Fractal Block World
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40 free Fractal Block World trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Fractal Block World is one of the strangest games on Steam: an exploration shooter in which every block hides a smaller world of blocks, and the way forward is usually inward. It was built over many years by one developer and a small group of helpers, on an engine written from scratch, and it has earned a devoted following of mappers, speedrunners and modders. This quiz covers the whole of it: how the world works and what the main quest asks of you, the weapons and their odder firing modes, the stations where gold changes hands, the monster manual's most memorable creatures, the console and its cheats, and the history that links the game to the dawn of block-based shooters. The questions suit anyone who has spent an evening lost somewhere deep in inner space. Each explanation adds a fact from the official manuals or the developer's own notes, so even veterans should leave knowing something new.
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Q 01Infiniminer, made by Zach Barth after working with Fractal Block World's developer, inspired which hit block game?
Minecraft
Minecraft took its blocky look from Infiniminer, which Barth built after abandoning Infinifrag 2, the shooter both men had worked on in college.
Q 02What does Fractal Block World's creator say pushed him, around 2012, to commit to coding the game?
A dream
A dream of drifting through one of the game's areas, growing ever smaller, had him waking up determined to build it.
Q 03At certain locations in Fractal Block World, what can a player do to travel deeper into the fractal?
Shrink
Shrink enough times and a player becomes extremely small: the store page says shrinking 100 times over is easy, and other spots make the player larger again.
Q 04Which old-fashioned tools does Fractal Block World's store page recommend for mapping out its world?
Pencil and paper
Pencil and paper are advised because the main quest winds through mazes, scavenger hunts and hordes of monsters.
Q 05Which difficulty setting in Fractal Block World is represented by a picture of a bunny?
Tranquility
Tranquility wears the bunny, while Normal gets a purple cat and Gateway a bridge; every setting harder than Normal needs a password.
Q 06Pressing T in Fractal Block World triggers which power, gathering every visible item within a certain radius?
Telekinesis
Telekinesis is bound to T by default, though every control in the game can be rebound from the options menu.
Q 07According to Fractal Block World's own store description, how does the player move through its world?
Flying
Flying uses Space to rise and Left Shift to sink, and a rocket mode cuts drag for faster travel.
Q 08Which weapon is the only one a player can use at the very start of Fractal Block World?
The plasma gun
The plasma gun is also the only weapon whose ammo regenerates by itself; each of the other nine unlocks with its first upgrade.
Q 09Which material names the strongest armor pickup in Fractal Block World, filling armor to its maximum?
Jade
Jade armor fills the gauge to tenfold a player's basic health, and the manual itself calls it sick.
Q 10In what kind of area, one the player must work out how to leave, does Fractal Block World begin?
A forest
A forest whose trees can be explored from the inside is the starting area, and only beyond it do the procedurally generated regions open up.
Q 11Who is credited on Steam as the developer of Fractal Block World, having written its engine himself?
Dan Hathaway
Dan Hathaway worked on the engine for years before a first public demo in 2018, with a small team supplying artwork and ideas.
Q 12Fractal Block World first went on sale in June 2021 under which Steam program?
Early Access
Early Access lasted four months: combat arrived that August, and the full release followed in October 2021.
Q 13Finding an Inner Core deep in inner space completes which main quest in Fractal Block World?
Rescuing a friend
Rescuing a friend is the stated goal, though the store page stresses that where to go along the way is up to the player.
Q 21Which 1995 game with six degrees of freedom does Fractal Block World's developer list among its influences?
Descent
Descent is the comparison game designer Frank Lantz reached for too, pointing to the free movement in every direction and the swarms of hostile enemies.
Q 22In which programming language did its developer write the engine and game code of Fractal Block World?
C++
C++ here is built with the MinGW compiler, which the developer switched to in 2022 for better performance.
Q 23Which scripting language do modders use to build custom worlds and packages for Fractal Block World?
Lua
Lua scripts can generate whole worlds, and newcomers are told to start by copying the blank package that ships with the game.
Q 14Besides gold, which collectibles does Fractal Block World scatter through its world for players to find?
Trophies
Trophies grew in number for the full release, and pressing F5 lists every one a player has collected.
Q 15Which of a Fractal Block World player's defenses absorbs all incoming damage until it is completely empty?
Shield
Shield recharges by itself, and only once it is drained do hits start eating into armor and health.
Q 16Sell stations in Fractal Block World come in three colors; which color is the rarest and pays best?
Green
Green sell stations are rare and pay the best prices, while the common red ones pay the worst; players can even sell surplus health there.
Q 17What can a player drop in Fractal Block World, at a cost in gold, to avoid getting lost?
A marker
A marker comes in two kinds: a short one that fades after three hours and a long one that stays forever and can hold a note.
Q 18Which key opens the command console in Fractal Block World, where cheats and commands are typed?
Tilde
Tilde opens a console the developer wrote from scratch, with commands shaped like Lisp-style S-expressions.
Q 19Which console cheat in Fractal Block World toggles the ability to move through walls?
noclip
noclip works only after the secret cheat password is entered, and the manual warns that cheating can spoil a first playthrough.
Q 20Fractal Block World's manual says the cheat-code password comes from which subject, its developer's research field?
Mathematics
Mathematics is the developer's profession, with teaching and research listed on his site, and clues to the password are hidden in the game's world.
Q 24Which Fractal Block World weapon has a Vampire mode that returns a quarter of its damage as health?
The railgun
The railgun in Vampire mode hits half as hard as usual, yet the manual says that in some areas a player may want to use it constantly.
Q 25The minigun's secondary fire in Fractal Block World does no impact damage; what effect does it deliver instead?
Poison
Poison from one secondary shot lasts 10 seconds and deals as much damage as 20 primary shots.
Q 26Which Fractal Block World weapon mode hurts its own user, dealing the player 50 damage with every shot?
Laser Disco
Laser Disco costs eight ammo a shot, and a kill with it sends ice beams at every nearby monster of the same size.
Q 27Which cannon mode in Fractal Block World fires only once every five seconds but hits the hardest?
The Judge
The Judge deals a hundredfold the damage of the starting Blunderbuss, and its ball chains on to the next enemy after a kill.
Q 28Which Fractal Block World mode strips out every weapon and monster, leaving pure exploration?
Genesis
Genesis was the only version sold when the game first reached Steam, because engine problems had forced the combat out.
Q 29Which classic fractal shape forms a whole area of Fractal Block World, with hidden towns 100 levels down?
Menger sponge
Menger sponge areas, built on a cube bored through with ever-smaller holes, were expanded in 2022 with monsters that toughen the deeper a player goes.
Q 30Which rank names the strongest monster in Fractal Block World's Pirate class?
Captain
Captain has 31,000 hit points, and like every pirate it drops a huge box of homing rocket ammo.