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A field guide to BuildXD

Recipes, creatures, survival, building, and a practical machinery workshop. Find out what things do—and how to make them work.

375 library items176 crafting patterns45 creature entries36 practical guides

START IN THE WORKSHOP

Make your first machine.

From a lump of coal to a switched lamp. Learn what connects, what needs fuel, and why that lever might not be doing anything.

Build a working coal circuit →Browse all machinery →

Pick a place to begin

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Items & blocks

Find materials, tools, food, equipment, and their uses.

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The recipe book

Every current crafting pattern, with quantities and station requirements.

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Meet the wildlife

Habitats, behavior, danger, taming, breeding, and marine life.

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Explore the encyclopedia

Start here

Start here

Chat commands and world controls

Every current local slash command, including time, weather, item grants, teleportation and companion controls.

Start here

Your first survival day

Start with an empty inventory, make a building deck and tools, and establish food, water and a home.

Start here

Controls and everyday actions

A practical keyboard, mouse, inventory and vehicle reference.

Crafting & materials

Crafting & materials

Inventory and crafting grids

Use the real 2×2 and 3×3 grids, recipe assistance, storage and offhand.

Crafting & materials

Tools and material progression

Gather faster, understand tool grades, and progress from wood and stone to steel and advanced armor.

Crafting & materials

Kilns, cooking and fuel

Build a kiln, smelt materials, cook food and fix common fuel or output problems.

Crafting & materials

Homes, beds and storage

Set a safe home, grow your storage and use doors, stairs and partial blocks.

Crafting & materials

Signs, books and writing

Label builds, keep a journal and turn a blank book into a read-only written book.

Survival

Survival

Modes, health and death

Understand the four modes, survival meters, recovery and what happens when you die.

Survival

Farming and harvesting

Grow wheat, flax, carrots, potatoes and beetroot, and harvest renewable fruit.

Survival

Food, water and portable supplies

Eat, drink, cook and manage the difference between wooden and metal buckets.

Survival

Combat, armor and shields

Equip protection, use melee and ranged weapons, and understand directional blocking.

Survival

Fishing, boats and horses

Catch a real fish, travel over water and care for a riding horse.

Survival

Healing, poison and medicine

Use food and water, beds, milk, bandages and doctors to recover.

World & nature

World & nature

Worlds, seeds, and starting landscapes

Choose from ten scenery presets and understand new-world versus existing-save behavior.

World & nature

Biomes and landscapes

Forests, deserts, snow, giant mushrooms, caves, reefs, and the redwood understory.

World & nature

Time, weather, and shelter

The day cycle, dry roofs, floods, lightning, moon phases, and the night sky.

World & nature

Water, lava, and buckets

Renewable pools, fluid spread, obsidian, wells, drinkable vessels, and boats.

Creatures

Creatures

Taming, breeding, and animal care

Feed pairs, raise young, shear sheep, milk livestock, saddle horses, and use leads.

Creatures

Marine life and underwater encounters

Sharks, mermaids/sirens, beluga rides, rays, kraken, and deep-water wildlife.

Creatures

Bees, hives, and honey

Supply flowers, produce finite honey stores, and collect honeycomb.

Settlements

Settlements

Settlements, trading, and law

Working residents, real supplies, hospitality, guards, medicine, and custody.

Settlements

Witches and Twilight crystals

Night barter, shell exchanges, rare offhand protection, and superseded hospitality.

Settlements

Pirate raids and recovery

Coastal ships, physical plunder, player choices, and staged rebuilding.

Settlements

Witch conversation: Mika

Experimental local witch conversation, session activation, memory, and its limits.

Machinery

Machinery

Machinery

Coal-powered circuits, physical pistons, player-driven railways, switched lighting, and remote blast ignition.

Machinery

Build your first coal circuit

A hands-on introduction to coal power, copper conduit, switches, lamps, and your first useful machine.

Machinery

Power, conduit, switches, and signals

How power travels, what each control actually does, why switches get bypassed, and how coal reserve is spent.

Machinery

Pistons and sticky pistons

Build a physical block pusher, choose its direction, and understand which blocks it can move.

Machinery

Rails, handcarts, and coal carts

Lay a usable track, board a cart, manage throttle and fuel, and add brake or booster rails.

Machinery

Circuit lamps, coal lanterns, and permanent lights

Choose between switched lighting, a fueled lantern, and materials that glow without a power network.

Machinery

Blast charges and remote ignition

Craft a charge, connect a remote trigger, and understand fuse, excavation, and save behavior.

Machinery

Machinery troubleshooting

Find the missing connection, wrong fuel, blocked piston, or cart control that is stopping your build.

Companion & settings

Companion & settings

Playing with a companion

Connect an existing assistant as a separate in-game character and understand pause and control limits.

Companion & settings

Record and review your gameplay

Capture local game demonstrations and inspect them without automatic uploads or training.

Companion & settings

Settings, screenshots and save files

Tune controls and presentation, find local files and understand save compatibility.