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Morning on the town square in Pixlaria: market stalls and bunting, a knight in steel, players waving and a dog trotting by, with snowy peaks behind.

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 half an hour are numbered by their name, for good.

The world

A world that is glad to see you

Pixlaria Town 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. Beyond the heartland the land is made the first time anyone walks or rows there.

Two players fishing from the long wooden pier at sunset, the low sun glittering on the lake.
Sunset: Fishing from the long pier while the sun goes down.
Night in Honeybrook: lantern light, glowing windows and a starry sky over the snowy peaks, and friends dancing round a campfire.
Night: Evenings round the fire in Honeybrook, under the stars.
A player rowing a small wooden boat across the lake, a ripple of wake behind, the pier and green shores beyond.
Boats: Eight logs make a rowing boat. Seas and islands wait beyond the heartland.

  • A world to explore

    A hand-made heartland in the middle, and new land, forests, seas and islands the further you go.

  • 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: wave, cheer and dance with other players, and keep a friends list to find them again.

Skills

Learn by doing

Fourteen skills, each growing through practice up to level 99, with none locked to a calling. 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.

One player chops an oak by a pond while a friend saws logs into planks at a sawbench beside it, the town and the snowy peaks behind.
Woodcutting: Chop an old oak, saw the logs into planks.
The town smithy in the morning: a player smelting ore at the furnace and two more hammering at anvils, sparks flying.
Smithing: Smelt ore into bars, hammer bars into gear.

  • 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
  • Blocking
  • Archery
  • Magic
  • Foraging
  • Walking

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.

A little timber house with a door, windows and a shingle roof, built by four friends among the trees.
Three times speed: Four friends build a house together, floor first, then walls, windows and a door.

  1. Chop logs

    Start with ordinary trees and an axe. Oaks, willows and maples open as Woodcutting grows.

  2. Saw planks

    At the sawbench by the smithy, or one you build yourself.

  3. Floor and walls

    Lay a plank floor, then stand walls, windows and a door on it.

  4. The roof grows

    Close the floor in and a roof grows over it by itself.

Paint it your colours

The paint shop sells eight pots, the game's own palette. 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, and three dragons sleep in lairs far away.

Old Tam on the road out of the town square, a speech bubble over his head.

“There are dragons in the dungeons! I have seen them! Be careful!”

Old Tam, on the north road out of town. He went down a hole after copper and came back up without his eyebrows.
A frozen cave: frosted blue rock, icicles and glowing crystals, and a shaft of daylight falling down the ladder.
Caves: Glowing crystals, and daylight down the ladder. Say spark and your light becomes Lykta, a lantern that burns until you climb out.
A party of adventurers fights a huge red dragon in its ember-lit lair, the spell words volta and kira in block letters over them.
Dragons: Mossmaw, Emberdeep and Nightmaw: level 70, 90 and 110. Bring friends.

Spells are words

Say them in chat, or press their key. Each school has a look of its own.

  • varamend
  • kirastrike
  • voltabolt
  • sparklight
  • ventihaste
  • kira rondaall around
  • kistabank box
  • hemmahome

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. Only one monster fights you at a time while the others wait their turn. On death, you return to the temple. Your backpack stays where you fell for 30 minutes, for you alone to recover, even across server updates. Use Recover backpack for directions and look for its gold marker. You lose up to 10% of character experience, but keep your levels, skills, starter tools and worn gear.

Town is a protection zone: a safe place to trade, bank and talk.

Beyond the familiar roads

Follow the world underground

The Mosslight Ways link three cave openings east and southeast beyond the home island. Follow the lamps to find another way out, or descend into optional chambers with stronger creatures and valuable ore.

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.

The hall of adventurers

Find your place

Grow across all 14 skills, or become known for your favourite. See the leading characters in every skill, overall progress and combat.

Explore the rankings

Start playing

Your first minute

Pixlaria is in active development. Play on a computer with a mouse and keyboard; expect changes as we build the world together.

  1. Press Play

    The game opens right here in your browser. There is nothing to install.

  2. 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.

  3. Say hello to the Guide

    Find the Guide by the well on the town square. Field notes suggest a first catch, a few logs to sell or a place to explore. They are optional ideas; choose what sounds fun.

  4. Find your thing

    Start with your class weapon equipped, 80 gold coins, bread, a net, a hammer and a tinderbox. 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.

Made for mouse and keyboard

WASD or arrows
Walk
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

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 5 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.

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?

You can team up against monsters, follow each other and trade. To build together, the plot owner must explicitly approve each player through Plot access. Friendship alone does not grant building rights.

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Play Pixlaria

Free playable alpha. Best on a computer with a mouse and keyboard.