World Settings

Each world has its own settings page. It controls the parts of the world you switch on and off — AI help, optional entity types, the look of your editor — and it is where you back the world up or delete it.

Accessing settings

Click Settings pinned at the bottom of the world sidebar — it’s always visible, even when the sidebar scrolls. The AI chip at the top of the sidebar is a shortcut too: clicking it opens this page at Smart Detection.

The page lists its sections down the left:

Section	What it controls
Demo Data	Generate example entities and relationships, or clear the ones you generated
Writing Environment	The fonts, sizes, spacing and colours of your prose editor
Smart Detection	Whether and how entity mentions are spotted in your writing
Chat	The floating chat bubble, and whether chat may read your scenes in full
Economy	Five optional entity types for trade and resources
Inventory	What characters carry, wear and wield
Export & Import	Saving the world to a file, and reading one back in
Danger Zone	Deleting the world

Note

The world’s name, genre and description aren’t here — edit them from the world’s Overview page with the Edit button on the World Description card.

Demo Data

Shows whether this world has generated demo content and which wizard choices it was built from. Generate Demo Data adds a starter cast and their connections; once generated, you can clear them again from the same place. Clearing only removes demo content — nothing you created yourself.

Writing Environment

Build your own editor preset: font family (including OpenDyslexic), size, line spacing, and colours. See Writing Environment for the full guide.

Smart Detection

Smart Detection spots names of entities in your writing and suggests linking them.

Setting	Options	What it does
Enable Smart Detection	on / off	Master switch
Extraction Method	Local Detection (GLiNER) / AI-Powered (LLM)	GLiNER is free, fast and stays on our server; AI finds more and describes what it finds, but uses your entity extraction allowance and sends the text to OpenRouter
Detection Timing	Manual only / On save	Manual waits for you to click Detect Entities; On save runs each time you save
Confidence Threshold	50%–95%, starting at 70%	Higher means fewer, surer suggestions; lower means more to review
Suggest New Entities	on / off	Also suggest names that aren’t entities yet, in a separate New Entities list you can create from in one click
AI Relationship Suggestions	on / off	Makes Detect Relations in the editor sidebar propose connections between entities in a scene; uses your relationship extraction allowance

GLiNER vs. AI extraction

Aspect	GLiNER	AI
Speed	Fast	Slower
Quota usage	None	Uses feature quota
External calls	None — runs on our server	Sends text to the AI provider
Common names	Good	Good
Domain-specific entities	May miss	Better accuracy
Context-dependent (e.g. “The Crown” as faction)	Weak	Strong

Tip

You can change the extraction method at any time. Both methods produce the same kind of suggestions, which you confirm or dismiss. See Entity Detection for what data each method uses.

Chat

Floating Chat Widget shows a chat bubble on every world page, so you can ask about your world without leaving what you’re doing. The full Chat page in the sidebar is always there whether or not the widget is on.

Let chat read my writing decides when chat sends your scenes and chapters to the AI in full. Off — the default — chat works from your summaries and short extracts around the words a search matched, and reads a whole scene only when you ask it to in a message. On, it reads a scene or chapter whenever a question needs it, so “what happens at the end?” gets an answer from the Epilogue itself rather than an offer to read it. See what chat reads.

Economy

Enable Economy adds five entity types for tracking trade: Resource, Facility, Market, Storage and Trade Route. Switching it off hides them from the type picker but doesn’t delete anything you’ve already made.

Inventory

Enable Inventory & Equipment adds an Inventory type plus the Carries and Equips relationships, for tracking what characters have on them. See People and Things for how carried items follow their owner on a map.

Export & Import

Save the world as a file you keep, or read one back into an empty world. See Taking Your World With You.

Danger Zone

Delete World removes the world and everything in it, permanently. You type the world’s name to confirm. See Deleting a world.

AI model preferences

Which model powers each AI feature is set on your profile, not per world. See Profile & AI Preferences and AI Model Selection.

Note

All AI features are optional. You can use MythTapestry without enabling any AI functionality. Entity detection via GLiNER runs on our own server without any external AI calls.