Farwend

Carve your saga into the land.

Farwend is an online survival sandbox set in the Viking age. Start with nothing but a rock, then gather, craft, build and fight your way to a stone hold of your own, alone or with your clan.

A new world from every seed

Every server's island is grown from a seed and a map size, from 1 km to 4 km across. Snowy pine forest in the north, green heartland in the middle and palm desert in the south, with lakes, coasts, villages, castles and the roads between them. The same seed always makes the same world; a new seed makes a new one.

Shape the land

Every metre of ground can be dug down, piled up or levelled with a shovel. Flatten a hilltop for your hall, cut a road through a slope or dig a moat round your walls.

Gather, craft and forge

Fell trees, mine stone and ore, then smelt copper, iron and steel and forge them into tools, weapons and armour. Spend what you learn on Knowledge perks.

Build from hut to hold

Snap timber walls, floors and roofs together, then harden them from wood to plaster, stone and hardened stone. Raise your walls, hang timber gates, and turn barns into stables and pens.

Claim your ground

Set down a Claim Totem and the land around it belongs to you and your clan. Grow the claim to take in your fields and herds, and keep up its upkeep.

Clans and alliances

Found a clan with its own colours, sign and ranks, lock your doors to outsiders, and stand with allied clans.

Farm, tame and fish

Till the soil through the seasons, pen pigs, cattle and chickens and let them breed. Lasso a wild horse and ride it, or harness a cart for your clan. Cast a rod for the shoals you can see in every lake and sea, from cod and mackerel to pike and koi, and cook your catch on the fire.

Monuments and loot puzzles

Barrows and fishing villages lie across every map, guarded by camps of knights. Take the keys for bronze, iron and gold padlocks, read the runes on village runestones to open rune chests, and climb rock ledges for the chest on top. A Trading Post on every map is a safe place to meet and trade: nobody can build or fight there.

Fight on foot and on horseback

Raise your shield, slide into a foe to knock them flat, or couch a lance at a gallop. Wolves, boar and knights roam the wilds. A heavy blow leaves you wounded: a friend can revive you, or an enemy can finish you.

Moonlit nights

Nights fall dark under a starry, moonlit sky. You can still make out the lie of the land, and a torch lights the way.

The world goes on without you

When you log out, your character sleeps where you left it, in what it wears and with its weapon in hand. Anyone can search it, take what it carries, or give it clothes to keep it warm. Log back in and you wake in the same place, if nobody found you first.

Choose your server

Official and community servers run PvP, PvE or PvE-C (peaceful most of the week, with set raiding times), shown in the server browser. Anti-cheat servers use Easy Anti-Cheat with Epic sign-in.

Playable in 11 languages.