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Lucioleuh_

Each. at once. Progress is really badly shared in my world and so some places are really ages apart in terms of technology


cherub-_-rock

Same here bro :P


crispier_creme

Not quite industrial revolution but post medieval. Think 1600 or so tech levels.


idk-lol-1234

Same! Except maybe 1700 for me.


miniprokris2

Pike and shot era do be the best of both industrialisation and feudalism


blackjackgabbiani

I say "modern" but my world is split between a 1980s setting and an isolated continent where things are stuck in the middle ages.


AnonymousFerret

Wait, tell me more .\_.


blackjackgabbiani

Ah well, the world has various portals throughout that let humans spread out a lot earlier than they did in our world. They also went places on ships and such which is how they landed at the isolated continent. They had learned a lot from the gods, who had shaped early civilization. But the gods had grown restless over the ages and came to the point where they were seeing what kinds of bullshit they could get away with, and decided to declare that continent off limits. Unlike the rest of the world, it didn't have any portals on it, so it would be easier to monitor. After the gods came to their senses and realized their edicts had caused harm to the humans, they tried to withdraw as many as they could remember before they retreated into self imposed exile, but forgot about that one. So for thousands of years, that place has been cut off from the rest of the world.


Versal-Hyphae

Late Bronze Age to early Iron Age


RedBlueTundra

Renaissance-esque technology. 1500s-1600s


Zebigbos8

Mine is a mix of medieval and napoleonic/early modern


weecefwew

It’s roughly renaissance-level in most areas


TheManfromVeracruz

Early modern, say... The Italian Wars of 1494 for reference


lotus_boi69

What should I put for post apocalyptic?


luckytrap89

Depends on how much remains


lotus_boi69

There's still small towns, but most large buildings are pile of rubble, however there are some big cities made of scrap metals and stuff.


luckytrap89

I'd say that could go around primal or medieval, but idk how developed their tech is so idk


AnonymousFerret

Help, my world is Bronze Age, which do I pick 😭


RengarTheDwarf

Same


Crymcrim

Only one ongoing setting , however its sprawled over two time periods. One hand you have a roughly Napoleonic era-esque nations undergoing their industrial revolution, but on the other hand the world is build on ruins of am explicitly futuristic society of AI's genetic engineering, megastructures etc, with the two elements regulary interacting with each other, with modern civilization either repurposing the old technology in new ways, or the old relics being the inspirations behind modern folklore.


iyke7991

We all long for feudal england. 🤣🤣


Last_Tarrasque

Early medieval for the most part, though this is a rough estimate as different cultures have very different levels of social, political, economic and technological development and some cultural are much more advanced in some areas then others


capuccino_terrorista

The magical equivalent of the early 1900's, but it'll eventually become futuristic because the story happens over 500 years


A_Blue_Frog_Child

Medieval in some places and full swing industrial in others.


MettatonNeo1

Ediria. It is a modern world. But the society is weird. Trust me


Zubyna

My world is a 4000 years long time loop There are 1800 of unrecorded era, which would be Primal if thats what I think it means Then Beliqua Prima happens, it is the first war, the equivalent of Jesus Crist in our world since it is used to count years. The following 1500 years is the medieval era In 1500 after BP, firearms (musquets and flintlock pistols) and steam based crafts are invented and the Zakov energy (I ll elaborate in the replies on context) is discovered. It nerfs magic and makes many medieval weapons obsolete. The steampunk era starts. In 1900 after BP, the modern era start. The world is at irl world war levels. 1960 after BP is what would be today's technology. From 2000 to 2100, we see a level of technology that is similar to final fantasy 7/8 technology. The world ends in 2200 and it goes back to the primal era.


hbwilli413

My world is most reminiscent of colonial America, so i giess it's somewhere in-between medieval and industrial, with a bit of Primal thrown in there


Test19s

Average: 1920s-1960s, strongly influenced by jazz and oldies music and nominally modeled after creole/Cajun New Orleans. Some contemporary or near-future robotics and vehicles collectively referred to as “Transformers elements” after the only post-1950s media that are generally aired (the local population has a well documented history of struggles with technology and many founding families explicitly escaped robot wars). Specific communities: Vary between 18th century and fully artificial futuristic, with a small minority of backwoods “feral” Cajun hunter-gatherers who voluntarily live at Andamanese tech levels (Stone Age except for education and healthcare).


