Everwood

Everwood is a hard roleplay server in development with a classic WoW setting. It drops the usual MMO loop: no XP leveling, raids, questing or dungeons. Characters are ordinary people in a dark and hostile world, in a timeline set before Classic. A character’s strength comes from a four-tier system, and the GM and DM team, helped by AI, decides who moves up based on how well the player plays the role, their record and feedback from DMs. Fights use the team’s own turn-based combat on a hex grid. Death is permanent once the GMs confirm it, unless the character is raised as undead, and defeated characters can be robbed of their gear. Planned systems include slider-based character customization, a simulated economy with production chains, manufactories and taxes, land ownership with fiefs and vassals, housing with real-time furniture placement, books written by players and mounts that can be killed or stolen. The world keeps the classic models without HD replacements, and the team made an improved lighting and water module for Benilla, an open-source classic WoW client, which it has shared with other projects. It promises no pay-to-win and public moderation precedents. The community speaks English and Russian, with real-time AI translation between them. The September 2026 announcement planned a first closed alpha for that month, focused on character customization and combat. News comes on Discord, which had 626 members in October 2026.