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How to play VoxelWar.io

A multiplayer shooter in a world made of blocks. Blow everything up or build a fortress to defend.

First-person view holding an SMG in front of a stone keep on a grassy hill, with the crosshair, ammo count, health and experience bars and the hotbar on screen
  1. Crosshair Where you are aiming.
  2. Ammo reloads with R
  3. Health and Experience
  4. Hotbar For quick access. Press E for inventory.

01

Jump in

  • Play as guest right away or Register to save progress.
The lobby: your level and tokens, the list of keys, and a button each for Zombie Apocalypse, Capture the Flag and Deathmatch
The lobby, with a button per mode.

02

Controls

Move

W A S D
Move
Space
Jump
Shift
Sprint
C Ctrl
Crouch. (Crouching prevent's from falling of the block).

Act

Left click
Fire, drill or build
Right click
Secondary action (scope on weapons, toggle doors on blocks)
R
Reload
1–0
Access hotbar
Middle click
Pick the slot holding the block you're looking at

Everything else

E
Inventory and crafting
X
Pick dropped items
Tab
Scoreboard
Q
Turret ranges
T
Chat
M
Mute
Esc
Ingame menu

03

Mine

  • Mine and collect blocks with the Drill.
  • Mined blocks are automatically collected in the inventory
  • Mining rare ores gives experience points
Aiming the Drill at green emerald ore in a rock face, with a label beside the crosshair reading Green Emerald Ore, gives Green Emerald, and gold ore to the right
A seam of green emerald, with gold beside it.

04

Craft

The inventory open on the left with ingots, coal, sulfur and gems, and the crafting panel on the right listing blocks, weapons and ammo with what each costs
Your pack on the left, the recipes on the right.
  • Press E, then click on CRAFTING ▸.
  • There are three columns: blocks, weapons, and ammo / consumables. Select TURRETS To craft turrets
  • A shield potion is made from a sapphire. Hold left click with one in hand to drink it: +25 shield a second, up to 300. What is over 100 slowly burns off.
  • Left click to craft. Scroll over to make several. Right click to favorite.

05

Build and defend

A small cobblestone fort with battlements, glass windows, a door outlined in green and a turret glowing on its corner post, with cobblestone selected on the hotbar
A mini base: 1 a door and 2 a turret on the corner.
  • Build a fortress to uphold against zombies or a watchtower to camp in CTF. Endless strategic possibilities.
  • Doors. Right click (with a block) to toggle between door mode. Doors let teamates through but block enemies.
  • Wards guard the area around them.
    • A Claim lets only allies build or drill in a 10 block area.
    • A Bulwark Ward reduces incoming damage to walls and allied players by 50% in an 8 block range.
    • A Forge Ward increases damage by 50% for allied players, in a 6 block area.
  • Turrets are guns shoot automatically in a range. Hold Q to see.
  • Blueprints. Design custom buildings with the Blueprints in the main game menu which could be constructed in-game with the Fabricator. Left click to open fabricator's blueprints then left click to select, right click to cancel.

06

Game modes

Three players named Juno, Mox and Kestrel firing at each other on a hillside below a keep
Everyone for themselves

Deathmatch

Free for all! Everyone against everyone. The map resets every 24 hours, and the top three players are awarded in the end. Awards work even for offline players during the match ending

A pack of zombies coming down a hill at the player, with the wave counter reading Wave 1, 22 of 22 left
Everyone together

Zombie Apocalypse

All the players against waves of zombies. Initially there is some time to build, then a couple of minutes to survive, and every wave is bigger, faster, stronger. There are different types of zombies, some move very fast, some with lots of HP and some that dive at wherever you were standing, so keep moving.

Takes two waves to respawn, once dead.

Standing on top of the blue team's bedrock pyramid, looking back across a desert map, with the readout saying you have Blue's flag, home 136 metres away
Team against team

Capture the Flag

Try to steal the enemy flag to win. Dying drops the flag onto the ground, it can be returned up by allies or picked up by enemies.

First team to 3 flags wins.

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Good to know

  • Dying drops one third of your inventory.
  • Every map starts you with your Loadout and your tools, nothing else. Levelling up unlocks better ones: pick one in the inventory's LOADOUTS tab. Each respawn tops it up again, except after a suicide.
  • Walk over dropped items to pick them up.
  • Falls of more than 3 blocks damages the player.
  • Heavy guns slow you down.
  • Leaving the game 5 seconds, player is still vulnerable for that time.
  • Kills, wins, captures and surviving waves awards tokens and experience, and mining adds experience. Spend tokens on Cosmetics in the main menu.