Thousandhold

A continent of dwarf holds, simulated down to the individual: up to 16,000 dwarves, each with its own goal palette, plan and beliefs. You can zoom from the whole continent to the rooms of a single hold and tap any dwarf to read what it's trying to do. A camera director looks for what's happening and follows it until you touch the map, and it can narrate aloud.

Holds lie a day or more apart, so travel shapes the map. Parties pack food for long trips and camp rough when no settlement is near, where bandits and wolves find some of them. A nearby hold raises a waystation where those camps pile up. Resources deplete and regrow, and a hold under enough pressure sends a founding party to land its explorers have found.

Look for the orange campfire glow along the roads. It marks where a waystation is likely to appear.

Last updated 2026-10-24 20:30 UTC · made on claude.ai

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