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Build settlements, forge weapons, manage logistics and fight alongside massive player armies in a persistent medieval sandbox built around conquest and large-scale sieges.
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Anvil Empires Animal Fat: Farming Guide & Supply Chain Tips
Learn how to obtain and use animal fat in Anvil Empires, from hunting and husbandry to processing, stockpiling, and delivering supplies to front-line armies.
Anvil Empires Donkey: Logistics & Transport Guide
Learn how donkeys power transport in Anvil Empires: hauling resources, supply routes, farming support, and keeping front-line armies resupplied.
Anvil Empires Catapult: Siege Weapon Setup & Tactics Guide
Learn how catapults work in Anvil Empires sieges, from construction and crew roles to firing tactics, positioning, and counter-siege defense.
Anvil Empires Boats: Naval Transport & Water Crossing Tips
Learn how boats work in Anvil Empires: crossing rivers and seas, building and crewing vessels, and using water routes for logistics and warfare.
Anvil Empires Animal Bones: Farming Guide & Crafting Uses
Learn how to farm animal bones in Anvil Empires, where hunting works best, and how bones feed crafting, equipment, and settlement logistics.
Anvil Empires How to Play: Beginner Walkthrough & First Hour Tips
Learn how to play Anvil Empires from scratch: faction choice, bounties, crafting, avatar recruitment, food, and survival in this beginner walkthrough.
Anvil Empires Ancients: Faction Siege Warfare Guide
Learn how the Ancients faction fights in Anvil Empires pre-alpha wars: siege camps, battering rams, war strategies, and the AI defense debate.
Anvil Empires Beginner Guide: First Hour Walkthrough & Tips
Learn Anvil Empires basics: gathering branches, flint, and berries, cooking food, building a settlement, crafting tools, and hunting in your first hour.
Anvil Empires Coal: How to Get Coal and Use It
Learn how coal works in Anvil Empires, where to gather it, how to smelt with it, and why it fuels the war economy of this medieval MMO.
Anvil Empires Map Size: World Scale & Terrain Breakdown
How big is the Anvil Empires world map? Explore map scale, region structure, Underworld levels, travel distances, and logistics planning.
Anvil Empires Map Icons: Symbols Guide & Navigation Tips
Learn every Anvil Empires map icon, from towns and homesteads to resource nodes and front lines, plus navigation tips for solo logistics players.
Anvil Empires Release Date: Current Status & Access Guide
Anvil Empires has no confirmed release date yet. Learn its pre-alpha status, how to join playtests, and new bounty system changes.
Anvil Empires Release Date and Playtest
Check the current release status, Steam availability, and playtest access options for Anvil Empires.
Anvil Empires is a persistent medieval warfare MMO from Siege Camp, the studio behind Foxhole. The game is listed on Steam but does not yet have a confirmed full release date, with development and large-scale testing continuing before launch.
Full Release Status
The full Anvil Empires release date has not been announced. The game remains in active development while Siege Camp expands its persistent medieval world, settlement systems, logistics, combat, and large-scale warfare.
Steam Availability
Anvil Empires has an official Steam store page where players can follow the game, add it to their wishlist, and track future availability and development announcements.
Playtest Access
Testing is handled through limited playtest periods rather than a permanent public release. When Steam Playtest access is available, eligible players can request participation directly through the game's Steam page.
Development Tests
Playtests are used to evaluate large player populations, settlement building, logistics, combat, world persistence, and other interconnected systems before the full launch.
Anvil Empires Beginner Guide
Learn the basic gameplay loop from your first resource run to joining a settlement and supporting a larger army.
Anvil Empires is built around a persistent world where thousands of players contribute to settlements, production, logistics, construction, and warfare. New players do not need to become frontline fighters immediately because gathering materials, transporting supplies, and helping a settlement grow are all meaningful parts of the war.
Learn Your Surroundings
Start by exploring the nearby settlement and identifying storage, production, construction, and gathering areas. Understanding where resources enter and leave a settlement makes every later task easier.
Gather Basic Resources
Collect raw materials needed by your local community. Resource gathering feeds construction and production, making it one of the simplest ways for a new player to contribute.
