Block Garden

Block Garden - A 3D sandbox exploration and farming game. Explore procedurally generated worlds, dig for resources, and cultivate a variety of plants.

🧩 Features include:

• Procedural World Generation - Each world is unique, generated from a shareable seed.
• Building & Harvesting - Use collected materials to place blocks and shape the world.
• Dynamic Day/Night Cycle - Experience a living world with changing sky colors and lighting.
• Inventory System - Manage your resources with a non-creative mode style inventory.
• Expanded Flora - Cultivate and harvest a wide variety of plants, from Agave to Willow Trees.
• Advanced Storage - Save your progress on-device, or share your world as a PDF or PNG.
• Lighting System - Use torches, lanterns, and lightstones to illuminate the darkness.
• Clouds - Continue building and farming while in the sky.
• Resource Management - Dig for resources like stone, dirt, and sand, and mine ores including coal, iron, gold, copper, silver, and diamond.
• Privacy-respecting - No login or data collection required.
• Cross-platform - Full support for both desktop and mobile play.

🎮 Quick Start

• Movement: w / a / s / d
• Camera: Arrow Keys
• Descend: Shift
• Jump / Ascend: Space
• Place Block: Enter or Right Click
• Break Block: Hold Enter or Left Click and hold
• Change Block: ~ / `
• Hotbar Slots: 1 - 9
• Open Inventory / Materials: e / i
• Toggle Hotbar: m
• Toggle Flight: k (Creative Mode only)
• World Generation Menu: Ctrl + s
• Touch Hold: Break Block
• Touch: Place Block

🕹️ Game Modes

Block Garden features two primary ways to play:

• Non-Creative Mode (Default): Resources are limited. You must dig for stone, dirt, and sand, and harvest plants to gather seeds and materials.
• Creative Mode: Unlimited resources and flight are enabled. Perfect for building large structures and massive gardens without resource constraints. Enable this in the Settings menu.

💾 Included Game Saves

Get started by opening one of the saved games below:

The Garden

Caves

Flowers

Gateway To The Clouds

Demos

Fireworks

Random Planting

Gateway To The Clouds

To play locally

npm i && npm start

Development

See AGENTS.md for detailed architecture, build, test, and development workflow instructions.

Quick reference:

• Build: npx rollup -c
• Test: npm test
• Dev Server: npm start (runs on http://localhost:3000)
• Alt Dev Server: npm run start:dev (runs on http://localhost:8080)