Worlds Adrift Island Creator

Bossa Studios

Released: Apr 28, 2016
Platforms: Windows
Last updated: 11 Sep 2026, 12:29 GMT

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18 Mar 2019Developer post
Fancy Helping Us Make Our Next Game?
Here at Bossa, we want to make games that you’ll enjoy. End of. Otherwise, what’s the point, right? So it makes sense that we get YOU to help make them with us. Enter the Creator Club - a group of like-minded and also not-so-like-minded individuals who want to help us make the ve
25 Oct 2018Developer post
Shiny Prizes Await, But Dare Ye Enter our Halloween Competition?
Ahh Halloween, that blessed time of year when we have absolute carte blanche to add something decidedly spoopy (and only very loosely lore-tying) to Worlds Adrift. This time round? Thanks our latest update - the Pumpkin Patch - those with a nose for loot will be able to sniff out
11 Oct 2018Developer post
Get 25% OFF Worlds Adrift for a Limited Time ONLY!!
It’s time to raise your glasses, Travellers, and not least of all because alcohol has finally made it into Worlds Adrift ( don’t drink and fly! ), but because Update 27 - New Foundations - has officially taken flight! Not only does it mark the largest addition of new features (in
17 Jul 2018Developer post
Tech Tuesday: How to get YOUR islands IN-GAME!
Hey y’all, it’s ya boi Malford. King of islands and God of Hats ( Julia: Malford destroyed the hat economy on our last Hunt a Dev stream Recap: CLICKY ). We originally built the Island Creator as an internal tool so we could build islands for Worlds Adrift, but after Tom made it
Hey y’all, it’s ya boi Malford. King of islands and God of Hats (Julia: Malford destroyed the hat economy on our last Hunt a Dev stream Recap: CLICKY).
We originally built the Island Creator as an internal tool so we could build islands for Worlds Adrift, but after Tom made it excellent we decided to release it to the community. The islands you guys have made are one of the most amazing, impressive and beautiful things about our game and we’re forever grateful to our amazing community for that.
The Island Creator is a great creative tool, and we love people having fun with it and making cool, creative stuff. As we use the community crafted islands to build our world we’ve been asked plenty of times what our criteria for choosing islands are by people keen to increase their chances of getting an island in-game.
The key thing we look for in an island is that it’s believable. This is all a bit vague though, what specifically do you need to do to make a “believable” island?
Here are some tips:

Our main goal is to preserve a sense of immersion for our players in Worlds Adrift so the first thing we look for is consistency with the world that we’re creating together. Some islands might break immersion because the structures seem like something you might see in real life, but wouldn’t see in Foundation.

Keep it natural! We don’t get a lot of simple, natural islands submitted, but they’re a lot easier to get feeling coherent. When I make a Wilderness island I just try to make somewhere that feels like it would be fun to chill out.

Trees are usually a big factor when considering if an island will successfully be chosen to be in the game so you may want to take into account:

Tree size: those that are more or less 50% size of the normal default tree size work really well when designing your island. If you go bigger or smaller than that, it can create collision issues or be immersion breaking.

Keep it real: trees that are kept at a realistic angle help keep the level of immersion high for players. One way to avoid planting trees at crazy angles is not to use the “surface align” function when you place them, that way they’ll all be basically upright. You can add a bit of variation of angle manually later if it looks a bit unnatural, but it’s usually fine.

Tree colour: rather than a range of colours, one or two colours on trees looks great and a little more natural.

Attached items: remember that if a player cuts down a tree, any items attached would float in the air as a result. Avoiding attaching items to trees helps our selection.

When using the mass placement tool, take time to visually check that objects haven’t merged into each other.

Water effects are currently hard to recreate with the tool. The paint tool will give you a block of blue colour but probably it doesn’t look quite right, and if a player sees what they think is water and it turns out to be blue sand this will break their immersion.

When you prepare a landing area on your island, keep in mind that currently, shipyards can only be placed on normal terrain. You cannot place a shipyard on stones or on buildings. Planning this area in advance means players can visit your work, and we are more likely to select your island.

