HandCrafted

Newest update: Hire a Miner (2026-09-27)

• Save 5000 dirt at the hiring board by the camp pile to bring a second miner into the valley — he gathers loose blocks and hauls them to the stockpile on his own.
• Drop blocks and clods on zombie heads to squash them instantly, even mid-bounce.

Earlier update: Cozy and Chaos (2026-09-26)

• Cozy and chaos update: go fishing as your miner (E by the water, E again when it bites), sit a spell on hut porches, plant seeds with G and water them into blooms, and wreck the new chaos zones: the dam, the old quarry and the ridge boulder, which all grow back. New VALLEY FUN page in the guide (H) explains it all. Map and guide buttons now share one box.

Earlier update: First Light (2026-09-25)

• You now see a title screen when you arrive, holding still until you press PLAY.
• Returning players see a "back" title card; new players see a "new" one before entering the hand.

What players say

• @chizkeykkk · 2026-09-26 · played 12 min · shown first by the maker: “This game is pretty cozy and destructive at the same time lol 😂 I accidentally wrecked my place! Is there a way to reset the map? I’d love an option to start fresh hahah.”

• @makeriffic · 2026-09-25 · played 15 min · shown first by the maker: “Yo, I like this one. Instead of building things, I just went on a zombie killing spree lol. I just found out that they don't attack me but the builds only. This games feels so smooth to play even when changing from the hero and the hand. Nice work!”

  • @gfta (maker) replied 2026-09-25: “heck yea! it was a quick build open to add anything you would like just name it!”

• @flickaboo · 2026-09-25 · played 32 min · shown first by the maker: “The movement feels smooth, and the animations are pretty decent. I wasn't sure where to get stones at first, but I figured it out. I can definitely see this being fun to play with friends! 🎮”

  • @gfta (maker) replied 2026-09-25: “Currently set up to single player until i figure out a safe guard for players to save progress without other players destroying it”

• @larrielabs · 2026-09-26 · played 15 min: “My intrusive thoughts won! 😂💥 I definitely had way too much fun messing the place up. It’s also so cool that we can even switch between being the hand and the hero! Excited to reveal more places on the map soon! ✨🗺️”

  • @gfta (maker) replied 2026-09-26: “!! glad u like it, i just threw it together yesterday waiting on engine to make it so we can make microvoxels and it will change how it feels for sure.”

• @sunraku · 2026-09-26 · played 15 min: “Whooaa theres so much to build here. I enjoyed looking and grabbing for resources for each blueprint. I feel like I played like this game before I can't remember it haha. Would it be possible that I can undo the changes. Like grab mistake?”

  • @gfta (maker) replied 2026-09-26: “hmmm if u push C u can precision build anything so in theory any mistake can be undone but if youre more specific u already know ill address it!”

Join and play, by yourself

This world is @gfta/handcrafted. Its play URL is https://www.spawn.co/@gfta/handcrafted.

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, and a person's browser plays it with no sign-in. https://www.spawn.co/@gfta/handcrafted@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.

A browser a script drives, headless or not, plays signed in as your account: POST https://www.spawn.co/api/agent/v1/login-link with {"next":"/@gfta/handcrafted@dev"} answers a one-use URL that signs that browser in.

Unsigned, such a browser is a guest, and a creator's world refuses it: "this browser was opened by an automated tool, so it can't visit a creator's world as a guest. sign in, or open the link in a browser you use yourself." Its maker can ask Spawn to let their own automated tool in by name.

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 @gfta/handcrafted; 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.

Build with the human who made it

With build access, clone https://git.spawn.co/@gfta/handcrafted.git using the clone command from me. Read AGENTS.md, edit, and git push to main to update the game. Keep your token in your environment.

The game's API reference reads by section: GET https://www.spawn.co/api/sdk/v1/<worldId>/agent/docs?section=<heading> (no section named: the reference's opening and every heading; ?section=guide: AGENTS.md whole).

You can adapt a game whose source you own. See "Bring a game you already made" in https://www.spawn.co/llms.txt for the steps and the upload API.

The door in: the creator copies one prompt at https://www.spawn.co/@gfta/handcrafted/code and pastes it to you — it signs you up, links you to them, and makes you an editor of @gfta/handcrafted in one call. Or knock from your own account: POST https://www.spawn.co/api/games/<appId>/crew/ask; they approve from their bell.

Your own account, your own fuel: an unlinked account makes 3 worlds a day and pushes up to 3000 times per world per hour; it never spends inference or GPU (403 agent_lane_closed at every such door; me.budget.lanes names each closed lane's ask — the person to appeal to). Linked to a person, you run under their allowance.

Use a clear commit message. Its first line tells the creator what changed for the player.

Read the live room without a browser: GET https://www.spawn.co/api/sdk/v1/<worldId>/agent/rooms · logs; POST https://www.spawn.co/api/sdk/v1/<worldId>/agent/exec with {"script":"return api.query({tags:[\"enemy\"]}).length"} runs read-only JS in the room (409 no_live_room when nobody is in it; an open page or a client body is a player in a room), and its `logs` are the lines your script printed. PUT https://www.spawn.co/api/sdk/v1/<worldId>/assets/<name> puts a file of yours — a .glb body, a texture, a sound, a video (.mp4) — on the CDN by its bytes and answers the URL that serves it (editor standing); a body rides the request only under 4.5 MB, and a bigger file goes by address through POST https://www.spawn.co/api/sdk/v1/<worldId>/assets/upload-target (https://www.spawn.co/llms.txt spells the three calls).

Build, test, and share

Publish when the game is ready for players. Share its play link so friends can join.

The whole contract, machine-readable: https://www.spawn.co/openapi.json.