This month, we have powerful quality-of-life improvements, an awards ceremony, and we’re launching the 6th Worldbuilding Awards too! Let’s take a look at what we’ve been busy with in the past few weeks, and what’s coming in the next months. 📝 Quick article creation while writing! When using the Visual Editor, you can now create […]

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Our powerful new search is now live on World Anvil… with new features! You can now browse the content in your world from anywhere—scroll secrets, mull over maps, and trawl through your timelines—and open it up, or copy links into what you’re currently working on. What’s new in World Anvil’s search? If you’re an Alchemist, […]

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The manual save button is back on World Anvil! Throughout the years we’ve heard and read your feedback about this, and we thought that with the recent updates to the article edit interface, now was the perfect time to bring it back. After a testing round with our lovely Alchemists, here’s everything you need to […]

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We’ve just made creating articles on World Anvil EVEN QUICKER AND EASIER with Inline Article Creation! Worldbuilding isn’t linear. It’s a network, a nexus of interconnected information. And that makes those connections incredibly important. That’s why we’ve just introduced a new way to make articles, even faster, so you can focus on your flow! This […]

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We have a new update in testing! The new Search looks for everything in your world, sorted in folders, and accessing an item’s options without leaving the page. If you’re a Grandmaster or above, you can start playing with this feature right now if you’re in the Alchemist Council (our beta testing group). The New Search […]

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Happy New Year, Anvilites! We hope you had a fantastic holiday season and start of the year. From new community events being planned to an overview of the latest dev updates, here’s this year’s first monthly news! 🖼️ Mass Image Editing Edit multiple images all at once! This update lets you select as many images […]

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Our World Anvil community includes many published authors, including some who are based in the UK. So when we learn about opportunities for our members to achieve recognition for their hard work, we like to pass it along! We recently learned that submissions are now open for the 2026 Aldiss Award for World-Building, celebrating outstanding […]

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Wouldn’t it be awesome if you could mass edit images on World Anvil? Like, update artist credits, move images around, add subscriber groups or change privacy settings on a whole bunch of images at once? Well, if you’re a grandmaster or above, this feature is now available to play with as part of our Alchemist […]

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Categories are the fundamental way you organize your articles on World Anvil—but they’re so much more than that! Combining a solid category tree with good content in the category pages themselves will make your world much easier to navigate for readers (and for yourself). We’ve collected some examples from the community in this post so […]

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It’s the end of the year… which means it’s WorldEmber time! Plus the Articles & World Manager is even more improved, we have announcements for the next Worldbuilding Awards and more! Articles & World Manager improvements A month ago we released the new Articles & World Manager, with a new interface and new features that […]

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