Chapter 06This site

A guide that shows its working

Asciilands Field Guide is an unofficial guide to Asciilands, written by players. It exists because the in-game Field guide is excellent at telling you what a rule is and poor at telling you what to do about it — and because most of the numbers you need while playing are buried three menus deep.

Checked22 October 2026build ca54ab855359

11 pages · 99 recipes · 11 regions · 163 items

01Method

Four rules the site is written under

These are not aspirations. They are the constraints that decide what gets published and what gets left out.

The game is the source

Recipes, costs, craft times, durability and spell numbers were read from the live client and its in-game Field guide, not from another fan site. Where a number could not be confirmed in either, it is left out rather than estimated.

Arithmetic is labelled

A recipe's raw-material cost is derived: the game gives the immediate ingredients, not the logs behind them. Everything the site adds up is marked as derived on the page that shows it, so observed and calculated numbers are never mixed without a label.

Every data page carries its build

Asciilands is in open beta and changes often. Data pages state the build they were checked against — currently ca54ab855359, read on 22 October 2026 — so an out-of-date page is obvious rather than misleading.

Written, not scraped

Every sentence on this site was written for it. The numbers are facts and are shared with any other guide; the explanations, the five-camp route, the cost expansion and the checklists are not reproduced from anywhere.

02Coverage

Every topic in the in-game guide, and where it is covered

The Field guide has twelve sections and 42 topics. This table is the promise: each one has a home, whether or not that page is published yet. 13 of 42 are live today. The item index sits alongside them: it is a lookup, not a topic of its own.

In-game Field guide sections and topics, with the page that covers each
Section	Topic	Covered in	Status
Start here	Controls	Controls	live
	Your first tools	First hour	live
	Food and goals	First hour	live
Survival	Health	Survival	planned
	Stamina	Survival	planned
	Hunger	Survival	planned
	Eating and cooking	Farming & cooking	planned
	Farming	Farming & cooking	planned
	Rest points and respawning	First hour	live
Materials	Gathering and tool tiers	Regions	live
	Regional deposits	Regions	live
Metal & forging	Bronze to iron	Smithing	planned
	Forging	Recipes	live
	Tool parts and durability	Smithing	planned
	Repairs and sharpening	Smithing	planned
Crafting & pack	Crafting	Recipes	live
	Pack and carrying	Survival	planned
	Chests and doors	Survival	planned
Building	Building a shelter	Building	planned
	Repairs, upgrades and removal	Building	planned
	Decay and damage	Building	planned
	Region building limit	Building	planned
Companions	Making a friend	Companions	planned
	Species talents	Companions	planned
	Bags and care	Companions	planned
Combat & magic	Fighting	Survival	planned
	Bows	Survival	planned
	Mana	Magic	planned
	Spells	Magic	planned
Travel & fishing	Maps and travel	Regions	live
	Panning	Recipes	live
	Fishing	Farming & cooking	planned
Towns & friends	Friends and parties	Towns	planned
	Starting a town	Towns	planned
	Town plots	Towns	planned
	Members and leadership	Towns	planned
	Leaving and blocking	Towns	planned
Trade & gold	Merchants	Towns	planned
	Trading with players	Towns	planned
Account & settings	Saving your character	FAQ	live
	Settings	Controls	live
	Credits	About	live

12 sections. “Planned” means the topic is assigned to a chapter that is written but not published yet, not that it is unsourced.

03Sources

Where the facts come from

Four sources, all of them the game or its developer. No other fan site is used as a source, though all of them are worth reading.

Asciilands, the live client
Recipe data, item names, costs and station behaviour.
The in-game Field guide (Help, H)
Rules that are not written anywhere else: respawn, decay, towns, companions.
The official site and its FAQ
Cost, devices, saves, wipes, credits and how AI was used in development.
Official credits and licences
Artwork, music and the rendering technology derived from Asciicker.

04Credits

Everything visual here belongs to the game

No illustration on this site was drawn for it. The item icons and the screenshots are the developer's, used to describe the game they belong to.

Item icons

The 144×144 SVG icons the game draws in its Field guide and container screens, served from asciilands.io and re-encoded here for size. Where an item has no icon in the game, this site shows a blank slot rather than an invented one.

Screenshots

The promotional captures published on asciilands.io, credited wherever they appear. They show the developer's world, not a character created for this guide.

Asciilands' rendering is derived from Asciicker by gumix / msokalski under the MIT licence.

05Changes

What changed on this site

Separate from the game's own updates. Each entry says what was added, not just that something was.

v0.22026-10-23
The item index, and a homepage that shows the game instead of a diagram.
- New: every item in one searchable index, with a panel per item rather than a page per item.
- Each panel shows where the item comes from, how it is made, what it costs in raw materials and every recipe that uses it.
- Item panels are deep-linkable: /items/?item=plank.
- The homepage hero now uses a real in-game scene instead of a characters-only diagram.
- Chapters and tools on the homepage are now hand-picked and read from the route registry.
v0.12026-10-22
First release: eight pages, five camps, every verified recipe.
- Home, Play, First hour, Recipes, World, Controls, FAQ and About published.
- Recipe finder with per-recipe raw-material cost.
- Region-by-region material map, with a reverse lookup.
- Ticked-off progress for the five camps, stored in the browser.

Something out of date?

If this site disagrees with the live game, the game is right. Tell us which page and what changed:

hello@asciilands.net

Checked22 October 2026build ca54ab855359

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