Haven & Hearth is a MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game) set in a fictional world loosely inspired by Slavic and Germanic myth and legend. The game sets itself apart from other games in the genre in its aim to provide players with an interactive, affectable and mutable game world, which can be permanently and fundamentally changed and affected through actions undertaken by the players. Our fundamental goal with Haven & Hearth is to create a game in which player choices have permanent and/or lasting effects and, thus, providing said players with a meaningful and fun gaming experience.
Skills & Attributes
- Develop your character to unlock new Skills, Abilities, and Credos.
- Devour sumptuous feasts of food and drink to increase your Strength, Intelligence, Agility and other base Attributes.
- Study sundry Curiosities of nature and artifice to gain Learning Points to increase your Farming, Masonry, Exploration and other Abilities.
- Experience oddities and obscure situations to gain experience points and cast or incant the spells and charms of Hearth Magic.
- Discover materials previously unknown to you to unlock new recipes for Crafting & Building.
Hunting & Gathering
- Slay vicious beasts of nature, flay their hides and tan for leather.
- Make sausages of Boar, and smoke Sea Gull Meat. Feasting and a varied diet is important to all Hearthlings.
- Forage rare flowers to Study, or bind them into bouquets for additional Learning Points.
- Traverse the vast- and wilderness of Haven & Hearth's procedurally generated world and gather rare Herbs, Mushrooms and Flowes.
- Pick wild seeds to grow into domestic crops for Farming, such as Grapes, Wheat, Carrots or Peas.
- Tame wild animals to raise Livestock like Cows, Pigs, Goats or Reindeer. Ride like the wind upon mighty Horses wild and tame, and breed your animals to ever rising qualities.
- Fish or cast nets in Rivers, Lakes, Oceans or Caves to catch a wide variety of aquatic life such as Cod, Perch, Bream, Halibut, Clams, Crabs, or Lobsters.
- Should true bravery inspire you; Venture into the depths of the cavernous underworlds of Dungeons such as Beaver Lodges, Bat Caves, or Ant Hills. Thraximundar's Vicious Hive of Tyranny awaits!
- Dig deep and greedily down multiple levels of caves, to extract minerals, ores, and precious gems from the inky fathoms below the plane of the Hearth. Mining and Forging are essential for progress, but rumors speak of Trolls in the deep!
Crafting & Building
- Terraform the Hearth by digging, paving, plowing or planting.
- Hearthlings are the wolves of Hearthlings: Stake a Claim to your corner of the Hearth to protect it from roving bands of others.
- Construct mighty walls and palisades to keep your homestead safe.
- Erect homes and Houses of log and stone, from humble cabins to mighty towers.
- Smelt ores for metal, and refine further metallurgical advances in Finery Forges and Steel Crucibles.
- Cook as varied a diet as you can by building Ovens for Bread, Cauldrons for Stews, Sheds for Smoking or Meat Grinders for Sausages.
- Decorate with a wide variety of wall mountings, lanterns, shelves, tables, cupboards, and many other pieces of furniture.
- Construct Boats & Ships to carry you across the oceans blue, from humble Coracles to mighty Knarrs.
- Upload Custom Graphics to give that extra flair to banners, shields, flags, capes, and sails!
- Cycle and recycle your production line, acquire better materials and refine your production chains to increase the Quality of all produce.
- Things are what you make them; Watch the color and tenor of the Variable Materials you use reflected in the things you build and make. Should the Rocking Chair be made from Cherry, Maple, or Oak?
Permanent Death & Open PvP
- Master the Dark Arts of Trespassing, Theft, Rage, Vandalism and Murder to impose upon others who roam the Hearth.
- Increase your Perception & Exploration to track down and bring to justice all breakers of peace and oaths, by tracking the vicious Stenches of Crime.
- Construct mighty Siege Machines and engines of war to bring the flames of war to foreign lands.
- Found Villages to claim large swathes of land and organize kith and kin into mighty bands.
- Found Realms and lay claim to entire Provinces by capturing the ancient Thingwalls dotting the Hearth.
- Bury the dead and fulfill the will of the ancestors to draw upon the strength of your previous lives.
- Experience the thrill of a world where all interactions with your fellow Hearthling carries the potentiality for grave consequence.
Prelude: World 16.1
We\'ve been developing, and here\'s what\'s new...\n\n
\n\n\"Winter kept us warm, covering\nEarth in forgetful snow, feeding\nA little life with dried tubers.\nSummer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee\nWith a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade,\nAnd went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten,\nAnd drank coffee, and talked for an hour.\"\n\n T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land\n\n\n
World 16.1
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- As was announced at the start of World 16, we intend to launch the next new world World 16.1 without resetting World 16.\n
- This post is to inform you that that, indeed, remains the plan, and that we intend to launch World 16.1 on Friday, December 5th, 2025 @ 20:00 UTC.\n
- Worlds 16 and 16.1 will, then, run concurrently until the threads of their fates again unravel.
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- Non-visitor gates for siege significant wall types (Palisade, Brickwall) have been removed, and all gates in such walls will now be visitor gates. No gates will therefore any longer be visually distinguished with the red flags traditionally indicating a visitor gate, as the distinction will no longer be made.\n
- The Gilding system for equipment has been reworked to put a greater emphasis on the clothes, as opposed to the gildings, seeking, effectively, to buff the cooler/rarer/more expensive clothes, and hopefully reduce the meta of churning the most inexpensive clothes possible.\n
- A series of other changes, big and small, will, as usual, be left to the joy of discovery.\n
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- The choice on which world to play will be made with the Wizard during character creation.\n
- Do note that the significant changes mentioned here, made for World 16.1, will NOT take effect in World 16. Uncontroversial content changes may/will take effect in World 16 as well, but the ones mentioned above will specifically apply to World 16.1\n
- We consider World 16.1 as World 16 can remain a stable main version of the game to be somewhat experimental. If you have any cool experiments you would like us to try for great science in World 16.1, feel free to share ideas!
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- Radio silence is easy for us to choose for a variety of reasons: Personal comfort, certain technical dislikes of the communication platforms, lack of meaningful development to communicate. It compounds negatively over time, as the mountain of owed replies and missed upd00ts accrue. Some things can and should be changed and improved, some may belong inexorably to our personal equations.\n
- If we ever do decide to truly throw in the towel, you will be notified. Our course, however shaky, has never really changed, and we have continued to meet, talk, and build, on our regular schedule, and have no intention or reason to do otherwise!\n
- The traditional Christmas dev-stream is, for our part, on like Donkey Kong! I look forward to engaging face-to-the-black-void-of-the-interwebz with you all, should you care to be there, and we can perhaps speak more of these and other matters!\n
- I am fundamentally happy, and there is, for my part, no terrible tragedy to excuse or explain. A wizard is never late! :)\n
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- We removed the Verification requirements for playing Legacy. Play away! Free!
[color=#FF0000]W16.1 server @ 20:00 UTC, Friday December 5th, 2025[/color]
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Minimum Setup
- OS: Linux 2.6
- Processor: x86-64 compatible CPUMemory: 512 MB RAM
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL 3.2 capable GPU
- Storage: 150 MB available space
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- OS: Linux 2.6
- Processor: 3 GHz Haswell/Zen or betterMemory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce GTX 1060/Radeon RX 580 or better
- Storage: 500 MB available space
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