Keep the fire burning.
A voxel survival game about one fire, one long night after another, and the person who kept this camp before you.
Painted bark, shaped leaves and living shadows. Build your camp, take aim, and face a forest that fights back.
Watch the 52-second update trailer, captured in-game at 1080p with High sun shadows and Kindling's original instrumental music.
Explore the update →Version numbers, new features, and fixes, all in one place.
Read what’s changed →You spawn beside a ring of cold stones and a note signed only “M.” Everything after that is the same question asked louder each evening: is there enough fuel on the pile?
A burning campfire holds a ten-block radius that most ordinary hostiles avoid. Let it go out after dark and you find out what has been waiting at the edge of it.
Bare hands cannot break rock. Wood gets you a pick, stone gets you a kiln, and the first ingot you sweat out of copper ore opens the next age.
Danger scales with days survived. Goblins climb out of the caves on night two, stalkers join on night three — and every seventh night, the drums.
Maren scratched her tallies in sevens, and gouged every seventh mark deep enough to fit a finger. Under the last group she wrote one word: LOUDER.
The Warchief comes for the fire, not for you — and returns every seventh night after, growing stronger up to its raid cap. What he drops helps you build a better fire.
Terrain is generated region-first: a single large-scale field decides where the land is lowland desert, open plain or rising hill country — so hills climb toward their centre, deserts run unbroken for hundreds of blocks, and biomes never meet at a wall. Basins fill with water you can swim in and drown in.
Captured in-game in Willowmere, our 0.7.0 Beta trailer world, with High sun shadows.
Ten pages of Maren’s writing are scattered across the world, left where they mattered — beside a coal seam, in a collapsed kiln, under a sun-bleached skull. They are the tutorial, and they are the plot. The fire also gives her words back in fragments as you play.
Download Kindling 0.7.0 Beta for Windows 64-bit. Explore, build a homestead, fish the lakes, and keep the flame alive.
Get the Windows installer What’s new
Beta software: features are still being refined. Existing worlds are supported.
Already playing? Run the new Setup to update. Your saved worlds and settings stay in your user profile.