Gluebox

A physics sandbox. Grab anything, glue it to anything, bolt on wheels and thrusters, then go clear the old fort. Four AI builders share the valley and none of them can be trusted with TNT.

Map

Preset

Pick a preset to set everything below at once, then change anything you like.

Start

AI players

Leave me alone

AI players keep to themselves: they won't follow you, throw things at you, or touch or drive anything you built.

Husks

Enemies in the fort and at night.

Goals

The step-by-step goals panel. Hidden means pure sandbox.

Husk Titan

A giant boss husk that throws boulders. Beat it for a reward.

Shields

Everyone gets a blue shield bar that soaks up damage before health and recharges after 4 seconds without getting hit. On a server, the host's setting is used.

Chat filter

Hides swear words and slurs with stars in chat, player names, the kill feed, signs and screens. Each player picks this for their own screen.

Keep rotation

When you rotate something you placed, the next one you place can come out at the same angle. Same item: keeps it until you switch to a different item. Always: keeps it even when you switch. Never: every placement starts straight. Each player picks this for themselves.

Respawn time

How long you stay dead before coming back. On a server, the host's setting is used.

Workbench

Removes the crafting workbench and its sign by the spawn. Removed by default in Sandbox. On a server, the host's setting is used.

Fall damage

Falling a long way hurts. Short drops, water and landing with the jetpack slowed down are safe. On a server, the host's setting is used.

Storms

Thunderstorms with rain and lightning now and then. Lightning likes tall metal.

Grab AIs

Lets your hands and the physics gun pick up AI players, husks and, in multiplayer, other people.

Traps hit

Everyone means turrets, tesla coils and spike traps also hit AI players and people, including you.

Glue

Materials

Infinite makes every part free and lets you take as many sticks, stones, ore and crystals as you like from the inventory.

Day & night

Always day stops the clock at mid-morning, so night husks never come. Always night keeps it dark at midnight.

Move / jump / sprintWASD Space Shift

Grab and carryhold LMB

Throw held / spawn partRMB

Glue what it touchesG

Unglue / deleteX / Z

Rotate heldhold R + move mouse · tap R/T to snap

Use: sit, toggle, craft, stashE

Attack or fire / switch weaponF / Q

Pick part or rope1–0, -, = or wheel

Inventory / build menuI / B

Jetpack / slow motionV / L

Crouchhold C

Ragdoll / third personJ / P

Quick save / loadF5 / F9

Pause menu / helpTab / H

Gluebox version

Current update

Needs a keyboard and mouse. Click Play to lock the mouse; press Esc to pause.

version

Current update

Paused

AI players

Leave me alone

AI players keep to themselves: they won't follow you, throw things at you, or touch or drive anything you built.

Husks

Goals

Husk Titan

Shields

Everyone gets a blue shield bar that soaks up damage before health and recharges after 4 seconds without getting hit. On a server, the host's setting is used.

Chat filter

Hides swear words and slurs with stars in chat, player names, the kill feed, signs and screens. Each player picks this for their own screen.

Keep rotation

When you rotate something you placed, the next one you place can come out at the same angle. Same item: keeps it until you switch to a different item. Always: keeps it even when you switch. Never: every placement starts straight. Each player picks this for themselves.

Respawn time

How long you stay dead before coming back. On a server, the host's setting is used.

Workbench

Removes the crafting workbench and its sign by the spawn. Removed by default in Sandbox. On a server, the host's setting is used.

Fall damage

Falling a long way hurts. Short drops, water and landing with the jetpack slowed down are safe. On a server, the host's setting is used.

Storms

Grab AIs

Traps hit

Glue

Materials

Day & night

Hands

Mouse speed

Volume

Press Tab to resume. Your world saves automatically.

Your inventory

Uncheck anything you don't want to carry. Q only switches between the checked ones. Your fists always stay. This saves for next time.

Gun creator

Your guns

Drag to turn it, scroll to zoom. Click it to build it in the Part Studio. The orange dot is where it shoots from.

Start from

Your character

Inventory

Press I to close

Materials

Weapons

Taken materials drop in front of you as sticks, stones, ore and crystals, ready to craft with. Press E on them to stash them again.

Build menu

Press B to close

Drag a part onto a slot below.

