Knijkincraft

Quickstart

1. Search for Pebble Scatter and gather pebbles, vine strands, and sticks. Use them to make your first tools:

1. Upgrade the hand tools with cobblestone, then iron: craft a Stone Field Axe and Stone Field Pickaxe , followed by an Iron Field Axe or Iron Field Pickaxe .
2. Keep water and food in mind as you explore. Dirty water can be made safe with Purification Tablets: . Ash Berries can cause a dangerous illness, so keep tablets ready.
3. For the larger story, recover the five Echo Adept field notes. They reveal how to unlock the Elandium Core recipe—and warn that the Core is not safe to ignite casually.

Overview

Knijkincraft is a survival adventure across a harsh ashland. Make field tools and supplies, experiment with chemistry, build a large smeltery, and explore mines, meteor debris, and guarded ruins. The discoveries lead toward Elandium, a portal, and the Echo Warden.

The world also has hazards beyond hostile creatures: Ash Berries can sicken you, cold can slow you with frostbite, and some story events can permanently affect the world.

What It Adds

• Field survival: primitive tools, camp equipment, water treatment, food, bandages, and cold-weather clothing.
• Chemistry and metalworking: chemical ingredients, a Mixing Bowl, a Chemistry Field Manual, and a Large Clay Smeltery.
• Weapons and equipment: medieval blades and axes alongside firearms, explosives, and a jetpack.
• Exploration and story: ashland creatures, meteorites, Echo Adept notes, Elandium ore, portals, and a multi-phase boss encounter.
• Tracking equipment: Tracking Chips, sensors, and Primitive Antennas for locating chip carriers and chests.

How To Use

Chemistry

Craft a Chemistry Field Manual to read the available reaction hints: . It describes paths involving batteries, alloy flux, food, tonics, and materials used to prepare Elandium.

For Mixing Bowl recipes, keep a Mortar in your inventory, provide a complete ingredient combination, and leave the result slot empty before selecting Mix. Some processing takes time; wait for the completion message before collecting the result.

Large Clay Smeltery

Craft and place the smeltery . It needs two 2×2 layers of clay beneath it. Put sand or raw ore into the smeltery and add coal or charcoal as fuel. When processing finishes, use the smeltery again to collect the result.

Making Bottles

A Clay Firing Mould can turn sand into ordinary glass bottles. Craft the mould , place it in a one-block-deep pit with a solid floor and rim, and load sand into it. Ignite the mould and wait five seconds for the bottles.

Locating Chips

The Primitive Signal Sensor needs a Primitive Antenna within 24 blocks. With an antenna nearby, it can report chip carriers and chests containing chips; without one, it has no signal. The Portable Chip Locator is another tracking tool.

Jetpack

The Jetpack has separate ascent and descent controls. Check the Knijkincraft keybinds in Options → Controls to see or change them.

Crafting And Obtaining

The hand tools are a useful first step. Upgrade them with the field-tool recipes in the Quickstart, then gather the materials needed for more advanced chemistry and smelting. Other useful early supplies include:

• Field Cloth and a Field Bandage .
• An Unlit Field Campfire .
• Ash Berry Bread, made from bread and Ash Berries .
• Clean Water, made by combining Dirty Water with Purification Tablets .

Falling debris can yield Unknown Sodium Alposulfatir, while meteorite remains provide material for later discoveries. Explore abandoned mines for rare ore and search ruins for notes and other clues.

Abilities And Mechanics

• Ash Berry illness: eating Ash Berries can bring on nausea, fading vision, and collapse. Purification Tablets can stop Epsi.
• Ash sickness: this separate affliction reduces maximum health by five hearts. Defeating the Echo Warden lifts it.
• Cold and heat: frostbite slows movement. An Ancient Sun Hat can slip off if you sprint hard.
• Ashland thieves: an Ashland Fox can steal an item, while an Ash Gnome can take an item from your hand. Finding and defeating the thief recovers what it took.
• Large-scale events: the Elandium Core can start the ashfall. Heed warnings about an unstable Core: its catastrophic backlash is a massive, one-time blast.

Progression And Strategy

Recover and read the five Echo Adept field notes. Their clues point to crystal seams, deep mines, meteor debris, and the Core. Finding all five unlocks its recipe, which uses nine Elandium Ore:

The notes also explain that lighting the Core with coal awakens it and begins the ashfall. Prepare before triggering major events.

To reach Elandia, build a 4×5 frame of Elandium Ore with an empty 2×3 center. Activate it with an E-Land Crystal and step through the portal. Search deep stone and deepslate for blue Elandium seams; mine Deep Echo Ore and collect meteorite fragments to prepare for the fight. The Echo Warden waits at Elandia’s center and grows more dangerous over its later phases.

Defeating the Warden stops the ashfall and begins the world’s recovery. For the secret ending, find the complete archive as well as defeating the Warden.

Recipes