June 18, 2026

• Featured Worlds add publishing tools

  Creator-facing Featured World hubs now support private MDX knowledge entries, public assets, collaborator editors, project links across lexicons/maps/worlds/source files, public Featured World pages, sitemap inclusion, and Mundifex subdomain routing. Custom domains remain manual-review only.

June 16, 2026

• Simple Toponymy Generator added

  A new free browser tool builds agglutinative place-name systems from lexicon words. Start from Koeppen, CK3-style, or Holdridge terrain presets, select matching translated words, generate compounds, correct outputs, and save config or generated JSON.

• Community Worlds roll out

  WorldEngine Builder is now a signed-in tool with owner-controlled private, unlisted, and public visibility. Published worlds appear in Community Worlds with renderable map layers and globe previews while owner-only ZIP artifacts remain protected.

June 15, 2026

• Creator profile publishing added

  Settings now includes community profile controls for private, unlisted, or public visibility, with public creator pages and support links for reporting published profiles or lexicons.

• Community discovery returns

  Community now focuses on intentional public artifacts: browse published lexicons, find public creator profiles, and open read-only share pages without adding forums or comment moderation.

• Diachron search exports import cleanly

  Lexicon Explorer and Studio now accept Diachron JSON exports shaped as filters plus results, including large Old Tothic-style exports.

• Creator joins Plus with higher saved limits

  Free accounts now include three saved 512 x 512 WorldEngine worlds with one active job. Plus keeps one active job and five saved worlds at larger 2048 x 2048 builds, while Creator adds 100 saved lexicons, 25,000 words per lexicon, three active WorldEngine jobs, twenty saved worlds, and 90-day retention.

June 12, 2026

• Sound change generators add ordered stacks

  Combine vowel shifts, consonant shifts, lenition, fortition, and syllable restructuring as ordered passes, then send the deduplicated program to the Sound Change Applier.

June 11, 2026

• Plus adds an Advanced Sound Change Generator

  Turn phonotactics profiles into evidence-ranked SCA rules with confidence labels, corpus support, quality warnings, workspace downloads, and direct Sound Change Applier handoff.

• Lexicons can start from established concept lists

  Seed Explorer or Studio with Swadesh 100/215, Leipzig-Jakarta 100, Dolgopolsky 15, or Holman 40/100 prompts, with Concepticon identifiers retained for interoperability.

• Plus adds generator-ready phonotactics extraction

  Analyze lexicon pronunciations into a versioned JSON profile with syllable templates, onsets, codas, clusters, adjacency data, positional frequencies, and extraction assumptions.

June 10, 2026

• Lexicons gain a Simple Sound Change Generator

  Phonology Extractor and Simple Sound Change Generator are now first-level free tools. Lexicon Explorer and Studio can extract in a modal and forward the inventory through URL parameters.

• Sound Change Applier joins the free toolkit

  Apply SCA²-style rules without logging in, save or load JSON and .sc workspaces, share URL-parameter presets, and use the public GET or POST JSON API.

June 3, 2026

• Globe Timeline adds browser-local map events

  Build up to five globe map frames, scrub them with an event slider, and copy, save, paste, or load self-contained JSON.

• Globe Viewer joins the free toolkit

  Load local map images as temporary globe layers, adjust visibility and opacity, autospin the sphere, and measure distance or area without saving anything.

• Mineral Formation now has API access

  The free geology tool accepts URL parameters and has a JSON endpoint for deterministic worldbuilding workflows.

June 2, 2026

• Lexicon Studio adds saved editing

  Create, import, trim, edit, delete, and optionally share saved lexicons from your account.

• Public lexicon links are available

  Add a custom share-link name when a lexicon should be visible to others, or leave it blank to keep it private.

June 1, 2026

• Free exploration stays open

  Calligraphy, Mineral Formation, and Lexicon Explorer remain usable without requiring login.