Persistent multiplayer world
Server-side characters, chunks, world state, resource evolution, and long-running processes.
Public roadmap
Direction without artificial deadlines.
Grimhold moves quickly and priorities change when playtesting exposes something more important. This roadmap shows sequence and intent, not promised dates.
Foundation
Already in the world
Major systems that exist today and are ready to be tested, tuned, or expanded.
Survival progression
Harvesting, primitive tools, crafting, workstations, cooking, quality, containers, and metal progression.
Building & claims
Construction, enclosed buildings, multiple floors, stairs, doors, fences, gates, and permission-based land claims.
Food, fishing & farming
Cooking vessels, fishable water bodies, bait and hooks, tilling, planting, and crop progression.
Animals & travel
Wildlife, taming, feeding foundations, breeding groundwork, rideable horses, and vehicles.
Generated world
Large overworld, hydrology, biomes, resource placement, oceans, and procedurally generated underground layers.
Now
Early public playtesting
The immediate goal is to make the existing game easy to obtain, trustworthy to install, and useful to test.
Official website & launcher distribution
Public site, gallery, roadmap, development history, download instructions, release hashes, and a cleaner path into the game.
Progression playtesting
Run the full survival path with fresh players and identify confusing recipes, dead ends, pacing problems, and missing explanations.
World-generation quality
Improve shoreline and water geometry, continue server-side generation work, and benchmark finer hydrology sampling.
Bug and clarity pass
Fix blockers discovered through testing before adding another large layer of complexity.
Next
Make the world easier to expand
Tools and systems that reduce the cost of changing a live world and adding new content.
World snapshots & faster map loading
Use compact snapshots so the editor does not need to enumerate tens of thousands of chunk files before becoming useful.
Targeted world regeneration
Regenerate selected regions instead of rebuilding an entire world when the underlying rules did not materially change.
Live-server editing workflow
Bring controlled server snapshots into the editor, make bounded changes, and safely publish them back to the live world.
Settlement content
Expand the Grimhold settlement concept, NPC activity, quests, and reasons for players to interact with established places.
Later
Scale the world, not just the checklist
Longer-term directions that become practical after the core play experience proves itself.
Additional continents / world shards
Add new canonical lands as separate server worlds rather than forcing every future biome and culture into one map.
Open-ocean systems
Deep travel, ocean encounters, larger marine life, and meaningful reasons to cross the water between lands.
Animation & art expansion
Increase movement animation and visual variety once the asset-production pipeline can support the much larger workload.
Community contribution pipeline
Create a controlled way for players and artists to contribute assets or content without fragmenting the game into incompatible forks.