lanterns and glowstone light up interiors, and glass lets daylight in. There's no limit to how big you can build; the world keeps generating as far as you travel.
5. Survival & Combat
You have health and hunger to manage. Falling from a great height, standing in lava, drowning, or being attacked by monsters all cost health. Friendly animals roam the surface during the day; hostile creatures come out at night and lurk in dark caves. Fight them off with your tools, or avoid them entirely with good walls and lighting.
Defeating creatures and mining ore both award experience, which is the key to the game's progression system.
6. The Aeon Forge (Abilities)
Press L (or the Forge button on mobile) to open the Aeon Forge. As you earn experience you gain levels and skill points, which you can spend across four trees: Combat, Mining, Movement and Magic. Abilities range from passive boosts — extra health, faster mining, double jump, fortune when mining — to active spells like fireballs, healing, lightning strikes, dashing and gliding. Magic abilities draw on a mana pool that refills over time. Plan your build around the playstyle you enjoy.
7. Dimensions & Portals
VoxelCraft has seven dimensions. Beyond the overworld lie fiery, void, crystalline, shadowy, frozen and radiant realms, each with its own terrain, sky and creatures. To visit one, craft the matching portal block and place it, then stand on it — or open the warp menu with K. Each dimension drops unique materials and poses unique dangers, including a roaming boss in the frozen realm. Always build a return portal so you can get home.
8. Natural Disasters
The overworld is genuinely hazardous. Volcanoes rise as tall basalt cones with lava-filled craters; when one erupts near you it flings lava bombs, rains ash and embers, and sends rivers of lava down its slopes. Earthquakes shake the screen and tear fissures in the ground. Floods raise the water level across the land before slowly receding. You can trigger an earthquake or flood yourself with G and J, but they also strike on their own — so keep an eye on the horizon and don't build your base in a crater.
9. Cities
Scattered across the world are generated cities: grids of streets lined with towers, colourful shops with glass storefronts, street lamps, moving traffic and citizens going about their day. Wander in to explore — but note that when a disaster strikes, the citizens panic and flee, and traffic grinds to a halt.
10. Tips & Tricks
- Light up your base and tunnels — monsters spawn in the dark.
- Never dig straight down; you might drop into lava or a cavern.
- Invest early skill points in Mining for faster gathering, then branch into Magic or Combat.
- Carry a stack of cheap blocks to bridge gaps, pillar up, or wall off danger quickly.
- Build a small return portal the moment you arrive in a new dimension.
- Keep clear of volcano craters and low ground if you've seen disasters in the area.