Rides and gadgets: get there faster, see further.

Making them

The parts come first, made at a Workbench or by hand, then the ride or gadget built from them. The crafting screen shows each step, and each one is a short timed craft you can watch. Things marked Forge Bench need one. Gadget parts called fuel can be coal, charcoal, petrol, diesel or kerosene.

The parts

Part	Made from	Used for
Bike Frame	6 metal	A bike.
Wheel (makes 2)	3 wood and 2 plant fibre	A bike (two) or a hand cart (two).
Wing Cloth	6 plant fibre	A hang glider, or a sailboat's sail.
Fuel Cell	2 metal and 2 fuel	A jetpack's thrust, a head lamp, a drone's battery.

Vehicles and gliders

Ride	Made from	How to use it
Bike	1 Bike Frame, 2 Wheels, 2 hide or leather	Fast, never tires you out, and hops off a ramp for air. Click to get on, crouch to brake, click again to get off.
Hand Cart	2 Wheels, 10 wood, 2 fibre	Set it down, load your things in it with E, and hitch it behind you with crouch and E. A pack on wheels.
Rowboat	14 wood, 4 fibre	Click at the water's edge to get in, row with W. Click to get out.
Sailboat	1 Rowboat, 2 Wing Cloth, 4 wood	A rowboat with a sail: quick before the wind, slow into it.
Hang Glider	2 Wing Cloth, 8 wood, 2 fibre	Jump from a height and hold Space to glide. Tip the nose down to speed up and steer with the mouse. No fuel needed.
Jetpack	10 metal, 2 Fuel Cells, 2 fibre, 1 glass (Forge Bench)	Hold Space to rise on fuel cells. It heats up and gives out at about 50 metres.

Gadgets

Gadget	Made from	What it does
Grappling Hook	6 metal, 6 plant fibre	Fire it at a block to fix the rope. Hold to reel in, let go to swing, jump to let go.
Head Lamp	2 metal, 2 glass, 1 Fuel Cell	In your bag, it lengthens your helmet lamp by four blocks. Your helmet lamp starts at 3 blocks at night and can be upgraded through missions to 8.
Bright Lantern	2 metal, 2 glass, 2 fuel	Held, it lights a wide warm circle about 11 blocks round you.
Long Torch (makes 2)	2 wood, 2 plant fibre, 2 fuel	Held, it lights the way about 7.5 blocks ahead. It burns for a quarter of an hour.
Binoculars	4 glass, 4 metal	Hold right click (or the backslash key) to look far with four times the zoom. Creatures in view show their names up to 150 metres away.
Camera	4 metal, 2 glass, 1 hide	Click to take a picture. Every creature in the frame, up to 48 metres away, goes in your photo album.
Compass	2 metal, 1 glass	In your bag, it shows which way you face and your coordinates on the screen.
Depth Gauge	2 metal, 2 glass	In your bag, it shows your height above the sea, or your depth and pressure below it.
Scout Drone	6 metal, 2 glass, 2 fibre, 1 Fuel Cell (Forge Bench)	Click to launch it and fly it with the keys. It scouts for two minutes on its fuel cell, up to 140 metres from you, at 11 metres a second. Click again to bring it home.

Traps

Traps are laid on the ground with a click.

Trap	Made from	What it does
Snare (makes 2)	4 plant fibre, 2 wood	Holds a small creature that steps in. With bait in your bag it takes the creature and gives you its pelt.
Spike Trap (makes 2)	4 wood, 2 metal	Hurts hostile creatures and raiders that step on it: 24 harm a bite, up to eight bites before it breaks.
Alarm Trap	3 metal, 2 plant fibre	A hostile creature near it sets off a bell and tells you where it is, with a 7-metre range. It rings again after 25 seconds.

You can have up to 16 traps laid at once, and 60 in a whole world.

Tips

• A hang glider needs no fuel, so it is a good way to cover ground from a height.
• Keep Fuel Cells in your bag. The jetpack, the drone and the head lamp all use them.
• Bait a snare with meat or fish for a pelt you can use in crafting.
• The camera fills your photo album, one picture per kind of creature.

For tools and weapons see Melee, dodging and blocking, and for the suits you need deep below see Suits and gear.

← Back to the wiki · Last updated 25 October 2026. Mantlenaut is in alpha, so things change.