If your island has an underground structure and tunnels, you may want to consider having something at the end of it such as lore, a reward, or a nice room to avoid explorers being frustrated or disappointed if they only find a dead end.
We can’t guarantee that every island submitted will eventually make it into the game, but we hope this gives you an idea of what we look to include. These guidelines will keep evolving over time with each update and addition of extra features of the Island Creator.
You can also find more tips and discussion via the Island Creator forum, where some amazing community guides have already sprung up, and where you can share your own guidelines to help others.
Stay creative and see you in the skies!
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17 May 2018Developer post
Worlds Adrift - Out Now in Early Access!
After four years of development, and a boatload of anticipation, the world’s first Community-Crafted MMO, Worlds Adrift, begins its journey into Early Access today! Created by Bossa Studios, the brains behind the acclaimed Surgeon Simulator and I am Bread, Worlds Adrift is our mo
After four years of development, and a boatload of anticipation, the world’s first Community-Crafted MMO, Worlds Adrift, begins its journey into Early Access today!
Created by Bossa Studios, the brains behind the acclaimed Surgeon Simulator and I am Bread, Worlds Adrift is our most ambitious game yet, offering an entirely user-generated environment, with a completely unscripted style of play.
Previously in Closed Beta, Worlds Adrift today launches into Early Access and begins a new chapter in its development.
To celebrate this milestone Worlds Adrift now includes a new culture - the Kioki Unity - and over 100 new islands from our Island Creator community. For a quick preview of some of the new Kioki islands take a look at the GIF above!
Worlds Adrift will continue to evolve throughout Early Access, based on the extensive feedback you, our loyal band of Travellers, continue to provide. To follow progress and receive the latest updates sign up to our newsletter and follow our Roadmap.
See you in the Skies!
EXPLORE. BUILD. UNITE.
Worlds Adrift is launching with the latest build, 0.2.0, updates include:

Additional servers for both US and EU regions
The world has been wiped, and will launch with a brand new layout with brand new islands
The new world is now separated into two diverse cultural regions; Saborian and Kioki, the
latter bringing with it all-new music and assets
Numerous new clothing items from Sabor, Bandinia, Ishgiru, Karem, Pin
A brand new in-game feedback form
Multiple bug fixes
Probably new ones...
VFX and SFX improvements
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17 May 2018Developer post
Worlds Adrift EA Launch - World’s First Live Stream in the SKY! (12pm BST / 4am PDT / 6am EDT)
Join the Worlds Adrift team and a group of brave explorers as we soar up to 150ft in the air for an exciting launch day stream from 12pm - 6pm BST... on the deck of a sky ship brought to life! In a World’s first (the real world that is), Bossa and friends will be celebrating the
29 Mar 2018Developer post
Thank You Creators!
Worlds Adrift is a Community-Crafted MMO, but what exactly does that mean? Yes, ‘crafting’ plays a key element in the game, whether that’s building a better ship, forging a new alliance, or plotting out your next adventure, but it actually goes a lot deeper than that. In fact, lo
29 Mar 2018Developer post
Thank You Creators!
Worlds Adrift is a Community-Crafted MMO, but what exactly does that mean? Yes, ‘crafting’ plays a key element in the game, whether that’s building a better ship, forging a new alliance, or plotting out your next adventure, but it actually goes a lot deeper than that. In fact, lo
14 Nov 2017Developer post
Introducing Kioki: A New Worlds Adrift Culture
An ancient civilisation has been unearthed in Worlds Adrift. Known as the Kioki, this diverse and affluent nation prided themselves on the artistry of architecture. It’s now up to you - the Founders - to ensure their ways aren’t forgotten once more. Kioki marks the second culture
14 Nov 2017Developer post
Introducing Kioki: A New Worlds Adrift Culture
An ancient civilisation has been unearthed in Worlds Adrift. Known as the Kioki, this diverse and affluent nation prided themselves on the artistry of architecture. It’s now up to you - the Founders - to ensure their ways aren’t forgotten once more. Kioki marks the second culture
30 Oct 2017Developer post
Spooky Island Creator Competition - Happy Hallow-Win!
Un-chomp that apple. Step away from the pumpkin. And unwrap that roll of toilet paper from around your mate’s leg. Cos this Halloween, the competition* on everyone's cornflour and food colouring blood covered lips is our spooky Island Creator contest… and yes, there’s a scarily g
30 Oct 2017Developer post
Spooky Island Creator Competition - Happy Hallow-Win!
Un-chomp that apple. Step away from the pumpkin. And unwrap that roll of toilet paper from around your mate’s leg. Cos this Halloween, the competition* on everyone's cornflour and food colouring blood covered lips is our spooky Island Creator contest… and yes, there’s a scarily g
29 Aug 2017Developer post
New Gameplay features are NOW LIVE!
EDIT **new gameplay features NOW LIVE** Greetings island creators! A couple of months ago, we mentioned that we were working on major updates for the Island Creator - updates that would allow you to act as game designers. Go wild as we're proud to say the update is NOW LIVE! You
29 Aug 2017Developer post
New Gameplay features are NOW LIVE!
EDIT **new gameplay features NOW LIVE** Greetings island creators! A couple of months ago, we mentioned that we were working on major updates for the Island Creator - updates that would allow you to act as game designers. Go wild as we're proud to say the update is NOW LIVE! You
09 Jun 2017Developer post
WORLDS ADRIFT ISLAND CREATOR UPDATE
The new Island Creator Update is now live, restart Steam to download the update! We invite you to watch the video below for a better overview, but here is the patch notes on the menu this week: Custom Groups and Material sets are now shareable via the Steam Workshop! Complete ove
The new Island Creator Update is now live, restart Steam to download the update! We invite you to watch the video below for a better overview, but here is the patch notes on the menu this week:

Custom Groups and Material sets are now shareable via the Steam Workshop!
Complete overhaul of Steam Workshop Window.
Materials now feature auto fill options, you can customize fill settings per layer and paint the whole island in a single click. These are also part of the material sharing, so downloading other creators material setups and applying them to your islands is now super simple.
Dynamic Grass is now an option to generate grass blades procedurally anywhere that layer is painted. Options for thickness, softness and height variation can create long hay fields or lush meadows equally well.
Spectator camera option for smoother screen recording to show off your creations in style.
Temperature slider to preview how your island might look in different biomes in the main game.
Character now selects clothing from the starter items in the main game and randomizes the colours to match.
New cliff assets.
Updated grass assets.
The standard array of bug fixes and optimizations.
https://youtu.be/dEcWic5y9cM
The Worlds Adrift Island Creator is available for free (and will always be) on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/271920/Worlds_Adrift_Island_Creator/
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09 Jun 2017Developer post
WORLDS ADRIFT ISLAND CREATOR UPDATE
The new Island Creator Update is now live, restart Steam to download the update! We invite you to watch the video below for a better overview, but here is the patch notes on the menu this week: Custom Groups and Material sets are now shareable via the Steam Workshop! Complete ove
The new Island Creator Update is now live, restart Steam to download the update! We invite you to watch the video below for a better overview, but here is the patch notes on the menu this week:

Custom Groups and Material sets are now shareable via the Steam Workshop!
Complete overhaul of Steam Workshop Window.
Materials now feature auto fill options, you can customize fill settings per layer and paint the whole island in a single click. These are also part of the material sharing, so downloading other creators material setups and applying them to your islands is now super simple.
Dynamic Grass is now an option to generate grass blades procedurally anywhere that layer is painted. Options for thickness, softness and height variation can create long hay fields or lush meadows equally well.
Spectator camera option for smoother screen recording to show off your creations in style.
Temperature slider to preview how your island might look in different biomes in the main game.
Character now selects clothing from the starter items in the main game and randomizes the colours to match.
New cliff assets.
Updated grass assets.
The standard array of bug fixes and optimizations.
https://youtu.be/dEcWic5y9cM
The Worlds Adrift Island Creator is available for free (and will always be) on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/271920/Worlds_Adrift_Island_Creator/
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13 Apr 2017Developer post
Worlds Adrift 0.0.6 update
Travelers! First of all, thank you for your patience, we are glad to share that 0.0.6 is now live. On the menu, you’ll find that we redesigned the logical game progression. This new approach is closer to what we envisioned for Worlds Adrift. The world is now divided into Biomes.
Travelers! First of all, thank you for your patience, we are glad to share that 0.0.6 is now live. On the menu, you’ll find that we redesigned the logical game progression. This new approach is closer to what we envisioned for Worlds Adrift. The world is now divided into Biomes. As such, you’ll find the first four Biomes: Wilderness, Expanse, Remnants, Badlands separated by natural weather barrier. Each biome will have its own loot, resources, schematics, rewards & secrets to discover.
One of the totally new gameplay features we’ve added is cooking. Forage berries or use a campfire to cook meat, you’ll need to regenerate your health by eating. More changes come under the form of the revamped sky core. You now have one sky core per ship that you can upgrade. Having one sky core per ship will allow you to have more space to customize your ship.
You can now climb any surface making it easier to explore islands or simply have a higher point of view from your ship flag pole. You’ll also find the new “Global illumination” lighting change that will make Islands, caves and interiors look better than ever before.
As usual, this is a new patch,with lots of new content and we would truly appreciate your comments & feedbacks below!
Full Patch Notes:
KNOWN ISSUES & WORKAROUNDS

