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Map of Alpha-1 preview testing zone.^[1]

Alpha-1 testing tropical zone featuring a war beast and a tribe of pigmy goblins.^[2]

This is a rather large tropical area; and what we use some of the creatures for is kind of like establishing character for different parts of this tropical place. So that even though it's the same biome, it feels different when you are going from place to place based on what's there and how those things are interacting with the environment.^[3] – Jeffrey Bard

Alpha-1 testing takes place in a zone to the north west of the world map.^[4] This zone has many islands and a mainland area.^[5]

There are 12 different (sub)zones in the Alpha-1 testing location.^[3]
The Alpha-1 zone is almost 100 km² in size.^[3]^[5] This is about 17% of the total world size.^[6]
- Previous estimates range between 20-25% of the map.^[3]^[7]^[8]
- Traversing the width of the zone (10 km) on a mount would take about 30 minutes.^[9]
Alpha island (also called Alpha-0 island) was the first open-world testing zone for Alpha-1 participants.^[10]
There are approximately 4 biomes in Alpha-1: Flood plains, Sahara (Desert), Snowy mountains.^[11]
- A tropical/jungle zone was added for the December 2020 Alpha-1 preview tests.^[4]^[2]^[3]
Temporary teleportation points will be present in early tests until ships are introduced later in the alpha testing.^[12]