HEARTWOODONLINE FOREVER

A familiar world, a new community chapter. An independent fan project rebuilding a place to explore, gather, craft, and adventure together.

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In development · Public beta date to be announced

Unofficial fan project · Not affiliated with or endorsed by the original developers. No public download is available yet.

Development previews

A look inside the rebuild.

Screenshots from the development client. Interface, visuals, and gameplay may change before public testing.

A development character casts Lightning Strike across the ground toward the west.
Combat testing: aligning Lightning Strike's effect with the character's facing.
Heartwood Online Forever's title screen over a pixel-art village, with Play and Quit buttons.
The development client's title screen. Public access is not open yet.

Why we're here

A world worth returning to.

Heartwood Online Forever began with an appreciation for Heartwood's world and the friendships built there. This independent fan project is an effort to create another place for that community to gather.

Development currently focuses on the essentials: accounts, characters, exploration, combat, gathering, crafting, and multiplayer. These systems are being rebuilt and tested before public access opens.

Built from a love of the world. Shaped by the people who play it.

The aim is a reliable, welcoming experience, developed at a sustainable pace. Community feedback will help guide priorities. Features, scope, and release plans may change as testing progresses.

— Founder, Heartwood Online Forever

What's coming

Familiar adventures. A careful rebuild.

The world you remember

Explore familiar places as world interactions and server systems are rebuilt. Stability and gameplay are still being tested.

Core systems first

Combat, inventory, quests, and multiplayer are under active development, with fixes checked through testing in the game client.

Room to grow

Additional quests, items, areas, and events are longer-term goals. The immediate priority is getting the foundations ready for players.

Built with the community

Share ideas, report issues, and follow development in Discord. Feedback from future playtests will help shape the next steps.

Open communication

The commitment is to share progress and communicate changes to the plan. There is no fixed release or update schedule yet.

Free to play

The project is planned as a free-to-play experience. Public access details will be shared when testing is ready.

Roadmap

Where we are, and what's next.

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The decision

The fan project begins, with local development and the first server systems brought online.

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Rebuild and bug fixingNow

Core systems being restored, tested, and fixed. Taking the time to do it right instead of rushing it out broken.

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Public betaDate TBA

A public beta is planned after further testing. No date or public download has been announced; follow Discord for access details.

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Full launch

A wider release is a future milestone, informed by stability testing and feedback from the beta.

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Future content

Explore opportunities for new quests, items, areas, and events as development capacity allows. These are goals, not release commitments.

Join the rebuild

Be there when the gates open.

Follow development, meet other players, and hear about future playtests in Discord. The project is still in development; a public beta date and download are not available yet.

Join the Discord

Come say hello. Follow the progress.