wildlandsonline

WILDLANDS

A free browser survival game. Hunt. Craft. Build. Survive.

You wake up in a procedurally generated wilderness with nothing. No tutorial. No hand-holding. Just 9 biomes, 11 creature species, and your instincts.

Scavenge the land for materials. Craft weapons at one of 5 workstations. Hunt animals in skill-based aiming encounters where every creature moves differently — rabbits jink wildly, wolves circle tight, bears lunge when you least expect it. Miss too many shots and you're done.

What You Can Do

🏹 Hunt — 11 species with unique AI patterns. Click-to-aim combat where timing and precision matter.

🎣 Fish — Find a quiet spot by the water. Craft bait. Reel in pike.

🔨 Craft — 65 recipes across Carpentry, Cooking, Forge, Tanning, and Apothecary. A quality mini-game determines how good your gear turns out.

🏠 Build — Place campfires, tents, walls, watchtowers, and workshops. Create your own settlement in the wild.

🌱 Farm — Plant seeds, grow mushrooms, berries, and herbs. Harvest when they're ready.

🪤 Trap — Set steel traps to capture creatures passively.

🦊 Tame — Befriend a fox or wolf companion to follow you on your journey.

🕳️ Explore Caves — Descend into an infinite dungeon with escalating difficulty and 5 unique cave creatures. The deeper you go, the better the rewards.

🗺️ Discover Landmarks — Raider camps, ancient shrines, herb caches, abandoned mines, and mysterious ruins dot the landscape.

The World

9 biomes — grasslands, forests, dense woods, swamps, mud flats, sandy shores, mountains, snow fields, and open water. Each has its own creatures, resources, and foraging drops. Dynamic weather cycles through clear skies, rain, and fog. Day and night change what spawns and how dangerous the world gets. Four seasons rotate and bring their own events.

The map generates a unique name for your wilderness every playthrough. Fog of war means you have to actually walk there to see it.

The Deeper Game

Hunting creatures drops CapSouls — open them to get crafting fragments in 6 quality tiers from Poor to Excellent. Better quality = better gear. Fragment quality depends on your skill level, the creature's danger rating, and a bit of luck.

Beneath the surface, something stranger is happening. The Shards of Waking are scattered across 5 tiers, assembled from simulation fragments found deep in caves. Collect them all and the Wildlands reveal what they truly are.

"The fire whispers back."

Controls

Movement: WASD or arrow keys (mobile: on-screen joystick) Scavenge: E Interact / Fish: F Inventory: I Map: G Build Mode: B Place Trap: T Save Panel: P Leaderboard: L Mute Audio: X Toggle Mobile Controls: M Encounter Aiming: Click/tap to shoot

Features at a Glance

• 65 craftable recipes

• 11 overworld creatures + 5 cave creatures

• 4 skill trees (Hunting, Fishing, Crafting, Foraging)

• Bounty board with rotating daily challenges

• Town vendor with seasonal stock rotation

• Achievement system with 8 trophies

• Leaderboard with 8 categories

• Auto-save + manual save/load

• Desktop and mobile support

• No download required — runs in your browser

Tips for New Players

1. Scavenge first. Press E on any open ground. Free materials every 30 seconds.

2. Craft a fishing rod early. Fish are easy XP and food.

3. Visit the town. Buy blueprints and check the bounty board.

4. Open your CapSouls. They're useless until you crack them open in your inventory.

5. Don't fight bears yet. Seriously. Get a bow and some armor first.

6. Explore caves when you're ready. The rewards scale with depth — but so does the danger.

About

Developer: Chill Vibes

Website: wildlandsonline.com

Contact: [email protected]

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Price: Free. Always.

Built with vanilla JavaScript. No engine. No framework. Just a browser tab and a dream.

Wildlands is in active development. New creatures, biomes, recipes, and story content are being added regularly. Feedback and bug reports welcome at [email protected].

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