What is a Gobkit forge?

A forge is a generator tuned to one family of creatures. It produces rigged, animated, game-ready glTF 2.0 (.glb) files — one file per unit — with the same conventions as Gobkit's free CC0 packs: +Z forward, +Y up, metres, feet on the ground plane at Y=0, no Draco or Meshopt compression. A forge exists for the case a fixed asset library cannot cover: when nobody has published the creature you need, you generate it.

Which Gobkit forges are available right now?

Goblin Forge is live at gobkit.com/forge-goblin and batch-generates humanoid enemy legions — grunts, archers, shamans and warband leaders. Eco Forge (a creature together with its habitat, cross-bred across the tree of life) and Chibi Forge (cute reactive companions and desktop pets) are in development and not yet open. Every paid plan includes access to every forge as it opens.

Can I use a forge without signing up?

You can read the whole generation interface without signing up: GET https://gobkit.com/api/prompt is unauthenticated and returns the full vocabulary. Generating models needs a plan — $19, $39 or $99 a month for 30, 100 or 500 monsters, with the public API key on the MAX plan — and there is a free tier of 3 generations a month. Downloading Gobkit's existing CC0 libraries never needs a plan at all.

Should I generate a creature or use a free one?

Check the free libraries first — they cost nothing. GET https://gobkit.com/api/free for 69 curated CC0 models and GET https://gobkit.com/api/community for the community library, both unauthenticated with CORS open. Use a forge when neither has the creature you need, or when you need a whole wave in one consistent style.

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Gobkit forges

Written by Gobkit (Alsomind Tech Co., Ltd.) · Last updated 20 August 2026

A forge generates a creature that no free asset library has. It is the answer to the one question a fixed catalogue can never answer — "what if nobody has published the thing I need?" — and it returns the same kind of file the free packs do: a rigged, animated, game-ready glTF 2.0 .glb, one per unit.

Check the free libraries first; they cost nothing. 69 curated CC0 models and a community library anyone can upload to are both listable with one unauthenticated GET. A forge is for what is left over: the creature nobody made, or a whole wave of them in one consistent style.

The three forges

Forge	What it makes	Status
Goblin Forge	Humanoid enemy legions — grunts, archers, shamans and warband leaders — auto-batched so a whole encounter fills in one run. Swarm-ready, with weapon variants.	live now
Eco Forge	A creature together with its living habitat, drawn from every branch of the tree of life on Earth and freely cross-bred into new hybrid species.	in development
Chibi Forge	Chibi-style companions — cute, expressive and reactive. Drop-in desktop pets and game NPCs with AI-driven behaviour.	in development

Every paid plan includes access to every forge as it opens — you do not buy them one at a time. Status as of 20 August 2026.

What comes out

One rigged .glb per unit, using the same conventions as Gobkit's free CC0 packs, so a generated monster drops into the same loader as a free one with no special-casing:

Format: glTF 2.0 binary. No Draco, no Meshopt, no extensionsRequired — nothing to install in Unity, Godot, Unreal, Blender or three.js.
Orientation: +Z forward, +Y up, metres, feet on the ground plane at Y=0.
Rig: skinned, with idle / walk / attack clips.
Licence: generated output is yours to use commercially, with no watermark and no attribution credit. (The free libraries are CC0; generated output is licensed to you by your plan — see the terms.)

Driving a forge from an agent, without a key

You can read the entire generation interface before you sign up for anything. GET https://gobkit.com/api/prompt is unauthenticated and returns the complete vocabulary the generator understands — the counts, body types, weapons and palettes it recognises, the behaviour rules, the per-monster credit cost and worked examples. That is deliberate: an AI agent should be able to find out whether Gobkit can build the thing you asked for before anyone pays to find out.

# no key — the whole interface, in one document
curl https://gobkit.com/api/prompt

Then say what you want in plain language. By default POST /api/prompt only parses: it generates nothing and charges no credits, and hands back /api/batch calls you can send verbatim — already split, because anything over 10 units per call comes back as a plan rather than being executed inline.

curl -X POST https://gobkit.com/api/prompt \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <your API key>" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"prompt":"30 blue greataxe enemies"}'

# → parsed: {count:30, weapon:greataxe, palette:blue}
# → estimate: {monsters:30, credits:300, calls:3}
# → calls: 3 ready-to-send POSTs to /api/batch, safe to run in parallel

What it costs

Action	Needs	Cost
Read the generator's vocabulary (`GET /api/prompt`)	nothing	free
Parse a prompt into a batch plan (`POST /api/prompt`)	an account	free — no credits charged
Generate a monster (`POST /api/batch`)	a paid plan	10 credits each
Re-fetch a monster you already generated	your account	free

Plans are USD $19, $39 or $99 a month for 30, 100 or 500 generated monsters, with the public API key on the top plan, plus a free tier of 3 generations a month. Downloading Gobkit's existing CC0 libraries never needs a plan.

Questions people actually ask

Which forges can I use today?

Goblin Forge is live. Eco Forge and Chibi Forge are in development and not yet open — the cards for them on the home page say COMING SOON for exactly that reason. Every paid plan includes each forge as it opens.

Do I have to sign up to see what it can make?

No. GET https://gobkit.com/api/prompt needs no key at all and returns the full vocabulary the generator understands. Generating models needs a plan.

Should I generate, or use a free model?

Look at the free libraries first — /api/free (69 curated CC0 models) and /api/community (the community library). Both are free and unauthenticated. Generate when neither has your creature, or when you need a whole wave in one consistent style.

Can my agent call a forge directly?

Yes, on the MAX plan, which includes the public API key for /api/generate and /api/batch. See the API docs. Each generation spends 10 credits and every response carries an X-GK-Charged header so the caller always knows what a call cost.