# 120 World Ideas for Vibe Worldbuilding
A diverse collection of world concepts spanning multiple genres to inspire your worldbuilding journey.
## Classic/Standard Archetypal Worlds (20)
1. **Classic Tolkienesque Fantasy** - Elves, dwarves, orcs, and humans in an epic struggle against a dark lord
2. **Greek Mythology World** - Mount Olympus gods meddling in mortal affairs, heroes on quests
3. **Generic Space Opera** - Galactic empire, rebel alliance, exotic aliens, and FTL travel
4. **Traditional Cyberpunk** - Megacorps, hackers, neon-lit streets, and neural implants
5. **Standard Post-Apocalyptic** - Nuclear wasteland, scattered survivors, mutants, and raiders
6. **Classic Horror Gothic** - Vampires, werewolves, haunted castles, and cursed bloodlines
7. **Traditional Steampunk** - Victorian era with steam-powered airships and clockwork automatons
8. **Generic Superhero Universe** - Caped crusaders, supervillains, secret identities, and hero teams
9. **Classic Arthurian Legend** - Camelot, knights of the round table, Merlin, and chivalric quests
10. **Standard Zombie Apocalypse** - Undead hordes, survivor enclaves, and resource scarcity
11. **Traditional Urban Fantasy** - Hidden magical world within modern cities, supernatural detective work
12. **Classic Western Fantasy** - Magic gunslingers, frontier towns, and mystical Native American spirits
13. **Generic Military Sci-Fi** - Space marines, alien bugs, powered armor, and orbital drops
14. **Standard Norse Mythology** - Asgard, Midgard, Ragnarok prophecy, and Viking heroes
15. **Classic Fairy Tale Kingdom** - Enchanted forests, wicked witches, fairy godmothers, and true love
16. **Traditional Pirate Adventure** - High seas, buried treasure, sea monsters, and naval battles
17. **Standard Dystopian Future** - Totalitarian government, thought police, and underground resistance
18. **Classic Arabian Nights** - Genies, flying carpets, desert kingdoms, and magical bazaars
19. **Generic Hard Sci-Fi** - Realistic physics, generation ships, first contact, and terraforming
20. **Traditional Wuxia World** - Martial arts schools, chi cultivation, honor codes, and flying swordsmen
## Fantasy Worlds (20)
21. **The Shattered Realms** - A world where magic literally broke reality into floating island kingdoms
22. **Ironwood Empire** - Medieval society where trees are metal and forge-grown weapons are alive
23. **The Dreamweave** - Reality shaped by collective unconscious of sleeping gods
24. **Crystalheart Kingdoms** - Nations powered by giant sentient gemstones with conflicting personalities
25. **The Eternal Autumn** - A world frozen in perpetual fall where leaves grant magical powers
26. **Shadowmere** - Twin worlds existing in light and shadow, inhabitants can phase between them
27. **The Singing Stones** - Mountains that hum with magic, bards shape reality through harmonics
28. **Wyvernfall Dynasty** - Sky cities built on the backs of ancient sleeping dragons
29. **The Tidecaller Archipelago** - Island nations where moon phases dramatically alter geography
30. **Runescribe Dominion** - Magic system based on tattoos that physically manifest effects
31. **The Gossamer Courts** - Fairy realm where politics are deadly and promises are binding magic
32. **Thornwall Reaches** - Civilization protected by sentient plant barriers with their own agenda
33. **The Mirrorlands** - Every reflection is a portal to slightly altered parallel worlds
34. **Stormforge Clans** - Dwarven societies that craft weapons from captured lightning
35. **The Whisperwood** - Forests where trees record and replay memories of passersby
36. **Bloodmoon Covenant** - Vampiric kingdoms that cultivate humans like gardens
37. **The Adamant Throne** - Empire where nobility is determined by ability to command metal
38. **Featherfall Sanctuaries** - Floating cities held aloft by millions of magical birds
39. **The Soulchain Mountains** - Peaks connected by bridges made of ancestral spirits
40. **Inkwell Mysteries** - World where written words become reality but fade like ink
## Science Fiction Worlds (20)
41. **Nexus Tertius** - Dyson sphere civilization managing the last star in a dying universe
42. **The Probability Wars** - Competing factions manipulate quantum outcomes as weapons
43. **Bioship Confederacy** - Living spacecraft that evolved from seed ships form loose alliance
44. **The Memory Vaults** - Post-apocalyptic Earth where consciousness is currency
45. **Chromosphere Station** - Research facility inside a star studying exotic matter life
46. **The Drift Colonies** - Nomadic fleets fleeing universe heat death through dimensional rifts
47. **Neural Harvest** - Worlds where AI farms human creativity through dream extraction
48. **The Splice Zones** - Genetic modification so extreme, "human" has no meaning
49. **Temporal Recursion** - Time loop civilization trying to break free through iteration
50. **The Beacon Worlds** - Ancient alien lighthouses guiding ships through dark matter reefs
51. **Mindbridge Collective** - Telepathic hive minds maintaining individuality through technology
52. **The Quarantine Sectors** - Isolated systems containing experimental physics gone wrong
53. **Datasphere Dominion** - Virtual reality so advanced, physical reality is forgotten
54. **The Stellar Nursery** - Civilization inside nebula birthing new stars as weapons
55. **Cryowave Settlements** - Colonies in universe's cold spots where time moves differently
56. **The Pattern Seekers** - AI civilization searching for universe's underlying code
57. **Voidheart Station** - Black hole prison containing universe's most dangerous criminals
58. **The Synthesis Worlds** - Organic and synthetic life achieving perfect symbiosis
59. **Quantum Archipelago** - Planets existing in superposition until observed
60. **The Entropy Gardens** - Worlds where decay is reversed and death cultivated
## Cyberpunk Worlds (10)
61. **Neon Necropolis** - Megacity built on digital graves of uploaded consciousnesses
