Product updates

What’s new in Paracosm Studio.

New releases, meaningful improvements and the details behind how the studio is evolving.

Alpha release · Version 1

Your world, from the first coastline to the next chapter

Alpha v1 brings maps, civilisations, Wiki and Scribe into one connected workspace. This release rounds up the foundations and the latest improvements to generation, sharing, saving and everyday use.

World generation

Create seeded planets with terrain, climate and geography shaped by your settings.

  • Coastlines, elevation, rainfall, biomes and rivers
  • Reworked Inland Seas with winding shores, bays and peninsulas
  • New generator improvements leave existing saved geography intact

Map styles and analysis

Choose a useful view for each part of your worldbuilding.

  • Clean Map and Natural Atlas included on Free
  • Satellite, relief, political and thematic map views
  • Map analysis keys and an Inspector for local geography and climate

Editing and regeneration

Refine an existing world without starting the whole thing again.

  • Terrain, state, settlement and label editing
  • Regenerate individual layers, including rivers, states and names
  • Cancel regeneration or undo the last result

Solar systems and worlds

Build a wider setting around your maps.

  • Stars, planets, moons and orbital relationships
  • Connected solar-system and universe workspaces
  • Globe views alongside your editable maps

Civilisations and identity

Give the people and powers of your setting a more distinctive starting point.

  • Cultures, factions, states and editable territories
  • More varied names shaped by culture and era
  • Generated state flags and improved distribution across landmasses

Wiki and connected canon

Keep your setting reference alongside the places and stories it describes.

  • Organised folders and wiki entries
  • Links between lore, worlds and creative work
  • A shared home for the details of your setting

Scribe and campaigns

Plan and write the stories that happen in your world.

  • Story and campaign workspaces, outlines and planning boards
  • Rich text writing with Markdown export
  • Improved cloud saving, recovery and protection against stale edits

Saving, imports and exports

Return to saved projects and bring your work in and out of the studio.

  • Local and cloud saving, with save-status and conflict handling
  • World JSON import/export and PNG map export
  • Custom map artwork and heightmap imports on eligible plans

Sharing and mobile reading

Let others explore the parts of your setting you choose to share.

  • Read-only links and invitations with owner-selected scope
  • Revoke access when you need to
  • Read saved work on your phone; create and edit on desktop

Appearance and performance

Make the studio comfortable for your screen and the way you work.

  • Theme, wallpaper, material and compact-navigation controls together
  • Graphics quality settings for maps and 3D views
  • Reduced map rendering work and clearer responsive toolbars

Plans and account controls

See your plan, available features and billing actions in one place.

  • Clearer Free and paid feature labels
  • Upgrade, downgrade and end-of-period cancellation controls
  • Redeem access codes in Billing & subscription

Help and feedback

Find guidance and tell us what would make worldbuilding easier.

  • Searchable Help Centre and guided product tour
  • In-app feedback and issue reporting
  • Clearer account menus and studio loading screens
More to come

Help shape the next release.

Paracosm Studio is in alpha and still evolving. Use in-app feedback or the Help Centre to report an issue, share an idea or tell us what gets in your way.

Build worlds that never existed — until now.

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