Occasionally, after the client has been running for a few hours, approaching a new island will cause a 5-10 second freeze, after which the player will be thrown off the ship. Restart the client to fix.
Logging in onto a moving ship may result in the ship having moved out from under the character by the time the character loads in.
Climbing on very bent ship panels will do serious damage to the player: Avoid these for now.
The client will enter a ‘not responding’ state or crash occasionally: Restart the client to fix.
When taking control of a helm or cannon, a player will sometimes be seen in an incorrect place.
WiFi may incur problems: Best played on an ethernet connection for now. NEW FEATURES IN ALPHA 0.0.6
Biomes have been added to the game, with the first four implemented.
Biomes determine loot tables, resources, schematics, and rewards.
Biomes determine creature variants and behaviors.
Biomes determine surrounding weather barriers.
Sandstorms have been added to the game.
The start of the game and key schematics have been revised, along with the Knowledge tree.
A rehaul to the atlas sky core has been implemented: ships are now restricted to a single core, which is upgradeable through attaching specific addons.
A completely revamped lighting solution for island caves and interiors has been implemented.
Creatures’ corpses can now be salvaged for meat, which can be cooked and eaten to regenerate player health. Harvesting trees also gives berries, which also regenerate health.
Objects abandoned on islands will eventually sink into the ground and decay. You may come across an island with the buried wreckage of another player’s adventures.
Lightning striking from the death clouds below will hit islands and excite the atlas within, burying some objects forever and bringing others to the surface.
Ships and ship parts have a new aesthetic; both materials and damage should now show properly.
Players can now combine the same resource of different qualities. The new quality is a weighted average of the two previous stacks.
Metal scrap deposits have had their placeholder art replaced with final assets.
Sails have had their placeholder art updated; animation and audio added.
Ancient revival chambers have had their placeholder potat - err, art - replaced with final assets.
Saborian databanks have had their placeholder art replaced with final assets; animation added.
Characters have gained the ability to climb. Press Q when near a surface or object and your character will grab on; WASD will control your climb.
Player respawn rules have been updated: timers have been added, random respawn is now limited to two uses per day and keeps you within the current zone, and respawning to any revival chamber now immediately severs your connection to your existing personal reviver. NOTABLE BUGFIXES IN 0.0.6
Upon logging in following a crash, players will no longer constantly get reset to the pre-crash position and state.
When approaching a new island, the client should now only rarely freeze for a notable amount of time. There will still be little hiccups that will be optimised away in a future update.
Players, when ragdolled, will no longer exert extreme forces with their limp body.
Cannon shells should no longer rubberband, causing havoc on their own ships. Their damage calculations have also had various bugs fixed. Rendering objects on islands has been significantly optimized. Framerates should increase noticeably.
Ships rubberbanding while flying has been significantly reduced.
Building parts onto the hull of ships will no longer result in extreme framerate degradation.
Many situations where ships or ship parts silently stopped functioning (fuel tanks being a common example) have been fixed.
Sometimes the connection menu would lay over the in-game screen, making it impossible to play. This has been fixed.
In-game broadcasts have been fixed; messages, including those notifying players of an upcoming maintenance, should be visible again.
Trees should no longer duplicate when chopped.
Mysterious clumps of metal or eggs should no longer spawn at specific points in the open air.
Ships should no longer log out when docked to the shipyard - regardless of the status of players.
Islands with missing assets now have them showing appropriately. Murals now show their logograms correctly.
This is pretty small in the grand scheme of things, but large in the minds of shipbuilders everywhere: the Artificial Horizon placement has been fixed!
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13 Apr 2017Developer post
Worlds Adrift 0.0.6 update
Travelers! First of all, thank you for your patience, we are glad to share that 0.0.6 is now live. On the menu, you’ll find that we redesigned the logical game progression. This new approach is closer to what we envisioned for Worlds Adrift. The world is now divided into Biomes.
Travelers! First of all, thank you for your patience, we are glad to share that 0.0.6 is now live. On the menu, you’ll find that we redesigned the logical game progression. This new approach is closer to what we envisioned for Worlds Adrift. The world is now divided into Biomes. As such, you’ll find the first four Biomes: Wilderness, Expanse, Remnants, Badlands separated by natural weather barrier. Each biome will have its own loot, resources, schematics, rewards & secrets to discover.
One of the totally new gameplay features we’ve added is cooking. Forage berries or use a campfire to cook meat, you’ll need to regenerate your health by eating. More changes come under the form of the revamped sky core. You now have one sky core per ship that you can upgrade. Having one sky core per ship will allow you to have more space to customize your ship.
You can now climb any surface making it easier to explore islands or simply have a higher point of view from your ship flag pole. You’ll also find the new “Global illumination” lighting change that will make Islands, caves and interiors look better than ever before.
As usual, this is a new patch,with lots of new content and we would truly appreciate your comments & feedbacks below!
Full Patch Notes:
KNOWN ISSUES & WORKAROUNDS

