ShilpLoka (शिल्पलोक — "world of craft") is a voxel sandbox game set in ancient India. Build with Harappan baked bricks, trade spices with Dhanapati the merchant, craft tools at the Vedic altar, and explore a world of banyan and peepal trees around the indestructible Ashoka Sthambha.

Explore four historic cities

Walk through Harappa, Mohenjo-Daro, Lothal and Pataliputra — the great cities of the Indus Valley and ancient India.

Build

• Mine and place blocks: baked brick, soil, sandstone, basalt, banyan wood and bitumen mortar
• Every block you place can be mined again and returns to your inventory
• Heritage monuments like the Ashoka Sthambha and the Great Bath masonry are protected and cannot be destroyed

Trade and craft

• Barter with Dhanapati — exchange cardamom, pepper and saffron for Kansa bronze
• Vedic Crafting Altar — turn banyan logs, bronze and bricks into planks, shafts, pickaxes and waterproof masonry
• 36-slot inventory and a 9-slot hotbar
• In-game Learning Center guide

Your world is safe

The game saves your world automatically every 30 seconds. Press K to save at any time and L to load your last save. Saves are small and stay on your computer.

Controls

• Move: W A S D · Jump: Space · Crouch: Shift · Fly: F
• Mine: left click · Place: right click · Hotbar: 1–9
• Barter: B · Crafting: C · Learning Center: H · Inventory: E
• Save: K · Load: L · Fullscreen: F11

Plays fully offline — no account, no internet, no ads. Made in India by Kanak Prabhakar. Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 licence.