Caravan events

Caravan event blocking a roadway in Alpha-2.^[2]

PvE Caravan events can cause roadways to be blocked off or hostile mobs to spawn to attack the caravan.^[2]^[3]

Obstacles may present barriers on roads that players must remove or bypass to allow transit of goods.^[2]^[4]^[5]

When you're traveling with a caravan, there are events that can trigger as a result of you being there with a caravan, that can either block your way or spawn things to attack your caravan and require you to make decisions about how you want to proceed; whether you turn around and go somewhere else or you find a path off-road: all with different kinds of dangers associated with them.^[2] – Chris Justo

List of caravan events

Event	Type	Location	Objective
Escort the Caravan	Caravan events	Riverlands	Escort the caravan

Caravan skills

Caravan components grant passive and active skills to a caravan.^[6]

Skill	Icon	Description
Collect Cargo		Pick up cargo nearest the mouse location and add them to your caravan's storage if there's enough room.^[7]
Convert to Caravan		Allows the raft caravan to turn into a vehicle that can traverse land.^{[ citation needed ]}
Convert to Raft		Allows the caravan to turn into a vehicle that can cross calm waters.^[8]
Healing Aura		Provides healing to nearby defenders over time.^[9]
Repulsor Blast		Blast away nearby attackers.^[10]
Speed Boost		Gives the caravan a temporary speed boost.^[11]

World events

World events are pop up challenges that exist within open areas of wilderness or POIs, and anyone can join. They adapt in difficulty to player strength and last around 20-30 min usually (though some can be longer).^[12] – Steven Sharif

Triggering a pop-up event through player activity in Alpha-2.^[13]

The event system, it can query a lot of different aspects of the dynamic world state. Right now it's actually just tracking player activity in the world; and for this event in particular, it's looking for us to kill some stuff. So we're out here killing some stuff and eventually the event should trigger once it's detected enough player activity.^[13] – Clayton Stamper

World events (also called Pop-up events) are small-scale triggered events that exist within open areas of wilderness or POIs.^[13]^[12]^[14]

World events are triggered (and progressed) based on various predicates in the world, such as player activity, resource harvesting, trade caravans, node states, and story arcs.^[13]

World events adapt to the strength of the participants. The more players participating in an event the more challenging the event will become and the higher the rewards will be for completing the event.^[15]^[13]^[12]
- Participation is not based purely on numbers of players joining the event.^[16]
- Player power and NPC power is not scaled up or down, rather the number and types of NPCs in the event will be affected.^[16]

We're not talking about scaling up the player's power, scaling down the power of the NPCs, but rather how many additional spawners start to activate, what different types of NPCs start to join; are they going to be elites? Is there a boss? Those types of things are scalable as part of the event system.^[16] – Steven Sharif

Any player can join a world event.^[12]

Joining a world event as a party will merge the party into the event's raid group.^[17]
- Players can remain in the raid group after the event or convert back to a party if they choose to do so.^[18]

World events last around 20 to 30 minutes, but some can be longer.^[12]^[19]

Some events incorporate random story-driven interruptions to the normal flow of the world, such as blocking off specific roadways, having a random raid boss, or mobs appear unexpectedly in a zone. Some may lead to wider consequences, such as climate change, plagues, volcanic eruptions, forest fires, or other natural disasters if they are not addressed.^[20]^[3]^[21]^[22]^[5]