
COMMUNITY INTEGRATION
Air DeliveryArchipelago randomizer mod
Deliver mail across a floating island while other worlds send your packages and movement tools. This compact PICO-8 metroidvania runs in a browser through a dedicated Archipelago adaptation, separate from the original cartridge.
Maintained by qwint
- Reviewed build
- 0.1.6
- OS
- Browser
- Last reviewed
- 10 Sept 2026
- Installation
- Manual installation
How the game changes
- Twenty-seven checks cover finding packages, talking to recipients and completing deliveries. The adaptation adds conversation and delivery checks even where the original game did not award an item.
- Nine named packages and four tools are progression items. Claw opens climbing routes, Fly enables aerial travel, Key opens the locked route and Drill reaches buried or obstructed paths. Their arrival order changes your route through the island.
- Return to the air balloon to finish your journey. The world models victory behind Drill and Fly; delivering every package is not a separate configurable completion requirement.
- Feeling of Satisfaction fills the remaining item slots. The reviewed world has no game-specific difficulty, check-density, trap or DeathLink options; a player YAML is still needed to participate.
- Move and climb with the arrow keys, jump with Z and interact with X. The browser export includes touch controls, but its Archipelago message panel is not shown by the mobile layout.
Before you start
- Use air_delivery.apworld and the dedicated client from release 0.1.6, not the unmodified Lexaloffle cartridge. The release guide allows opening the extracted client's index.html in a browser; the author also hosts a playable client.
- The author states that the APWorld's hidden auto-launch component needs Archipelago newer than 0.5.0. The published archive has no archipelago.json manifest; future Archipelago compatibility is not guaranteed by its release number.
- Enter the room host, port, exact slot name and optional password. The hosted client now exposes the password field added in 0.1.6, despite the release's earlier warning that the website update might be delayed. Hosted bytes can change separately from a tagged download.
- Reset the game before switching slots: the guide warns that inventory and sent locations otherwise carry over. Reconnecting can replay received item flags, but this review does not establish durable restoration of the full game state after closing the page. Stay connected while collecting checks.
- Do not put a room password in a shared URL. Auto-launch and optional connection parameters can include credentials in the address, browser history or logs. Enter it in the password field instead and use a trusted room.
- The downloaded page still loads archipelago.js 2.0.2 from unpkg.com. It is not a fully offline package. The bundled optional host.py listens on all interfaces at port 80; it is not required by the documented open-index.html route and should not be exposed to other networks.
- Source review found that the Friend Freight alternative-route rule closes over its last alternative, so generation can require Fly even where Claw works in the game. Treat the published logic as more restrictive at that check, not as a physical barrier. No independent full playthrough was performed.
- Version 0.1.6 fixes an unnecessary Claw requirement around the key-door route. A remaining suggestion asks for more claw-less sequence-break logic. Browser chat renders text rather than interpreting it as HTML, but its message history grows without a visible cap; very long busy sessions may become heavier.