Methodox Voxel Sandbox

Morning light through a voxel pine forest, rendered by Photo Mode

Generate

Every world starts from a number

Type a seed and a world grows around it — mountains, five kinds of forest, lakes and rivers, caves already glowing with crystal and lava, and a deck of clouds drifting over all of it. The same seed always builds the same world, so the one you love is never lost.

--seed 1337 · worlds up to hundreds of millions of blocks

Edit

You build from inside

No orbiting a model in a void — you stand in the world. Walk, swim, fly, then break and build with six brushes across 255 materials: stone and timber, glass and gold, neon and lava. Undo per stroke, save any time, and trade builds with MagicaVoxel, Goxel and Minecraft schematics.

F1–F6 brushes · Ctrl+Z undo · .vox .gox .schematic

A blue river between sand and snow banks with sun sparkle, rendered by Photo Mode

Photograph

Press P. The world holds its breath.

Photo Mode freezes everything — the clock, the water, the clouds — and hands the frame to a path tracer: the renderer follows light the way light actually travels, and the picture refines in front of you like a developing photograph. The longer you wait, the finer it gets.

P to enter · Esc to leave · keeps refining while you tune

Real light

Sunlight bounces, colour bleeds, glass refracts, gold reflects, clouds glow from within. Shade fills with sky, not black.

A real lens

Focus on your subject and open the aperture — true depth of field, with soft shadows you can widen by growing the sun.

Real files

Save a finished PNG, or the raw light itself as a Radiance .hdr you can re-expose in any pro imaging tool.

Your style

Sun strength, sky light, bounce light, water glow: dials that keep the beloved voxel-render look — or set them to 1 for bare physics.

Shot in game

Every picture here came out of Photo Mode

No external renderer, no post-processing — each frame was photographed inside the sandbox and saved with its Save button.

High-noon voxel forest with sharp shadows — High noon, hard shadows

Night scene lit by a glowing crystal, neon and lava — Lit only by crystal, neon and lava

Gold, iron, glass, crystal, obsidian and neon on a marble stage — Gold, iron, glass, crystal, obsidian, neon

Depth of field across a still-life of voxel materials — An open aperture, a chosen subject

A glowing crystal seen refracted through a glass cube — A crystal, seen through glass

Clouds floating above forest and snow — Clouds are volumes, not decals

Also in the box

The details that make it a place

A full day. Sunrise to star field on a tilted arc, with a moon that takes over the lighting at night.
A generated soundtrack. 180 sound effects, ambience and two musical themes — all synthesised from your world's seed. No two worlds sound alike.
Materials that behave. Metals shine, glass refracts, crystals glow, water flows light through itself — in play and in photographs.
Quick on its feet. Editing is instant at any brush size, and three quality tiers keep it smooth from ultrabooks to workstations.

Windows 10 / 11, 64-bit Graphics OpenGL 3.3 or newer Memory 4 GB (larger worlds want more) Disk under 100 MB

Build somewhere worth photographing

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