# Equipment

> Mixmote is a crafting game you play in the browser. This page is part of the [reading room](https://mixmote.com/reading-room), the game's handbook in plain text.

What each piece of equipment in the game is for and how it is used. How to get one is left for you to find; the tools in the starting set are there from the first minute.

## Tools

Picked from the hotbar and used on a thing.

### Hammer

- **For**: Crush brittle bodies or compact loose grains and powder.
- **How**: Select the Hammer, then click a material. Stone breaks; Sand compacts; fine dust presses into an unfired brick. Esc puts it away.
- **Needs**: A solid body to crush or loose material to pack. The Hammer stays with you.
- **Also called**: mallet
- In the starting set.

### Knife

- **For**: Cut materials into workable pieces.
- **How**: Select the Knife, then click a material. Try it on Wood.
- **Needs**: A material soft enough to cut.
- **Also called**: blade
- In the starting set.

### Metal File

- **For**: Produce fine shavings, filings and dust.
- **How**: Select the File, then click a solid material.
- **Needs**: A solid surface to work on.
- **Also called**: file, rasp
- In the starting set.

### Pickaxe

- **For**: Separate tin-bearing grains from prepared Mineral-Rich Dirt.
- **How**: Select it, then click a suitable target to dig.
- **Needs**: Prepared Mineral-Rich Dirt to dig in.
- **Also called**: pick

### Shovel

- **For**: Search ground and mixed deposits for useful resources.
- **How**: Select the Shovel and dig in Earth for Iron Ore. Clay, Mud and Sand hide different minerals.
- **Needs**: A mixed substrate. Pure dust, separated minerals and atoms hide nothing to dig out.
- **Also called**: spade
- In the starting set.

### Surgical Knife

- **For**: Dissect specimens to study their anatomy.
- **How**: Select the Surgical Knife, then click a specimen on the table. Dissection consumes the specimen.
- **Needs**: A suitable specimen.
- **Also called**: scalpel
- In the starting set.

### Syringe

- **For**: Take small extracts from suitable living things.
- **How**: Select the Syringe, then click a suitable specimen.
- **Needs**: A specimen that can supply an extract.
- **Also called**: needle
- In the starting set.

### Wand

- **For**: Zap supplied matter to animate or transmute it.
- **How**: Select it, then click a suitable target to zap.
- **Needs**: Supplied matter to zap.
- **Also called**: magic wand

## Apparatus

Equipment with slots: load ingredients, then press its button.

### Glass Beaker

- **For**: Hold ingredients together for brewing.
- **How**: Load the slots and press Brew. Remove unwanted ingredients by clicking their slots.
- **Needs**: Suitable small ingredients. Glassware wears with use.
- **Also called**: beaker, flask

### Kiln

- **For**: Fire materials at a controlled temperature.
- **How**: Load suitable material, then run the firing. The operating temperature determines what it can process.
- **Needs**: Iron Ore or Tin Ore. Charcoal is optional. Other materials must suit its temperature.
- **Also called**: furnace, oven

### Microscope

- **For**: Examine a small liquid sample to see what lives in it.
- **How**: Load one ingredient, then press Examine.
- **Needs**: Accepts small ingredients.

### Propagation Dish

- **For**: Combine two reproductive extracts into one seed. The parents decide whether it can germinate.
- **How**: Load up to 2 ingredients, then press Cross extracts.
- **Needs**: Accepts small ingredients.
- **Also called**: petri dish

### Workbench

- **For**: Shape and assemble solid ingredients.
- **How**: Drag ingredients into the slots, then press Assemble. Click a filled slot to take its ingredient back out.
- **Needs**: One or two suitable ingredients. The bench adds no heat or power.
- **Also called**: crafting table, bench

## Domains

Equipment with a working area on the table: what sits inside is affected.

### Crossbreeding Bench

- **For**: Raise new seeds from compatible plants.
- **How**: Place two healthy adult plants and Soil inside its border. Each cross consumes one Soil and leaves both parents in place.
- **Needs**: Two adult plants and at least one Soil copy. More Soil queues more crosses; some pairs produce nonviable seeds.
- **Also called**: breeding bench

### Greenhouse

- **For**: Keep growing plants in a favourable region of the table.
- **How**: Place sprouts inside its border. The greenhouse supplies Water, then Sunlight, with each care phase taking 15 active seconds.
- **Needs**: Healthy sprouts within the border. Seeds and adult plants receive no care; growth pauses while the menu is open.
- **Also called**: glasshouse


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From the Mixmote team. Built from the game's data (seed v3, version 2), last changed 2026-10-07.