Voxels Guide: First steps when you spawn
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OverviewVoxels is a block-based sandbox game where you mine ores, craft gear, build structures, and fight your way from the Overworld into the Underworld. This guide walks you through your first steps, the tool and armor tiers, where to explore, how to reach the Underworld, and what Ascension means for your progress.
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First steps when you spawn
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Voxels has a quest chain that rewards items for completing tasks like gathering resources and crafting gear, so reading your active quest is the fastest way to know what to do next. Food matters early too — if your health is above 8 points, food cannot restore it, so keeping a small supply on hand before you take damage is smarter than scrambling after.
- Check your quests read the current task so you know what to gather or craft next.
- Grab food from leaves breaking oak leaves can drop apples, birch leaves drop cherries, and jungle leaves drop bananas.
- Cook raw meat when you can cooked patty and cooked sausage each restore 5 health points, far more than raw drops.
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Tool and armor tiers
TableBoth tools and armor follow the same five-tier ladder. Every tool tier can be crafted into an axe, pickaxe, shovel, and hoe. Every armor tier can be crafted into a helmet, chestplate, pants, and boots. Leather armor also exists as a separate set outside the five tiers.
| Wooden | weakest tier, crafted from your first logs |
| Stone | next step up |
| Iron | mid-tier; the minimum needed to mine Amethyst |
| Golden | same mining effectiveness as Amethyst but with lower durability |
| Amethyst | strongest and rarest tier for both tools and armor |
Food and health recovery
TableHealth cannot be restored by food once it is above 8 points. Regenberries are the only food that also gives a healing effect over time, making them useful even at high health.
| Food | Health restored | How to get it |
|---|---|---|
| Apple | 3 points (1.5 hearts) | Break oak leaves |
| Banana | 3 points (1.5 hearts) | Break jungle leaves |
| Mango | 4 points (2 hearts) | Break oak leaves; found in some loot chests |
| Avocado | 4 points (2 hearts) | Break birch leaves; trade with Trader using gold blocks |
| Cherries | 2 points (1 heart) | Break birch leaves |
| Blueberries | 2 points (1 heart) | Kill Gobblers; trade with Traders using gold ingots; Igloo chests |
| Tomato | 2 points (1 heart) | Found in some chests |
| Raw Patty | 2 points (1 heart) | Kill cows or deer |
| Raw Sausage | 2 points (1 heart) | Kill turkeys, pigs, or gator warriors |
| Cooked Patty | 5 points (2.5 hearts) | Smelt raw patty in a furnace |
| Cooked Sausage | 5 points (2.5 hearts) | Smelt raw sausage in a furnace |
| Bread | 4 points (2 hearts) | Craft with 3 wheat |
| Soup | 5 points (2.5 hearts) | Craft with 4 tomatoes |
| Cheese | 2 points (1 heart) | Craft with 1 milk bucket |
| Regenberries | 1 point (0.5 hearts) + 4-second healing effect | Underworld towers; under some portals; farming; decrafting Giantberries |
| Panacea | 5 points (2.5 hearts) | Chests near ruined portals |
Structures worth visiting
StepEvery major structure in the Overworld feeds into the next stage of progression. The village is safe and free, the arena gives you materials for portal access, and the Bastion is the hardest Overworld challenge but holds the items you need to enter the Underworld.
- Find a village villages have 4 to 5 houses, each with a chest that can hold arrows and sticks.
- Visit the 3 Towered Arena one tower always contains an Amethyst and a Soul; Souls are required to create portals.
- Search Portal Ruins the chest there can contain Crimson Stones, which are the key material for building a portal to the Underworld.
- Clear the Bastion guarded by spawners, but the third-floor chest always holds a Crimson Spirit, Regenectar, and Amethyst; the hidden first-floor chest always holds hide, an iron sword, sulfur, arrows, and an apple.
- Challenge the Olmec Temple it spawns in the sky with four rooms each containing a spawner; defeating the Olmec Golem reliably drops the Olmec Hammer.
- Enter the Underworld once you have your portal materials, go through and face Tormentor, a multi-phase boss surrounded by Ghouls.
Mining Amethyst
CheckAmethyst is the strongest and rarest ore in the game. It can only be mined with an iron or better pickaxe, and it is the only material alongside Mythril that can mine Crimson Stone. There are several ways to get it beyond just digging.
- Carry an iron pickaxe or better before you go looking wood and stone pickaxes cannot mine Amethyst at all.
- Dig to the very bottom layer of the Overworld that is where Amethyst veins appear.
- Check floating islands Amethyst can also be found on some of them.
- Loot the Bastion's third floor that chest always contains one Amethyst.
- Check the Tormentor shrine beneath the boss spawn point there is a room with a chest on the right side holding one Amethyst.
- Give a gold block to a Trader there is a chance they drop an Amethyst in return.
Ascension
WarnOnce you have collected enough Amethyst, you can Ascend. Your inventory resets completely, but your Rebirth count increases permanently as a record of your progress. The top 3 players in tracked categories such as blocks mined, blocks placed, mob kills, and playtime are shown wearing a crown in-game.
Glossary
Glossary- Overworld
- The main dimension where you start; it contains villages, the Bastion, Portal Ruins, the 3 Towered Arena, and the Olmec Temple.
- Underworld
- A separate dimension reached through an activated portal; home to Ghouls and the multi-phase boss Tormentor.
- Crimson Stone
- The material used to build a portal to the Underworld; found in Portal Ruin chests and mineable only with an iron or Amethyst pickaxe.
- Crimson Spirit
- A rare item found only in the Bastion's third-floor chest, needed to access the Underworld; Ghouls have a rare chance to drop one as well.
- Ascension
- A rebirth system that resets your inventory in exchange for a permanent increase to your Rebirth count.
- Realm
- A private server instance with its own saved world, invite code, and owner controls like kick and ban.
- Hotbar
- The row of item slots at the bottom of your screen; selecting an item there briefly displays its name above the HUD.
- Soul
- An item found in the 3 Towered Arena used to create portals to the Underworld.
- Regenectar
- An item always found in the Bastion's third-floor chest.
Common questions
FAQHow do I get to the Underworld?
You need Crimson Stones and a Crimson Spirit to activate a portal. Crimson Stones turn up in Portal Ruin chests, and the Bastion's third-floor chest always holds a Crimson Spirit.
My health is not going up when I eat — what is wrong?
Food cannot restore health once it is above 8 points. Regenberries give a timed healing effect and are the only food that also provides a status effect.
Can I save my world?
Yes — create a private Realm. Realms keep their own world state, and you can share an invite code to bring friends in. As the owner you can kick, ban, or shut down the Realm.
What happens to my stuff when I Ascend?
Everything in your inventory is wiped. Your Rebirth count goes up permanently, but your items do not come back.
What do Gator Warriors drop?
They always drop raw sausage when defeated. There is also a rare chance they drop a Khopesh, Aggressence, or Leather Boots.
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