News Archive

• October 13, 2023 - Start of World 15 HnH Topic: World 15.
• September 29, 2023 - World 15 start announced for October 13, 2023 HnH Topic: Prelude: World 15.
• August 12, 2022 - Start of World 14 HnH Topic: World 14.
• Juli 29, 2022 - World 14 start announced for August 12, 2022 HnH Topic: Prelude: World 14.
• April 2, 2021 - Start of World 13 HnH Topic: World 13.
• March 21, 2021 - World 13 start announced for April 2, 2021 HnH Topic: Prelude: World 13.
• March 6, 2020 - Start of World 12 HnH Topic: World 12.
• February 23, 2020 - World 12 start announced for 6 March 2020 HnH Topic: Prelude: World 12.
• August 21, 2019 - Seasons arrived at Haven. HnH Topic: Game Development: Season's Greetings.
• February 27, 2019 - World-11, Forums and the whole shebang transferred to new hardware.
• February 25, 2019 - Legacy World-7 transferred to new hardware - still running since June 2013.
• February 1, 2019 - World-10 ended, World-11 starts.
• January 7, 2017 - World-9 ended, World-10 starts.
• February 18, 2016 - World-8 ends, World-9 Starts.
• September 12, 2015 - Wiki refreshed for Hafen.
• August 28, 2015 - Release of 3D codebase, 'Hafen'. World-8 Begins.
• August 28, 2015 - World-7 with old 2D codebase, 'Legacy' still active - no longer updated.
• June 24, 2013 - World 7 was expanded to 7x7 supergrids.
• June 03, 2013 5:46 a.m. UTC+2 - World 7 has been created.
• June 03, 2013 5:01 a.m. UTC+2 - All characters deleted.
• June 03, 2013 4:26 a.m. UTC+2 - World 6 ends.
• March 20, 2013 - After a long laggy time loftar wrote a patch and applied it - World 6 still running.
• October 25, 2011 - World 6 has been created.
• March 13, 2011 - World 5 has been created.
• March 12, 2011 - World 4 ends.
• January 11, 2011 - World 4 has been created.
• January 11, 2011 - World 3 ends - Great Flood
• February 27, 2010 - World 2 ends - Great Flood
• September 7, 2009 - Crafting gets an overhaul and the map generator changes. (details)
• August 25, 2009 - [RoB] Semantic MediaWiki activated. Adaptation of current content begins.
• August 22, 2009 - [RoB] The [[:Template:Infobox food2 |food template]] is now functional. This will automatically compute various mathematical data. Please use this for all future food objects.
• July 17, 2009 - Initial seeding complete; wiki surpasses 250 articles.
• July 7, 2009 - The first real information is added!
• June 3, 2009 - [RoB] This Ring of Brodgar wiki is created!

Some additional history stuff taken from H&H forum.

[by loftar » Sun Oct 27, 2013]: For anyone who's interested, some early milestones include the following (taken approximately from memory):

• Sometime in like 2005: Jorb starts presenting the idea to me.
• September 2007: Under the guise of "teaching him how to do it", Jorb tricks me into actually starting developing a simple single-player version. (Jorb has some truly stone-age mockup of Haven still lying around that he may feel free to post if he wants to.)
• Some month or so later: We switch to a client/server model.
• December 8th 2007: The characters Jorb and Loftar are born. A few weeks later they can walk around, chop down trees, and pick up the whole logs into their inventories. (As a piece of trivia, I and Jorb still have the entry left for the initial inventory format, both full of logs.)
• Spring 2008: Major rework of resource handling and switch to OpenGL.
• I think somewhere between here, cows are implemented, and their hides are made dryable and tannable.
• August 2008: The homepage is first made, with open registrations. Though noone registers. QQ
• October 2008: The combat system and accompanying death are implemented and by the hand of Jorb, the hearthlands are soon robbed of their innocence.
• More mechanics are added.
• Late May/June 2009: People actually start registering, arriving via [SGA], wherein we participated.
  • [1] The Haven & Hearth page at the Swedish Game Awards(SGA) site. (Containing early game development images)