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# The Worldbuilder
- URL: https://poetic.ly/worldbuilder/
- Published: 2026-11-14T05:32:55.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-14T05:32:55.000Z
- Description: Detail, describe and map your world from scratch, or get dynamic, generated edits to hone a world you’ve already made.
- Author: Christian Harder
- Tags: Workshop

The Workshop · Free tool

The Worldbuilder asks the questions that make an invented world specific: what the catastrophe is called by the people who survived it, how long ago it happened, which ordinary building now carries out the new rules, who works the shift there, and what it costs someone today.

It works four ways. **Build** walks you through those questions and, as you type, scores your answers against eight setting keys from the Worldcraft and Catacraft series: one building, a timetable, paperwork or an allowance, staff with ordinary motives, a fault-line conflict, what the catastrophe costs the people living in it, the small things that carry it from place to place, and one room never entered. **Map** places your locations on a page, colors each one by the side it belongs to, and draws the fault line between the two sides. **Hone a draft** reads pages you paste, scores them against the same keys plus a ninth, explanation load (how much of the page is spent explaining history), and writes edits built from your own places, people and sentences. Each edit is tied to the sentence in your draft that it revises or follows. **World bible** gathers everything you have entered into one document you can download and keep beside the manuscript.

The scores measure how specific the world is, not how good the prose is. A named document, such as Form 9-B or a yellow ration card, scores higher than a general phrase like “lots of paperwork.” Sentences that explain the regime’s history count against you, and the tool suggests replacing each one with an object that shows the history instead, such as a renamed street or an old uniform worn as a coat. Save a score as your “before,” revise, and return to see which keys improved.