🕸️ New Diplomacy Webs
This update streamlines Diplomacy Webs to make relationship management easier than ever. It’s the feature you’re used to with a fresh coat of paint and oiled gears! You’ll find it in the edit article interface, under the new “Relationships” button in the Organization template:
Check the guide to Diplomacy Webs for more information!
🌳 New Family Trees
Family Trees have ALSO been streamlined and moved to the new edit interface! Not only that, you can now directly link characters to spouses and children. Preview the family tree as you create it, create or link characters to the tree, and set up the extended Relationships all from the same screen.
Check the guide to Family Trees for more details!
✅ To-do List and Mass Edit are available to everyone!
If you have a free account, rejoice! These two features are now available to everyone, even Freemen:
- Mass Edit: Select multiple images and edit them all at once! So if you have multiple images to move into a folder or gallery, or you want to add the same art credits to many images, you can now do so in a single operation. Check the Learn guide to learn how this works!
- To-Do List: Organize your worldbuilding plans right on World Anvil with our to-do list! Its integration with the rest of World Anvil lets you link to-do items to articles and access it as you work on your world. Check the guide to the to-do list for details!
👁️ See who’s editing each article
This is a massive quality of life update if you have co-authors in your world! Now, when someone’s editing an article, their profile picture will appear next to the article title and you will be blocked from editing it until they finish. This prevents editing conflicts, which could previously result in you losing some of your content.
Check the changelog for the full list of changes
🗓️ July events
Here’s everything going on this month!
- 🍨 Summer Camp: This month, we challenge you to answer up to 40 worldbuilding prompts! With just eight prompts you’ll get the Copper badge, which lets you enter the prize raffle. So check the challenge page for details!
- 🍦 Stream of Last Chances: Tune in on stream on July 25th for the Stream of Last Chances, where you can expect writing sprints, advice, and one last push to complete Summer camp! Don’t miss the stream on our Twitch channel at 6pm UK/10am Pacific time.
- 🎓 Sage Seminar: How to get players excited about your world. On July 25th, Dimitris, co-founder of World Anvil, will hold a seminar about getting your players excited about your world! Find the link in the Professional Portal.
- ☕ Inner Sanctum Coffee: If you’re a member of the Inner Sanctum, join the bi-monthly Coffee on July 11th, at 4pm UK/8am Pacific! Dimitris and Janet will be discussing recent updates, gathering your feedback, and sharing secret new projects! The link will be shared on the Discord channel on the day.
🔜 Upcoming Events on World Anvil!
Here’s a list of our upcoming challenges and community events, to help you get ready:
- July: Summer Camp! Answer up to 40 worldbuilding prompts based on four themes and win prizes. Click for more info.
- August: After a marathon month of worldbuilding in July, in August we kick back with our Reading Challenge. Move over, trashy beach novels, because this month we’re taking some time to enjoy worldbuilding from the World Anvil multiverse.
- September: “For Flash’s Sake September” will be our non-competitive flash fiction challenge! Watch our community spaces for details when we get closer to the challenge.
All our challenges launch first on community live stream, so follow us on Twitch to get the news first!
👀 Show us your Diplomacy Webs!
We’re planning to showcase Diplomacy Webs on the blog, and we’d like to feature some of your worlds with it! If you’d like to get featured on our blog (and get some eyes on your work), tell us how you use Diplomacy Webs in your world!
🤩 Help us spread the word about World Anvil
We need your help—and it takes less than 2 minutes! Please share a testimonial about your experience with the software, the community, and/or our worldbuilding course in this quick form. And thank you SO much in advance!
🎙️ The Worldbuilding Podcast is back!
Want to get advice from industry-leading professionals about worldbuilding, writing, and RPGs? Well, season 8 of our podcast will air every Monday, from July 6th to August 24th! It’s available in all your favorite podcast platforms—check the World Anvil worldbuilding podcast page for details. And make sure to give us a review to help us get this resource out to more worldbuilders!
👕 Summer Camp merch is here!
We just released our new Summer Camp 2026 merch! Whether you’re looking to wear the Summer Camp colors or simply need a new mug for your beverages of choice (or even get a gift for a friend!), we’ve got you covered. Get your merch now!
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📹 YouTube video round-up
Need a little push to improve your worldbuilding? Or want some advice from a professional worldbuilder? Here are our latest YouTube videos:
- Worldbuilding empires that feel real: Have you noticed that fictional empires always end up feeling like a clone of Star Wars or the Roman Empire? But you can avoid that with clever worldbuilding. Janet shows you how—by pulling from history you might not know about!
- Visualize & track politics with diplomacy webs: Organize and keep track of the politics of your world with Diplomacy Web! Check out this video to learn the ins and outs of this feature!
- Worldbuilding prophecies & the Barnum Effect: The Barnum effect is a psychological trick used in fortune-telling and personality quizzes that can help you create prophecies and omens for your world. Check this week’s video to learn more!
Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay on top of all our latest videos.
🌟 Community highlight: Oniran
Oniran, by Jontaro, is one of the most beautiful worlds on World Anvil—so much so that it won in the Artist’s Most Beautiful category in the Worldbuilding Awards 2026! It’s a vibrant world born of love, community, and passion, brimming with the author’s high-energy writing style. Check out Oniran!
Here’s what Jontaro, its author, had to say about his work:
Brother I’m gonna give it to ya straight, Imma keep it a buck, even, I’m not gonna lie or sugarcoat it or lay it down easy. This world, what I’ve created on this platform, is easily one of the biggest passions of my life. I may not have been able to create anything in a hot minute but this world is something I continue to think about and prod at and gaze upon as it rotates in my mind like food in a microwave like every single day.
It’s been a rough few years for ya boy, but the friends I’ve made in this community have genuinely done SO much for me and have pushed me to make some of my finest work. Whether it be a challenge article, a one shot, a short story anthology, a zine for some reason, or the adventure module I plan to make in the future, they’ve always been there to listen to my insane ramblings just to see what I make next.
Winning Artist’s Most Beautiful World is just a bonus on top of all that, getting to be like “Yeah I’m an artist AND a writer and I choose to suffer creatively twice” was already sick but now you’re telling me I have the sauce to back it up? A trophy, even? Officially Sanctioned Bragging Rights if you will??? Now THAT’S pretty sick, and I have this community to thank for it.
I’ve been meaning to make a journal post like this for a while now, but a testimonial in the newsletter is like the next best thing, methinks. Anyways, that’s all for now. Thanks for everything and have a good one!!!
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