In Brief:
- Wilder World (official site) co-founder Frank Wilder says that, with Season Zero behind them, the studio’s top priority is sharpening Wiami’s fight-risk-extract loop and shifting it fully onchain.
- Structured around five core milestones and five expansions, the Rebirth roadmap is still what the team describes as its source of truth.
- Trading of Season Zero gear has happened off-chain via the Satin Passage, and onchain integration is slated for the season’s close.
The studio’s attention is moving away from constructing Wiami’s core gameplay loop and toward putting that loop on a chain.
“Season Zero gave us the foundation and a clear loop: enter Wiami, fight, risk and extract,” said Frank Wilder, co-founder of Wilder World, in a post on X. “Now the focus is making that loop significantly better and bringing it fully onchain.”
Fade the Wilders, Fade Destiny.
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“The Rebirth roadmap remains the source of truth,” he added, then walked through three of the roadmap’s five major items.
The gap between play and ownership
Wiami received its first structured gameplay when Season Zero: The Invasion went live in late June. Players hold off invading forces, extract MILD and collect Shards at the EZK Neural Station, and can choose to deposit items in City Storage over in Agora Alley instead of hauling them into high-threat zones.
What sits beneath that activity, however, has been temporary. Gear from Season Zero lives off-chain, and onchain integration is scheduled for the end of the season. The Satin Passage — Wiami’s in-game market where that gear is listed, bought and sold for MILD — also launched off-chain, with a gradual move onchain planned.
That is the gap Wilder is pointing at. The loop functions. What players pull out of it still doesn’t fully settle onchain.
What Rebirth commits to
Rebirth presents the project as a single city assembled in stages. “One city. Five core milestones. Five key expansions. Every system feeds the next,” the roadmap states, noting that Wiami “is being built the way a real city grows.” Creation, scarcity, identity, commerce and reach are the five expansions.
At the heart of it are Shards. The roadmap casts them as Wiami’s core resource class — onchain assets that can be traded on the marketplace and materialized into gear, and that everyone in the city competes over. Walking away with loot takes skill, survival and a safe return trip.
Extraction is designed to complete the circuit at the Neural Station: turn up with Shards, pay a small amount of WILD and draw onchain gear from Wilder Packs. Scavenging supplies inventory, inventory supplies extraction, and extraction supplies ownership.
Metropolis serves as the economic layer. WILD acts as the primary in-game currency, covering gear, consumables, services, extraction fees and premium content. All revenue from pack sales is funneled into WILD buybacks, of which 2.5% is burned and the remainder redistributed to stakers. A 2.5% fee applies to marketplace trades and is burned in its entirety.
Wilder’s NFT collections are set to become playable as well, with implementations underway across Wheels, Moto, Craft, Beasts, Kicks, GENs, Wilder Cribs and the Lamborghini Temerario. Avatars are framed as canonical onchain identity. Releasing on Steam would expose the game to the platform’s 130 million-plus monthly users.
The roadmap page includes a caveat of its own: all of it is in active development, and timelines, features and priorities are subject to change.
Recent builds
The Garage reached version one on Aug. 15, offering a private space where the Wheel a player selects from the main menu shows up. Game Release 0.11.1 came next, bringing stability fixes across the Garage, Packs and notification flows, along with restored collision in traffic and park areas, functioning teleporters and tighter vehicle handling. In wallets and web3 collections, vehicle metadata continues to display only the original full body pattern.
A prior update introduced gear degradation linked to damage taken, stat modifiers for armor, weapons and attachments, quicker FORUM reactions, and dropped backpacks that appear on the map with their contents free for the taking. According to Wilder, the following update delivers gear color mods, personal garages and greater loadout control.
The ZERO wallet handles marketplace activity without gas fees. Z Chain — the dedicated chain the team is developing to reduce its reliance on Ethereum — is specced for upwards of 100,000 TPS and sub-400ms block times. AI creator platform Wiami.fun is set to debut with weapon skins issued as ERC-20 tokens on Z Chain, priced in WILD along a bonding curve.
Wilder World’s account passed along the update with a line of its own: “Fade the Wilders, Fade Destiny.”