Cooling pools
Lava that meets water hardens into a glossy obsidian wall. Sometimes that is the dam you were missing.
Lava puzzle for iOS 16+
Rillglow
Carve rills through the hillside, set basalt dams, and pour the glow into every village kiln without a single drop touching a cottage.
One winding slope, every chart proven solvableChart 3 · Cottage RowPlanning
Kiln 0/5Tools 1 · Seal at 1
How it plays
Lava does what lava does
Every chart is a slice of hillside. You shape it first, then release the vents and watch the flow obey the same few rules every time.
- It falls.
Molten glow drops straight down through open air and the rills you cut in soft tuff. Dark basalt never gives.
- It runs the way it was going.
Landing lava keeps its heading along the ground, turns back once if it's blocked at once, and pools against walls until a basin spills over its lowest lip.
- Kilns drink, cottages burn.
Feed each kiln its measures and it seals into stone, sending the rest of the flow looking for a new way. One drop on a home ends the pour.
The trail
From the vents to the harbour
There is no menu of levels. The game opens on the hillside itself: one trail of cairns winding down from the vents, each cairn a chart, each one proven solvable before it reached you. Solve a chart and its cairn glows; the cottages beside the path light their lamps, and every few bends a kiln hamlet roars back to life.
6Ashfall Kiln12Pontil Row24Crucible Bend36Frit Mill60Harbour Furnace
Sluice gates
Flip them any time, even mid-pour, to fill one kiln and then swing the flow to the next.
Soft pumice
Lava resting against pale pumice slowly melts straight through it. Plan for the wall that won't last.
Along the way
Seals, sketches and a new glow
The Guild Seal
A chart is solved or it isn't. Light it with no more tools than the guild needed and a mint glass seal is pressed beside its cairn.
Sketches
Stuck on a slope? A sketch sets down a single tool from the guild's own solution and leaves the rest of the rill to you. Hamlets along the trail leave more.
New glow
Seals open honey amber, bluefire and molten gold lava; hamlets open red scoria and moon pumice stone. Pick them from the flue drawer at the top of the slope.