The Mixmote reading room
Mixmote is a crafting game you play in the browser. You start at a table with a few basic things (Water, Fire, Stone, Wood, a Hammer, a Knife and more) and find out what they make: mix them, crush them, cut them, heat them, grow them, and pile things up until they orbit. The world is shared by every player, and the first person to make a thing gets their name on it for good.
It is free to try, straight away, with no account and nothing asked of you: 300 actions, or 800 with a free account. After that, guild access is €10 or $12 for 32 days, one payment, no subscription.
This reading room is the game's handbook in plain text, kept by the Mixmote team for anyone who reads the site without running the game: search engines, assistants, and people who like a manual. Every page is also plain markdown: add .md to its address.
Looking for something
| If the question is | Read |
|---|---|
| How do I play? What is an action? | How to play |
| How do I make Glass, Sand or Gravel? | First recipes: key chains |
| What do two starting items make together? | First recipes: combining |
| What does the Hammer, Knife, File or Shovel do to a starting item? | First recipes: tools |
| What does a player start with? | The starting set |
| What do the Kiln, Workbench or Glass Beaker do? | Equipment |
| How is a new combination decided? | How the world works |
| Is it free? What does it cost? | Access and price |
| Who are Helga, Kevin and the Guild AGI? | Characters |
| What are rank, standing and Member of Record? | The guild register |
| What does a word in the game mean? | Glossary |
| What changed lately? | Changes |
| Everything at once | The whole room in one file |
Things worth knowing
- Every recipe in Mixmote is shared. Once someone has made a thing, it is made the same way for everyone, and the first maker's name stays on it.
- A try that makes nothing is a result too. It is recorded, it is the same for everyone afterwards, and it still counts as an action.
- One Stone breaks into ten Gravel, and one Gravel into ten Sand. Most things come in portions.
- Kevin, who works for the guild, steals lunches. This is a matter of record.
- The guild built an AI to run things and is not entirely happy about it. It watches the table and comments on your work. It is not polite.
What this room leaves out, on purpose
The room covers the start of the game: the starting items, what they make together, what the starting tools do to them, two early chains (Sand and Glass), and what each piece of equipment is for. It does not list later recipes, and it never gives the recipe for a piece of equipment. Finding those out is the game.
Not listed here does not mean unknown or impossible. The live world holds far more than this room, and a combination nobody has tried yet has no answer until someone tries it. How the world works explains how a new answer is decided.
There is no public API yet, so the room cannot look up a player. Ranks are on the live guild register.
From the Mixmote team. Built from the game's data (seed v3, version 2), last changed 2026-10-07.