About This Game

Skills & Attributes

• Develop your character to unlock new Skills, Abilities, and Credos.
  
• Devour sumptuous feasts of food and drink to increase your Strength, Intelligence, Agility and other base Attributes.
  
• Study sundry Curiosities of nature and artifice to gain Learning Points to increase your Farming, Masonry, Exploration and other Abilities.
  
• Experience oddities and obscure situations to gain experience points and cast or incant the spells and charms of Hearth Magic.
  
• Discover materials previously unknown to you to unlock new recipes for Crafting & Building.

Hunting & Gathering

• Slay vicious beasts of nature, flay their hides and tan for leather.
  
• Make sausages of Boar, and smoke Sea Gull Meat. Feasting and a varied diet is important to all Hearthlings.
  
• Forage rare flowers to Study, or bind them into bouquets for additional Learning Points.
  
• Traverse the vast- and wilderness of Haven & Hearth's procedurally generated world and gather rare Herbs, Mushrooms and Flowes.
  
• Pick wild seeds to grow into domestic crops for Farming, such as Grapes, Wheat, Carrots or Peas.
  
• Tame wild animals to raise Livestock like Cows, Pigs, Goats or Reindeer. Ride like the wind upon mighty Horses wild and tame, and breed your animals to ever rising qualities.
  
• Fish or cast nets in Rivers, Lakes, Oceans or Caves to catch a wide variety of aquatic life such as Cod, Perch, Bream, Halibut, Clams, Crabs, or Lobsters.
  
• Should true bravery inspire you; Venture into the depths of the cavernous underworlds of Dungeons such as Beaver Lodges, Bat Caves, or Ant Hills. Thraximundar's Vicious Hive of Tyranny awaits!
  
• Dig deep and greedily down multiple levels of caves, to extract minerals, ores, and precious gems from the inky fathoms below the plane of the Hearth. Mining and Forging are essential for progress, but rumors speak of Trolls in the deep!

Crafting & Building

• Terraform the Hearth by digging, paving, plowing or planting.
  
• Hearthlings are the wolves of Hearthlings: Stake a Claim to your corner of the Hearth to protect it from roving bands of others.
  
• Construct mighty walls and palisades to keep your homestead safe.
  
• Erect homes and Houses of log and stone, from humble cabins to mighty towers.
  
• Smelt ores for metal, and refine further metallurgical advances in Finery Forges and Steel Crucibles.
  
• Cook as varied a diet as you can by building Ovens for Bread, Cauldrons for Stews, Sheds for Smoking or Meat Grinders for Sausages.
  
• Decorate with a wide variety of wall mountings, lanterns, shelves, tables, cupboards, and many other pieces of furniture.
  
• Construct Boats & Ships to carry you across the oceans blue, from humble Coracles to mighty Knarrs.
  
• Upload Custom Graphics to give that extra flair to banners, shields, flags, capes, and sails!
  
• Cycle and recycle your production line, acquire better materials and refine your production chains to increase the Quality of all produce.
  
• Things are what you make them; Watch the color and tenor of the Variable Materials you use reflected in the things you build and make. Should the Rocking Chair be made from Cherry, Maple, or Oak?

Permanent Death & Open PvP

• Master the Dark Arts of Trespassing, Theft, Rage, Vandalism and Murder to impose upon others who roam the Hearth.
  
• Increase your Perception & Exploration to track down and bring to justice all breakers of peace and oaths, by tracking the vicious Stenches of Crime.
  
• Construct mighty Siege Machines and engines of war to bring the flames of war to foreign lands.
  
• Found Villages to claim large swathes of land and organize kith and kin into mighty bands.
  
• Found Realms and lay claim to entire Provinces by capturing the ancient Thingwalls dotting the Hearth.
  
• Bury the dead and fulfill the will of the ancestors to draw upon the strength of your previous lives.
  
• Experience the thrill of a world where all interactions with your fellow Hearthling carries the potentiality for grave consequence.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Haven & Hearth holds itself to a generally high level of decorum, and does not strive to shock or titillate its audience, however;
- Player characters in the game can be dressed down to their birthday suits.
- Some drugs are depicted in game.
- Natural animal reproduction is, comically, represented.
- Player characters can die.

Haven & Hearth also, however, being fundamentally an online game played with other people, and allowing for conflict between players and their factions, has the following characteristics;
- Interactions with other people in game are not pre-moderated. Mean words can be spoken, and evil deeds undertaken.
- Player-versus-Player combat is free, mostly open, and cannot be opted-out of.
- Free building and landscaping by players allows for artistic expressions in many of its potential forms. Beauty, truly, lies in the eye of the beholder.