The Legend of Rah
Spellgrove
A world built from 64 elements — and whatever you make of them.
A world where everything — trees, towers, dragons, you — is made from the same small set of ingredients. I'm building it in the open.
You build things inside the game, not with mods or a level editor — a cauldron, a spell book, ingredients with names like eye of newt. Underneath all of it, 64 elements, one per I Ching hexagram — the ten thousand things of the Dao De Jing, grown from a handful of fundamentals. I'm aiming for December 2026, on Android and iOS.
Where things actually stand
This is early, and it is out. An early version of the game is on Google Play now, and the iPhone and iPad version is with Apple for review. It grows week by week — the deliverables log is the record — and the proper launch is aimed at December 2026. What's in it today: a shared village, a home of your own, ingredients to collect, the first spells, a golem mini-game, and a game of tag.
The lore lays out what's settled, what's still just a direction, and what's genuinely open. Elements combining into items is the stable core and hasn't moved. The witch-and-cauldron register (a spell book, ingredients like eye of newt) is the current direction, not landed. How ingredients actually combine — laid out in a pattern, or dropped into a cauldron one at a time — isn't decided yet.
Latest deliverable
Deliverable #43 · 2026-10-28
Furniture, twelve Persian rugs and Madame Zahra — and everything on a cell at once
Eight pieces of furniture for your home and twelve Persian rugs, each picked up, carried and put down like the chest — a rug carried rolled up and unrolling across the floor away from you. Madame Zahra, a wolf-faced rug seller, trades five dyes for a rug of your choice; the dyes burst out of Cinder Hollow's new Moon Well when you win it; Hob grew; the villagers' homes are furnished; and a step onto a cell now picks up everything on it. On the staging server, coming to everyone with the houses.
See the full deliverables log →
Find your way in
- Deliverables — the weekly build-in-public log. Start here.
- Epics — every big idea, where it stands, and what has been decided.
- Lore — the world and the elemental system, for the curious.
- Agent Artisans — how this is actually being built (AI agents, this very site).
- About — who's making this, and why.