World Anvil Badge Catalog
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We are currently moving articles around and changing the general structure of the Codex. Please come back later if you get lost!Shiny Badges!
Badges are showcased on World Anvil's user profiles badge tab, with the exception of Chapter badges and tournament badges, which are showcased at the landing page of the profile. They each represent a user's participation in a World Anvil event or challenge; or a user's support or contribution to a specific part of World Anvil.
In this article you can find all the past World Anvil badges! If you have one in your profile but you do not see it here, please let us know in the comments.
In 2021, the badge was mentioned on stream to be achievable through submitting "key words" after the stream. In the end, the only available method to obtain the badge is to submit homework to the blog.
Challenges
Worldember
This is the biggest worldbuilding challenge of the year! It happens every year during December, and its goal is to write as much worldbuilding as you can. Check it out here!
2017
Participation badge
Completion badge
For competitors who wrote 50k words.
2018
WorldEmber 2018 challenge pageParticipation badge
Word count badges
Category badges
Profession
Rank
Military Formation
Myth/Legend
Organization
Plot
Geography
Item
Language
Law
Material
Military Conflict
Document
Ethnicity
Building
Character
Condition
Species
Spell
Technology
Tradition
Vehicle
Settlement
Special badges
2019
WorldEmber 2019 challenge pageParticipation badge
Word count badges
Category badges
Building
Character
Condition
Conflict
Document
Ethnicity
Geography
Item
Language
Law
Material
Military Conflict
Myth/Legend
Organization
Plot
Profession
Rank/Title
Settlement
Species
Spell
Technology
Tradition
Vehicle
Special badges
2020
WorldEmber 2020 challenge pageParticipation badge
Word count badges
Category badges
Building
Character
Condition
Conflict
Document
Ethnicity
Geography
Item
Language
Law
Material
Military Conflict
Myth/Legend
Organization
Plot
Profession
Rank/Title
Settlement
Species
Spell
Technology
Tradition
Vehicle
Special badges
Summer Camp
Summer Camp is a month-long challenge that takes place during July where you are challenged to answer 30+ prompts with at least 300 words each! For more information, see the challenge page
2018
Summer Camp 2018 challenge pageCompletion badges
10 answered prompts
20 answered prompts
30 answered prompts
Special badges
For those who managed to write 50k words
For the mad lads who made all Summer Camp in the last day!
A special badge for a special person who was a big community inspiration.
Awarded to the user with the most likes.
2019
Summer Camp 2019 challenge pageCompletion badges
10 answered prompts
20 answered prompts
30 answered prompts
Answered the secret prompt
Special badges
Awarded to the user with the most likes.
Awarded to the article with the most likes.
Awarded to the user with a higher word count.
A special badge for a special person who was a big community inspiration.
Awarded to users who streamed during SC.
2020
Summer Camp 2020 challenge pageCompletion badges
10 answered prompts
20 answered prompts
30 answered prompts
Answered all 33 prompts
Special badges
Awarded to the user who has shown great progress in their worldbuilding.
Awarded to the world with the most inspiring worldbuilding.
Awarded to a user who helped others during SC.
Awarded to the most all-round good spirit of Summer Camp.
2021
Summer Camp 2021 challenge pageCompletion badges
10 answered prompts
20 answered prompts
30 answered prompts
Answered all 31 prompts
Special badges
Awarded to the user who has shown great progress in their worldbuilding.
Awarded to the world with the most inspiring worldbuilding.
Awarded to a user who helped others during SC.
Awarded to the most all-round good spirit of Summer Camp.
Awarded to users who streamed (at least) 21 times and wrote 300 words of a prompt in a live stream during SC.
Monthly Challenges
Monthly challenges Every month (except for the month where a special challenge took place) the Master of Games organised a challenge around a specific topic. Every challenge had a participation badge and a winner badge.