Part studio

+ Add real part puts real wheels, seats, thrusters and more on your design; they get glued on automatically when you place it. Ctrl/Shift+click picks more shapes, Ctrl+A picks all, clicking empty space picks none. Select (6): drag a box over empty space to pick everything inside it. In any tool, Shift+drag on empty space does the same and adds to what is picked. Pick a tool: Move drag the arrows (or drag the shapes themselves), Size drag the cubes on each side, Rotate drag the rings (snaps to 15°, hold Shift for fine steps). Drag empty space to spin the view, scroll to zoom. Glue (4): shapes are one solid part without glue; glue is for real parts like hinges. Click a shape, then click another to glue that pair. Right-click a green glue ball to remove just that glue. Real parts only stick where you glue them. Wire (5): click a lever, button, plate or logic part, then click what it controls, or drag a box on empty space to wire lots at once. Backwards wire (7): click the part to control first, then the switches that control it. Settings (8): click a real part like a repeater, counter or motor to change its settings.
Move around: W/A/S/D fly, Space/C up and down, right-drag to slide the view, F jumps to what you picked, H goes home · 1/2/3 switch tools · R/T/Y turn 15° · arrows and Q/E nudge · Ctrl+D duplicate · Del delete · Ctrl+Z undo

Name

Click a shape in the view to edit it, or add one.

XYZ

Move

Turn °

Size

Visible

Color

Finish

Your parts · click to edit · ✕ deletes

Disconnected

Memory Chip

What you store here shows up on every Screen this chip is wired to, whenever the chip gets a signal.

Solid colorFills the screen with this color (text goes on top). Also sets the color of Square Lights wired to the chip.

Live camera feedShows that camera live on the screens. Text goes across the top and the picture goes in the bottom right corner.

Laptop / PC feedShows the game being played on that laptop. Pick a camera too and it shows small in the corner, like a webcam on a gameplay video.

GLUEBOX OSHome

E to close · Tab for Home · Backspace to go back

Sign

Text color

Slider Setter

Type a number, or a variable like (score). Then click a part with a slider to set it. Values outside a slider's range get clamped to fit.

Logic

Press T or Esc to close.

Choose what it drops

Click a part. Esc to go back.

Image library

Click a picture to use it. Esc to go back.

My images

Ready-made

Image painter

Draw with the mouse. Ctrl+Z undoes.

Color

Brush

Beat Box

Press E or Esc to close. It keeps playing.

110 BPM Presets

You died

Respawning…

How things work

GlueHold a part against another, press G. Against the ground anchors it.

Glue at a distanceNot holding: G on part A, then G on part B

WheelsGlue a wheel to a body and it becomes a motorized axle

DrivingE on a seat. WS throttle, AD steer, Space fires thrusters

ThrusterE toggles it on. Pushes away from the nozzle.

BalloonPick slot 9 and right-click a part or the ground to tie one on a rope. Each lifts about 7 kg, less as the air thins. X cuts the rope, punching pops it.

TNTE lights a 3 s fuse. Hard impacts set it off.

CraftingGlue sticks, stones or crystals on the workbench, then E at the bench

RecipesStick+Stone Hammer · 2 Sticks+Stone Spear · Stick+2 Stones Axe · Stick+Crystal Sword

Delete one jointLook at an amber glue blob and press Z or Delete

Glue strengthBig crashes and blasts snap joints

NightHusks rise in the dark and crumble at sunrise

GatheringF on trees drops sticks, on boulders drops stone and iron ore

StashE on a stick, stone, ore or crystal adds it to your materials

From scratchParts cost materials. Z breaks your parts and fort salvage back into materials on the ground.

InventoryI shows your materials and weapons and lets you take materials out

PauseTab opens the pause menu

GunsYou start with a pistol, shotgun, SMG, rocket launcher and grenade launcher. Q switches, LMB or F fires. Switch to fists to grab things.

