How to play Mixmote

Mixmote is a crafting game you play in the browser. This page is part of the reading room, the game's handbook in plain text.

Mixmote is played on a table. You take things from your stores, put them on the table and work on them. Every try at changing something, whether or not it works, is one action.

The two moves

• Combine: drag one card onto another. Stone onto Stone, Fire onto Wood, Water onto Earth.
• Use a tool or a force: pick it from the hotbar (keys 1 to 9) so it rides on your cursor, then click a card on the table. Pick the Hammer and click Stone; pick Fire and click Sand.

Ingredients become the result. A tool stays in your hand, though tools can wear with use.

Where things come from

• The hotbar at the bottom holds the starting tools, forces and basic ingredients. Number keys pick a slot; the arrow keys switch rows.
• The Codex opens after your first few actions and lists everything you have discovered. Drag a card out of it, or press cmd + K and type a name.
• Results usually come in portions: one Stone breaks into ten Gravel. That is the usual yield; now and then a craft gives one more or one less.

Actions

An action is one try: a combination, a tool used on something, an apparatus run. A try that makes nothing still counts. Free play gives 300 actions without an account and 800 in all with a free account (access and price).

Worked example: Glass

Answer:

1. Hammer on Stone gives 10 Gravel.
2. Hammer (or Knife) on Gravel gives 10 Sand.
3. Fire on Sand (or drag Fire onto Sand) gives 2 Glass.

Hint, if you would rather work it out: Glass is sand that has been in a fire.

Equipment

Some things you make are equipment: a Workbench to assemble parts, a Kiln to fire things, a Glass Beaker to brew in. Drag ingredients into their slots and press their button. Equipment says what each one is for.

Useful keys

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