Crowfall - Customizing Your Eternal Kingdom
Discussed by Crowfall's Creative Director J. Todd Coleman
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Todd -

So today we're unveiling the kingdom building tool and the parcel building tool. Now, together these are really the world building tools that we're going to use to build the campaign worlds and you guys get to use to build out your kingdoms. The basic way they work is, you divide up your world into a series of regions and then provinces and inside those provinces, which you can grant to other players, you're going to drop parcels. An individual land parcel is really a tract of land. It includes not just a keep or a castle but also all the land surrounding it.

The idea is that I'm basically dropping these parcels in and I'm customizing my world to have the layout and the look that I want. So I can layout my world with castles, with keeps, with farmland, with river-lands, with forest, with mountains. It's a all encompassing tool that allows me to build up my kingdom however I like.

The parcel building tool is basically the same thing only at the micro-level. I'm actually dividing up my parcel and saying "I want a village over here, I'm going to grant that to one friend. I'm going to take this area over here and turn it into a merchants quarter and then over here I'm going to keep that and that is going to be for my personal housing."

We tried to make this system completely open and flexible and give you all the power you needed to create the kingdoms that you want to create.

The other thing that is cool, once you have a parcel of land you can actually upgrade it. You can use materials that you get in the campaign worlds to take your castle and make it bigger and better. The footprint doesn't change though, so once I've slotted it into the world, I can make those upgrades without having to change the surrounding area.

There is actually a ton more to this system that is very very deep and very very cool, more than I could possible show you in this video. Check the link below it's got the FAQ which covers it in a lot more detail and we'll see you on the forums. Thanks!