# Riventale guides

Riventale is a voxel adventure you play in your browser. Build and craft, cross the riven lands, gather the Torn Pages of the Vael, and face the four Keepers in their temples. Where a number depends on difficulty, the guides give the Medium value.

- **[Start here](https://riventale.world/guides/how-to-play/):** The controls on a computer and a phone, your first day, and a roof before the first night.
- **[The world](https://riventale.world/guides/crafting/):** Recipes, cooking and fishing, the lands and what lies under them, effects and food, the weapons, magic, and the Songstone. [Crafting](https://riventale.world/guides/crafting/), [Cooking and fishing](https://riventale.world/guides/cooking-and-fishing/), [Biomes and lands](https://riventale.world/guides/biomes/), [Effects and food](https://riventale.world/guides/effects/), [Weapons](https://riventale.world/guides/weapons/), [Magic](https://riventale.world/guides/magic/), [The Songstone](https://riventale.world/guides/songstone/).
- **[The Keepers](https://riventale.world/guides/keepers/):** Four chained elements, the Robot Titan, the Elemental Core and the Crowned Wyrm: how each one fights, and how to get ready.
- **[Playing together](https://riventale.world/guides/playing-with-friends/):** The Riven Lands, a private world for friends only, or your own world opened to friends.
- **[The story](https://riventale.world/guides/lore/):** The Crystal, the Vael who broke it, the Keepers they chained, and the sixteen Torn Pages.
- **[Questions](https://riventale.world/guides/faq/):** What Riventale is, what it costs, which devices it runs on, how saves work, accounts and refunds.
- **[The Magic and Paths update](https://riventale.world/updates/v0-7/):** Wake the elements. Choose your calling. Temper your steel in Vael light. October 2026.

## How a world unfolds

Riventale has no quest list. Progress follows the materials: each tier of pickaxe opens the next ore, and the ores lead you further from where you woke.

| Stage | What you are doing | Guide |
|---|---|---|
| First day | Wood, a Maker's Bench, a pickaxe, stone tools, a shelter before dark | [How to play](https://riventale.world/guides/how-to-play/#your-first-day) |
| Settling in | A Forge, iron tools and armour, farming, a proper house, a Claim Stone online | [Crafting](https://riventale.world/guides/crafting/) |
| By the water | A bucket, a Hearth Pot and its dishes, a fishing rod, the wrecks in deep lakes | [Cooking and fishing](https://riventale.world/guides/cooking-and-fishing/) |
| Going deep | Gold below Y −32, Dawnstone below Y −64, moonstone below Y −80, dungeons and their chests | [Biomes and lands](https://riventale.world/guides/biomes/) |
| Armed | A Recurve Bow, a crossbow, arrows, a dagger for the backstab | [Weapons](https://riventale.world/guides/weapons/) |
| Magic | A Dawnstone Focus, the four spells, Ether and the spell book | [Magic](https://riventale.world/guides/magic/) |
| The wastes | Tungsten, robot companions, the Robot Titan, obitite and the jetpack | [The Keepers](https://riventale.world/guides/keepers/#the-robot-titan) |
| The hidden lands | Four Keepers, elemental armour and tools, the Elemental Core and the Crowned Wyrm | [The Keepers](https://riventale.world/guides/keepers/) |
| All along | Torn pages in old chests, songs for the Songstone, achievements in the Journal | [The story](https://riventale.world/guides/lore/#the-sixteen-torn-pages), [the Songstone](https://riventale.world/guides/songstone/) |

## Quick answers

| Question | Answer | Guide |
|---|---|---|
| How do I make a pickaxe? | Three boards across the top of a Maker's Bench grid, two hafts down the middle. | [Crafting](https://riventale.world/guides/crafting/#tools-and-their-tiers) |
| Do tools break? | No. Tools never wear out. | [Crafting](https://riventale.world/guides/crafting/) |
| Where is iron? | Anywhere in the stone below the surface; mine it with a stone pickaxe or better. | [Biomes](https://riventale.world/guides/biomes/#underground-what-lies-at-which-depth) |
| Do torches stop monsters appearing? | No. A roof and walls do. Torches are for seeing. | [How to play](https://riventale.world/guides/how-to-play/#the-first-night) |
| What does a Sunapple do? | Four golden hearts over your health for two minutes; hits take them first. | [Effects](https://riventale.world/guides/effects/#the-sun-shield) |
| How do I make arrows? | Flint over a haft over a feather makes four. | [Weapons](https://riventale.world/guides/weapons/#arrows) |
| How do I learn a spell? | Hold a Dawnstone Focus and use a piece of the rarest ore in the stone, or beat a Keeper. | [Magic](https://riventale.world/guides/magic/#learning-spells) |
| How do I fish? | Cast, strike when the bobber dives, then hold to keep the gold band on the fish. | [Cooking and fishing](https://riventale.world/guides/cooking-and-fishing/#fishing) |
| What is a Live Heart? | One more heart for good, up to five more. Found in wrecks and Reliquaries. | [Biomes](https://riventale.world/guides/biomes/#wrecks-and-ruins) |
| What heals the Keepers? | The crystals on top of their temple towers. Break them. | [The Keepers](https://riventale.world/guides/keepers/#how-every-keeper-fight-works) |
| How do I play with friends only? | Friends > Invite to this world in the pause menu of one of your worlds, or keep a private world on our server. | [Playing together](https://riventale.world/guides/playing-with-friends/) |
| Is Riventale free? | Yes. No download, and no account to play. | [Questions](https://riventale.world/guides/faq/) |

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