World Explorer 3D
5.6.1 release notes · Known limitations · Roadmap
World Explorer 3D is a browser-based world sandbox built around real places.
Choose a location, step into a bounded playable world, and explore by land,
water, air, or space. Discovery, vehicles, virtual property, persistent building,
photo-based home improvements and shared rooms connect the experience.
The 5.6 update connects opening journeys, a walkable research ship, geographic
ocean travel and a shared Journal. Explore furnished vessel rooms, deploy the
submarine, and return with your findings. Visit the aquarium reef galleries
or explore a museum collection from Baltimore’s streets. Distant Earth buildings keep
more facade detail as scenery moves with you. Existing locations and progress
remain part of the same game.
Explore by land, sea, air and space
Search for a city, landmark, airport, harbor or coordinates. Walk its streets,
drive, fly, sail, fish, survey habitats, build, or join a multiplayer room.
Your Backpack, Journal, Field Guide, companions and saved places travel with you.
Regional terrain and mapped buildings can load as you fly farther from your
starting point. Detailed streets, interiors and activities remain in the selected
district. Turn traveling scenery on or off in Graphics settings.
In-game views of city travel, ocean research, space and places to visit.
| Explore on foot | Drive the city |
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| Take flight | Your research vessel |
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| Below the surface | Aboard Solis Reach |
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| Below the waterline | A collection to explore |
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What you can do
- Explore on foot, by car, drone, plane, helicopter, boat, ship, rover,
astronaut on solid planetary surfaces, or spacecraft; or use optional Live
GPS play while walking.
- Drive vehicle families with distinct vehicle handling, visible condition, and
enterable responder vehicles.
- Visit supported mapped airports to board aircraft, choose pilot or passenger
travel, search for destinations, or take a local sightseeing flight.
- Search for places by familiar names, including cities, landmarks, airports,
and other expected location searches.
- Enter supported buildings to explore their interiors.
- Enter the National Aquarium’s Pavilion and Blacktip Reef visitor route,
take the lifts between viewing levels, and record marine-life observations.
- Visit the interpretive gallery at The Peale's mapped Baltimore building,
inspect Smithsonian and Met reproductions, and save collection notes.
- Use configurable Backpack quick slots for field tools, fishing gear,
equipment, and ranged actions.
- Photograph, inspect, survey, identify, fish, follow tracks and signs, and
record finds in the Journal and Field Guide.
- Explore eleven regional Field Guide packs with 180 attainable entries across
the built-in Earth destinations.
- Care for companions, build trust and levels, and travel with eligible
domestic, bird, and livestock companions.
- Enter persistent multiplayer rooms with presence, chat, activities, shared
Blocks, and room vehicles.
- Use Quick Build to place persistent Blocks in local play or a multiplayer
room.
- Leave Earth for the Moon, planets, the solar system, and selected deep-space
destinations, with manual flight always available.
- Try Interstellar Expeditions in Alpha: live aboard Solis Reach, work with its
crew, respond to voyage events, and fly Pathfinder to supported planetary
sites and back.
- Claim a first virtual property, list or purchase available properties with
Explorer Credits, and connect planetary samples to the same Backpack, cargo,
and mapped-business exchange loop.
Explore the ocean
Start an ocean outing aboard the research vessel. Explore its enclosed wet and
dry labs, galley, mess, quarters and bridge, using the deck map to find your way.
Walk, run and jump aboard, enter the water, swim with automatic dive equipment,
or deploy the submarine and recover to the same ship.
Personal geographic voyages can stream nearby ocean scenery as you travel, with
an option to keep a fixed area. Authored research outings and shared crew surveys
remain separate. Available depth and habitat information constrain marine life;
virtual wildlife sightings are not live reports of real animals.
Follow First Bearings into fieldwork, a Harbor Run delivery, a three-view photo
study or a personal workspace. Coastal research and lunar fieldwork connect new
records to your existing Journal. Free roam remains available throughout.
Beyond Earth
Fly manually or use optional Wayfinder assistance. Interstellar Expeditions
Alpha connects life aboard Solis Reach, planetary fieldwork, Pathfinder travel
and saved voyage progression. Ship art, crew motion, mission variety, sound and
planetary detail continue to develop.
Multiplayer and building
Multiplayer uses bounded rooms rather than one continuous MMO world. A room
shares one location, player presence, chat, activities, persistent vehicles,
and player-built Blocks. Private rooms use invite codes; public rooms can be
found by city.
Quick Build places persistent Blocks in the current location. Local builds stay
on your device; room builds can be shared with other signed-in explorers.
World data and accuracy
Earth scenes use OpenStreetMap-derived geometry and other attributed public or
licensed sources. Coverage, freshness, height information, and provider
availability vary by location. Mapped, observed, modeled, reference, and
game-created content stay visibly distinct.
World Explorer 3D is a game. It is not a navigation, appraisal, surveying,
wildlife-presence, or safety service.
Required map attribution: © OpenStreetMap contributors
Playing in your browser
Keyboard and touch controls support browser zoom, visible focus, higher
contrast, larger text, and reduced motion. A desktop browser is recommended
for large city scenes. Online rooms and cloud features require sign-in;
exploring on your own does not.
For setup and contributions, see Contributing.
More about the project
License
Copyright © 2026 Steven Reid / World Explorer 3D. All Rights Reserved.
This repository is publicly viewable under the custom source-available terms
in LICENSE. It is not licensed as OSI open-source software, and
attribution alone does not grant permission to copy, redistribute, publish,
host, or create derivative works. Third-party data, software, and assets remain
subject to their respective terms in ATTRIBUTION.md and
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.md.
