Spring is right here! 🌸 (Or not, relying on the place you reside!) And with it, we additionally deliver you a worldbuilding course, a spring-themed problem… and really quickly, the winners of the Worldbuilding Awards! Let’s check out what’s new and what’s coming subsequent.
As at all times, our crew has been busy bettering World Anvil this month!
📚 Worldbuilding programs are dwell!
We created World Anvil that will help you arrange your worldbuilding and be extra productive and environment friendly, however we additionally need you to change into an excellent higher worldbuilder! So we’ve launched our free Worldbuilding 101 course, full with video classes and assignments so you may apply all the things you study.
That is the primary course of many, and you will discover it within the new “Programs” possibility on the highest menu bar:
Be taught extra about programs right here!
👀 Person profile followers are again!
Questioning who’s following you on World Anvil? Now you can see your (and some other person’s) followers and adopted accounts!
- Go to your profile (or anybody else’s)
- Click on on the “Guestbook” tab.
- Followers and adopted customers will seem on the right-hand space of the web page.
🔍 Be taught part search
We’re continuously engaged on bettering our assist sources over at the Be taught part. Now, you will discover the guides your want simpler than ever! Simply press Ctrl+Okay (or the search bar on the prime proper) and sort the function information or tutorial you’re on the lookout for:
❌ Choice to take away social media buttons from Manuscript
Need a cleaner UI in your Manuscripts? When you disabled social media share buttons in your world, Manuscripts will now respect this setting too. Right here’s methods to do it:
- Go to the world configuration web page.
- Click on the Social configuration tab.
- Discover the “Social Media Sharing Widgets” possibility and disable it.
This can take away the “Share to Reddit” and “Share to X” buttons from each your world and all Manuscripts created below that world.
➡️ What’s subsequent in World Anvil growth?
On March sixteenth, throughout Worldbuilding Con, Janet and Dimitris talked concerning the historical past of World Anvil, and in addition what’s subsequent! We have now so many superb upgrades and new options deliberate for World Anvil, and we will’t wait to share them in full with you. For now, watch the video to atone for the most recent details about future developments!
Take a look at the Changelog web page on World Anvil for the total changelog.
🗓️ April occasions
We have now some superior occasions this month, to encourage you and assist you obtain your targets!
- 🏆 fifth Worldbuilding Awards Ceremony: On April fifth, be part of our dwell Awards Ceremony for the World Anvil Worldbuilding Awards! Participate in stream raffles, study concerning the winners first, and chat with our particular friends.
- 🪷 Rituals of Renewal Problem: This month, we’re celebrating spring! Write a couple of custom in your world targeted on renewal, rebirth, or rejuvenation, and get this JOYOUS Badge in your profile! Test the problem web page for extra particulars!
- ✨ Neighborhood Day: this month’s World Anvil Neighborhood Day can be on April twenty sixth! Right here’s the programme:
- 🎓 Sage Masterclass (5pm UK/9am Pacific): This month, Janet & Dimitris check out the world of “New Genesis: Legacy of Creativeness” by Sage_ngloi. They’ll share suggestions on methods to assist new readers fall in love with and dive deep into your individual world! Discover the hyperlink within the Skilled Portal (Sages solely).
- 🙌 Different individuals exploring your world: Journey April (6pm UK/10am Pacific): On this month’s group stream, we’ll chat with EvanBlairArt, creator of Eldara, and Barron and Ademal, creators of Ethnis, about the perfect tricks to create epic adventures in your gamers!
- ☕ Inside Sanctum Espresso: for those who’re a member of the Inside Sanctum, be part of the bi-monthly Espresso, at 10am UK/2am Pacific and 4pm UK/8am Pacific! The hyperlink can be shared on the Discord channel on the day.
Observe us on Twitch to study once we go dwell!
🪐 Worldbuilding Con movies
Hundreds of individuals joined us for Worldbuilding Con to get recommendation from a few of the finest worldbuilders, writers, and recreation designers on the planet! And now, you may watch all of this superb content material on our YouTube channel:
We had a solid of over 20 superb friends, together with Gail Carriger, Ed Greenwood, Tracy Hickman, Celeste Connowitch, Scott Lynch, Andy Regulation, and lots of extra. So test the movies out and energy up your worldbuilding!
And naturally, we’re already planning subsequent 12 months’s Worldbuilding Con, for March 2026! Get reminders about that by signing as much as the e-mail checklist at www.worldbuildingcon.com.
🌟 Neighborhood spotlight
What’s your favourite half about World Anvil? For a lot of, it’s the group (that’s you!), and nothing showcases this higher than this month’s spotlight. The Peculiar Adventures of Ellen is a brief story written collaboratively by 17 Anvilites! Each participant had 48 hours to jot down their section after studying the story as much as that time. Right here’s what Imagica (aka Make lore, not battle), the organizer of this challenge, needed to say:
For over a decade, Kena’an lived in my thoughts and in dusty notes, a world ready to take form. Once I joined World Anvil, I hoped for a technique to arrange the chaos—however what I discovered was a lot extra. My husband jokes that I’ve discovered my tribe right here, and he’s completely proper. This unimaginable group has given me pleasure, collaboration, and unwavering help. It even impressed Let’s Make a Story!, the unofficial problem that introduced so many creators collectively to craft The Peculiar Adventures of Ellen—and I’m thrilled to say it’ll return as an annual custom. Within the months that I’m right here, my world has grown in methods I by no means anticipated, however extra importantly, I’ve discovered buddies, inspiration, and a spot the place creativity thrives. Truthfully, at this level, I’m beginning to suspect World Anvil isn’t only a web site—it’d really be magic.
Wish to see a few of this magic for your self? Take a look at the The Peculiar Adventures of Ellen now!
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