# A free voxel sandbox adventure in your browser

Riventale is a world of blocks that runs in a web browser tab: every block can be mined and placed, the land goes on in every direction, and under it lie caves, ruins and the story of the people who broke the world. It is free, there is nothing to install, and no account is needed to play.

## What you do

- **Build.** Every block mines and places: a shelter before the first night, then a house, a tower, a town. Doors, ladders, chests that join into one, banners in ten colours, a Homefire whose smoke marks home on the sky.
- **Craft.** Wood to boards to a Maker's Bench, stone to iron to gold and deeper: each pickaxe opens the next ore. Tools never wear out.
- **Survive.** Night brings Hollows, Bonewalkers and Crawlers; torchlight keeps them off. On the harder paths hunger matters, and food carries effects: a Sunapple's gold ward, Nightsight, Mending.
- **Explore.** Great forests that fall whole to an axe and grow back, deserts, snowfields and mountains, and below them caverns of glowcaps, still lakes and geodes. Ruins hold chests and the sixteen Torn Pages that tell what broke the world.
- **Fight.** A sword, a dagger that strikes twice as hard from behind, a Recurve Bow, a crossbow, elemental arrows and four spells cast for Ether.
- **Face the Keepers.** Four elemental bosses chained in their temples, each with a second form; the Robot Titan; the Elemental Core and the Crowned Wyrm; and four Titans 48 blocks tall that you climb to strike their hearts.

![The Magma Colossus in its temple: a stepped cone of rock with a face of fire, lava running down it.](https://riventale.world/ui/whatsnew/keepers.webp)

*The Magma Colossus, Keeper of Fire.*

## How a world unfolds

There is no quest list. Progress follows the materials: the first day is wood, a bench, a pickaxe and a roof; then a Forge and iron; then a bucket, a Hearth Pot and a fishing rod; then the deep stone, Dawnspar below Y −64 and wanestone below Y −80. Beyond the middle lands lie the Robotic World, with tungsten, tamed robots and the Robot Titan, and the hidden lands of the four Keepers. How to get there is something the Torn Pages hint at, and players find.

The Journal (`J`) holds the Path: three goals at a time with rewards, a Dawn errand each day, achievements, and every Torn Page you have found. Three difficulty paths set the pace: Easy (the Wanderer) without hunger, Medium (the Adventurer), and Hard (the Champion), where starving can kill.

## Alone or with friends

|  | Who | Players |
|---|---|---|
| **Your Realm** | Your own worlds, saved in your browser, up to five. Yours alone until you invite friends | You, and up to 8 friends from their browsers |
| **A private world** | Kept on our server; friends enter with its code even while you are away | Up to 10 |
| **The Riven Lands** | One shared world on our server, in copies: when one fills, the next opens | Up to 60 in each copy |

An invite is a link or a QR code from the pause menu: whoever opens it starts beside you, on a computer or a phone. Online worlds have text chat, [rules](https://riventale.world/rules/) and a way to report a player. At zero health you are knocked down, not killed, and a friend can revive you. Everything about playing together: [playing together](https://riventale.world/guides/playing-with-friends/).

## What it runs on

- Any modern browser with WebGL: Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari, on Windows, macOS, Linux, ChromeOS, Android, iPhone and iPad.
- A keyboard and mouse on a computer; touch controls on a phone or tablet, played in landscape. Phones, tablets and Chromebooks: [Riventale on a phone](https://riventale.world/play-on-phone/).
- Three graphics levels, a render scale and a view distance from 2 to 10 chunks, so an older laptop keeps up.

## What it costs

Riventale is free to play. The shop sells character looks that change only how you look: no gameplay power, no random items, and buying needs an account while playing does not. Many looks are earned and never sold: a Keeper's Mark and aura for each Keeper you beat, the Riven Circlet, the Shardfall Cape, the Kinlight. A short video ad plays now and then at a break, as a world loads or after you leave one, never during play.

## Start

1. Open [riventale.world](https://riventale.world/) and press **Play**. A first visit starts a Medium world with Rivet, a small scout robot, to show the way.
2. On a computer, click the game: `W` `A` `S` `D` to move, the mouse to look, hold the left button to mine, right click to place, `E` for the bag.
3. Gather wood before anything else, and have a roof and a torch before the first night.

Every control and your first day: [how to play](https://riventale.world/guides/how-to-play/). Every guide: [the guides](https://riventale.world/guides/).

Play now: https://riventale.world/