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Build a world with your hands.
I'm making a fantasy MMO RPG for Quest and PC. Explore a world full of strange creatures, hunt down bosses, ride almost anything and build whatever you like. It's in alpha, and everything on here is from the actual build.
Meet the cave bear
The cave bear roams the redwoods hunting goblins. It picks one out, chases it down and eats it. It isn't after you, but if you get in its way it'll go for you instead. Be careful with this one.
It's the first of the bosses. Every biome is getting one that roams it, and they won't come looking for you early on. You'll have to go find them.
Read about bossesA generated world with caves, lava tubes and a volcano. 89 creatures, 13 you can ride. Building, crafting, seven skills, bows and spells, a little village with a market, and a first quest near spawn. Runs on Quest 3 and desktop.
The world
The terrain isn't a heightmap, so you get overhangs, caves and proper cliffs. Biomes blend into each other: redwoods into meadow, meadow into dry lanes, snow up into ice. Days are 24 minutes, weather rolls in, and lava hitting water turns to Blackstone.
Grass and flowers
The meadows are full of grass and flowers now, and they're cheap enough to draw that I could go heavy on them. Pick grass for fibre and seeds, flowers for petals. The meadow remembers what you picked.
Read about the worldBuilding
Pickaxe for stone, axe for wood. In VR you can swing for real and break things with your own arm, or just click like on PC. Up to you. Your health sits on your wrist and your bag opens in front of you, so there's no HUD in the way.
Crafting is still early, but there are 241 recipes across six benches, from planks to a clockwork songbird. The plan is that quests and exploring unlock new recipes, along with the ingredients behind them.
Read about craftingLight
Light comes from the actual blocks. Sun only gets in where there's a real gap, like a cave mouth, a doorway or a window you cut. Under a roof it goes properly dark, so at night you'll want a fire going.
Read about light and weatherNew this week
I post updates as I go. Here's what's landed lately.
Lava tubes
Tunnels between big chambers: a dome, a rift with a rock bridge, a pillared hall, a crater and a stalactite grotto. Lava near the volcano spits at you if you get too close.
Bows and spells
Shortbow, crossbow and blowpipe, plus fire, frost and arcane magic. Spells use mana, swings use stamina.
First quest
Mira's slimes got out. Fix her fence, carry them home, run an errand for Tobin, and walk away with your first Glints.
The village
Villagers behind the arena run a little food works: slimecubes, roast frost yak, cloudram dumplings. It all ends up on the market stalls.
New creatures
A cave bear that hunts goblins (hit it hard and it drops them), a canopy monkey you can ride up the trees, and a paper golem that carries you through the tubes.
Maps
A minimap and a full map that fill in as you explore, shared with everyone in your world.
The inhabitants
89 species in so far, 51 of them friendly. They all sleep, wander and react their own way. The glimmermoth was the first one I made and it's still my favourite.
Farm animals give milk, wool, eggs, silk and truffles. Hostiles have attack patterns you can learn.
Meet all 89Lunch
Three meals so far: slimecube bento, cloudram dumplings and grilled frost yak. Hold the dish in one hand and eat with the other. Anyone nearby can watch you eat, crumbs and all.
Read about farm animals and food- GlimmermothLands on a still hand
- KitsunaFollows you, scares hostiles
- PuffkinBounces, floats down
- MossmooGives milk
- FrostyakRideable pack animal
- DriftwhaleDrifts over the trees
- CragjawA boulder that unfolds
- TrollRare, slow, one huge smash
Mounts and skills
13 creatures take a saddle so far, and each one does something. The frost yak carries extra bag space, the loamsnout digs for you, the skymanta glides. If it looks like you can ride it, you probably can.
Seven skills level up as you use them: mining, woodcutting, digging, swords, axes, unarmed and riding. No cap. Rare finds come in green, blue and purple.
Read about mounts
Your character
Nineteen kins so far: human, elf, orc, oni, dryad, and bear, beetle, cow, deer, fox, frog, harpy, owl, moth, sheep, spore, stone, scale and sea folk. Pick your colours, eyes and hair, then mix outfits and armour however you like. Everyone's the same height, so nobody gets stuck in a doorway.
Read about kinsPlaying together
Worlds run on a server, so one friend on a laptop and another in a headset can build the same house. Claim land, share chests, chat. The arena settlement already has 19 villagers going about their day.
Read about multiplayerLatest post
What changed this week. Older posts are on the blog.
Sunlight built from the gridShadows, sky exposure, sun beams and a day cycle, all derived from the voxel data rather than a volumetric fog pass.Read the post
The plan
Next up: a boss for every biome, calming stones to tame what you beat, weapons that level with you, goblin rider races, recipes you unlock by questing, farming, fishing, housing, roads, ruins and goblin camps. Mods and your own servers from day one.
X is the best place to follow along. I post clips as I make things.