The starting set

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.

Every new game starts with the same set. The ingredients, forces and tools are unlimited: take as many as you like. Guild Coin starts at zero and is earned. Everything made from them is counted: it comes in portions and is used up when used.

Basic ingredients

• Water: A litre of patient possibility.
• Air: A small sample of the atmosphere.
• Earth: A heavy clod of mineral soil containing iron, tin and sulfur deposits. A Shovel digs Iron Ore straight out of it; the other minerals take more work.
• Stone: A heavy lump of silicate rock. Ten chunks of gravel are waiting inside.
• Wood: A dry billet. Its living days are over; its useful days are beginning.
• Salt: A small measure of sodium chloride.
• Clay: A workable lump of damp aluminosilicate clay.
• Aether: An explicitly magical source, supplied by the laboratory. Enchantments begin here.

Forces

• Fire: A laboratory flame. Enough heat for glass and a small kiln.
• Sunlight: Gentle warmth for water and drying paper.
• Cold: A cold source. It cannot cool anything below itself.
• Lightning: An electrical discharge. Energy alone does not grant magic or life.

Tools

• Hammer: Separates brittle feedstock with little ceremony.
• Knife: Halves a whole inert body into a worked piece (a plank, a slab); on anything tiny, filed or already halved twice it cuts every particle into a hundred smaller ones. Living cuts take a tenth of a dull creature's health, more from a thinking one, and leave a sample.
• Metal File: A hardened rasp. Any inert solid no harder than it comes off as a hundred pinches of filings, shavings or dust, ready for the knife.
• Surgical Knife: Records the anatomy of a living subject.
• Shovel: Digs out what a deposit hides: Iron Ore from Earth. Clay, Mud and Sand hide other minerals.
• Syringe: Draws living samples, fluids and magically contained essences.

Coin

• Guild Coin: Guild currency. Earned by trade; excluded from crafting.

What these make together is on first recipes.

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