Support Settlement Production
Move gathered materials into the settlement economy and help turn them into useful supplies. Production players support builders, logistics groups, and soldiers operating farther from home.
Help Build and Maintain the Settlement
Join construction projects such as housing, production structures, defensive works, roads, and larger fortifications. Coordinated settlements become important economic and military hubs.
Learn Logistics
Transport food, equipment, construction materials, and military supplies between production areas and the front. Reliable logistics keeps armies operating and prevents frontline positions from running out of resources.
Join the War Effort
Once you understand the economy and controls, join other players in organized combat, sieges, defenses, or army movements. Large battles depend on coordination between frontline fighters and the players supporting them.
Anvil Empires Building Guide
Understand how settlements grow from basic communities into fortified population centers.
Construction in Anvil Empires is a collective process rather than a simple personal base system. Players establish settlements, expand infrastructure, create multi-level buildings, and develop defensive positions that support both civilian production and military campaigns.
Hamlets and Early Settlements
Small settlements provide the foundation for local gathering, storage, crafting, and player organization. Early construction should focus on creating a useful working area before expanding into larger projects.
Production Infrastructure
Economic buildings support the transformation of gathered resources into equipment and supplies. Keeping production close to storage and transport routes helps a settlement operate efficiently.
Multi-Level Structures
Anvil Empires supports vertically constructed buildings and larger player-made structures. Multi-level construction allows settlements to develop more complex layouts instead of relying only on flat single-story designs.
Fortifications
Walls, defensive positions, and other fortifications help protect valuable settlements and strategic locations. Defensive construction becomes increasingly important as enemy armies approach developed territory.
Keeps and Major Strongholds
Larger fortified structures can serve as important defensive and organizational centers. Building and maintaining major strongholds requires substantial cooperation and a reliable supply of construction materials.
Settlement Planning
Good settlements connect gathering, storage, production, housing, defenses, and transportation routes. Leaving room for future expansion helps prevent important infrastructure from becoming difficult to access as the settlement grows.
Anvil Empires Crafting and Economy Guide
Follow the economic chain from gathering raw resources to supplying settlements and armies.
The Anvil Empires economy is driven by player activity. Resources must be gathered, transported, processed, crafted into useful goods, stored, and eventually delivered to the players who need them, linking civilian industry directly to settlement growth and military operations.
Gather Raw Materials
Economic activity begins with players collecting resources from the world. These materials form the basis of construction, crafting, and military production.
Move Resources to Settlements
Raw materials are most useful when delivered to organized settlements with storage and production infrastructure. Transport players connect gathering areas with the wider economy.
Process and Produce Supplies
Settlement production turns raw resources into materials and equipment that other players can use. Organized production groups can focus on maintaining a steady supply instead of creating only what they personally need.
Craft Equipment
Crafted goods support workers, builders, transport groups, and soldiers. Producing useful equipment in quantity helps prepare a settlement for both everyday activity and major military operations.
Organize Storage and Distribution
Finished goods need to be stored where other players can find and move them efficiently. Well-organized stockpiles reduce wasted travel and make large production chains easier to manage.
Supply the Front
The final stage is delivering resources and equipment where they are needed. Armies and fortified positions depend on continuous logistical support from the player-driven economy behind them.
Anvil Empires Combat Guide
Learn the fundamentals of surviving and fighting in large-scale medieval battles in Anvil Empires.
Combat in Anvil Empires is built around persistent wars where large groups of players fight together with melee weapons and organized armies. Successful soldiers need to stay close to allies, protect important positions, follow battlefield commands, and avoid becoming isolated during major engagements.
Join an Organized Group
Large battles are designed around cooperation between many players. Stay with your army or nearby soldiers so you can attack, defend, and reposition as a group instead of entering enemy formations alone.
Control Your Position
Keep track of friendly and enemy formations before committing to a fight. Use open space to reposition, avoid being surrounded, and stay close enough to allies that they can support you.
