u/ChronicallyWhatever

I've been working on this on and off since around 2020, and I'm really excited to finally share the very first teaser. The game is honestly not terribly far away at this point.

Making an MMORPG has been my lifelong goal. I always knew it would be a scapelike, but I think it's become so much more than that. FARWARD pulls from everything I grew up loving: RuneScape, Fable, Oblivion, Kingdoms of Amalur, and all the books I read as a kid, especially Ranger's Apprentice. I've always loved Borderlands' cel-shading too, so that's kinda where the look comes from.

I believe nostalgia is rooted in discovery. Remember not knowing where anything was, swapping rumours with friends, stumbling onto something nobody had found yet? I want that back. So FARWARD is built so it can't be datamined: everything lives server-side, and the client only learns what you've actually discovered. I expect it'll take players many months, maybe years, to really figure out how everything works, and I think that discovery is what will bring that feeling back.

It'll have all the good stuff: your own homestead, raids, chill grinds, and pets that gets the zoomies. Maybe you'll enjoy it.

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If you'd like to follow along or join the playtests:

🌿 Waitlist: https://playfarward.com

💬 Discord: https://discord.gg/farward

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A throwback to when the pet fox was pure concept art: https://www.reddit.com/r/ScapeLikes/comments/1ww8b62/comment/pdns920/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

I've had this running for 4 or 5 years across my own Rust servers, and a few friends have used it for theirs too. Finally put a proper domain on it recently, so thought I'd share it here...

It's nothing innovative. You upload your .map file and get a direct link to put in levelurl, that's the main thing.

- Free, no ads

- Backed by Cloudflare, so downloads are quick wherever your players are

- Never had any downtime with it in all the time I've used it

- Maps up to 200 MB, links last 90 days (90 days is basically for no reason but there you go)

- Log in with Discord and add your admins so the whole team can manage maps

- Has an API, so you can hook it into map vote bots, wipe scripts or whatever you're running

There are other options out there and they're fine, just putting this forward as another free one. It's done me really well tbh

https://rustmapcdn.com

Happy to answer questions or take feedback.

Open world survival multiplayer, and the next Alpha playtest window is confirmed.

Start: Thursday, September 17 at 10 AM PT
End: Monday, September 21 at 10 AM PT

Four days this time instead of three, starting Thursday morning rather than Friday, which gives a full extra day to get past the first-night scramble and actually establish a base.

Alpha 3 players are auto-invited when servers go live. New invites are going out from the Steam signup list, so that's the entry route if you haven't played yet.

Sign up for playtest access: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2550530/The_Legend_of_California/

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVMraNnrwhc

If you play survival games solo you already know how the first 48 hours go. Groups are forming ahead of the test over here if you'd rather not learn that lesson again: https://motherlode.gg/companies

I have an allotment myself, waited 4 years for a council one. Got me thinking about how much land sits unused nearby while people are queuing for years.

Started working on something called SparePlot to make it easier for landowners to let plots without the hassle. Agreements, payments, finding decent tenants. Still very early, just registering interest from landowners at the moment at spareplot.com

Anyone here done this informally or thought about it? What would put you off? Honest answers welcome, still figuring it all out.

Has anyone managed to find a private plot while on a council waiting list?

Been on our local list for 3 years now. Ended up having a chat with a farmer nearby who has a couple of fields he doesn't do much with and it made me wonder how common this kind of informal arrangement is.

I'm putting something together to try and make it easier to find private plots. Nothing live yet but I've put a page up at spareplot.com if anyone wants to know when it's ready.