Pixurvival is a pixelated top-down  mega sandbox.

You have two ways to enjoy the game:

• Play the game, solo, or with friends, with the included "Vanilla" content or with other player creations. In various game modes such as cooperative survival, team battle, in a procedurally generated map.
• Create your own Content Pack, thanks to the intuitive (but ugly) editor, and share your own universe, playable with your own game mode.

With the editor, you can import your own tiny images, and set almost everything: items, crafts, spells, map elements, creatures, including their AIs, without any IT skills.

The game is focused on both multiplayer and solo, farming, surviving, combat mechanics, and more things in the future (RPG, factory...). It is already ready for "survival" game modes, beat 'em up, battle royale-like and more!

The included "Vanilla" content, was made with the content pack editor itself, it has for main role to showcase what it is possible to do, and makes the game playable "as is", with game modes including cooperative survival and battle royale.

How to play

• The game requires the Java client (version 8 or later), if you don't have it, you can download it here (or use any other alternative JRE).
• Unzip the archive somewhere, and run pixurvival.jar, that's it!

Refer to the page Controls and commands to learn controls and optionally the available commands. Some control keys are shown in the in-game UI as a reminder, in yellow. You can also see and change all the control keys in the pause menu of the game (by pressing ESCAPE).

How to play together

If you simply want to play with friends, you can use the "Host & Play" button of the multiplayer menu, share your IP address shown in the screen to your friends, they will be able to join your game using the "Join" button of the multiplayer menu, using your IP address.
Important note: If you have an intermediate router between your PC and your internet router, the IP shown in the Host & Play menu will be the wrong one, and you will probably have to setup port forwarding manually.

If you want to run a dedicated server, do as follow:

• Open a command prompt, and set the current directory to the installation directory (where you unzipped the game). (fast way for Windows: Shift key + Right click inside the installation folder -> then choose "Open command window here")
• In the command prompt, run the following command: java -jar server.jar
• If you want another port number than the default 7777, for example 8888, then run instead: java -jar server.jar port=8888
• You can now connect to the server in the multiplayer menu of the game, using the IP address of the machine and the port.
• All player and the server must have the exact same content pack you choose to play in the contentPacks/ folder.

Known bug: Some players experience a black and empty world when starting a multiplayer game, to solve this, quit the game and reconnect to the server, with the exact same name.

How to create your own content

If you have creativity to express, you can create your own content with the editor. The editor is intended to be intuitive, but there is too much to say to for this page, refer to the tutorial Getting started with the ContentPack editor. If you want to customize the procedurally map generation,  read this tutorial.

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