# Glossary

> 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.

- **Action**: one try at the table: a combination, a tool on a thing, an apparatus run. It counts whether or not it makes anything.
- **Apparatus**: equipment with slots, such as the Workbench, Kiln or Glass Beaker. Load it, then press its button.
- **Codex**: the list of everything a player has discovered, to take things from.
- **Department of Records**: the guild office that keeps the register and every member's folder.
- **Discovery**: a thing a player was first in the world to make. Their name stays on it.
- **Force**: Fire, Sunlight, Cold or Lightning. Combined like an ingredient, or picked from the hotbar and clicked on a thing.
- **Grade and merit**: the guild's ladder. Merit is earned by playing; grades open more of the game. The game never calls them levels or XP.
- **Guild**: the Mixmote Guild, which runs the table and writes the notices.
- **Hotbar**: the slots at the bottom of the screen, keys 1 to 9.
- **Member of Record**: a registered player with 500 actions or more.
- **Portion**: one unit of a result. Many results come as several portions (one Stone makes ten Gravel).
- **Rank**: a player's place in the guild register.
- **Standing**: Unfiled, Provisional or Member of Record.
- **Table**: where the game is played.

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