Block Chopper

A free top-down survival crafting game that runs right in your browser. Chop trees, mine stone, craft tools and armor, build a base and survive the night.

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About the Game

Block Chopper is a top-down survival crafting game set in a hand-drawn 50 by 50 block world. You begin with nothing but your hands. Chop trees for wood, turn it into planks and a crafting table, and use your first tools to mine the stone hills that dot the map. From there you can smelt ore, craft better tools, armor and a bow, and build whatever you like.

Daylight lasts five minutes and night lasts five minutes. When the sun is up, only spiders roam, but at night zombies and skeletons come out. They burn in the sun, so hide until morning or fight them with a sword, a bow or a wall of blocks. If you fall, everything you carry drops where you died, so you can go back and collect it.

What You Can Do

Chop trees and mine blocks, then craft on a 2 by 2 grid in your inventory or a 3 by 3 grid at a crafting table.
Smelt ore and cobblestone in furnaces, and upgrade from wood to stone, copper, iron and diamond tools.
Wear helmets, chestplates, leggings and boots to take less damage from zombies, skeletons and spiders.
Build with planks, cobblestone, stone bricks and chiseled stone, dig holes to lay floors, and light your base with torches.
Store your things in chests, and join two chests together to make a large chest.
Wade through ponds and lay blocks on the water to build bridges.

Press Esc while playing to return to this menu. Your inventory, armor and level are saved in this browser, but changes to the world are not.

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Block Chopper Patch Notes

This page lists every update made to Block Chopper, newest first. Block Chopper is a free top-down survival crafting game that runs in your browser, and it changes often, so check back here to see what is new. Play the game or read the controls and guide.

Update 18: Gravel, Flint and Fire Latest

Small gravel patches now appear in new worlds, part flat in the ground and part raised blocks. Dig flat gravel like dirt (hold Shift and click, or hold USE on mobile) and it leaves a pit. Raised gravel breaks by hand. Both drop gravel, or sometimes flint instead.
Craft Flint and Steel from an iron ingot and a flint. Right-click a spot to light a fire. It has 64 uses.
Fire sets mobs and you alight when you walk through it, burns dropped items, and spreads to wood, planks, doors, tables, trees and saplings, which burn away. Left-click a fire to put it out.
Burning now shows flames at the feet instead of sparks all over the body.

Update 17: Mobile Support

On phones and tablets the game now shows touch controls: a joystick on the left and USE, SWAP and BAG buttons on the right, plus a MENU button.
Tap to break blocks and hit mobs with a tool or your fist. Hold your finger down to keep going.
With a block in hand, tap an empty spot to place it. Tap a spot that already has a block in it to break that block instead.
Tap a door, crafting table, furnace or chest to open it.
Hold USE to raise your shield. While it is held, taps always break things, including floor blocks, even if you are holding a block.
SWAP moves the held item to your off-hand, and BAG opens the inventory. Fishing rods, armor and saplings work with a plain tap.

Update 16: Doors

Doors are here and stand two blocks tall. Craft 3 from 6 planks (2 wide, 3 tall) at a crafting table, place them like a block, and right-click to open or close. Open doors can be walked through, and you can't close one while something is standing in it. Mine them with an axe.
Zombies no longer drop apples or saplings, spiders no longer drop bones and skeletons no longer drop coal.
Saplings can now be broken with a left-click and have a new look.

Update 15: Fishing

Fishing rods are here, along with cod and salmon.

The Fishing Rod is crafted like the classic one: sticks in a diagonal with string down the right side. Right-click to cast a line a few blocks toward where you are aiming.
If the line lands in water, the bobber waits for a bite. When it sinks and shows a yellow !, right-click again to reel in your catch. Reel in too early or too late and you get nothing.
Each catch costs 2 durability on the rod, which has 64.
Catch chances: Cod 26%, Salmon 14%, Rotten Flesh 12%, Bone 11%, 10 Arrows 11%, Copper Ingot 10%, Iron Ingot 8%, Bow 4%, Stone Axe 4%. Fished-up bows and axes come pre-worn.
Cod and salmon are new items. Eating them will arrive with hunger.

Update 14: Menu, Patch Notes, Guide and Controls

Block Chopper is now a small website as well as a game.

A menu page now appears before the game starts, and you can return to it at any time by pressing Esc while playing. The game pauses while the menu is open.
The menu links to full pages for Patch Notes, Guide and Controls. Each one is its own page with its own address, not a pop-up over the game.
The Guide and Controls pages are coming soon.

Update 13: Chests, Death Drops and Right-Click Building

This update makes dying recoverable, gives bases real storage, and changes how building works.

When you die, every item you carry, including armor, now drops on the ground around the spot where you died so you can collect it again. The items stay for five minutes. You also lose your levels.
The game now starts in the daytime instead of at night.
New chests, crafted from a ring of eight planks at a crafting table. Place two chests side by side to make a large chest with 54 slots.
Torches can now be placed on the ground and on floor tiles, as well as on the sides of blocks.
Placing blocks, torches and saplings is now done with right-click. Left-click mines, attacks and shoots.
Quick clicks made during a short cooldown are now queued instead of being lost.
Swords, pickaxes and the bow were redrawn in a classic pixel style, and held tools now point the way you are aiming.
The player and mobs standing in water now sink partly beneath the surface.
Zombies can no longer break blocks.
Zombies and skeletons now burn in daylight unless they stand in water or on a floor tile. Spiders are not affected, and only spiders spawn during the day.
Trees now generate evenly spread out instead of in clumps.

