Gameplay[edit]

The player can 'warp in' a Blockhead through a portal, which is the only thing visible at the start of the game. There is a choice between male or female, with various unique features such as different hair styles or facial hair. There are no differences aside from the randomly generated name (which can be changed) and appearance.

Upon warping in, the player is given the choice of whether or not to accept a tutorial. The Blockhead, which appears as a slightly 3-D blocky version of a human wearing a tank top and trousers, is completely controlled by the player unless wearing a tin foil hat. Movement is controlled by tapping desired destination on the screen, and if the Blockhead is able to access it, will traverse to that point. Tapping on blocks will cause the Blockhead to hit them repeatedly with bare hand or equipped item in hand, until the block breaks or action is manually stopped by tapping again on said block.

The Blockhead has six statistics: Health, happiness, hunger, energy, environment, and when the health bar is depleted, death. The hunger and energy bar will constantly decrease, and the Blockhead must eat items to prevent the hunger bar from entirely depleting and affecting the health bar. The energy bar, when depleted, will result in the Blockhead walking slowly and 'collapsing from exhaustion' (sleeping on the spot). This can be filled by sleeping, which can be done via the Blockhead menu, opened by tapping the Blockhead icon.

The environment bar will decrease when a Blockhead's environment is too cold or tooHOT. Wearing a fur coat or other similar items may prevent the Blockhead from being cold. Tapping an animal will result in the animal fleeing (Dodos, fish), or attacking (Sharks, dropbears, cave trolls, scorpions). When the Blockhead's health reaches 0, whether by animals, hunger, or the environment, a death bar will appear. When the death bar reaches 0, the Blockhead will die and drop two items with the option of waiting ten minutes to respawn or pay 100 time crystals to respawn instantly. The player can also "R.I.P" the Blockhead, causing it to drop all items and the player must create a new Blockhead. Broken blocks drop to the ground and automatically go into the inventory when there is sufficient space. Slain animals drop items as well such as clothing materials and food.

The player must craft items to progress in the game. Crafting takes a certain amount of time, but this waiting process can be bypassed by using time crystals. Crafted tools increase the speed of which a block is broken. Using the wrong tool on the wrong block (i.e. Breaking wood with a shovel) will result in the same speed of the Blockhead's hand hitting it, and a red square surrounding the tool's icon on the said block. Crafted items such as a jetpack or fur coat may allow the Blockhead to access areas previously inaccessible.

The Blockhead world has four poles: The West Equator, The South Pole, The East Equator, and The North Pole. At the top of each pole, there is an item that will provide benefits to the Blockhead.

The Blockheads also contains in-app purchases:

• Double-time, which halves crafting time,
• HD textures, which serve as a high-resolution texture pack

 (Although there are many fan-made texture packs, which are not recommended due to the fact that they are not official
 and can only be applied through manual file system edits), 

• and Time Crystals, which may be used to craft 'gem pickaxes' which give either two, three, four, five, or six times the items when mining, speed up crafting time, 'portals', which a player may teleport to by using time crystals as well as a golden bed, which speeds up sleep significantly, portal chests, which allow for transportation of items between worlds, or a multiplayer server.

Multiplayer[edit]

The player can choose to join online servers, and play with other players. They can be hosted in several ways. One, on an iOS device, the player can set up a Local Area Network (LAN) world. The player can also use Gamecenter, if on iOS.

If the player has access to a Mac, there is a free server app, that can be used to host an online server world anyone can connect to if they have the specific connection details. Alternatively, all players can choose to spend Time Crystals to host a server "in the cloud". This includes the ability to search for specific cloud world servers, and the continued hosting of said servers for more Time Crystals.

Server credit costs 100 time crystals for one day, 600 for 7 days, or 2000 for 30 days. A 'Join Random World' function to connect to a randomly selected cloud world is available to the player. When playing multiplayer, other players may choose to engage the player in player versus player (PVP) combat. This can be disabled by a server administrator at any time.

Before the 1.5.1 update (which added Cloud Worlds) was released, players had the option of hosting a server on a Mac or having a server hosting company host one for them.

Game Updates[edit]

Version 1.6 (Updated November 19, 2014)

This update takes your blockheads to the skies with the awesome new JETPACKS. With new ores, workbenches, items, plants and blocks, 1.6 adds a whole load of new stuff to find and do. There’s also a fancy new lighting engine, and it’s now up to 2x quicker to mine and craft, so you can get started in new worlds much faster!

• JETPACKS! You’re going to need a lot ofOIL, titanium and electricity to make one, but then YOU CAN FLY!

• New floating islands in the sky! These will appear in new worlds, and in unexplored areas of existing worlds.

• New hanging vines, and colorful tulips

• Mining/digging speed with bare hands and primitive tools is now faster

• It’s now twice as fast to craft all items!

• New shaders and lighting for an improved look

• Adds platinum coins (worth 100GOLD each), as well as platinum ore, ingots and blocks.

• Adds titanium ore, ingots, blocks, armor, swords and pickaxes.

• Adds carbon fiber blocks and armor

• Adds glass and black glass stairs and columns

• Adds a new electric press which is faster than a normal press, but also allows you to crush stone into gravel and gravel into sand

• Adds the new electric sluice, which sifts through gravel to find ores

• Adds ownership signs, which protect a 31x31 area so that only the assigned player and admins may modify it.

• All columns and stairs are now crafted at the builder’s bench, which replaces the stonemason’s bench

• Plants and trees grown in compost no longer die of old age

• Compost is now created at a compost bin, and can be made out of most organic items

• Ores are now clumped together into larger deposits

• Back walls are now only created if there is another solid block or back wall within 10 blocks below

• Back walls can now be removed by using the correct tool for the block type

• Text now appears black on light painted signs or shops

• Workbenches and portals can only be upgraded by admins or the owner of that workbench.