Inventory โ tap an item to put it on your hotbar
Chest โ tap to move a stack
Your inventory โ tap to store
๐งโ๐พ Villager Trades โ gold nuggets are money!
โ๏ธ Settings
๐ Real World โ explore actual places, block-ified
Type any real place โ a mountain, a city, a landmark, or raw coordinates โ and Block World
rebuilds its real terrain from satellite elevation data. Then it's all yours: mine it,
build on it, survive on it.
Good ones to try: Mount Fuji ยท Grand Canyon ยท Matterhorn ยท Yosemite Valley ยท Hawaii ยท your hometown.
Terrain ยฉ Mapzen/AWS Terrain Tiles ยท Imagery ยฉ Esri World Imagery ยท Search ยฉ OpenStreetMap Nominatim.
Real World worlds are solo (no Play Together yet) and save separately from your sandbox world.
๐ฎ Play Together โ up to 4 players, each on their own device
Join a friend's world
๐บ๏ธ World Map
โฒ you ยท ๐ต๐ด๐ข๐ก friends ยท ๐ dogs ยท ๐ home ยท ๐ pins ยท โ treasure ยท red dots = bad guys
๐ Adventure Book โ tap a card to hear the word!
๐ Name your dog! Tap letters to hear their sounds
๐ Your best friend
Collar color
๐๏ธ Couch Co-op
Up to four players on this screen. Press A on a controller, or scan with a phone or iPad.
๐น๏ธ Left stick move ยท right stick look ยท A jump ยท RT hit/mine ยท LT place/use ยท LB/RB hotbar ยท Start pause
๐ฑCHOMP!
๐งธ My Shelf
Pick a brick
BLOCK WORLD
Mine. Build. Craft. Survive the night.
iPad: left stick = walk (full tilt = run) ยท drag right side = look ยท tap a block = place ยท press & hold = mine ยท tap a table/furnace/bed = use it ยท โ = jump ยท โ = craft ยท ๐ = inventory
Computer: click to lock mouse ยท WASD = walk ยท Shift = run ยท Space = jump ยท hold Left-click = mine ยท Right-click = place or use ยท E = inventory ยท C = craft ยท M = map ยท 1โ9 = hotbar
Explore! 14 biomes await โ forests, deserts, snowy tundra, towering mountains, oceans & coral reefs, jungles, swamps, savannas, taiga (with wolves!), mushroom isles, badlands, and pink cherry groves. Dig deep to find the Deep Dark โ and lava!
Water & lava: craft a Bucket (3 iron) to scoop & pour water or lava โ water hitting lava makes stone. Fishing: break tall grass for String, craft a Fishing Rod (3 sticks + 2 string), then use it at water โ wait for the โ bite and tap again to reel in!
Farming: craft a Hoe, till grass, plant Seeds (from tall grass), harvest wheat, bake Bread. Villages: find hamlets in forests & savannas โ tap a villager to trade (gold nuggets are money!). Bosses: survive the Stone Golem at night, wake the Sculk King through an obsidian portal, then face the Sky Dragon. Beat all three to save Block World! ๐ Tap the world map to drop waypoint pins ยท โ๏ธ Settings for render distance, sound & music.
Play Together: tap ๐ฎ Play Together โ the host gets a 4-letter room code and up to 3 friends type it in on their own phone or iPad (same Wi-Fi is best). You share the host's world: build and mine together, and face the same creatures โ every monster and giant goes after whoever is nearest, so stick together! The host's device does the saving, and if the host pauses, the world clock waits for them.
Build & battle: dye wool 8 colors (flowers, cactus, coral, coal) ยท craft Doors (6 planks) that open with a tap โ or wire a Lever to swing them all ยท Bow (3 sticks + 3 string) + Arrows (stick + feather) for ranged shots.
Creative mode: flip the switch on this menu โ infinite blocks, instant mining, and double-tap jump to FLY (fly where you look).
๐ Real World: tap Real World on this menu and type any place on Earth โ Block World downloads its real satellite elevation and rebuilds it in blocks (about 15โ20 km of real terrain, 1 block โ 19 m). Water, beaches, forests, deserts and snowcaps come from real imagery. It's a separate save from your sandbox world, so both survive.
The Parity Update: craft Ladders (7 sticks) and climb any wall ยท kill a Boomer before it pops for gunpowder, craft TNT (+ 5 sand), place it and tap it โ then RUN (it chains!) ยท build with stairs, slabs, fences & stone bricks (smelt cobble back to stone) โ you walk up stairs automatically, and fences keep animals in and monsters out ยท craft Armor (8 leather/iron/diamond โ the best set you own just works) and hold the Shield up when trouble charges ยท Shears give wool without the whack (it grows back), pigs oink around, chickens lay eggs to fry ยท lay Rails (they connect themselves, even up hills), craft a Minecart, tap to ride, push forward to roll, jump to bail. Build a coaster!