Update 12: Stability Fix

A reliability update that fixes a crash some players hit.

Fixed a bug where, in some browsers, the very first animation frame could report a tiny negative time step, which made the game stop running.
The game loop now recovers from errors instead of freezing.
Saved data is now checked when it loads, so old or damaged saves can no longer cause problems.

Update 11: Stone Bricks, a New Axe and Matching Stone

A polish pass on building materials and tools.

The axe was redrawn from a classic reference, and every material uses the same shape with a recolored head and a wooden handle.
Stone made by smelting cobblestone now looks identical to the stone you mine from the hills.
Stone bricks now look like gray stone bricks instead of red clay bricks.
Stone tools are a little darker.

Update 10: Copper, Armor, Ponds, Spiders and Bows

A large content update that adds a new material tier, new enemies and new ways to explore.

Iron and diamond no longer generate on the surface, because underground mining is planned for a later update. Copper now sits between stone and iron, with its own tools, swords and armor.
Armor arrived: helmet, chestplate, leggings and boots in copper, iron and diamond. Armor reduces damage, wears down when you are hit, shows on your character, and has four dedicated inventory slots.
Eight one-block-deep ponds now appear around the map. You can wade through them slowly or place blocks on the water to build a bridge.
Mined blocks and chopped trees now drop on the ground instead of going straight into your inventory.
Spiders are a new fast enemy that bites and drops string.
Bows can be crafted from sticks and string and fire arrows, using one arrow per shot. Arrows can also be crafted from cobblestone and a stick.
Floors now look sunken and walls look raised, so the two are easy to tell apart.

Update 9: Digging, Floors, Cobblestone and Torches

This update added the building tools needed to make a proper base.

Hold Shift and click to dig down one block, then place a block in the hole to make a floor.
Mining stone now drops cobblestone, which smelts into stone in a furnace. New stone bricks and chiseled stone were added for building.
Torches attach to the sides of blocks, light up the dark, and stop mobs from spawning nearby. Night lighting was also reworked.
Trees and stone no longer respawn after you remove them.
The player model returned to its earlier look, zombie eyes became solid black, and skeletons now have see-through bones.
Tree leaves became brighter and more pleasant.

Update 8: A New Look for Steve, Tools and Trees

The player became taller and slimmer, with a narrower head and a newly drawn face.
All tools received new textures, and every breaking block now shows a ten-stage cracking animation.
Wood and leaf textures were redone, and trees became two logs tall with a three-across, one-up canopy.

Update 7: Inventory and Crafting Overhaul

The inventory now works like a classic sandbox game.

A full slot-based inventory with stacks of up to 64, a two-by-two crafting grid, and a three-by-three grid at a crafting table.
Recipes are now shaped, so the pattern you place matters.
Crafting tables and furnaces became blocks you place and right-click to use. Furnaces smelt ore using coal as fuel.
Health became a row of hearts, and you now aim with the mouse. A highlight shows exactly where you will mine or place, with a much longer placing reach.

Update 6: Survival Pressure

Dying now cost you your items and cleared nearby mobs so you could not get trapped.
Zombies, skeletons and later mobs drop loot. Mobs and the player can no longer overlap.
A day and night cycle was added, with five minutes of day and five minutes of night.
Blocks became placeable so you could build defenses.

Update 5: Zombies, Skeletons, Health and XP

Zombies shamble around and chase you when you get close. Skeletons keep their distance and shoot arrows.
Added a health bar, an XP bar and levels that fill up when you defeat mobs.
The player’s face was redrawn to suit a smaller head.

Update 4: Better Holding and Fairer Drops

Held items now sit in the player’s hand instead of floating.
Every block you mine now gives exactly one of itself.
Trees were given the classic three-across, one-up leaf shape with fewer leaf blocks.

Update 3: Hotbar and Faster Tools

Added a nine-slot hotbar with item icons, number-key selection and mouse-wheel scrolling.
Better tool tiers now chop and mine noticeably faster.
Tree leaves are now made of whole blocks that sit exactly on the grid.
Fixed a startup bug caused by a naming clash.

Update 2: New Art Direction and Stone Hills

Every texture was redrawn in a warm pixel style inspired by classic block games, with outlined item icons.
The shopkeeper and coins were removed. Small hills of stone blocks, with coal and ore inside, now dot the map.
Tools and weapons gained durability and break when they run out.
The item list was trimmed to the items you can actually obtain.

Update 1: First Playable Version

A top-down 50 by 50 block world covered in grass, with trees to chop.
A shopkeeper who bought wood for coins, a crafting menu and dozens of items with hand-drawn pixel art.
Progress saved automatically in your browser.

Coming Soon

Hunger and eating food.
Roaming animals.
Underground mining for iron and diamond.
Written guide and controls pages.

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Multiplayer

Share your join code, or enter a friend's code to join their world. Players can attack each other, so watch your back. When you join a world you start fresh with an empty inventory, and your own items are kept safe and given back when you return to your own world.

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Saved worlds

Every world you play is saved on this device. If a host closes the game you still have their world and can host it yourself, and when the original host joins you they get the newest version back.