Hello everyone! We are proud to announce that the next Farwoods test period will begin on August 18th, 2026 at 8pm EDT. We have a huge amount of new content, features, and polish for you on an all-new client rewritten in Godot. Save the date, we hope to see you there!

What is Farwoods?

Farwoods is a “graphical MUD,” an older style of MMO that mixes sandbox game mechanics with a roleplay community to create an immersive living world inspired by Redwall. It’s similar to a big, always-running D&D game that people drop in and out of. We have been working on the game since 2020 and next month, we will be bringing it back for people to try out and help us test all the changes we’ve made.

Farwoods is designed as a prosocial game where other people’s characters are part of the experience, as opposed to the antisocial theme park MMO style where there is a set story in which you are the protagonist in a largely on-rails experience, and forming connections with anyone else playing the game is purely optional.

What does it have to do with retro tech?

We are big fans of the older style of MMO epitomized in games like EverQuest, as well as old BYOND games like SS13, and we set out to create a modern game in the “graphical MUD” tradition. This is much more of a MUD than an MMO; we even intend to implement a text-only version which you can connect to via a MUD client after full release which will be fully cross-play with the UI client.

If the idea of creating characters to play in a fantasy, Redwall-inspired world of magic and intrigue excites you, come check us out!

• https://farwoods.net/
• View our roadmap: https://farwoods.net/forums/thread?id=737
• Mastodon: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@Farwoods
• Itch.io: https://farwoods.itch.io/farwoods
• Wishlist us on Steam (not necessary to play): https://store.steampowered.com/app/1678570/Farwoods/