Haven and Hearth

I think currently that team is developing very similiar game called Salem :)

I found current map of Haven and Hearth (still not fully mapped). As far as I know its world 7 since game start. http://sabinati.com/havenmap/

You can see how big the world is...Zoom with mouse wheel to see more details.

Maybe some people here remember discussion where Haven and Hearth was found to be the only true free to play MMORPG in existence.

Anyway I played H&H with friends for a while and we were doing great. We had a pretty big sized village with houses, fields, mine entrance and small forest protected by palisade. But game become boring too fast and started to feel like work - we had to login every day and do some mindless tasks or else we didn't receive skill points, crops wither, food spoil, items broke, we could be robbed etc. So we became one of those ghost towns ourselves. I hate to say that, but while exploration and survival is fun at first, there isn't much to do in endgame.

I played H&H alot, permadeath puts everything you do in perspective, your character really is "built" and needs security

It was a huge communist village named Melsonia :3 and had all the goodies as an exclusive miner :D Bear sallamy, Midnight Blue cheese etc :D

And yes we had a gulag for the new recruits

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Our spot after a huge exodus

I loved this game since W3 and I wanted to play in older world when I saw how simple it was before :| I played every world then... W4 as a miner with friend in a Village then in Winterfell, W5 we had our own Village and recruited some players but we got bored quickly, I remember I could kill a boar and deer with only unarmed and sword... W6 I started with random guys, we made a big Palisade, planted some crops, but then I was just wandering and saw a fox. I was going to kill it witn unarmed (around 40 skill points) and I did, then I saw another one so I attacked it. I had too low Health and Fox started to gain Iniciative and I lost my character, lel. Then I made a break for about 1 or half a year. When I came back I settled alone and meet some Russians that took me into their Village, It didn't last for long ( about 3 weeks) because then they restarted the world and W7 has started. I don't remember do I played it, but I would like to play the old good H&H, me and my friends that I played with don't have the power to play it again xd. I also tried Salem, but I realised that it is very different from H&H... I played with a friend I met in game, but then he was offline for long time and the game was too hard for me alone... Too many skill points, eating special food, hunting... Now I don't play it, but I was wondering if it is possible to play H&H Singleplayer or Lan or something, but I don't think so it is possible. Anyways, I have a nice experience with H&H and i will allways remember it :)

I haven't played the game for a while, but I loved the basic ideas behind it and it's probably the best survival game around. I got bored, though - ultimately it becomes a ridiculous 'eat as much as you can' grind and lacks any serious universal goals, especially for solo players or those just playing with close friends. I highly recommend anyone who enjoys survival/crafting games gives it a go anyway, but unfortunately for longer term enjoyment you need to be part of a larger group.

The game actually has a somewhat rare item named after me. :) I became infamous for some of my deeds during an early version - in particular, I sabotaged a rapidly growing village by chopping down all of their trees, and that was at a time when it wasn't actually possible to plant new trees. Opinions of me were mixed - even my own opinions of myself and what I did are mixed, haha - but I'm kinda proud of my part in the game's history and honoured that the developer added a little tribute to me.

It seems that much people left the game, but is it still alive?