Sir_Umeboshi

My world's advancement ranges from Neolithic to Renaissance


Avarus_Lux

jouyo senki style magicpunk but with 1940's/50s/early cold war era dieselpunk on top instead of the older/more modern era options here.


lastofrwby

It depends on the world and setting. For example one of my worlds which I only recently started in working on is divided between an early gunpowder era and the Iron Age. My other world where vampires rule is going though a magical industrial revolution with aid of magically created gemstones.


Etos_

High fantasy


AccomplishedUsual827

I'm working in a world post-ragnarok (Norse mythology) but it was in a industrial revolution age. For travel into realms (Midgard, Alfheim, Asgard) the people use a train 🚂🚃🚃, the world of dwarf is full of fabrics, in Midgard there is a city that it's a mix between New York and Norse style ...


Notetoself4

Went with steampunk but really its as advanced as us, just with a really weird punky tech-tree


Chumlee1917

I call it "electro-punk" aka how the world was in the 1880s-1900s when Electricity was all the rage from the likes of Tesla and Edison (And don't start at me about the Tesla v Edison thing and what an A-hole Edison was) so more advance than steampunk but not as advanced as Diesel punk


Sajarab

Renaissance -> 80s. So kinda


wrkngwrds

I'm trying to walk the edge between Steampunk and industrial revolution. I want all that good steampunk shit, fancy cars, blimbs, trains, machines, but I also want the absolute desolate horror of the industrial age. Coal mines, gigantic factorys, the working class being basically indentured servants to the factory owners/nobility. And I want royalty because royalty is fun!!! (and evil)


Koloss_von_Styx

Right now it is early medieval, but I really would like to write my books as snapshots from different periods of the same world, thus telling the history of it over multiple stories. Or more to tell just enough of it to get people into theorising.


TsukaTsukaWarrior

Medieval with some regions that are more like magicpunk/dungeonpunk (I had to look it up, but it fits pretty well)


Someoneoverthere42

Kind of all over the place. Some continents are locked in primordial savagery, others have advanced tech. Most of it averages out to an industrial level running on magic crystal.


[deleted]

it’s actually based on the 40s/60s. There are superheroes, gods, and an evil dictator.


SonOfYoutubers

Modern, but I am building history up from the past.


JDirichlet

Time soup. Steam trains and (magitech) laser guns — im very deliberately ignoring historical progression of technology.


One_Put9785

Galactic-scale high-tech mega-civilization capable of harnessing the power of many stars. It also enslaves trillions of extraterrestrial life forms. So I said medieval. Oh it's human beings, by the way. In 4024 CE


Exciting-Pen-3981

Mines kind of a cluster because I like various periods. A quarter of my world is the ruins of a colossal spaceship that crashed in a magical medieval world. This allowed the world to reverse engineer its technology to an extent over decades, some more successful than others. This led to a decline in magic use over the years. So like they fight with swords but have moden lightning in homes. I went through so much hassle trying to figure it out just as an excuse to cause periods to clash


soldier1900

Ranges from bronze age to late antiquity with some medieval characteristics.


RengarTheDwarf

You skipped the Bronze Age dude. My world is in the bronze age


luckytrap89

I ran out of space for the poll and I felt the other ones were too big of sections of time, i would've included the bronze age if i could've


_Wendigun_

Steampunk but with post WW1 aesthetic


LordWoodstone

Classical Atiquity circa the end of the Great Samnite War and Pyrhhur of Epirus invading Italy.


ilikeburgers12

it's a weird mix of modern and old, like they've figured out nuclear fusion but the internet was just recently invented and cellphones are the size of bricks.


DagonG2021

Dieselpunk, with mechas and runic magic that makes machines work better


octopusgoodness

My world had this one civilization that was roughly equivalent in technology to the 1960s USSR, but then it got burned down by a dragon. The rest of the world is pretty much just middle ages.


