Guides
Practical, step-by-step help for sandbox games and voxel tools, from your first day in a new world to getting models into an engine.
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Guide
Vintage Story Beginner Guide: Surviving Your First Day
A plain guide to your first day in Vintage Story: reading the three bars, knapping stone tools, finding food and clay, building a firepit and getting through the first night.
Minecraft
Minecraft Ice Caves: Frostbite, Icicles, Ice Crystals and How to Try Them
Everything in Minecraft's frozen game drop so far: the Ice Caves biome, the frostbite zombie, icicles, ice crystals, Freezing and how to test it all in snapshots and previews.
Guide
MagicaVoxel to Godot: Three Ways to Get Your Models In-Game
How to move MagicaVoxel models into Godot 4: the OBJ route, direct .vox import with a plugin, and when to go through Blender. Plus fixes for white models, huge scale and blurry colours.
Voxel games
Games Like Minecraft, Sorted by What You Actually Want
Looking for a game like Minecraft? Vintage Story, Teardown, Luanti and Hytale each take the block-world idea in a different direction. Here is which one suits you.
Guide
Luanti for Beginners: Install It and Pick Your First Game
Luanti, formerly Minetest, is a free voxel game platform that ships without a game. Here is how to install it, which game to try first, and how mods and servers work.
Creation tools
Free Voxel Editors Compared: MagicaVoxel, Goxel and Blockbench
MagicaVoxel, Goxel and Blockbench are all free, but they suit different jobs. Compare platforms, licences, export formats and which one fits your project.