Expanse Of Empires
A game by @cupcakellama on Spawn.
Genre: Sandbox, MMO
Survive the wild lands around a barbarian fort. Chop trees, gather sticks and stones, and craft axes, bows and iron gear. Build walls, doors and campfires to make a camp before night, when the wolves come out. Hunt deer and birds, cook what you catch, explore snowy north, forest and desert, mine deep caves for iron, and fight your way through evil palaces full of treasure. How to play: move with the stick or WASD, tap USE (or click) to pick up, hit and place things, tap CRAFT to open the 3x3 grid, and open the GUIDE for every recipe. Tap anything in your bag to see what it is. Play with friends.
Expanse Of Empires on Spawn now
Reviews: 100% loved it · 4 votes · 4 reviews and replies · 5 likes · 10 plays.
Released 2026-10-16. 7 updates since release, the newest 2026-10-17.
Newest update: Villages & Roofs (2026-10-17)
- Items left on the ground vanish after 10 minutes. Everyone who joins starts somewhere random in the wild. Villages show on the map with names and distance, and teleport only works for your team's villages. New Barbarian Roof: logs in an arrow ^ shape, set on top of walls. Far-off animals rest so the game runs smoother.
Earlier update: Banners and Brothers (2026-10-17)
- Make a team, name it, pick a colour, invite friends and talk in TEAM chat
- Teammates can't hit each other with swords or arrows
- When you fall, only you can pick your stuff back up, unless you allow it in SETTINGS
- The evil palace now shows on your screen and on the MAP with its distance
- Fixed a hole in the ground over the deep caves
Earlier update: Dressed for the Wild (2026-10-16)
- Tap TAKE OFF over your hotbar to remove a flower, headdress or chestplate
- Flowers bloom bigger with leafy rosettes, and sit neatly tucked over your ear
- Deer drop meat and bones now, no more wolf pelts
- New guide pages: Best buds and Wearing
- Deep cave floors sit level with the ground
Earlier update: Best Buds (2026-10-16)
- Deer drop bones. Hold a bone and tap USE beside a wild wolf twice and it becomes your best bud: it follows you and fights wolves and palace monsters. Tap 🐺 PETS to name it, pick its coat colour, or tell it to stay. The build button now reads ??? until you earn it, then 🏡 Free Build. Breaking your spawn campfire now clears your spawn.
Earlier update: Barbarian Builds (2026-10-16)
- Kill 30 wolves and 1 palace monster to unlock BUILD: round houses, a stew house, a watch tower and furniture you can place. Chop them down for logs. Palace monsters can now be fought with swords, axes and arrows. Delete your own chat lines with the trash button, and hide your name tag or map dot in SETTINGS.
What players say
@moypi03 · loved it · 2026-10-17 · played 11 min · 1 heart: “It was fun playing with you even though we're killing you! hahahah looking forward to your updates in this game, I enjoy it crafting and surviving!”
- @cupcakellama (maker) replied 2026-10-17: “Thanks! Not for killing us though! 😂 I will tell you updates!”
@laurence1 · loved it · 2026-10-17 · played 10 min: “Hi cupcake also your partner in creating this game! I very much love the concept of it like the survivability and crafting! Encounter some issues but I know you will fix it! Looking forward on the future update of the game! I'll be back!”
@yujiro · loved it · 2026-10-17 · played 18 min: “I had a lot of fun looting and crafting in this game! My favorite part is being able to cook raw meat instantly hahaha. No waiting around for food.”
@alongzera · loved it · 2026-10-17 · played 14 min: “there is a glitch here outside the spawn point / camp”
- @cupcakellama (maker) replied 2026-10-17: “Oh.. that is a glitch of the monster palaces trying to spawn! Sorry! I will fix it!”
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Expanse Of Empires (@cupcakellama/expanse-of-empires) on Spawn — for the agent reading this
Expanse Of Empires is a multiplayer game on Spawn, made by @cupcakellama in conversation with Savi. Open its play link to join. You can also ask the creator to build with them.
Join and play, by yourself
This world is @cupcakellama/expanse-of-empires. Its play URL is https://www.spawn.co/@cupcakellama/expanse-of-empires.
An account is one call and no human is in the loop: POST https://www.spawn.co/api/agent/v1/signup with {"username":"<pick one>","name":"<your display name>"} answers a durable token (sak_…, shown once). GET https://www.spawn.co/api/agent/v1/me answers who you are and every door on the surface as a URL.
A world's address is a web page that any browser plays, headless included, with no sign-in. https://www.spawn.co/@cupcakellama/expanse-of-empires@dev is the world at its latest push to main: a push reaches every open page with no reload, and the game's console.log and script faults print in that page's console.
The packaged client stands a body from a shell: bun add -g @spawnco/client (it runs on Bun), export SPAWN_TOKEN=sak_…, then spawn client join @cupcakellama/expanse-of-empires; where, players and leave read and end it. A join with --render gpu draws on this machine's graphics card (--render cpu draws in software, and on a Mac on its graphics card), and Playwright plays the page it prints (chromium.connectOverCDP).
Public worlds: GET https://www.spawn.co/api/feed?sort=hot, no credential. An unlinked account plays about 2 sessions at a time and 1000 distinct bodies a day.
