World & Exploration
Vorlia spans two worlds — the Mainland and the Underworld — built from 512 × 512 chunks of 16 × 16 tiles each: 8,192 × 8,192 tiles of terrain per world.
Zones
Every chunk carries a safety level:
| Zone | PvP | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Unsafe / wilderness | Open | Most of the world. Anyone can attack anyone. |
| Safe zone | Blocked | Towns and settlements — no player combat (except against the Wanted). |
| Guarded zone | Guarded | NPC guards attack criminals; ordinary players are protected. Dying here drops nothing. |
Distance is real in Vorlia: the safe zones are islands, the roads between them are long, and the space between belongs to whoever is strongest on the day. New characters begin in Rachdale, on the Mainland.
The Land
- The jungles, southern and otherwise, teem; most of what lives
there hunts, and much of it hunts in packs.
- The desert bleaches what it keeps; what walks there — dune
trolls, sand elementals — walks patient.
- Borealis Reach freezes. Frostbinders and blue dragons hold it,
and the cold holds everything else.
The surface runs a day/night cycle (roughly an hour end to end); night falls on the whole world at once.
The Underworld
There is no daylight below. The surface turns through its days and nights; the Underworld keeps a single hour, and it is a dark one.
Travel between the worlds uses ordinary map objects — cave entrances, ladders, and teleport pads — with roughly 40 crossings in each direction, most of them paired so you can come back the way you went. No unlock, no key, no level requirement: any character can descend from level 1. The only barrier is surviving the far side.
There is a city in the depths — walled, and ringed round with lava. The wall was built for a reason. The Underworld's hunting grounds run to the strongest creatures in the game; what waits at the bottom was put there deliberately.
Objects
Roughly 2,400 placed objects on the Mainland and 850 more below, drawn from 256 types: doors (some need keys), chests and containers, decorations, and working stations — mining nodes, furnaces, forges, boost stations, plus:
- Teleport objects that move you to a set destination;
- Spawn gates that set your respawn point;
- Teleport + spawn gates that do both at once.
Set a spawn gate before venturing anywhere dangerous — you'll respawn there at 75% health instead of back in town.
Minimap and Fog of War
Unexplored chunks are hidden until you visit them; exploration is saved per character. The minimap is resizable and dockable, colours terrain by tile type, marks party members, and shows up to 5 death markers pointing back to your bodies.
Movement
Tile-based, 8 directions including diagonals, with every step validated by the server — no walking through walls.