This month, now we have highly effective quality-of-life enhancements, an awards ceremony, and we’re launching the sixth Worldbuilding Awards too! Let’s check out what we’ve been busy with up to now few weeks, and what’s coming within the subsequent months.
📝 Fast article creation whereas writing!
When utilizing the Visible Editor, now you can create new articles as you write with the brand new Inline Article Creation characteristic! Simply sort “@” adopted by the title of the article, as you’ll if you happen to have been linking it, and click on the brand new create possibility. A brand new article with that title shall be created within the background and linked there—no extra going forwards and backwards each time you write about an article that doesn’t exist but! Examine the video for particulars:
🔍 New Search updates
The world search has been up to date to make sorting via your world’s contents simpler than ever! The outcomes at the moment are organzed in tabs for various kinds of content material, and you may entry all entities (timelines, maps, and many others.) from the search panel with out having to open the facet menu panels. That is what it seems like:
Examine easy methods to search your world for extra particulars on easy methods to use this characteristic.
🫳 Handbook save is again as an possibility!
After listening to a number of suggestions about this, we’ve re-implemented guide save on articles as an possibility. Autosaving would be the default possibility, however now you can go to your account options and disable autosave. Word that, if guide save is lively, autosave is not going to set off and you’ll lose work if you happen to shut the tab with out clicking the save button!
Due to all of the Alchemists who helped take a look at each guide save and the brand new search!
⚙️ Different minor enhancements
We made a bunch of minor enhancements to make the general expertise smoother, together with:
- When enhancing an article, click on on a tag to instantly get an inventory of all different articles with the identical tag. Examine the information to tags for extra info.
- Should you create a submit within the international group feed and fix an article, solely public and printed articles shall be obtainable (in any other case you’d be posting inaccessible hyperlinks!)
- Mounted a bug that made article URLs not replace correctly when the article title was edited.
And extra! As at all times, the full changelog has an inventory of all updates and fixes as they’re deployed.
👀 Small UI replace coming
The brand new model makes all of your choices obtainable always. A few of you identified that the brand new Article & World Supervisor hides the highest bar together with many helpful instruments and hyperlinks! We’re fixing that with this replace.
You’ll even have extra vertical display house on your work! And similar to with the left sidebar, you may utterly collapse the brand new menu with the little arrow button on the backside.
On the cellular optimized model, the place horizontal display house is restricted, all of the choices shall be obtainable while you click on the profile image circle on the highest proper.
When’s this popping out?
We count on this replace to come back out within the coming weeks (in all probability throughout February), though it may be delayed if it wants a bit extra time to be carried out correctly. As at all times, your feedback and suggestions drive our choices in growing World Anvil—we all know you care passionately about this software program and the group!
Examine the changelog for the total record of modifications
🗓️ February occasions
Right here’s all the things occurring this month!
- 🏆 Worldbuilding Awards Submission Interval: Within the Worldbuilding Awards, we, the group, and a panel of exterior judges will select one of the best worldbuilding amongst all contributors. And submissions begin on February seventh! Winners get a bodily trophy, precedence when that includes group works, and publicity to industry-leading professionals like Tracy Hickman and Brian McClellan. Examine the problem web page for particulars.
- 🔥 WorldEmber Awards Ceremony: Be taught if you happen to received a WorldEmber prize or a raffle within the Awards Ceremony on February seventh! Should you can’t make it, the winners shall be printed later too.
- 🙌 Speaking WAWA with the group: This month’s group stream, we’ll chat with Anvilites from the group about their experiences within the Awards and why you must participate! Tune in on February twenty first at 6pm UK/10am Pacific, on our Twitch channel.
- 🎓 Sage Roundtable: This one sparks pleasure. This month, we’ll discuss discovering (and refinding!) the enjoyment in your inventive practices. You’ll discover the hyperlink within the Skilled Portal.
- ☕ Interior Sanctum Espresso: if you happen to’re a member of the Interior Sanctum, be a part of the bi-monthly Espresso on February twenty first, at 10am UK/2am Pacific and 4pm UK/8am Pacific! Dimitris and Janet shall be discussing the current modifications to the positioning, gathering your suggestions, and sharing secret new tasks! The hyperlink shall be shared on the Discord channel on the day.
🏆 Worldbuilding Awards
The submissions interval for the sixth World Anvil Worldbuilding Awards opens on February seventh! You’ve till March 1st to submit your greatest worldbuilding and have an opportunity to be acknowledged as one of the best work of the yr! And, if you happen to get nominated to one of many 5 main classes, you’ll be judged by {industry} consultants together with Tracy Hickman and Brian McClellan. Examine the problem web page for the total particulars!
🔜 Upcoming Occasions on World Anvil!
Right here’s an inventory of our upcoming challenges and group occasions, that can assist you prepare:
- February: Submit your entries for the sixth Worldbuilding Awards.
- March: Worldbuilding Showdown flash problem! Particulars shall be revealed later.
- April: Journey April will return!
All our challenges launch first on group reside stream, so comply with us on Twitch to get the information first!
📹 YouTube video round-up
Want a bit push to enhance your worldbuilding? Or need some recommendation from knowledgeable worldbuilder? Listed here are our newest YouTube movies:
- The best way to combine fantasy and thriller: How does fantasy have an effect on the thriller story construction? On this video, we discuss creator Leah Cutter about this style combine!
- Tolkien sizzling takes! Was Gollum man? Ought to Legolas have been a girl? Janet and David Inexperienced of the British Fantasy Society discuss their spiciest Tolkien takes!
- The best way to construct a comfy fantasy setting: On this extract from Worldbuilding Con 2025, Travis Baldree, Sarah Beth Durst, Caitlin Rozakis, and Yilin Wang break down what makes cozy fantasy really feel cozy.
- Blow up your historical empires! Destroying your historical civilizations is a good way so as to add an internet of mysteries and unanswered inquiries to your world! Learn to make your gamers wish to discover your world on this video.
- Worldbuilding in DnD? Don’t begin the place you assume: Typical TTRPG worldbuilding strategies find yourself with generic worlds filled with contradictions that require a ton of upkeep. Right here’s easy methods to create a world that feels thrilling, mysterious, and related!
Subscribe to our YouTube channel to remain on high of all our newest movies.
🌟 Neighborhood spotlight
This month, we’re delving into an award-winning world with a map… that additionally received an award in final yr’s Worldbuilding Awards! This map not solely seems fairly, but it surely’s additionally extremely informative and really well-organized! Try the Cursed Kingdom of Demenore by Hatwolf, winner of the Cartography Award 2025.
And right here’s what Hatwolf needed to say about their world of After Silence and the map of Demenore:
Once I started creating the world of After Silence, my purpose was to subvert acquainted fantasy conventions, like questioning who’s labelled a villain, who’s allowed to be a protagonist, and whose tales are value telling. The map of Demenore is an extension of that concept: a complete realm of individuals struck by a horrible curse, but pressured to maintain residing and to seek out their approach again towards one thing resembling normality.
The idea of cursed beastfolk who merely wish to return to their lives fascinates me. By way of its many areas, the map tells the story of three eras: life earlier than the curse, the unfold of the curse, and the world left behind afterward. It explores how cultures change, how individuals adapt, and the way they endure loss, grief, and tragedy.
To have this idea seen, understood, and acknowledged means extra to me than I can simply specific. The work itself by no means actually stops. I’m at present growing each a ebook set on this world and a visible novel. However being nominated by World Anvil, and finally successful the award, was one thing I by no means anticipated. It has been an unbelievable encouragement that I’m on the best path. And I’m actually grateful for that.
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