Build your very first cabin!
Gather wood, craft a workbench and raise your walls: your first cabin fits in a forest clearing, with its door, windows and lanterns.
Your first cabin starts with two pieces of wood and a small clearing. The one in the picture has a door between two windows, a path down to the mailbox and a workbench outside. Mushrooms grow against the front wall, and the Cognecornes have their pen behind the house.
Nobody hands you this clearing ready-made: you build it yourself. In survival, you gather your materials one by one. In creative, you open the catalogue and start placing blocks straight away.
Craft your workbench
Your first recipes are made by hand. Two pieces of wood make four plank blocks. The workbench takes four pieces of wood, so you can make one after your first few trees and set it down next to your building site.
Stay close to the workbench to use its recipes. A wooden axe takes three pieces of wood and two fibres. Your bag shows what you already have next to each item you can craft, and anything missing turns red. Before heading back into the woods, check the recipe in the catalogue!
Raise the walls and furnish the room
In creative, a preview shows each piece where you are aiming before you place it. You can turn a door or a piece of furniture to face the right way. To lay a floor or stretch a wall, group placement fills a whole square in one go.
Here, logs mark the corners and windows break up the plank walls. Parquet covers the floor. With the roof off, you can see the table in the middle, the bookcase at the back and the stove against the right-hand wall.
In survival, an extra room means more wood for the floor and walls. In creative, try as many layouts as you like. The Build page covers every building tool.
Admire it from the path
Switch to first person and the front of the house fills the screen. You can see how tall the door is, how far the roof hangs over and how much room you left between the path and the fence.
At night, lanterns light up the doorway and the path. The campfire picks out the seats at the side of the garden, and the trees melt into the dark sky.
Your clearing is waiting at game.playcabane.com. Next time, a tiled roof to top it all off.