KeybindsLook at a thruster, engine, gun, cannon, bomb, lamp and more, press K, then press any key. That key now runs it, in a vehicle or not

Release BlockVanishes when you press R, dropping whatever hangs from it. With Aerial Bombs you get a bomber (see Ready-made: Bomber)

DuplicatorWeapon (Q). Right-click a part to copy its whole glued build, left-click the ground to paste copies

Material ToolWeapon (Q). Left-click a part to turn it into stone, steel, gold, glass, ice, rubber and more. Right-click or scroll picks the material. Stone and metal sink and weigh more, ice slides, rubber bounces, metal sticks to magnets

Physics gunWeapon (Q). Hold LMB to grab anything from far away, scroll to push or pull, R/T rotate, RMB freezes it in mid-air

Build menuB shows every part. Click one to put it on your selected hotbar slot

SwitchesE turns hoverballs, magnets, spinners, gyros, fans, turrets, lamps and thrusters on or off

VehiclesWhile driving: Space thrusters and hoverballs up, Shift hoverballs down, LMB or F fires every cannon and artillery gun on the vehicle

Mounted gunsArtillery and auto guns: glue any number to a vehicle with a seat. They all aim at whatever your crosshair is on, like the auto turrets. Artillery lobs its shell so it lands right on that spot, and a ring shows where it will hit

PlanesBuild menu, Ready-made: Starter Plane. Or glue wings, a tail wing, a tail fin and a propeller or jet to a body with a seat. W throttle, Space/Shift nose up/down, A/D turn

Grabbing AIsWith Grab AIs on, left-click an AI player or husk with fists or the physics gun. Right-click throws when using fists

RopeKey =. Right-click one spot, then another, to tie a rope between them

Hinges and pistonsHinge: glue the steel side to the base and the brass side to the part that swings. Motor Hinge: same, and E or its key swings it 90 degrees. Piston: glue the base and the red head to different parts, E or its key pushes out 1.5 m

Beat BoxWeird science in the build menu. Press E on it to program kick, snare, hi-hat, clap, bass and lead on a 16-step grid, pick a tempo or a preset, and press Play. Everyone nearby hears it. K can give it a key to start and stop it

Paint and sprayPaintbrush (Q): hold LMB to draw on anything, scroll picks a color, RMB changes brush size. Spray Can: RMB picks an image from your computer, LMB sprays it on a surface as a decal, scroll changes the size

Stop BlockGlue it to a vehicle and press E on it, or give it a key with K, to stop the whole thing dead

SkisGlue two Skis under a build with a seat and a thruster (or spawn the ready-made Rocket Sled). They slide with almost no friction. W or Space fires the thruster, A and D steer

BoatsBuild menu, Ready-made: Boat. Or glue pontoons, a seat and a Boat Propeller low at the back. W and S drive, A and D steer. The lake is huge now

Voice chatMultiplayer only. Turn it on in the Multiplayer screen or the pause menu. Open mic, or hold N to talk. People sound louder the closer they are

Grappling HookWeapon (Q). Hold LMB to hook anything up to 95 m away and reel in. Light parts fly to you, heavy ones pull you. Space lets go with a boost. Hooking a husk yanks it over

JetpackV turns it on. Hold Space to fly, hold Shift while falling to soften the landing. Fuel refills on the ground

CrouchHold C to crouch: you get shorter and slower, so you can sneak under things

RagdollJ goes limp and switches to a third person view. Move the mouse to look around you. Press J again to stand back up

Slow motionL slows the whole world down. Press again for normal speed

HelicopterGlue a Helicopter Rotor on top of a build with a seat, or spawn the ready-made one. Sit down and it lifts off. Space/Shift climb and sink, W/S fly, A/D turn

TeleportersPlace two or more pads. Step on one and you come out of the next one. Parts and husks go through too

Weird scienceGravity Well: E turns on a floating black hole. Fireworks: E launches. Tesla Coil zaps husks. Parachute Pack: E opens it

Mini NukeE arms a 5 second fuse, or drop it from a plane. Get far away

Husk TitanA giant husk shows up every night. It slams the ground and throws boulders. Beat it to get the Thunder Staff, a lightning gun that chains between husks

StormsThunderstorms roll in now and then. Lightning goes for the tallest metal part nearby. Turn them off in the pause menu

Quick save / loadF5 saves a snapshot, F9 restores it

TorchesKey -. Light the dark. Glue them to walls or anchor them in the ground.

WaterWood floats, steel and stone sink. Rafts work.

Get a grip

Gluebox

Paused

Your inventory

Gun creator

Your character

Troll panel

Inventory

Build menu

Part studio

Disconnected

Memory Chip

Sign

Slider Setter

Logic

Choose what it drops

Image library

Image painter

Beat Box

You died