THUNDERCLOUD · PUBLIC ALPHA 0.4.1

A little light. A wider world.

Hearthwild is a free browser fantasy RPG. Choose a Warden, Ranger, or Emberweaver; gather resources, craft equipment, complete five quests, and face the Rootbound Warden with other travelers. Then follow a lantern into a tactical expedition and discover a different way to fight.

Playing together

Anyone can visit this website and preview character collections. Open the account page to choose an available sign-in and save your traveler. Existing ChatGPT accounts remain supported. Google, Facebook, and Microsoft sign-in become available when our Thundercloud identity service is connected. Choose the same realm as your friends to share enemies, resources, and chat. Three realms are available, each configured for up to 24 active characters and 200 saved characters. These are alpha limits, not a claim of tested large-scale capacity.

Your account has three character slots in each realm. Progress saves as you play. If a realm fills, try another. Use touch controls, keyboard movement, or click a destination to walk.

Your first world and expeditions are free

The original Lantern Realm and all expedition content are free, including the former Beyond the Lantern expansion. The Lanternlands adds 300 procedural routes: ten biomes × ten journey scenarios × three wild conditions. Each has five encounters. These are combinations of rules, enemy patterns, and conditions within a shared expedition system, not 300 separately handcrafted worlds.

Read the enemy’s next move and forecast. Strike then use your skill for a combo; guard a heavy blow, then counterattack. Choose from 24 boons and decide whether your next crossing should be steady, bold, or resourceful. Collect 12 relics, complete 12 achievement contracts, develop ten mastery levels, unlock three challenge tiers, and earn six palettes through play.

Expeditions are solo tactical journeys with their own progression. Start in Lantern Rest; your shared-world character waits safely while a run is active. You can resume it later or leave it. The Frontier Pass is a separate purchase for new shared-world geography; it is not needed for any expedition.

The Lantern Frontier · CA$9 once

The Frontier Pass unlocks 199 additional shared-world regions. Together with the original free region, the world contains 200 regions at the original 2,400 × 1,700 scale: 200 times the original total map area. Each has a camp, encounters, resources, and landmarks to survey. Travel from camp to a neighboring region, then revisit discovered camps through the atlas.

The new regions combine authored biome styles with procedural layouts. They are not 199 individually written story campaigns. The pass works on all your character slots and realms on the purchasing account. It requires online play. The pass includes this release’s regions, without a promise of future content or an unlimited service term.

Frontier access is separate from cosmetic collections, the Creator Atlas asset license, and historical Beyond the Lantern purchases. A refunded or suspended pass returns a traveler safely to the free village while preserving character progress. Original-world quests, all 300 expedition routes, earned palettes, and free customization remain free.

Your traveler, your look

The character studio includes four silhouettes and eight choices each for skin tone, hair, hair color, outfit, headwear, accessory, and cloth dye. These modular choices and the Wayfarer collection are free. Preview every premium collection and its animations before deciding whether to buy.

The catalogue contains 2,048 procedurally assembled animated sprite sheets, 512 in each of four families. Each sheet has 128 frames: eight frames for each of four actions in four directions. The sheets are 384 × 1,024-pixel PNGs with 48 × 64-pixel frames, accompanied by frame metadata. The catalogue combines original modular pixel shapes; it is not a collection of 2,048 individually hand-drawn characters.

The Lantern Atelier

Our first-party marketplace sells optional character art. Prices are in Canadian dollars, paid once. There is no subscription, loot box, or random purchase.

Creator Atlas permits you to modify and embed the supplied art in games, apps, and media, including commercial projects. It is non-exclusive and does not allow reselling or redistributing the sheets as a standalone asset pack. Thundercloud names and marks are not included. Individual collections and free Wayfarer downloads include personal use. Read the complete license in the marketplace or in each download before use.

Downloads include single PNG sheets and JSON metadata, or ZIP parts containing 64 sheets. Eight parts make a complete collection. Active original Beyond the Lantern buyers receive Creator Atlas and all three premium themes automatically; there is nothing to buy again for those collections. The new Frontier Pass is separate. Buying a theme separately does not apply an automatic credit toward a later bundle purchase.

Purchases and account access

Start checkout inside the signed-in marketplace so the purchase is linked to your account. Stripe handles payment information; review the final amount and currency before paying. Access appears after Stripe confirms payment. Some methods take longer: if you have paid, check your collection again before purchasing a second time.

The game stores an opaque checkout reference linked to your game account, the purchased offer, and minimal payment-event, session, and PaymentIntent identifiers with amount, currency, status, and time. It does not copy card details, billing addresses, or payment email addresses into its database. A full refund revokes access from that purchase; an open or lost payment dispute suspends it. These account rules do not replace any applicable consumer rights.

Your information

Your character progress and an opaque game account identifier are saved on the server. Existing ChatGPT accounts retain their original identifier. When Thundercloud sign-in is enabled, Keycloak at auth.thundercloud.gg verifies your chosen identity provider; a verified issuer and subject are linked to your game account. Connecting another sign-in requires proof of both accounts. Matching email addresses never combine accounts. Your character name, appearance, and position are visible to players in the same region; recent realm chat is shared across that realm. Choose a name you are comfortable sharing and keep personal information out of chat.

Thundercloud sign-in uses secure, HttpOnly cookies for a short sign-in transaction and a game session lasting up to one hour. The server stores hashed session identifiers and limited sign-in records. Provider access, refresh, and identity tokens are not retained by the game or placed in browser storage. Signing out of Hearthwild ends the game session; it does not sign you out of every Google, Facebook, Microsoft, or Thundercloud application.

This browser stores your selected realm, character slot, sound preference, and draft character name and class locally. A temporary checkout marker helps show payment status but cannot grant ownership. Signing in on another device lets you continue with the same realm and slot.

An adventure in progress

This is a small multiplayer alpha with a shared world and solo expeditions. The terrain is decorative; obstacle collision, player trading, guild administration, and player-versus-player combat are not part of this release. The marketplace sells Thundercloud’s own collections and does not accept third-party sellers. No release schedule or future paid content is promised.

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