Coming to Steam Early Access

Jarhaven

A tiny island in a jar on your desktop.

A tiny voxel island lives in a glass jar on your desktop. Shape it with sand, water, lava and a digging hand, place homes, and watch a small village work, chat, make friends and grow from Flint Days to Iron Ring, in real time, even while the jar is closed.

Wishlist on Steam(link coming soon) Watch the trailer

Jarhaven is in Early Access: it’s playable and still being built, with new eras and features added over roughly the next two years.

by Jack Wright

Trailer

See the jar come to life

Trailer coming soon

The first Jarhaven trailer is on its way.

The trailer starts muted; use the volume control to turn the sound on.

The game

A whole little world, in a jar

Jarhaven is a small, slow god game that sits on your desktop. A voxel island floats in a glass jar in its own little window, and a village of jar-folk lives there whether you are watching or not.

Shape the island

  • Pour sand and water, dig, raise land, and place homes and village buildings with a simple tool shelf.
  • Lava is part of the toolset, too. It is hot: it can set wooden homes alight, and the villagers will grab buckets to fight the fire and later rebuild. “Safe lava” and “Gentle world” switches let you keep it purely for show.
  • Changed your mind? Undo (one step or five at a time) and Remove take back what you placed.

Watch a village live

  • Villagers have homes, jobs, moods, friendships, small rivalries and the occasional crush. They farm, chop wood, fill the storehouse, gather for evening festivals and settle little squabbles with the help of their leader.
  • Read their chatter in the chat window, check on anyone in the villager list, and answer the letters they sometimes leave in the mailbox.
  • Double-click a villager to see the world from their side for a while.

Real time, real days

  • The jar keeps time even while it is closed. When you come back, a “While you were away” card tells you what happened.
  • Choose a pace for each world: Fast, Medium or Legendary.
  • Keep several named worlds and switch between them from the menu.

Three ages so far

The village grows through Flint Days, Copper Glow and Iron Ring. Homes, the storehouse, the pub and the manor take on a new look in each age, new buildings such as the kiln and the smithy appear, and the fields grow new crops.

On your desktop or full screen

Jarhaven runs in a small borderless window that can stay on top of your other windows, or full screen when you want a closer look.

Screenshots

Peek inside the jar

Real in-game screenshots from the current build. Tap any picture to see it bigger.

  • The island in its glass jar, in Copper Glow, with the tool shelf
    The island in its glass jar, in Copper Glow, with the tool shelf
  • A Flint Days village with villagers and sheep
    A Flint Days village with villagers and sheep
  • Copper Glow homes, with villagers by the well
    Copper Glow homes, with villagers by the well
  • An Iron Ring village with timber and stone homes
    An Iron Ring village with timber and stone homes
  • Iron Ring homes and villagers, up close
    Iron Ring homes and villagers, up close
  • The beaches and coast around the island
    The beaches and coast around the island
  • Pouring water onto the beach from the tool shelf
    Pouring water onto the beach from the tool shelf
  • Lava poured on the shore next to the water
    Lava poured on the shore next to the water

Eras

Watch the ages roll by

Your village grows through the eras. Each one changes how the homes, storehouse, pub and manor look, and what the fields grow. Eras 1 to 3 are in the current build; eras 4 to 6 are coming in Early Access.

  1. Flint Days village, in the game

    Era 1 · In the current build

    Flint Days

    Stone huts among the trees, wild grain and berry bushes.

  2. Copper Glow village, in the game

    Era 2 · In the current build

    Copper Glow

    Thatched clay homes, planted fields and the first kiln.

  3. Iron Ring village, in the game

    Era 3 · In the current build

    Iron Ring

    Timber and stone homes, a smithy and more crops.

  4. Era 4

    Banner & Hearth

    Coming in Early Access

  5. Era 5

    Ink & Lens

    Coming in Early Access

  6. Era 6

    Brass & Steam

    Coming in Early Access

Early Access

Get in early

This is an early version that is still being built. It is fully playable, but there is no music or sound yet, and finishing a village is not possible in this build. New eras and features will be added over roughly the next two years.

Buy direct from this site: £9 (Early Access)

Direct purchases coming soon.

Coming to Steam Early Access (wishlist link coming soon).