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The field guide walks you through your first hour: moving, your starting training, the first quests and your first upgrade.
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A cheerful little world to call home
Chop, fish and smith. Build a house with your friends. Go looking for dragons. Pixlaria is a blocky, bright MMORPG that runs right in your browser.
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Pioneers wanted. The first 1,000 adventurers to keep a character and play for an hour are numbered by their name, for good.
Just added
New in Pixlaria
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Lands over the seaFour wild lands and Dragonspire Isle, where Ashcrown, eldest of the dragons, waits.
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Caves twice as largeNew halls on every floor, room to circle, twice the creatures, and two hunting caves.
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HazelmereA new starter town by the south-western lakes, and the centaurs of Stonehoof Halls.
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Rare finds for every callingKnights, rangers and mages each have rare gear of their own to hunt.
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The world
A world that is glad to see you
The town of Pioneeria sits in the middle of a vast world: a square with market stalls and bunting, a long pier out over the lake, and roads to woods, hamlets and snowy peaks. Every town, village and road is laid out by hand, with wild country between them, and over the sea lie wilder lands still.
A world to explore
Towns and villages laid out by hand, wild country between them, and four wild lands and a dragons’ isle over the sea.
Day and night
A twenty-minute day with a golden hour, a blue dusk, a short night of lanterns and fireflies, and a pink dawn.
Better together
One shared world: invite friends into a party, choose equipment for your combat role, and explore together. Every character can learn every skill.
Skills
Learn by doing
Fifteen skills, each growing through practice up to level 99, all available to one character. Open Skills to see what you can do now, your next milestone and ways to earn from your work. Grow a garden on your plot: leave flowers blooming, harvest food and unlock new plants through Gardening. A tree shudders and sheds leaves at every stroke; the anvil throws sparks at every blow.
Start small, go further
Catch shrimp with your starter net. At Fishing 40, take a sea rod out by boat and follow the gulls to deep-sea shoals.
Make practice count
Higher skills open resources, recipes and spells, or improve the work you already do. Later Carpentry milestones yield more material from the same logs.
Earn your next upgrade
Sell spare logs, catches and crafted goods to shops. Skills suggests useful equipment for your combat level and shows the prices to aim for.
- Gardening · flowers, vegetables and fruit on your own plot
Woodcutting
Mining- Fishing · from shore to open sea
Cooking
Smithing
Firemaking- Carpentry
Melee
Defence
Archery
Magic
Foraging
Exploration
Carpentry
Build a home
Gather wood, saw it into planks and blocks, and put up a house of your own out in the wide world past the heartland, on land you claim with a stake. Signposted settlers' roads lead from town over long plank bridges to the Settlers' Meadows, level grass ringed with trees and a green with a sawbench, a bank chest and a campfire, with safe roads leading there. Houses are made from the same kit as the villages, so what you build looks like it belongs.
Chop logs
Start with ordinary trees and an axe. Oaks, willows and maples open as Woodcutting grows.
Saw planks
At the sawbench by the smithy, or one you build yourself.
Floor and walls
Lay a plank floor, then stand walls, windows and a door on it.
The roof grows
Close a room in with walls and a roof grows over it by itself.
Paint it your colours
Town paint shops sell a familiar palette, with special local colours to discover farther afield. Paint walls piece by piece, or bring a ladder and use one pot to colour the whole roof.
- Honey
- Sky
- Leaf
- Berry
- Plum
- Cream
- Peach
- Ink
Make it yours
Stools, tables, torches, chests that open your bank, and beds to rest in. Fences with garden gates, flower beds and lantern posts. At Carpentry 6, build a waystone. At Magic 14, say runa to return to it when you are out of combat; the spell has a three-minute cooldown.
Adventure
Go looking for dragons
Danger grows with the distance from town: hoglets in the meadows, then beetles, wolves and cheeky goblin whelps, goblins round their camps, skeletons and trolls, cyclopes for real explorers. Across the water the goblins grow into brutes, led by old elders who cast. Caves go down into the dark, dragons sleep in lairs far away, and out in the deep desert an old king lies in his tomb. Over the sea, four wild lands hold the strongest creatures yet, level 105 to 150, and in the crater of Dragonspire Isle waits Ashcrown, eldest of the dragons.
“There are dragons in the dungeons! I have seen them! Be careful!”
Spells are words
Say them in chat, or press their key. Each school has a look of its own, and what you hold in your hands opens spells of its own.
varamend
voltabolt (staff or wand)
sparklight
ventihaste
kistabank box
hemmato town
Adventure with a way back
Click a monster to attack; right-click for more options. Your character keeps fighting until you stop; press Escape to disengage. Multiple creatures can attack you at once, both above ground and in caves, including bosses and Wardens. Watch nearby enemies and keep a retreat route open. Creatures below half your Combat level leave you alone unless attacked, but a boss notices everyone. Strike a creature and it fights back, following you a little way past its own ground before it turns for home. On death, you wake in your hometown. Outside the PvP danger zone on Northreach Isle, you keep all your carried items and coins. Inside it, your bag is at risk. Worn equipment, tool belt, pet pouch and bank contents remain safe everywhere. No character experience, skill experience or levels are lost. What happens when you fall.
Town is a protection zone: a safe place to trade, bank and talk.
Pictures
Postcards from Pixlaria
Recorded in the playable alpha. Films and most pictures were captured on 20 September 2026; the deep-sea picture is from 19 September, the newest pictures from 3 October and the opening film from 4 October. Scenes are staged in the real game, with the interface hidden in films; building is shown at three times speed.
