The mechanics of Vox Eternum — what you operate, and how. Each has a guide, or a placeholder where one has not been written yet. For what the game is about rather than how it works, see theages.

A recipe names a capability rather than a block, and any block declaring that word provides it, so a station is data alone.

Playable now · Introduced in The Age of Survival. Reached by building Crafting Block.No guide yet

Crafting Block Stone Axe Stone Pickaxe Stone Shovel Stone Sword Wooden Pickaxe Stick Cord Wood Planks Torch

A fire burns fuel and turns what is in it into something else; a spit, a smoking rack or a cooking pot set on it adds roasting, smoking or boiling, a hearth is the same fire in stone, and a drying rack beside either works with no fire at all.

Playable now · Introduced in The Age of Survival. Reached by building Campfire.No guide yet

Campfire Cooking Spit Clay Bowl Mortar and Pestle Flour Bread Roast Meat Cooked Red Meat Cooked Fish Coal Hearth Smoking Rack Cooking Pot Drying Rack Charcoal Stew Tallow Smoked Red Meat Salted Red Meat

Hunger falls, food restores it, and what comes out after dark is what the dark is for.

Playable now · Introduced in The Age of Survival.No guide yet

Bed Torch Campfire Blackberry Hazelnut Rose Hip Brown Mushroom Wolf Bear

A head under water spends fifteen seconds of breath and then a point of health a second, for a player and for anything that walks; the bubbles show only once there is something to say.

Playable now · Introduced in The Age of Survival.No guide yet

Water Salt Water

A seabed that grows weed, coral, anemones and shells; little fish that cannot be touched; sight that reaches as far as the light does and no further; and one shell that gives light of its own.

Playable now · Introduced in The Age of Survival.No guide yet

Seaweed Coral Sea Anemone Shells Glowshell Minnow Reef Fish Fish Ocean Deep Ocean

Tilled soil, seeds, growth on a random tick, and a harvest.

Playable now · Introduced in The Age of Survival. Reached by building Stone Hoe.

Tilled Soil Stone Hoe Wheat Crop Onion Crop Carrot Crop Flax Crop Wheat Seeds Wheat Wild Wheat Plant Fiber

An animal follows what you hold, and one that feels safe where it is lays and gives.

Playable now · Introduced in The Age of Survival.No guide yet

Cow Chicken Wild Turkey Duck Sheep Pig Egg Wool Bowl of Milk Hide Feather Fence

Something other than the terrain made it, or the place is uncanny: a grave, a ring of standing stones, a spring, a fairy ring, an ancient oak, a bear's den in a cave.

Playable now · Introduced in The Age of Survival.No guide yet

Grave Mound Grave Marker Earth Mound

Caves are cut by noise and then grown in: a table says what stands on a cave floor, how often, and between which depths.

Playable now · Introduced in The Age of Survival.No guide yet

Glowcap Brown Mushroom Coal Ore Iron Ore Copper Ore Tin Ore Silver Ore Strange Crystal Torch Cave Lurker Cave Crawler

A short line put in front of one player and gone in a few seconds, with a rank deciding what wins when two land at once.

Playable, unsettled · Belongs to no age — a mechanism of the game itself.No guide yet

A line and a sound where the world is uneasy: the first sign that the supernatural has rules and is paying attention.

Playable, unsettled · Introduced in The Age of Omens.No guide yet

Moonflower Glowcap Ghostroot Occult Essence Spirit Spring Bowl of Spirit Water Skeleton Zombie Ghoul Standing Stone Fairy Ring Restless Spirit Fairy Wisp Soul Essence Spirit Dust Fairy Dust