๐ The Adventure Book: tap ๐ any time to see what to do next โ thirteen picture cards with one big word each (LOG ยท DIG ยท COOK ยท BED ยท PIG ยท WHEAT ยท GO ยท TRADE ยท DOG ยท SAIL ยท GOLD ยท MOON ยท WIN). ๐ points at your current job, โ appears the moment you do it โ with a fanfare, the word read out loud, and a gold nugget. Tap any card to hear its word. The book has three chapters: ๐บ๏ธ your adventure, ๐ค the Word Workshop (sound out words and build them from letters), and ๐ the Moon Mission. Finish everything and you win the Adventure Trophy! ๐
๐ Treasure Seas: craft a Boat (5 planks), tap the water to drop it in, tap it to climb aboard โ push forward to paddle and steer by looking, jump to hop out. Your dog jumps in with you and rides the bow! Find a Treasure Map (fish one up, or raid a sunken shipwreck on the ocean floor), then use it: a big red โ appears on your world map. Sail to the X, and when you're close the ground sparkles and the game shouts DIG โ dig down 3 blocks in the sand to find a buried chest full of gold, diamonds, Dog Armor, and another map. Watch for dolphins โ they'll leap alongside your boat.
๐ The Moon: mine iron, gold & coal, then craft a Rocket Engine (6 iron + your furnace!), 2 Rocket Bodies, a gold-tipped Nose Cone and Fuel (8 coal). Stack them engine โ body โ body โ nose, tap the engine holding Fuel, and 3โฆ2โฆ1โฆ ๐ You ride it up until the sky turns black, then you fly it: look toward the Moon to go faster and steer round the space rocks (a bump only slows you down). Coming in to land, hold โ for a soft touchdown. Nothing can hurt you on the rocket. One side of the moon is always day, the other always night (glowing crystals live in the dark) โ and the Earth hangs huge in the sky. Jump โ you'll fly four blocks high! Tap the rocket any time to fly home; it can never be lost or broken. The ๐ Moon Mission book shows every step in pictures, and tapping the big words reads them out loud โ perfect for learning readers. In Creative mode the menu has a "Fly to the Moon" shortcut.
๐ Trains: you wake up at Home Station. The red Red Comet bullet train races all the way round the world in 5 minutes, and the little blue Bluebell Local takes a slower loop. The board and the strip at the top tell you when the next train comes, so wait for it, then tap ๐ Hop on (or jump, or walk in). Jump or tap ๐ช Hop off at any station. Your map shows both lines (T on a keyboard). Stay off the track when a train's coming: it'll scoop you up! On board, drag (or move the mouse) to look all around, and tap ๐ View (V on a keyboard) to sit by the window, ride up on the roof, or watch the train from outside.
โ๏ธ Planes & helicopters: at a crafting table, make a Sky Dart plane (6 iron, 4 planks, 1 glass) or a Whirlybird helicopter (8 iron, 2 glass). Tap the ground to park it, tap it to climb in. Plane: push forward for power, look where you want to go, and press โ to pull up once you're fast (it needs a long open run to take off), โฌ to dive. Helicopter: hold โ to lift off, the stick flies you around, let go to hover, โฌ to come down. ๐ View switches between chase and pilot views. Tap ๐ช Hop out any time: up high a parachute floats you down and your aircraft lands itself. Hit a parked one to put it back in your bag. (Keyboard: Space up, Shift down, T hop out, V view.)
๐ Wonders: ride far from home and the world turns magic. Crystal Fields have lilac grass and glowing crystal towers. Ember Peaks are full of smoking volcanoes with lava in their craters (don't fall in!). Glowcap Wood has giant glowing mushrooms and fireflies. Frost Spires has huge spikes of ice. Sky Isles float in the air with waterfalls pouring off them. The Red Comet stops at Frostspire, Cloudfall and Ember Ridge. Everything near home stays just the way you built it.
๐ช๏ธ Wild Weather: some storms go wild! Hurricanes bring huge winds, sideways rain and lightning. Tornados roam the land, rip up trees and grass, suck you in, lift you up and throw you (the landing only stings) โ look for ๐ช๏ธ on your map and run, it's slower than you. Wild gusts shove you around: hide behind a wall on the windy side. Hail hurts out in the open: get under a roof or a tree, or hold up your shield. A roof over your head keeps you safe from all of it, and a tornado never tears up anything you built. โ๏ธ Settings can switch Wild Weather off, or pick the weather right now.
Secret: build a 2ร2 pad of Obsidian (water + lava makes it) and tap itโฆ ๐