# 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 Firstfolk, 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 the caves under them, the creatures, effects and food, the weapons, magic, machines, 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/), [Creatures](https://riventale.world/guides/creatures/), [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/), [Machines](https://riventale.world/guides/machines/).
- **[The Keepers](https://riventale.world/guides/keepers/):** Four chained elements, the Titan, the Elemental Core, the Crowned Wyrm and the four Shardborn: how each one fights, and how to get ready. [The Keepers](https://riventale.world/guides/keepers/), [The Shardborn](https://riventale.world/guides/titans/).
- **[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. [Playing together](https://riventale.world/guides/playing-with-friends/), [Emberhold](https://riventale.world/guides/emberhold/), [Forgebreak](https://riventale.world/guides/forgebreak/), [Riftfall](https://riventale.world/guides/riftfall/), [Riftways](https://riventale.world/guides/riftways/), [The Makers’ Trial](https://riventale.world/guides/makers-trial/).
- **[The story](https://riventale.world/guides/lore/):** The Crystal, the Firstfolk who broke it, the Keepers they chained, and the 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 Worlds and Games update](https://riventale.world/updates/v1-8/):** Worlds to keep, games to win. On a phone, the whole screen is yours. 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, Dawnspar below Y −64, wanestone 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 Dawnspar Focus, the four spells, Ether and the spell book | [Magic](https://riventale.world/guides/magic/) |
| The wastes | Tungsten, Wright companions, the Titan, obitite and the Thrumpack | [The Keepers](https://riventale.world/guides/keepers/#the-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? | Yes. Nothing rises within seven blocks of a torch. Hold one to see where it is still dark enough. | [How to play](https://riventale.world/guides/how-to-play/#torchlight) |
| What drops Seamcord? | Rivenmaws: up to two each, and one in three drops a Seamheart. Three lakeweed twist into one too. | [Creatures](https://riventale.world/guides/creatures/#the-rivenmaw) |
| How do I tame a Wright? | Use a Tungsten Ingot on a wild Firstfolk Wright within five blocks. Up to three follow you. | [Creatures](https://riventale.world/guides/creatures/#taming-a-wright) |
| What does a Sunapple do? | A gold ward round your life for two minutes; hits take it 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 Dawnspar 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/), [a free voxel game in your browser](https://riventale.world/free-voxel-game/) |
| Does it work on a phone? | Yes, in the phone's browser, in landscape, with touch controls and a battery saver. | [Riventale on a phone](https://riventale.world/play-on-phone/) |

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