Fight as a Formation
Group fighting becomes more effective when soldiers maintain a shared front instead of chasing individual opponents. Advance with nearby players and concentrate attacks on enemies that move out of position.
Protect Important Players
Builders, logistics players, and other support roles may be operating near major battles. Combat troops should prevent enemy soldiers from reaching these players and disrupting supplies or siege preparation.
Know When to Withdraw
Surviving a battle can be more valuable than pursuing an enemy too far. Fall back toward friendly forces when your group becomes scattered or when the enemy begins surrounding your position.
Anvil Empires Siege Warfare Guide
Understand how armies prepare for and attack fortified settlements in Anvil Empires.
Major assaults in Anvil Empires require more than gathering soldiers outside an enemy settlement. Players must establish siege infrastructure, transport equipment, breach defenses, and coordinate different battlefield roles throughout the attack.
Siege Camps
Siege camps provide an organized staging area near an enemy stronghold. They allow attacking forces to gather soldiers, supplies, construction materials, and siege equipment before pushing toward fortified positions.
Siege Ladders
Ladders give attacking soldiers a way to overcome defensive walls and reach elevated fortifications. They are most effective when multiple players coordinate the assault and protect the approach.
Battering Rams
Battering rams are used during assaults on fortified structures and defensive positions. Bringing one into effective range requires preparation and protection from combat troops.
Walls and Fortifications
Settlement walls create defensive barriers that attackers must overcome before reaching important interior structures. Defenders can use these fortifications to control approaches and concentrate their forces.
Keeps
Keeps form major defensive structures within developed settlements. Reaching and attacking them usually requires breaking through outer defenses and maintaining pressure on the defending army.
Siege Support Roles
Large sieges depend on soldiers, builders, and logistics players working together. Combat troops secure the battlefield while builders and supply players keep equipment and resources moving toward the front.
Anvil Empires Logistics Guide
Learn how resources move from settlements to armies fighting on the front line.
Anvil Empires connects its player-driven economy directly to warfare. Resources gathered and produced away from the front must be organized, transported, stored, and delivered to armies, making logistics an essential part of sustained military operations.
Gather Supplies
Begin with resources produced through farming, hunting, gathering, crafting, and other settlement activities. These materials form the foundation of equipment and supplies used by armies.
Prepare Equipment
Settlements turn available resources into useful military supplies and equipment. Production players help ensure that soldiers can replace gear consumed or lost during campaigns.
Organize Supply Camps
Supply camps help concentrate useful resources closer to active military operations. Keeping supplies organized reduces the distance front-line players must travel when they need replacement equipment.
Maintain Transport Routes
Supplies must travel between productive settlements and active armies. Reliable transport routes allow food, equipment, and construction materials to continue reaching the front.
Resupply Front-Line Forces
Deliver resources where fighting is taking place so soldiers and builders can continue operating. Long battles can quickly consume available equipment if resupply is not maintained.
Protect the Supply Chain
Supply routes become strategically important during persistent wars. Armies that protect their logistics network can continue fighting while disruption to transportation can weaken operations at the front.
Anvil Empires Farming and Resources Guide
See how civilian resource activities support settlements and armies across Anvil Empires.
Not every Anvil Empires player needs to fight on the front line. Civilian players can support their faction by producing food, gathering materials, maintaining settlements, and supplying the resources required for construction and military campaigns.
| Activity | Purpose | Strategic Use |
|---|---|---|
| Farming | Food production | Provides agricultural resources that help support settlements and the large populations involved in extended campaigns. |
| Hunting | Resource gathering | Allows players to obtain useful resources outside established farms and contribute additional materials to settlement production. |
| Husbandry | Animal-based production | Supports the broader settlement economy by managing animals as part of long-term resource production. |
| Raw Resource Gathering | Construction and production materials | Supplies settlements with materials needed for crafting, infrastructure, fortifications, and other player-built projects. |
| Settlement Production | Processing and equipment preparation | Turns gathered resources into useful goods that can support builders, soldiers, logistics players, and expanding settlements. |
| Military Supply Production | Support for active armies | Directs civilian production toward the food, equipment, and materials required by forces operating on distant fronts. |