Overview
Craftopia is an open-world survival action RPG developed and published by Pocketpair. Its defining feature is the breadth of activities within one sandbox: practical production tasks sit alongside fantasy adventures, and character development supports both work and combat. Players can spend time improving their operations or leave those projects behind to explore.
Hunger adds a survival concern, while crafting progression expands the selection of items available to make. The setting mixes natural resources and wildlife with industrial technology, allowing farms, machinery, and magical abilities to coexist without restricting the adventure to one technological era.
How does crafting and automation work?
Craftopia combines manual resource gathering with machinery and conveyor belts that automate collection. Chopping trees and mining stone provide hands-on starting activities, while factory building turns those repeated jobs into production systems.
Farming includes more than 20 crops. Players can tend individual plants or use agricultural machinery to cultivate larger fields, making the scale of a farm a practical choice about how much work to automate.
The main production activities include:
- Wood and stone gathering
- Crop cultivation
- Agricultural machinery
- Conveyor-belt factories
Automation extends the building challenge beyond placing individual machines. Conveyor belts support larger factory layouts, making the arrangement of production equipment another project alongside growing food and collecting materials.
Farming and factory automation.
Combat and character progression
Craftopia's action RPG systems include sword fighting and magical spells. Combat shares its progression space with noncombat pursuits, so character development also reaches into the activities that keep a settlement productive.
More than 100 skills support specializations such as crafting, broad swords, and automation. These options let players shape a character around preferred activities instead of treating every upgrade as a damage increase.
Character creation handles appearance separately, with choices covering race, hairstyles, eyes, facial features, skin tones, facial hair, and face paint. Mechanical specialization and visual customization provide different ways to establish a character's identity.
Dungeons, fishing, and creature collecting
A detector signals nearby dungeons. Their layouts change with each entry, and bosses await at the end, giving treasure hunting a different structure from gathering resources outdoors. Preparing equipment in town forms part of the expedition.
Creature collecting uses Monster Prisms, which players throw to capture pets. Cows and deer are possible targets, and most monsters are tamable, extending collecting beyond ordinary wildlife.
Fishing supplies food, while turtle shells serve as materials for shields. These activities give encounters with the world's creatures uses beyond combat or pet collecting.
Dungeon exploration and creature collecting.
What can players do in multiplayer?
Craftopia supports multiplayer factory building, dungeon exploration, and fishing with friends. Shared activities cover both production and adventuring, so a group session does not have to revolve entirely around fighting.
The vehicle roster includes hoverboards, motorbikes, automobiles, helicopters, biplanes, tanks, and hot-air balloons. Ground vehicles and aircraft bring different forms of transport into the same sandbox.
Vehicles for shared open-world exploration.
Players gather materials to craft their transport and can share rides with friends. Vehicle building connects resource collection to multiplayer exploration, giving a group's crafting efforts a use outside the factory.
