Land of Death, the first Morterra trailer from 2016

On June 4, 2016 we released Land of Death, the first trailer for Morterra, an online MMO survival game that was then a Java download. It shows what a player does to stay alive in the early alpha.

Surviving in Morterra

You wake up in a wilderness and need food, water and shelter to protect yourself while you sleep. The whole world is dangerous, and your goal is to collect resources for tools, a home, weapons and armor to defend yourself from other players.

For food, you can search the world for fruit and vegetables, hunt for meat or go fishing. For water, you drink from ponds. To reduce fatigue you have to sleep, which means logging off, and other players can find you and kill you while you sleep, so you want to do it somewhere safe.

Bases and karma

The safest place to sleep is a base. You build one by collecting logs and sharpening them into log spikes, which make a wall. Log spikes can be destroyed, but they put an obstacle between you and the enemy.

You can also play the villain and kill or loot other players. That comes at a price: once your karma is low, other players can kill and loot you without consequence.

Three days later we posted a base building time-lapse.