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title: "Map expansion"
description: "How the map grows as new players join"
url: https://support.kingdoms.com/en/articles/18-map-expansion
collection: "Good to know"
updated: 2026-11-09
language: en
alternates: [fr, de, tr, ru]
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# Map expansion

How the map grows as new players join

At the beginning of the game, players' first villages appear in the central area of a circular map.

This settlement area is surrounded by dense, impenetrable forests that players cannot interact with.

The image below shows a section of these forests located in the northern part of the map:

![](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/helpcenter/68308cfeb9e87dee6f158b79/20260212085105_6683.png)

As time passes, new players join the game, and the first arrivals establish villages on the available sites.

Gradually, the settlement area fills up.

If the game world hosts a large number of active players, the available locations may become insufficient for an optimal gaming experience.

To prevent this, Travian Kingdoms dynamically expands the map whenever a certain percentage of all settle-able tiles are occupied.

When this threshold is reached, the forest edge recedes, and the settlement area extends by 10 tiles in each direction.