One city, four areas and the roads between. Everyone on a square sees each other; the map stays dark until you walk it. All content is placeholder, and every name except Mudbury is a working name.
City
Mudbury
The first starting city. The Clay Mound in the middle, holy ground where you wake and return; two main streets cross it and run to four gates, and a ring street ties the quarters together. 35 houses, each with one door. A poor quarter to the south-west and nine squares of sewers below. Townsfolk, beggars and rats walk the streets, and guards keep watch.
Places
Monsters
Area
The Meadows
Meadows and pastures, a brook with a ford and a stone bridge, the forest edge, and a cave beneath.
Places
Monsters
Gathering
Area
The Deepwood
Pine and spruce, bogs, a ruin and cliffs. The Wolf Matriarch keeps her den here.
Places
Monsters
Gathering
Area
Mine Mountain
A quarry, mountain paths and cliffs. Below: sealed shafts at three depths that open only when enough nuggets have been struck by everyone together.
Places
Monsters
Gathering
Area
The Burnt Coast
Where a foreign continent struck the coast. In the south, the realm’s burnt harbour, with ships standing on dry ground where the sea was; in the middle, the old seabed and the seam; in the north, the newcomer’s forest edge, burned when it struck. Nothing grows on the burnt ground.
Places
Monsters
Corridors
The Roads
Eight short roads. The East Road (2), the Forest Road (2), the South Road (3) and the North Road (2) lead to the areas. The West Road leaves the city and ends blind, and three roads out of the Burnt Coast end blind too. No monsters, no herbs: just the walk between.
The ground
What you drop stays, until the sweep
- IN GAMEDrop it and it stays
Items dropped on a square stay there, and identical stacks merge. Anyone whose Perception has found an item may pick it up.
- IN GAMEThe daily cleanup
Once a day the ground is swept, and whatever still lies there is destroyed. Monster corpses and what is left in them go too.
- IN GAMEEven the best gear
When a player corpse rots, its contents land unprotected on the ground. If nobody takes them before the cleanup, they are gone.
- IN GAMEOverloaded
Lose a buff or a piece of gear that gave you carry weight and you never drop anything; you just cannot move until you sort it out.
- DECIDEDA city dump
Every city is to have a dump for what you do not want, cannot sell, or want others to have.
The map
Fog of war, and a skull where you should not go
- IN GAMEFog of war
Unexplored squares are invisible; squares one step away open as you pass.
- IN GAMEThresholds
Each region shows “safe from” and “a chance from” levels. A skull appears when you are below.
- IN GAMEAutowalk
Double-click a square or type coordinates; the route walks through explored squares. A quest’s Go there button walks you to where it is turned in.
- IN GAMESymbols & tooltips
One symbol per square (shop, school, guild, bank, inn, workshop, quest board) and a mound on the Clay Mound. Painted symbols are pending.
- IN GAMEPop-out
On desktop the map can open in its own browser window.
- DECIDEDParty markers
Map markers shared within the party.
- IDEAScout’s hunch
At high level, a sense of what moves on the neighbouring squares.
A growing world
Built to grow
- DECIDEDContinents, one per mythology
The world grows by whole continents, each carrying a mythology. The Nordic one comes first, north beyond the Burnt Coast; more can arrive later.
- DECIDEDMore cities, bosses and metals
Themed regions: dark, ice, desert. A hundred cities is a guide value, not a promise. Everything that is killed returns after a while, bosses too.
- DECIDEDCoasts, not water
No water squares will be built, and nobody swims. You fish from a coast or a beach, and boats are a scheduled ferry from a special place.
- IN GAMEA mine that grows
Shafts open when enough nuggets are struck by everyone together, and dug squares stay dug. A dug-out square can become a plot: The Deep Shaft Claim waits behind sealed rock until the shaft is dug out, then goes to whoever rents or buys it first.
- DECIDEDA third as many monsters as squares
The aim, a guide rather than a formula, is about one monster for every three squares in an area, easy to raise when there are many players and to lower when there are few.
- DECIDEDThe world at full scale
Extending the world to full scale is decided, and is to be planned in full before it is built. Candidates: the area north of the Burnt Coast, the capital Aurzem (where it lies is not said), and growing the existing areas.
- IN GAMEThe chronicle
Kills, forgings and other deeds are recorded from day one, so that a chronicle can show first kills and master smiths. A view to read it is decided, not built.
- DECIDEDPlots and building
The first plots are in the game; building on them is not. Houses or towers on a plot (at most one house per square), a lone player’s own little town, forts that clans build, and shops that sell while you are offline.
- DECIDEDCaravans and bandits
Heavy goods must travel. NPC bandits strike caravans even when no player is watching.
- IDEAWeather and your own cave
Weather with effects, and digging a cave of your own.
The premise of the world is on the Lore page. Beyond it, places have only their names (no history, peoples or place-name meanings yet), and every place name except Mudbury and the capital Aurzem is a working name.