Personal discovery
Recovered Records enter your Journal.
Review the original title, content type, thumbnail and reaction link before deciding what to carry, store or contribute.
The world ahead
Your Passport is the beginning. This is where it will take you.
The Welpdom is being designed as a living, illustrated world shaped by its citizens. These images establish the visual direction for the playable Founding Phase; they are concept views, not screenshots of finished gameplay.
Welp Central
A place that changes because people participate.
Buildings will be functional places rather than decorative icons. Construction will appear in stages, expeditions will reveal territory, and personal campsites will record the lives developing around the settlement.
Release note: Welpdom 1.1 establishes Passports, verified history, achievements, Renown and Building Credits. The interactive map remains in a private Founding Trial. Its first public release is planned for early 2027.
The archive of Welp history
What you discover can give a community its purpose.
The world contains Lost Records drawn from reactions, reviews, Patreon exclusives, the Welp Vault and original Welp content. A finder first carries the Record personally. Depositing it in a community Archive preserves it for the wider Welpdom and helps build Collections around artists, shows and stories.
Shared preservation
Archived Records become community history.
Deposited Records join a shared, searchable Archive. Growing Collections can support future groups, buildings, exhibitions and community projects dedicated to the content people love.
Founding Trial demonstration. Layout, rewards and final collection requirements may change before Welpdom 1.2.
Lost Record
Not yet recovered within the Welpdom.
Recovered Record
Held by the citizen who found it.
Archived Record
Deposited and preserved for the wider community.
One world · many scales
From a hidden island to a place of your own.
The intended experience moves naturally between the wider island, its obscured provinces and counties, Welp Central, and the residence where a citizen’s personal story becomes visible.
I · The starting island
The first island anchors the world. Other provinces remain beneath the mist until citizens create the routes and conditions needed to reach them. As the island is explored, routes to a much larger world will become accessible.
II · The starting province
Welp Central is established at the river mouth. Four neighbouring counties remain unknown, each waiting to reveal its own terrain and possibilities.
III · Welp Central
A small founding settlement, its inland campground and the surrounding landscape form the community’s first shared place.
IV · Your campsite
Every citizen begins with a personal campsite that can display progress and grow more distinctive without requiring participation in a group project. Future expansion will allow residents to build and customize homes in newly discovered settlements.
The first playable chapter
Gather. Explore. Build.
Gather
Work alone or alongside others to bring timber, stone and future resources into the settlement.
Explore
Reveal nearby terrain, discoveries and opportunities—alone or as part of a community expedition.
Contribute
Give labour, resources or Building Credits to projects and watch their construction appear in the world.
The first vertical slice is planned around Welp Central, the campground, a forest, a quarry, one obscured exploration boundary and the community’s first Workshop. Its purpose is to prove that affecting the world feels satisfying before the realm expands.
Welpdom 1.2 · Planned for early 2027
Your history starts before the world opens.
Renown remembers what you did. Achievements mark important moments. Finding and archiving Records connects you to the content you know and love. Building Credits will help turn contribution into homes, institutions and a world the community can see growing.