Occasionally, after the client has been running for a few hours, approaching a new island will cause a 5-10 second freeze, after which the player will be thrown off the ship. Restart the client to fix.
Logging in onto a moving ship may result in the ship having moved out from under the character by the time the character loads in.
Climbing on very bent ship panels will do serious damage to the player: Avoid these for now.
The client will enter a ‘not responding’ state or crash occasionally: Restart the client to fix.
When taking control of a helm or cannon, a player will sometimes be seen in an incorrect place.
WiFi may incur problems: Best played on an ethernet connection for now. NEW FEATURES IN ALPHA 0.0.6
Biomes have been added to the game, with the first four implemented.
Biomes determine loot tables, resources, schematics, and rewards.
Biomes determine creature variants and behaviors.
Biomes determine surrounding weather barriers.
Sandstorms have been added to the game.
The start of the game and key schematics have been revised, along with the Knowledge tree.
A rehaul to the atlas sky core has been implemented: ships are now restricted to a single core, which is upgradeable through attaching specific addons.
A completely revamped lighting solution for island caves and interiors has been implemented.
Creatures’ corpses can now be salvaged for meat, which can be cooked and eaten to regenerate player health. Harvesting trees also gives berries, which also regenerate health.
Objects abandoned on islands will eventually sink into the ground and decay. You may come across an island with the buried wreckage of another player’s adventures.
Lightning striking from the death clouds below will hit islands and excite the atlas within, burying some objects forever and bringing others to the surface.
Ships and ship parts have a new aesthetic; both materials and damage should now show properly.
Players can now combine the same resource of different qualities. The new quality is a weighted average of the two previous stacks.
Metal scrap deposits have had their placeholder art replaced with final assets.
Sails have had their placeholder art updated; animation and audio added.
Ancient revival chambers have had their placeholder potat - err, art - replaced with final assets.
Saborian databanks have had their placeholder art replaced with final assets; animation added.
Characters have gained the ability to climb. Press Q when near a surface or object and your character will grab on; WASD will control your climb.
Player respawn rules have been updated: timers have been added, random respawn is now limited to two uses per day and keeps you within the current zone, and respawning to any revival chamber now immediately severs your connection to your existing personal reviver. NOTABLE BUGFIXES IN 0.0.6
Upon logging in following a crash, players will no longer constantly get reset to the pre-crash position and state.
When approaching a new island, the client should now only rarely freeze for a notable amount of time. There will still be little hiccups that will be optimised away in a future update.
Players, when ragdolled, will no longer exert extreme forces with their limp body.
Cannon shells should no longer rubberband, causing havoc on their own ships. Their damage calculations have also had various bugs fixed. Rendering objects on islands has been significantly optimized. Framerates should increase noticeably.
Ships rubberbanding while flying has been significantly reduced.
Building parts onto the hull of ships will no longer result in extreme framerate degradation.
Many situations where ships or ship parts silently stopped functioning (fuel tanks being a common example) have been fixed.
Sometimes the connection menu would lay over the in-game screen, making it impossible to play. This has been fixed.
In-game broadcasts have been fixed; messages, including those notifying players of an upcoming maintenance, should be visible again.
Trees should no longer duplicate when chopped.
Mysterious clumps of metal or eggs should no longer spawn at specific points in the open air.
Ships should no longer log out when docked to the shipyard - regardless of the status of players.
Islands with missing assets now have them showing appropriately. Murals now show their logograms correctly.
This is pretty small in the grand scheme of things, but large in the minds of shipbuilders everywhere: the Artificial Horizon placement has been fixed!
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25 Feb 2017Developer post
APPLY FOR OUR FINAL ALPHA PLAYTEST!
Ahoy travelers! We’ve got some fantastic news that you’ll want to hear ... Worlds Adrift is about to head into Alpha 6 and we need even more stalwart crew members to sail the skies and find adventure where others dare not tread. Now will be YOUR LAST CHANCE to join an alpha playt
25 Feb 2017Developer post
APPLY FOR OUR FINAL ALPHA PLAYTEST!
Ahoy travelers! We’ve got some fantastic news that you’ll want to hear ... Worlds Adrift is about to head into Alpha 6 and we need even more stalwart crew members to sail the skies and find adventure where others dare not tread. Now will be YOUR LAST CHANCE to join an alpha playt