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t£xt1@πd$ is a procedurally generated ASCII-style survival and crafting game where you explore a dark world, gather resources, build defences, discover landmarks, and try to survive long enough to become dangerous.

You start small, with only the world around you and whatever you can gather. Chop trees, mine stone, craft tools, build a base, light the darkness, and prepare for the things that come looking for you.

What the game has

• Procedurally generated worlds with forests, rivers, ruins, castles, shrines, caves, and open wilderness.
• Survival mechanics including health, hunger, darkness, resources, and enemy pressure.
• Crafting for tools, weapons, items, structures, traps, bombs, boats, lamps, and more.
• Base building with walls, doors, fences, chests, workbenches, defences, campfires, and mining stations.
• Advanced base systems including circuits, powered fences, trip wires, enemy spawners, flamethrowers, teleports, and harvesters.
• Exploration rewards including landmarks, guarded shrines, rare rings, resource chests, and dangerous encounters.
• Enemies with different behaviours, including Crawlers, Behemoths, Splitters, and the Pyromancer boss.
• Optional storm events, map discovery, farming, trading, and portable save files.

Craft, fight, survive

Craft a sword, upgrade it, and fight back against the creatures roaming the world. Enemies can be beaten directly, trapped, lured into defences, or destroyed with powered systems once your base grows strong enough.

Bombs, traps, defences, circuits, flamethrowers, and enemy spawners can all be combined into dangerous little machines. Start with simple survival, then build farms, bases, circuit traps, and teleport networks.

Explore the world

The world begins hidden in darkness. Carry a lamp, place campfires, discover landmarks, open the map, repair ruins, raid castles, and search for shrines. 

Some places are useful, some are deadly, some are both.

Gameplay video

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Need help?

The full guide explains controls, crafting recipes, enemies, structures, map vision, circuits, storms, symbols, and survival tips.

Read the full Textlands guide