Sunfallow

Development

Where Sunfallow stands today

Sunfallow is in active development as a one-person project. Here is what is real, how it was checked, and what has not been checked.

Current state

Game version
0.9.1
Build channel
Internal. Not published.
Verified against commit
54595aa
Last verified
30 October 2026

The website has its own version and is separate from the game version.

What has been checked

  • 468 automated checks in the main headless test suite pass, with no failures. They cover inventory, crafting, world generation and seeds, saving and loading, villages, animals, combat, caves and more.
  • Separate suites cover multiplayer, accounts, the realm service, chat, trading and a hostile client. Most pass. One cave network test has two failing checks that fail the same way before the rename, and one social test failed once and passed on a rerun.
  • Frame times were measured in test scenes on one Apple M2 Mac: 60 frames per second.

What has not been checked

  • Nobody has played through the game by hand with a real mouse and keyboard.
  • The generated music and sounds have not been listened to by a human.
  • Combat numbers are reasoned, not tuned by play-testing.
  • The app is not notarised, and the notarisation script has never been run.
  • No public server has been set up. Multiplayer was tested on the developer's own computer.

Source: TEST_REPORT.md, section 0.9.1 (headless suite --test=all, 2026-10-30)

How to follow along

The journal, the roadmap, the changelog and the RSS feed on this site are the official channels. There are no other official channels yet; we will only list ones that really exist.

JournalRoadmapChangelogRSS feed

  • The main menu: the SUNFALLOW wordmark with the subtitle A LIVING WORLD above a menu with Continue, New World, Load World, Join Server, Account, Character, Settings and Quit, in front of a village.

    · Announcement · Version 0.9.1

    From Averra to Sunfallow

    The game formerly developed as Averra is now called Sunfallow – A Living World. What changed, what stayed, and how old saves find their way over.

  • The world map window showing discovered settlements as round islands with names, and explanatory text below.

    · World · Version 0.9.1

    The world begins with a seed

    Why the same seed always gives the same world, what a save file really stores, and how old worlds stay safe when the generator improves.

  • A village crossing in pixel art: a stone well, a campfire, a market stall and a notice board, villagers on a dirt path, a fenced wheat field at the lower right.

    · Process · Version 0.9.1

    What version 0.9.1 really means

    A 0.9 version number sounds like “nearly done”. It is not. Here is what the number stands for, what was tested and what no one has done yet.