Beyond the familiar roads
Follow the world underground
The Mosslight Ways link three cave entrances east and south-east of Pioneeria. Follow the lamps to find another way out, or descend into optional chambers with stronger creatures and valuable ore. Two of the Ways’ mines are hunting caves: goblins round their elder in Mosslight Mine, cave trolls round theirs in Fernfall Hollow, and each elder mends its kin. Every cave’s floors open into more halls, with room to circle while you fight.
Farther afield, rare Briar stags shelter in damp woodlands and Shaleback beetles nest in dry hills. Their habitats reward searching, with clues in your Hunting Journal. Faraway caves also shelter baby moss and ember dragons. The remote Rimewild Reach and Sunscar Expanse hold rare Frostcrown harts and Cinderback ancients for prepared adventurers. Defeat different creatures to fill your Creature Journal, from familiar wildlife to rare cave monsters.
Out in the deep desert, far to the west, two doorways of dressed sandstone stand half buried in the dunes: the Ivory Tomb, where scarabs swarm, mummies sleep among the stone coffins and a giant scorpion nests, and the Sun Gate, a king’s tomb, where the Pharaoh wakes for anyone who comes near his golden coffin; below him a sand dragon sleeps on the king’s gold. Ali, who keeps the last well in Kingsrest, knows the way: The King Under the Sand.
Learn the ropes
A guide for every step
The field guide takes you from your first steps through the first quests, one at a time: where to go, what to click and what you get. The illustrated encyclopedia has every item, creature, quest and place in the game, with pictures from the game itself.
The hall of adventurers
Find your place
Grow across all 15 skills, or become known for your favourite. See the leading characters in every skill, overall progress and combat.
Start playing
Your first minute
Play in your browser on a computer or phone. Pixlaria is in active development; expect changes as we build the world together.
Press Play
The game opens right here in your browser. There is nothing to install.
Make yourself at home
Quick play keeps a guest on this browser. Choose Continue your guest when you return. In Settings, Save your guest keeps the same character on other computers. Or begin with New character.
Say hello
In Pioneeria, find the Guide by the well on the town square; in another starter town, the Welcome Steward in its welcome house. Field notes suggest a first catch, a few logs to sell or a place to explore, and the townsfolk have stories for you: your town’s Smith forges a sword from ore you mine yourself. Every quest.
Find your thing
Start with your chosen training weapon equipped, 80 gold coins and bread, and a net, a hammer and a tinderbox on your tool belt. Buy a basic axe for 16 coins, or fish with your net. Sell spare supplies at a shop using Sell all and save towards your first equipment upgrade.
Controls that fit your device
On a phone, use touch movement and tap to interact; long-press for the action menu. On a computer, use the controls below.
- WASD or arrows
- Walk (the keys in those places on any keyboard: Z Q S D on a French one)
- Click
- Walk, gather, talk or attack a creature
- Right-click
- Open the action menu: Build, Trade, Follow and more
- Right-drag, Q E
- Turn the camera; drag also tilts
- Mouse wheel
- Zoom smoothly in and out
- Esc
- Stop walking, gathering or attacking
- B G K P M
- Bag, gear, skills, spells, map
- 1–9 and 0
- Spells; 0 uses your first food
- Enter and F
- Chat and friends
- V, Space, hold T
- First-person view, jump, talk to friends near you
Every key can be changed in Settings, under Keys. All the controls.
Keep your character safe: save a recovery code in Settings, under Account & recovery. If you forget your password, choose Recover account on the sign-in screen and use that code. Guests first choose Save your guest.
Make yourself comfortable: Settings has graphics and sound controls. From Friends or a player's right-click menu, mute unwanted messages or report a problem.
Taking a break? After 10 minutes without deliberate input, you are logged out, even during automatic combat. A warning appears one minute beforehand, with a Keep playing button. Your position and progress are saved.
From your first steps to your own home
Find your next little adventure
Practical guides and pictures from the game, kept alongside its current item and creature data.
Find your way
Honeybrook, the Settlers’ Meadows, Bellhaven, the desert tombs, the dragons’ lairs and the wild lands over the sea: every place, with directions from the town square.
See the places →Follow a story
16 stories, from The Smith's First Sword to The King Under the Sand: who tells each, where to go, what to bring and what you get. Your Journal keeps track of them.
Read the quests →Visit Larkfield
Meet Kristoffer by the campfire, find the flamingos at the pond and look for a spot to build your home.
Explore the settlers’ meadow →Make a home your own
Lay floors, fit porch fences and furnish your rooms with beds, cooking stoves and warm lamps.
Browse building and furniture →Plan your next upgrade
See real item artwork, equipment requirements, recipes, prices and creature habitats.
Search the illustrated encyclopedia →A few things before you begin
Is Pixlaria free, and do I need a download?
Pixlaria is a free playable alpha that runs in your browser. Open the game and choose Quick play to begin as a guest, or create an account.
Can I play on my phone?
Yes. Mobile has touch movement and tap controls; long-press to open an action menu. A computer with a mouse and keyboard is also supported.
How do I keep my progress?
Save your guest as an account in Settings to keep the same character across devices. Keep your recovery code somewhere safe. The account guide explains saving and recovery.
Can friends fight and build together?
Invite from Friends or a nearby player’s action menu to form a party of up to five. You can share healing, follow each other and trade; joining a party does not multiply boss rewards. To build together, the plot owner must explicitly approve each player through Plot access. Friendship alone does not grant building rights.
Your corner of Pixlaria is waiting
Play PixlariaFree playable alpha. Play on desktop or mobile. Say hello on Discord.