A world no one has mapped

Uncharted

Played with a keyboard, on a computer.

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Scarf

How to play

Walk out of your village into land nobody has drawn. Whatever you see is sketched into your atlas in pencil. Get back to safety and the sketch is inked for good. Be the first to reach a peak, a lake or a ruin and you name it, for everyone.

  1. Explore. Walk with WASD or click where to go. Hills and mountains let you see further.
  2. Get back safe. Villages, your camp and your nation's capital are safe. There your sketches are inked and what you carry is stored.
  3. Gather. Wood from trees, stone from rocks, berries from bushes, crystals from crystal fields.
  4. Settle. Pitch a camp (H) and build around it (B). Join or found a nation (G).

Controls

W A S DWalk (or click) ShiftRun EGather, open a pack SpaceSwing your staff QEat a berry NName the place you are at HPitch your camp BBuild GYour nation MAtlas EnterChat, /n for nation chat EscMenu

The world

One world, shared by everyone, and it stays. It is about four kilometres across: coasts and islands, forests, marshes, heaths, mountain ranges, rivers, lakes, and nine old villages.

Nobody gets a map of it, not even the game on your computer. You only learn the land by walking it, and what you learn is yours: your atlas.

Sketch and ink

New land is a pencil sketch. If you fall before you reach safety, the sketch is lost with your pack. Ink it at a village, your camp or your capital and it is kept.

Names

About a hundred and twenty places wait for a name: peaks, lakes, rivers, isles, ruins, stone circles, ancient trees, caves and crystal fields. The first explorer to stand there names it, and the name is on every map from then on.

Danger

Wolves in the forests, wisps in the marshes. They are not hard to beat with your staff, and you can outrun most of them. If you fall you leave a pack behind with what you carried. Anyone can open it, so go back quickly.

Nations

Nations are run by players. Found one where you stand: give it a name, a three-letter tag, a motto and a flag. The land around you becomes its capital, a keep that is a safe home for every citizen.

Offices and elections

A nation has a Leader and a Cartographer. Any citizen can call an election, stand as a candidate, and vote.

Laws

Citizens write laws in their own words and vote on them. Passed laws become the laws of the land, for everyone to read.

Land

The Leader and the Cartographer claim land next to the borders. More citizens means more land. Only citizens may build on it.

Building

Build on a one-metre grid, near your camp or on your nation's land, with what you gathered. Everything you build stays in the world.

Wood floor1 woodOn shallow water or a river it is a bridge
Stone path1 stoneQuick to walk on
Wood wall, stone wall2 wood, 2 stoneJoin up with each other
Door3 woodYou can pass, creatures cannot
Window2 wood, 1 stoneLook into a room from outside
Fence1 woodFor yards and pens
Lamp1 wood, 1 crystalA crystal light
Nation banner1 wood, 1 peltFlies your nation's flag

Roofs

Close in a space with walls, doors and windows and it gets a roof. From outside you see the roof, not who is inside. Walk in, stand in the doorway or look in at a window to see the room.

What's new

Roofs, a hidden world, a new look

  • Closed rooms get roofs. Who is inside can only be seen from inside, from the doorway or through a window.
  • New piece: the window.
  • The world is hidden: the game only gets the land around you and the parts you have mapped.
  • The server checks every step and keeps your map, so it can't be faked.
  • A new main menu and a new look.

Accounts and building

  • Log in with a name and password and play from any computer.
  • Build walls, floors, bridges, paths, doors, fences, lamps and banners.

Nations

  • Found and join nations, hold elections, write laws and claim land.

Unrolling the map…

Connecting to the world.

Uncharted

Exploring happens on a computer.

On your phone you can follow what happens in the world:

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Safe here, map inked
World Chronicle
WASD walk E gather Space swing H camp B build G nation M atlas Esc menu