Master's monthly
The master's monthly challenges were monthly challenges for Masters of the Guild only, the ran from December 2017 to June 2018, when they were deprecated.Winter solstice
Eureka
Snake eyes
Specious species
Regular challenges
Competitive spirit
First contact
Great books
Beware the Ides of March
Love is in the air
Miracle of life
Great muse
A year of note
Festive Gathering
Sacred Site
Frightful Fauna
Food, Glorious Food!
Note: from this point on, all challenges have two winners, one for the regular league and another for the premium league (people who have already won a challenge). To avoid loading too many images, the regular league winner badges are not displayed.
A Family Affair
Tower of Power
Death of a Legend
The Colony Challenge
Documents of Discovery
Coins and Currency
Premier Politicians
The Cold Case Challenge
The Words of Worldsbuilding
The Call of Cartography
The History Challenge
The Alliance Challenge
The Hero’s Journey
Peculiar Plants
The Costume Challenge
The Shipwright Challenge
Other challenges
Great visionary 2018, celebrating Dimitris' birthday
Verti slayer challenge, honouring the Verti-slaying tradition on World Anvil
Great visionary 2019, celebrating Dimitris' birthday
Mapvember participants
Inktober participants (2018 & 2019)
NaNoWriMo participants
In 2019, the method of obtaining the badge changed. Users who completed NaNo had to personally message one of the WA founders to obtain the badge.
Guild members
Once upon a time, you could buy a World Anvil memership focused on the heroes feature.
Limited edition
"Limited edition" badges are badges that are made for a specific number of people in mind; getting them was not open to everybody.
For the people who designed the first statblocks on World Anvil (now replaced by the three numerical badges shown in the next section).
For people who attended Dragonmeet 2018.
For users who have been Guild members since the early days of World Anvil.
For users who have been in World Anvil since the days of the Beta.
For the people who were here before the closed Beta.
For the people who attended World Anvil's 3rd-year birthday event.
Best of World Anvil
For the winners of the "Best of World Anvil" 2020.
Circle of Worldbuilders (CoW)
The Circle of Worldbuilders was an event run in 2020 & 2021. The event was run in partnership with:
Miscellaneous
Other badges that don't fit in previous categories:
For people whose videos have been featured in award ceremony streams for WorldEmber or Summer Camp
For people whose picture has been featured in one of the Beautiful People events (which take place during the award ceremonies for Summer Camp and WorldEmber).
For non-staff members who witness a prize draw to make sure it's fair.
Awarded to users who have created and shared Block Templates with the community.
For Enchanters.
For people who donate to charities through our Twitch donation campaigns.
For everyone who completed the egg hunt organised by the staff during Easter 2019.
For people who are discord boosters.
For people who have won a challenge.
For people who have contributed to writing the Codex!.
Contents
Challenges- WorldEmber
- 2021
- Participation badge
- Word count badges
- Category badges
- Special badges
- Master's monthly (discontinued)
- Regular challenges
- Competitive spirit
- First contact
- Great books
- Beware the Ides of March
- Love is in the air
- Miracle of life
- Great muse
- A year of note
- Festive Gathering
- Sacred Site
- Frightful Fauna
- Food, Glorious Food!
- A family affair
- Tower of Power
- Death of a Legend
- The Colony Challenge
- Documents of Discovery
- Coins and Currency
- Premier Politicians
- The Words of Worldsbuilding
- The Cold Case Challenge
- The Call of Cartography
- The History Challenge
- The Alliance Challenge
- The Hero’s Journey
- Peculiar Plants
- The Costume Challenge
- The Shipwright Challenge
Did you know?
As of the 31st of May (2021):
- There were 274 badges.
- The user with most badges had 60 badges.
Mistery Badge
We don't know what this badge was awarded for or when. Do you know? If you are allowed to, do tell us ;)
One of the wonderful motivations of this community. Funny, but I've never been one for labels, trophies and the like--but I truly love the badges =)
Storyteller, Cartoonist,..pretty awesome friend =)
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