Prepare for a number of useful UI updates to enhance your WA expertise, and particulars for our on-line worldbuilding Summer time Camp problem… as a result of June is PREP MONTH!
✨ New proper sidebar menu
The brand new sidebar on the fitting offers you entry to all of the account-level choices, such because the Group portal, the Information, the Be taught documentation, and extra. It’s just like the previous high menu bar, however moved to the fitting! Because of this variation, it’s now at all times accessible and doesn’t overlap with something. Right here’s a fast video that reveals the earlier than and after:
🕸️ New Diplomacy Webs
Create visible and interactive relationships between your factions, nations, companies, and different organizations! Embody them in any article to offer your readers (and your self) a fast reference of inter-faction politics. This characteristic was beforehand accessible within the previous edit interface, however is now accessible within the new editor too! To get began, edit an Group article and click on the brand new Diplomacy button within the backside toolbar, or examine the information to Diplomacy Webs for extra particulars.
📂 Automated class order
Tidy up your categorized articles with this new choice! With the brand new “Order by” button within the Article Administration tab, you’ll be able to simply order your articles alphabetically, by creation date, or by final replace. Modifications are mirrored in each edit and consider modes! Verify the Be taught information for extra particulars.
🎨 CSS editor enhancements
The stay CSS editor in view mode has obtained a number of up to date to enhance your CSS enhancing expertise. It now helps syntax highlighting, error checking, autocomplete, and resizing the editor window. To get began, view your world and click on the artwork palette icon on the fitting aspect of your display! Verify the information to CSS for particulars.
⚙️Different minor enhancements
We’ve been arduous at work with different minor enhancements and bug fixes too!
- When enhancing an article (within the article supervisor or within the fast edit modal), now you can collapse the article sidebar panels on the fitting! So if you wish to give attention to the principle article content material—or simply have a small display—now you can optimize your display area.
- A refreshed Assist Middle modal: click on the query mark icon on the fitting sidebar to see it.
- We additionally fastened a number of bugs, together with:
- The order of classes and articles is now the identical in edit as in view mode.
- We fastened a bug that prevented customers from deleting feedback in Manuscripts.
- Mounted a difficulty that prevented handbook save from correctly saving some newly created articles.
Verify the changelog for the complete checklist of modifications
🗓️ June occasions
Right here’s every little thing occurring this month!
- 🍨 Summer time Camp Preparation: In July, we’ll problem you to reply between 8 and 32 prompts in your world in one in all our major worldbuilding occasions of the yr. So this month, it’s time to prepare! Verify the problem particulars.
- 🎒 Hitchhiker’s Information winners: On June twentieth, we’ll reveal the winners of the Hitchhiker’s Information to Your World problem, chosen by Mur Lafferty and David inexperienced! Don’t miss the stream on our Twitch channel at 6pm UK/10am Pacific time.
- 🎓 Sage Seminar: Constructing a Queerer World. On June thirteenth, Janet will maintain her Sage Seminar about exploring alternatives to “construct queer” into the basics of your setting, utilizing each historic and fictional examples! She’ll additionally go over alternatives to discover themes of discovered household, identification, and self-expression. Discover the hyperlink within the Skilled Portal.
- ☕ Internal Sanctum Espresso: When you’re a member of the Internal Sanctum, be part of the bi-monthly Espresso on June thirteenth, at 4pm UK/8am Pacific! Dimitris and Janet shall be discussing current updates, gathering your suggestions, and sharing secret new tasks! The hyperlink shall be shared on the Discord channel on the day.
🔜 Upcoming Occasions on World Anvil!
Right here’s a listing of our upcoming challenges and group occasions, that can assist you prepare:
- June: Summer time Camp prep problem. Verify the small print now!
- July: Summer time Camp! Reply wherever between 8 and 40 worldbuilding prompts based mostly on 4 themes. Click on for more information.
- August: After a marathon month of worldbuiding in July, in August we sit back with our Studying Problem. Transfer over, trashy seaside novels, as a result of this month we’re taking a while to take pleasure in worldbuilding from the World Anvil multiverse.
All our challenges launch first on group stay stream, so observe us on Twitch to get the information first!
💡 Do you know…?
📹 YouTube video round-up
Want somewhat push to enhance your worldbuilding? Or need some recommendation from an expert worldbuilder? Listed below are our newest YouTube movies:
- 8 methods to make use of tarot in D&D: Tarot decks are stunning, and so they can enrich your setting with mysticism and unpredictability. However except a recreation particularly requires a tarot deck, it’s arduous to know what to do with one. This video affords 8 enjoyable and attention-grabbing methods to include tarot into your gameplay!
- How one can create nested quests: Most GMs reuse the identical plots with out even realizing it, which results in predictable adventures! However when you find out how RPG quest sorts really work, you’ll be able to nest and mix them in attention-grabbing methods utilizing the facility of story construction.
- What’s the J-Curve Speculation? And what the 5 pillars of revolutions? That is what this video is about! Discover ways to create sensible revolutions and the formulation for toppling authoritarian regimes in fiction.
Subscribe to our YouTube channel to remain on high of all our newest movies.
🌟 Group spotlight: Keystone
This month, uncover the ladies who inherit the facility of a planet within the sci-fi universe of Solaris. “Keystone” is a ravishing description of a rank that carries immense energy and obligation, and it was chosen because the Greatest Article within the Worldbuilding Awards 2026 by creator CL Clark. Try Keystone!
Right here’s what nnie, its creator, needed to say about her work:
Successful one thing as vital as Greatest Article is all of the sweeter when it’s with an article I’m this happy with. Keystones are one of many core ideas for Solaris, enjoying with the thought of the Planetary Guardians of Sailor Moon. I used to be so fascinated by their pasts as Queens and Princesses of their planets, and I needed to think about what a totally inhabited Sol System may very well be like.
I had so many issues I needed to discover with this. The fantasy of discovering you’re the chosen one, with skills in contrast to anybody else, and perhaps even turning into a queen within the course of! But in addition the ways in which energy, in case you wanna wield it responsibly, comes with much more restrictions.
This text was additionally a private problem: I needed to indicate I might write an article that was stood out with none artwork or fancy code. Now Keystones has been named the Greatest Article of 2026! I really feel like if you’ve obtained a cool concept, you develop it so you actually know what you’re speaking about, and then you definately present what affect that idea has in your setting, you find yourself with a killer article you could be happy with it doesn’t matter what.
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