Overview

An unofficial player wiki for asciilands.io, a survival, crafting and building game on a world of 326 hex regions. Recipes, items and stats come straight from the game's data; rules from the in-game Field Guide. Values marked tested were measured in play. Prices come from a live crawl of every market stall.

Contents

• Live mapevery build and market in the world, with layers to toggle
• Getting startedyour first hour, every control
• Survival & combathealth, hunger, every food, creatures, travel
• Itemsall items: stats, price, how to make, from-scratch cost
• Recipesevery recipe by station, and the shortcuts
• Materials & biomeswhere every ore, flower and rare find is
• Regionsall 326 regions, and what's on sale where
• Stationswhat to build and what each one makes
• Toolsevery tool in every metal, speed and stamina
• Smithing & swordsforging quality, durability calculator
• Magic12 spells in 4 schools
• Buildingpiece costs, decay, damage, region cap
• Towns & friendsfounding a town, plots, roles, parties
• Companionssix pets: food, talents, saddlebags
• Market & priceslive prices, craft-or-buy, merchant
• Infographicsthe printable guide sheets

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 →

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: 2 iron ingots + charcoal. Or smelt 1 Star Iron into 2 steel ingots. See Steel Ingot.

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?

You keep your inventory and respawn at your last rest point. Set one with Z at a campfire or camp.

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, or list items at your own stall. Market shows what's worth crafting to sell.

Servers

• Two realms: Europe and North America. Pick one on the title screen. The NA map may differ from the EU one shown here.
• Each realm holds 70 players. When it's full you queue; every 4th queue spot goes to Ko-fi supporters.
• Idle for 14 minutes and you get a warning; at 15 minutes you're disconnected to free the slot.
• Your progress saves on the server. Guest characters belong to the browser: clearing its data loses them. Connect Discord to play the same character anywhere.

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

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.
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. 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.

Controls

Movement keys can be changed in Settings > Controls.

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Survival & combat

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

Staying alive

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.

Death and respawning

• You keep your inventory when you die. Choose Respawn to return to your last rest point, even from another region.
• 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.
• 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.
• Melee reach is about 4.5 m, a spear about 6.5 m. 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 too soon and the shot is cancelled. Each shot uses an arrow.
• PvP: players can fight you anywhere outside towns. Claimed town land protects everyone on it.
• Defeated animals give meat and hides.

Creatures

The creature list comes from the game's sprite files. The item column is the matching drop seen on the market. Where a cell is empty, we haven't tested it.

On the map, peach diamonds mark wildlife.

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.
• 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.

Materials & biomes

Each kind of land has its own materials. A deposit holds a few units and slowly refills. Some regions have none, so explore or trade. Finding a new material reveals its recipes and a Journal discovery.

Basics

Metals and ores

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

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.
• 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. A sword head needs 3. Smelt 1 Star Iron + 1 charcoal into 2 steel ingots, or forge Star Iron heads at a Forge.

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 all 326 regions, from the latest crawl. 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.
• The collector re-reads every region about once an hour. This page checks for new data every minute and redraws when a crawl lands.

Regions

Every hex is a region, coloured by its land type. Hexes ringed in gold have players selling there. Hover or tap a hex for details.

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 4,096 placed pieces.
• 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.
• Meeting friends? Their region names show in Social N.

Places worth knowing (EU)

Busiest markets right now

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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. The input sits inside the station, and stations are open to anyone in reach, so use your own and stay close.

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.
• 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.
• Town members with building permission can work your plots. Removing a plot destroys its crop.

Chests and storage

• Anyone close enough 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.
• In chests and stations: 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 wear out; repair one before you use it again.

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.

Pickaxe ladder

Path to good gear: stone pickaxe → copper + panned tin → bronze pickaxe → iron → steel → Star Iron.

Other tools

Repairs and sharpening

• Repair at an Anvil F: costs half the head material for the wear (at least 1). Anyone's anvil works. tested
• Sharpen with a whetstone (2 stone at a stonecutter): select a tool in your Pack and choose Sharpen. Each sharpening adds 20 uses with 10% more melee damage and less stamina. A whetstone lasts 5 sharpenings.
• Fine and Masterwork forging add 5% and 10% gathering speed. See Smithing.

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Smithing & swords

Pick a metal, forge the head in a shape, then fit a handle and a binding at a Workbench (Assemble tool). Your name is stamped on every head you forge.

Forging

1. Heat until the marker reaches the gold band.
2. Strike with light or heavy blows; Draw to narrow and Widen to spread, to match the dashed outline.
3. Overworked metal shows stress. At gold heat, a light blow removes one stress mark. Cool lowers the heat.

The Field Guide has a free smithing practice mode: use it before spending ingots.

The finish (Hammered, Polished, Etched) only changes the look. There's no enchanting or rarity.

Sword metals

Shape

Changes the look and how hard the forging is: Broadsword (easiest, blank starts at 53% fit), Arming sword (medium, 33%), Rapier (hardest, 0%).

Handle × binding

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 drop it.

Durability calculator

Works for every tool: handles, bindings and forging quality add up.

Final uses

*Star Iron only reaches its full 480 base uses at Masterwork. Sharpening adds 20 uses on top. Example: a Masterwork steel sword with reinforced handle + leather has 496 uses.

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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

Good to know

• Mana maxes at 100 and refills on its own, about 4 per second.
• Only your strongest shield counts, so shields don't stack. Every ward also covers the caster.
• Wet (Maelstrom) puts out Burning. Purify cleanses both.
• 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

Tips from building

• 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.

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Towns & friends

Why a town? Town buildings don't decay like wild ones and are much tougher, and town land is safe from PvP.

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.
3. A region holds at most 3 towns. Halls stand at least 200 m apart, with two empty plots between a new hall and another town's land. You start with one 50 × 50 m plot.
4. Open Town T to invite players nearby or share an invite link (they must accept).
5. Members contribute gold; the founder and officers spend it to claim neighbouring plots. Each new plot costs more: 30 + 12 × plots already owned.

Rules

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 clears when you close the browser.

Companions

One animal friend at a time. Best picks: Boar for hauling (90 kg), Wolf Pup for fights, Fox for extra food.

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.

Bond levels

It levels up by spending time with you.

1. Follows you. Pet it with F (lifts its mood once a minute) and feed it.
2. Sniff out. Finds things for you (heron: Scout).
3. Fetch. Right-click a ground item with empty hands 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. Under Supplies you buy from or sell to the merchant. It only trades the 8 basics below.
• 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. You get the gold when it sells, even offline. Buyers can take part of a stack. Withdraw unsold items under My offers.
• Buy orders: players also post "wanted" orders: what they'll pay for an item. They show as Best buy order below.
• 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.

The merchant

The merchant takes up to 999 of each item from you, ever: its stock is per character and doesn't drain. So merchant gold has a cap per character. tested

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 pays, for items it holds in stock. Click a column to sort; click a region to see it on the map.

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.