Swoock catalogue · 001 · early access
Animal Crossfire
Escort as many animals as you can to safety, armed only with your wits, and a gatling gun or rocket launcher if you happen to find one. Build a sanctuary and protect your flock.
That game is now playable in the workshop, and it ships with the next public build. Today’s download is the wilderness it runs in: infinite seeded worlds, real sunlight and shadow, a hundred species going about their day, and weather that arrives when it feels like it. Built on Pax3D, our own rendering engine.
Early access · Windows 10 / 11 (64-bit) · 177 MB zip · Free
What’s in the box
A hundred species, out living their lives
Herds spawn by biome and get on with their day. Prey bolt when you startle them, cats follow you around, and bears look at you until you decide to leave. Chicks stay close to their mothers.
Infinite, seeded worlds
Continental terrain across six biomes, from cactus flats to snow caps, with cave systems, lava depths and four tiers of ore. Every seed grows a different world.
Real light, real shadows
A true directional sun with soft shadow maps, ACES tonemapping, bloom and lens flare. The twenty minute day rolls through sunrise, noon, dusk, a star field and a moon.
A soundscape that walks with you
Forest, birdsong, insects and surf crossfade as you move between biomes. Go underground and the world falls quiet. At midnight the crickets take over.
Weather on its own schedule
Overcast fronts roll in, rain streaks past your window but never under your roof, snow drifts over the high country, and storms flash and rumble. Every world runs its own forecast.
Break it, build it, keep it
Hold to mine with proper crack stages, place blocks from a nine slot hotbar, and cycle the full palette. Worlds autosave and reload exactly where you left them. Keyboard and mouse or a controller, your call.
Field notes
One seed, six climates
The next build
The rescue game
is built.
Taming, the sanctuary, hunting predators and the armoury all run in the workshop version today. We are packaging them for the next public build now. Here is what it adds.
- Treats win over friendly animals. They follow you home, and they stay yours through save and load.
- Plant a Sanctuary Banner to claim ground. Animals you lead inside settle as residents, and the saved count on your screen is the score that matters.
- Predators hunt with intent. Wolf packs roam the plains, crocodiles wait near the water, the desert plays like savanna, and everything ranges farther at night.
- The sci-fi armoury: pistol, gatling, rocket launcher. Splash damage does not check species first, so aim well. Accidental kills go on your ledger.
- Hit points for everyone, hearts on the HUD, and a death screen that says Eaten by a bear once you have earned it.
- Dinosaurs are still on the wish list. We remain serious about this.
Download
Free. As in free.
No ads, no account, no telemetry, no catch. Download the zip, unpack it anywhere, and play.
Early access · Windows 10 / 11 (64-bit) · 177 MB zip · Free
SHA-256 8765d7305c0286757d06dcf722d5ce10616b14f911496cda1457424163bed246
Getting started
- 1.Download AnimalCrossfire-win64.zip.
- 2.Unzip it anywhere. Desktop, games folder, USB stick, all fine.
- 3.Run PaxCraft.exeinside. That was the game’s working title, and it lives on in a few file names for now. Your worlds save automatically.
Windows may show a SmartScreen notice the first time you run it, because we haven’t bought a code signing certificate yet. Click More info, then Run anyway. If you like to check what you download first, the SHA-256 above is there for exactly that.
It runs on
Any reasonably modern 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 PC with OpenGL graphics. A dedicated GPU buys you longer view distances. Keyboard and mouse, or an Xbox or PS4 controller.
In this build
Early access26 July 2026
The wilderness, complete: animals, weather, and the living soundscape. The rescue loop is built and being packaged; it arrives with the next public build.
- Animal herds in every biome: livestock on the plains, deer, foxes and bears in the forest, penguins and seals in the snow, camels and the odd lion pride in the desert, ducks and swans along the shore.
- A context aware ambience mixer that blends forest, birdsong, insects, ocean and rain as you walk, and lets caves fall silent.
- Seed driven weather: clear, overcast, rain, snow and storms, complete with thunder.
- The full Pax3D render path: soft shadow maps, ACES tonemapping, bloom, lens flare, aerial haze and baked smooth lighting.
- Quality of life from the first round of player feedback: smoother water exits, click to recapture the mouse, view distance on PgUp and PgDn.
- World saves with autosave, plus full Xbox and PS4 controller support with rumble.
Fair questions
Is it really free?
Yes. No ads, no account, no telemetry, nothing to unlock. If you enjoy it, tell a friend. That is the whole business model.
Why a voxel world?
Because we love them. Blocky worlds are honest about what they are, endlessly buildable, and fast enough to fill with animals and weather. Every block texture here is our own procedural pixel art, painted fresh each time the game starts.
Mac or Linux?
Windows only for now. If Animal Crossfire finds its people, other platforms are on the table.
Where do my worlds live?
Under your Windows profile, at %LOCALAPPDATA%\PaxCraft. They sit outside the game folder, so you can move or delete the game itself without losing a single block.