Haven & Hearth

Haven & Hearth is a massively multiplayer role-playing game set in a fictional world loosely inspired by Slavic and Germanic myths and legends. Players can permanently change the world through their actions, making choices that have lasting effects on the landscape and the lives of other players.

Develop your character

Develop your character to unlock Skills, Abilities and Credos. Feasts and drinks increase base Attributes such as Strength, Intelligence and Agility. Studying Curiosities from nature and artifice earns Learning Points for Abilities including Farming, Masonry and Exploration; unusual experiences grant experience points that let you cast Hearth Magic spells and charms. Discovering unfamiliar materials also unlocks Crafting and Building recipes.

Hunt and gather

Explore the procedurally generated wilderness to forage for flowers, herbs, mushrooms and other resources. Study rare flowers or bind them into bouquets for Learning Points, gather wild seeds to grow crops such as grapes, wheat, carrots and peas, and hunt beasts for hides that can be tanned into leather. Food matters to Hearthlings: you can make boar sausages, smoke sea gull meat and develop a varied diet.

You can tame and breed livestock, including cows, pigs, goats and reindeer, raising their quality over generations. Ride wild or tame horses, or fish and cast nets in rivers, lakes, oceans and caves for creatures such as cod, perch, bream, halibut, clams, crabs and lobsters. Dungeons include Beaver Lodges, Bat Caves and Ant Hills, as well as Thraximundar's Vicious Hive of Tyranny. Beneath the Hearth, mine through multiple cave levels for minerals, ores and precious gems; Mining and Forging are important to progress, though trolls are said to dwell in the depths.

Craft and build

Terraform the Hearth by digging, paving, plowing and planting. Stake a claim to protect your land from other players, then build walls and palisades around a homestead of log or stone, from a cabin to a tower. Smelt ore and advance metallurgy with Finery Forges and Steel Crucibles.

Prepare food with Ovens for bread, Cauldrons for stews, Sheds for smoking and Meat Grinders for sausages. Furnish and decorate your home with wall mountings, lanterns, shelves, tables, cupboards and other furniture. You can also build boats and ships, from Coracles to Knarrs, to travel across the oceans.

Production chains can be cycled and refined with better materials to improve the quality of their output. The materials you choose affect the color and character of what you make, such as whether a rocking chair is made from cherry, maple or oak. Custom graphics can be added to banners, shields, flags, capes and sails.

Crime and conflict

Haven & Hearth has open player-versus-player conflict and permanent death. You can trespass, steal, vandalize, use Rage and commit murder against other inhabitants. To track criminals, develop Perception and Exploration and follow the Stenches of Crime.

Build siege machines and engines of war to attack distant lands. Found Villages to claim large areas and organize groups of allies, or establish Realms and claim Provinces by capturing the ancient Thingwalls across the Hearth. You can bury the dead and fulfill the will of the ancestors to draw strength from previous lives. Interactions with other Hearthlings can carry grave consequences.