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MMORPG in development · Windows
Zizeeria is a world that keeps score. Its ecosystem is a simulation with populations and food chains rather than a spawn timer, and the Chronicle keeps the record of what happens to it, permanently and for everyone.
A character is born to one side and chooses one of its six Callings. Both sides are playable today, from level one.
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Concept artThe few who can still feel the threads of the torn Weave, and the only ones who can sew it back together. Their Callings: Warden, Pathfinder, Reedsinger, Ashbearer, Binder and Chronicler.
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Concept artBodies the Weave once bound, which came apart when it tore: the same six roles, the same hold on the world, turned to harm. Their Callings: Goader, Misleader, Rotsinger, Ashsower, Unbinder and Unwriter.
What the last two patches put in the game, in the patch notes' own words. Patch 0.1.25 is the newest.
Patch 0.1.25
Click a creature or press Tab to choose your target, and your attacks and abilities go to it. With nothing chosen, they go to the nearest creature you can see in front of you.
Patch 0.1.25
Press C to open a pane with eighteen slots for what you wear, and your item level. Right-click a weapon or a piece of armour in your bag to put it on.
Patch 0.1.25
Talking to a person now lists everything they have for you in one window. Press J or L to open a quest log beside the world map.
Patch 0.1.25
A weapon or a piece of armour you craft now comes out in one of four ranks.
Patch 0.1.24
Press E at a creature you have defeated and a loot window opens under your pointer. Your bag is now a grid of item pictures, with a coloured border on better items.
Patch 0.1.24
A creature you hit now flashes and staggers, and the damage rises as a number. Every hit makes a sound, and a defeated creature falls.
The login screen of patch 0.1.15, captured from the client rather than drawn. The game has grown a good deal since.
The arguments the rest of the design has to keep. Each one says how much of it you will find in the game now.
Populations, food chains and migration, ticking every fifteen minutes.
Overfarm the wolves and the deer population explodes. The grazing land is stripped. Something larger walks in from the north. Regions change character over weeks, and the change is computed, not scripted.
Today: The simulation runs on the live servers, and how many marsh deer and mire wolves stand around Reedhaven follows its numbers.
Server-persistent world history that outlives everyone who made it.
The first guild to fell a world boss will have the region named after it — permanently, for every player. Ruins that players rebuild will stay rebuilt. Your server ends up with a history no other server has.
Today: The Chronicle records what the simulation does, such as a population falling to its floor. World bosses and rebuilt ruins are not in the game yet.
No patch should ever make your gear worthless.
The level ceiling is meant to arrive after forty to sixty hours. After that you grow sideways: new specialisations, new biomes, new crafting branches. Upgrades come from crafting, not from throwing away what you already earned.
Today: Forty to sixty hours is a design target, and the game today is one region.
Change your Calling without levelling again. Keep everything.
You pick a Calling at the start but you are not meant to be locked to it. Reweave from Warden to Ashbearer without levelling again — all progression stays, only the active weave changes.
Today: Nothing in the game offers a change of Calling yet.
Teaching new players should be a rewarded system, not a favour.
Veterans are to earn Chronicle points, cosmetics and crafting recipes for bringing new players up. It solves onboarding without paying for it.
Today: None of it is built yet.
Public drop tables. Public balance changelog. No hidden numbers.
No hidden RNG and no silent nerfs. Community tools are encouraged rather than tolerated, because a game that cannot survive being inspected has something to hide.
Today: Every creature's drop table and every change to a balance value are public, as JSON anybody can read. A market, and an API for it, are planned.
A decade of the same objections to the genre, the mechanic each one is answered with, and how far that answer is in the game.
| The complaint | The answer | Status |
|---|---|---|
| “The world resets every five minutes. Nothing I do matters.” | Ecosystem simulation and the Chronicle. | Partly in |
| “My legendary gear became junk when the expansion landed.” | Horizontal progression. | Planned |
| “The game is a second job made of daily quests.” | There are no daily quests: none of the game's quests repeats. | In the game |
| “If I take a month off, I can never catch up.” | Full catch-up for anyone who steps away. | Planned |
| “Crafting is pointless. Everything good drops from raids.” | Creatures drop materials and plans, never finished equipment. You craft the rest. | In the game |
| “The store sells power.” | There is no store, and nothing in the game is for sale. | In the game |
Three regions rather than ten, each meant to teach what the next one assumes you know. The others open when they are ready to play.
Coastal wetland · levels 1–15
Starting zone. Tutorial, first crafting, first sense that the world is watching.
Burnt plain · levels 15–30
The first ecosystem conflict. Overfarm here and the consequences arrive on foot.
Cave system · levels 25–40
First group content and the first world boss.
Patch notes, hotfixes and the development log, newest first.
Experience from creatures is now shared by damage and paid for a calm, and the first levels now come sooner and the later ones much later.
Four new creatures live in the marsh around Reedhaven, a creature that gives up a chase now walks home whole, and a quick return keeps your health.
The world's own record of what happened on this server, written by the world rather than by a marketing department.
At tick 40 the Marsh deer of The Ashreaches went from 154 to 150 heads, against a floor of 150 the model refuses to cross. The largest term was that 4 walked out to Reedhaven; nobody hunted them. The simulation wrote this; no player triggered it. Written from the ecosystem record on 2026-09-12: the rule that writes these did not exist on the day, and the numbers are the ones the tick recorded then.
Today the simulation writes it: when a population falls to the floor the model will not let it cross, the entry is written from the tick that computed it. Nobody curates it, and it cannot be reset.
When world bosses arrive, the first guild to fell one will have the region named after it, permanently, for every player.
