This previous month we’ve launched a TON of main updates to make your worldbuilding expertise even higher! Plus, November is the month of writing (in NovelEmber)… and making ready for WorldEmber! Let’s have a look at every thing new this month.
📁 Folders all over the place!
Now you can arrange EVERYTHING into folders! Pictures, timelines, maps, historic occasions—you identify it. So everytime you entry one of many aspect menus, you may have every thing neat and tidy! Right here’s a fast begin:
- Click on on a aspect menu (akin to ⌛Timelines).
- On the backside of the aspect panel, click on “Add Folder”.
- With the folder created, drag and drop timelines into the folder!
Plus, you may have folders inside different folders for optimum folderception! Examine the way to use folders for extra data!
📒 Pocket book replace
The Pocket book is now extra highly effective than ever. Pull it down by clicking “Pocket book” on the prime with out ever leaving the web page. Arrange your notes in sections, color-code them, and even cut up your ideas into a number of notebooks. Plus, this replace introduces superior options like notice metadata and notice templates to take your note-taking to the subsequent stage! Examine the information to the pocket book for particulars.
🖼️ Picture Supervisor replace
The Picture Supervisor additionally obtained a MASSIVE improve! We’ve launched folders (along with galleries), all picture modifying choices are actually higher organized and accessible, and it’s extra mobile-friendly than earlier than. Examine the information to photographs for particulars!
📝 Article Supervisor and Interim Desktops
The brand new Article Handle is the brand new all-in-one answer to handle AND edit your articles and classes, in addition to world settings, all from one place! Simply bounce between articles, and toggle between view and edit mode, with out ready for web page reloads or utilizing the search. And, since this replace integrates the performance of the previous world dashboard, that’s been changed by Interim Desktops. There, you’ll find numerous widgets with helpful details about your world—and is an indication of many cool options to come back! We’re at present gathering quite a lot of suggestions from the neighborhood and we have already got a plan for a lot of extra enhancements to those options based mostly in your feedback—regulate the changelog for particulars!
Examine the discharge weblog for particulars, and the Be taught information for assist!
Try the Changelog web page on World Anvil for the complete changelog.
🗓️ November occasions
We now have SO MANY THINGS occurring this month! Right here’s all our occasions for November!
- ✍️ NovelEmber: This month, we problem you to jot down 50k phrases of prose… or go insurgent and set your individual objective! Examine the problem web page.
- 🔥 WorldEmber Prep: WorldEmber is coming (our annual December worldbuilding marathon problem, see final 12 months’s occasion web page right here). However for this 12 months’s WorldEmber prep, we’ve a NEW strategy—bingo! Begin making ready!
- 🎂 Birthday Celebration! World Anvil is popping 8 years previous… on November eighth! Be a part of the celebration on stream to rejoice with the neighborhood and get a sneak peek at the way forward for World Anvil. Observe us on Twitch!
- ✨ Neighborhood Day: this month’s World Anvil Neighborhood Day might be on November fifteenth! Right here’s the programme:
- 🔥 Prep WorldEmber collectively! That is week 3 of WorldEmber Prep, so let’s verify our progress and ensure every thing’s prepared for WorldEmber.
- 🎓 Sage Seminar: Getting ready articles (and different work) for competitions. With WorldEmber and the Worldbuilding Awards drawing nearer, this Seminar might be devoted to making ready your world for competing! You’ll discover the hyperlink within the Skilled Portal.
Upcoming Occasions on World Anvil!
Right here’s a listing of our upcoming challenges and neighborhood occasions, that can assist you prepare:
- November:
- NovelEmber – write 50k in a month… or go insurgent!
- Prepare for WorldEmber with WorldEmber Prep.
- December: WorldEmber is coming…
- January: Begin a brand new 12 months by setting achievable artistic resolutions
All our challenges launch first on neighborhood stay stream, so comply with us on Twitch to get the information first!
📹 YouTube video round-up
Want slightly push to enhance your worldbuilding? Or need some recommendation from knowledgeable worldbuilder? Listed below are our newest YouTube movies:
- The best way to make an in-world journey information: Do your gamers dread journey choices? Is you marketing campaign’s down-time an actual downer? With slightly worldbuilding magic, journey guides is usually a improbable useful resource that helps have interaction gamers – and naturally work plot hooks into your recreation.
- Keep away from “Deus Ex Machina” when worldbuilding expertise: If your entire superior sci-fi tech works flawlessly each time, you’re not simply killing suspension of disbelief, you’re lacking out on a metric butt-tonne of storytelling rocket gasoline! Let’s discover the two methods too-perfect tech can undermine your story – and 6 tricks to repair it!
- What’s the columbian trade? A lot conventional delicacies could be unrecognizable to a local of the tradition 500 years in the past, due to what historians name “the Columbian Trade.” And whereas that is an occasion heavy with real-world historical past – it’s additionally extremely priceless for worldbuilders to check.
- There are solely 4 kinds of worlds: There are actually 1000’s of subgenres in fiction… however solely FOUR sorts of worlds. If which one you’re constructing, you’ll know precisely the place to start out, what you completely should work out, and what you may go away for later.
Subscribe to our YouTube channel to remain on prime of all our newest movies.
🌟 Neighborhood spotlight
This month we delve into the darkish fantasy setting for Cathedris to characteristic the Relentless Development of the Veiled Academy, which gained the Greatest Article 2025 award within the fifth Worldbuilding Awards! Delve into the hidden secrets and techniques of the Veiled Academy to take pleasure in a fantastically put-together article with a map and different interactive components.
Right here’s what Stormbril, the writer, needed to say about this improbable piece of worldbuilding and his artistic work:
Cathedris is nearly 6 years previous now, which is simply wild to consider. It appears each too quick and too lengthy of a timespan for this venture of mine—a lot has occurred, and there’s a lot extra I wish to do. An usually repeated reality is the way it pertains to my love for structure, and I can now say that Cathedris helped get me into, by, and out of structure faculty.
Which, I feel, ties completely into the Veiled Academy haha. It’s no secret that structure faculty is brutal, and that’s one thing I actually leaned into as inspiration for the Veiled Academy. With quite a lot of elaborations to amp up the secrecy and problem, in addition to hazard, to actually match the world of Cathedris. I’ve all the time cherished good tutorial conspiracy tales, secret societies, and shadowed horrors, so I took nice enjoyment of attempting to essentially tie these ideas into my very own private experiences. I’m nonetheless working by myself character writing abilities as properly (and all the time might be), so having the chance to create a really vibrant forged of scholars and college was one among my favorite elements of this. I discovered I even obtained into writing the academy itself as a personality in some parts, too!
As all the time, I really like the Worldbuilding Awards. Wholesome competitors drives me to strive new issues, to enhance my abilities, and to do the very best I can. I’ll all the time take pleasure in pushing myself as greatest I can. I nonetheless all the time really feel imposter syndrome, however I feel that’s a superb factor. I’d love to depart off with a quote from my supervisor at work once I talked about to her that I felt imposter syndrome in my position: “I simply need you to know that I, in any case these years, nonetheless really feel that too. However, I’ve been redefining how I give it some thought—to me, it’s a constructive feeling, as a result of it means I’m in a spot the place I’m rising, pushing my very own boundaries, and barely escaping my very own consolation zone. I see it as a sense of studying reasonably than a sense of not belonging.”
So push your individual boundaries, escape your consolation zone, and go construct some superb worlds!
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