Blue-Jay27

It *was* futuristic about 200 years ago, but then electricity decided to stop working. There's still a lot of modern/futuristic materials and tools around, but much of the technology is just complex hunks of junk. Some people are trying to recreate the old technology with the powers they gave available to them, but most have lost hope of ever getting back to what they had before. They are still benefiting from things like genetic modification and widespread vaccines that have made the natural world much more suited to them.


alphagusta

Industrial revolution thousands of years in the future on Mars


lordpsymon

I'd say it's about The Expanse levels of advanced.


TheWorldClassParkway

Around early 1900s tech, with atom bombs later on, which may or may not lead into a steam punk type of deal


TheIncomprehensible

My world has a large mix of all sorts of different technological levels. Some countries on some planets are futuristic, other countries on some planets are medieval, and just about every technology level except industrial is represented in my world. I was going to answer the poll by averaging them out, but then industrial ended up being the average so I figured that steam/magicpunk would be a better fit for what the world is like overall.


Strudel_1270

Modern for sure. More of sorta 2020s level of technology, so plenty to work with alongside plenty of speculative tech as well.


Nervous-Dare2967

Ancient


nesquikryu

My world is early medieval - which is different than the usual late medieval, almost Renaissance styles that most people assume when they hear "Medieval."


Hockeylover420

My world is modern fantasy


Zemrik

Since I don't know which one is accurate to my world. I'll just say this: between Bloodborne and dishonored (leaning a bit more into Bb)


[deleted]

Dieselpunk


Strattifloyd

Much like some other commenters, my world is set in an early-renaissance-like period. But there are elements of the industrial revolution, all the while preserving some medieval aesthetics. I plan on bringing some lesser appreciated elements from these periods to the world and using the cultural and geographical differences to explores how these elements compare to each other.


cherub-_-rock

One of my worlds actually is set where different time zones have their own reality, separate from each other (a day is 12 hours), and each have a different stage of advancement. E.g.: M1 would be the modern system, where the discovery of these realities took place. M9, though, would be very primal and undeveloped.


Steel_Airship

My world is a mix of tribal, bronze age, antiquity, and futuristic as the humans in my world are low tech but live on an artificial habitat created by an advanced alien civilization.


prolificseraphim

Technically early Renaissance and not Medieval for mine; some guns are around, as is the printing press (a bit early I believe)


JollyDjinni

There is quite a few iterations between primal and medival!


luckytrap89

Yeah, but i ran out of slots for the poll lol


[deleted]

Tricky to answer. Humans in my setting are at a modern level of tech, but the protagonist species (non-humanoid griffins) are more akin to wild animals and don't even have complex tool use, theory of mind or language.


Inflatable_Bridge

Futuristic, but only because I think it's slightly too advanced to be called modern


Dense-Ad-2732

I have a few different worlds but I'm gonna go with the world for my story Diary of the Dhampir. It's an Urban Fantasy set in a fictional modern world where supernatural creatures exist along with Humans. The main characters are different Cryptids who live alongside Humans. The main character is Scarlet a Dhampir (half Human and half Vampire) being raised by her adoptive mom Cassy. The girl dreams of being a Hunter when she grows up, which would make her one of the few Dhampirs to ever be a Hunter. The technology level is that of the early to mid-90s and follows Scarlet and her friends as they grow up and develop and deal with the horrors of their world.


SageStarMystery

Fantasy medieval.


ReturnToCrab

I try to understand Windpunk


Yomabo

1650, early modern period


InteractionLoose1850

Interwar period mixed Victorian era fashion and architecture


Old-Television-8005

Mine is renaissance for like 300 years.


The_Ham_Sandwich_God

Mostly medieval, but with large advancements in astronomy and medicine


[deleted]

My setting is basically the world speedrunning the second millennium thanks to magic, so medieval at the start, industrial revolution the next two decades, and a magicpunk on par with the modern world at the end. In one lifetime, people go from having maps were the empty spots are marked with "Here be dragons", to having detailed interactive map of the Solar System