62. **The Chrome Collective** - Body modification extreme where pure humans are extinct
63. **Datastream Detroit** - Collapsed US where information is the only infrastructure
64. **Binary Babylon** - Two-tier society of augmented elites and unmodified underclass
65. **The Ghost Markets** - Black market for deleted digital personalities and memories
66. **Synaptic Sydney** - Australia isolated behind neural firewall from global network
67. **The Glitch Zones** - Urban areas where reality and VR bleed together dangerously
68. **Cryptocracy** - Government by algorithm where human politicians are just avatars
69. **The Neuropunk Underground** - Rebels hacking brain implants to overthrow corporate overlords
70. **Silicon Shamans** - Techno-mystics finding spirituality in corrupted code
## Space Opera Worlds (10)
71. **The Stellar Imperium** - Thousand-system empire held together by prophecy and fear
72. **Voidsingers' Crusade** - Religious war fought with planet-killing choir ships
73. **The Merchant Spiral** - Trade federation where currency is faster-than-light travel
74. **Exodus Fleet Gamma** - Generation ships that forgot their destination centuries ago
75. **The Harmonic Convergence** - Musical species orchestrating galactic civilization
76. **Starwhale Shepherds** - Nomads following migration of space-faring creatures
77. **The Diplomat Wars** - Conflicts resolved through elaborate deadly negotiations
78. **Ringworld Remnants** - Survivors on fragments of destroyed megastructure
79. **The Catalyst Empire** - Civilization that triggers stellar evolution for power
80. **Jumpgate Jihad** - Holy war over control of ancient FTL network
## Horror Worlds (10)
81. **The Whisper Plague** - Words themselves become infectious, driving hearers mad
82. **Shadoweater City** - Urban sprawl where darkness physically consumes people
83. **The Emotion Harvest** - Entities farming human feelings leave populations empty
84. **Parasitic Paradise** - Beautiful world where everything is host to something worse
85. **The Memory Thieves** - Creatures stealing recollections, leaving amnesia plague
86. **Doppelganger Nation** - Everyone has evil twin trying to replace them
87. **The Scream Frequency** - Sound at edge of hearing that transforms listeners
88. **Nightmare Nursery** - Children's dreams manifest as reality-warping entities
89. **The Hunger Houses** - Buildings that develop taste for their inhabitants
90. **Soulrot Sanctuary** - Spiritual disease that spreads through acts of kindness
## Post-Apocalyptic Worlds (10)
91. **The Color Wars** - Apocalypse drained color from world except in deadly zones
92. **Memefall** - Civilization collapsed when ideas became virulent physical entities
93. **The Silent Earth** - All sound above whisper causes catastrophic resonance
94. **Gravity's Graveyard** - Earth where gravity is inconsistent and unpredictable
95. **The Empathy Void** - Humanity lost ability to feel others' emotions
96. **Seasonless** - Climate apocalypse created world without weather patterns
97. **The Unnamed Era** - Language virus made proper nouns impossible
98. **Lightbane** - Darkness-dwelling creatures forced humanity underground
99. **The Sterile Fields** - Nothing new can be created, only recycled
100. **Memory's End** - No one can form new memories lasting over 24 hours
## Alternate History Worlds (10)
101. **Clockwork Renaissance** - Da Vinci's inventions sparked early industrial revolution
102. **The Eternal Roman Empire** - Rome never fell, conquered stars instead
103. **Aztec Ascendancy** - Mesoamerican empires developed immunity to European diseases
104. **The Tesla Timeline** - Wireless energy transformed 20th century development
105. **Alexandrian Continuum** - Alexander the Great lived, created world government
106. **Viking Space Age** - Norse explorers reached Americas and triggered early technological boom
107. **The Unbroken Union** - American Civil War avoided through compromise, different world power
108. **Mongol Modernity** - Genghis Khan's empire never fragmented, became enlightened civilization
109. **The Steam Revolution** - Charles Babbage's computer worked, Victorian-era internet
110. **Atomic Antiquity** - Ancient Greeks discovered atomic theory and nuclear power
## Mythology-Based Worlds (10)
111. **Ragnarok Reversed** - Norse gods lost, monsters rule Midgard
112. **Olympic Incorporated** - Greek gods run modern megacorporations
113. **The Jade Heavens** - Chinese mythology where mortals storm celestial bureaucracy
114. **Djinn Democracy** - Arabian Nights where wishes are votes in reality
115. **Feathered Serpent Future** - Aztec gods return to reclaim technological world
116. **Celtic Convergence** - Fae courts openly rule parallel Earth through wild magic
117. **Egyptian Eternal** - Pharaonic afterlife bureaucracy manages reincarnation system
118. **Hindu Cycles** - Universe resets through Kali Yuga, some remember past cycles
119. **Shinto Synthesis** - Every object has kami spirit in technological animist society
120. **Vodou Vectors** - Loa possession grants superhuman abilities in modern Haiti
## Usage Tips
- Each world concept is designed to spark imagination while being concise
- The "Classic/Standard" section provides familiar archetypes as comfortable starting points
- Mix and match elements from different worlds to create unique combinations
- Use these as starting points - add your own taxonomies and details
- Consider what makes each world unique: its core conflict, magic/tech system, or social structure
- Remember that the best worlds have internal consistency and compelling conflicts
## Creating Your World
When using these examples with the Vibe Worldbuilding system:
1. Pick a concept that excites you
2. Expand the one-line description into a full paragraph
3. Define 3-5 taxonomies that would best capture this world
4. Consider what kinds of characters, locations, and artifacts would exist
5. Think about the core conflicts and mysteries to explore
Happy worldbuilding!
