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Mossport is the coastal city in which Witchbrook is set. It houses Witchbrook College, a busy high street of shops and cafes, the golden beaches of Parasol Sands, the wooded trails of Shadhollow Forest, and hundreds of named residents with their own homes and routines. Chucklefish has described Mossport as the beating heart of the game, a pastel seaside town where magic is woven into ordinary life and where every student of the college builds their day-to-day life as a witch.

The city is the single playable hub for almost everything Witchbrook offers. Classes, friendships, romances, shops, festivals, and civic witchcraft jobs all play out across its streets, beaches, forest trails, and college grounds. For a fuller summary of the game itself, see the Overview.

Setting and Atmosphere

Mossport sits on the coast, with a working harbour, a long stretch of beach, and a wooded hinterland pressed up against the town's edge. The overall aesthetic is warm and pastel, with cobblestoned lanes, timber-framed buildings, and sandstone facades that nod to the Cambridge tradition the college itself draws on. The developers have described the city's design goal plainly: every corner should feel lived-in and warm, with one location flowing naturally into the next rather than sitting behind a load screen.

Magic is treated as an everyday part of that setting. Ordinary residents rely on witches from the college for small problems, students ride brooms over the rooftops, mopeds weave along the streets, and shopkeepers enchant mannequins or charmed signs as a normal part of running a business. The town is meant to read as a place where the magical and the mundane share the same pavement rather than as a fantasy enclave sealed off from the rest of the world.

The day and night cycle runs continuously from morning through afternoon, evening, and night, with daylight hours stretching in summer and shrinking in winter. Weather shifts across rain, sun, and snow, and the whole city reacts: residents pull on scarves and mittens, open umbrellas in the rain, and swap their layered outfits for lighter tops when the warmer seasons return.

Key Locations

The playable area of Mossport is divided into distinct zones that connect on foot, by broom, or by moped. The table below collects the named locations Chucklefish has confirmed so far, including the neighbourhoods around the college, the town's main commercial strip, and the surrounding natural areas.

Other named storefronts confirmed on the high street include Olive's, Caffeina, and Harbour Homes, which appear alongside Calico in seasonal decoration sweeps when the town dresses its windows for holidays. The full map of Mossport has been partly revealed in a development update, with the coloured areas all marked as playable and each region flowing into the next without hard transitions.

Residents and NPC Archetypes

Mossport is populated by hundreds of unique residents, each with their own name, appearance, home, and daily routine. Chucklefish has stressed that every single one of those residents is simulated continuously, not just the ones nearby. The city runs on a dual-fidelity simulation: high detail for the space around the player and a lower-fidelity tracking layer for the rest of town, so nobody is ever teleported back into place when the player returns.

The named cast sits on top of a broader population of archetype NPCs who fill out the city. The most common archetypes Chucklefish has described include:

Routines and wardrobes shift in response to the weather, the season, and special events. Residents swap in scarves and mittens when winter arrives, carry umbrellas when it rains, and change their clothing layers when the town dresses itself up for a festival. Because the same logic applies to every NPC, the city visibly changes mood as the calendar turns, not just around the player.

Transportation

Getting around Mossport is a core part of daily play, and Witchbrook gives each student three layered ways to move through the city. On foot is the default for the high street and the college grounds, where most classes, shops, and short errands sit within walking distance. For longer trips and the parts of town that spread further along the coast, students can swap to a broom or a moped.

The traffic system underneath all of this is a full simulation in its own right. Cars follow British road rules, signal their turns, and yield to pedestrians, while the bus keeps to a regular route that any resident or visitor can ride. For students who would rather skip the broom entirely, the moped and the bus together make it possible to live a full life in Mossport without ever leaving the ground.

Events and Festivals

Mossport's calendar is punctuated by public events that draw the entire town together. The most prominent confirmed so far is the Spring Festival, also called the Annual Tulip Festival, held on the 20th of Spring at Meadowlark Farm. The date is chosen to land on the day the tulip fields reach full bloom, and the farm fills with pop-up stalls selling seasonal food, artisan goods, tulips, and souvenirs. Students notoriously compete for the mini-windmill souvenirs and their colour variants, with the pastel shades in particular being the most sought-after pieces each year.

Winter in Mossport brings its own cluster of festive activity. Residents string fairy lights across their porches, shopkeepers dress their windows with candy canes and baubles, bus stops pick up large red bows, and the town's street lamps wear winter garlands. Broomriding through the decorated city is one of the main seasonal activities, with the game's composer even writing special seasonal variants of the broomriding music to match the shift in mood.

Smaller community events thread through the rest of the year as well, tied to the changing seasons and to the college's own academic year. These give the player scheduled excuses to dress up, run into NPCs they may not see in their usual routines, and practice the civic side of witchcraft for the benefit of the town.

Seasons in Mossport

Mossport cycles through four distinct seasons that reshape both the town's look and the activities available to its residents. Resources, employment opportunities, and even the decorations on individual streets all shift as the calendar turns.

Because every NPC responds to the same seasonal logic, the visible face of Mossport changes alongside the player. A walk down the high street in winter looks materially different from the same walk in spring, not because the map has been swapped but because the residents, shops, and decorations have all adjusted to the current moment.

Connection to Witchbrook College

Mossport and Witchbrook College are written as two halves of the same place rather than as separate hubs. The college sits inside the city, its student village bleeds into the surrounding neighbourhoods, and the town's ordinary residents routinely call on the college's young witches for help. The everyday loop of enrolment, classes, and graduation plays out against the backdrop of the same streets where students shop, eat, and socialise.

The clearest expression of that link is civic witchcraft. Students take the skills they learn in class and apply them to the town's small daily problems through home consultations and similar jobs, turning Mossport itself into a practical classroom. Over the course of an academic year, the city is where a young witch finds their feet, builds a coven, picks a romance, and settles into being part of the place rather than just a student passing through.

Confirmed Shops and Vendors

Beyond the named anchors covered above, Chucklefish has confirmed a longer roster of shops, food vendors, and town services that fill out Mossport's commercial life. Each one has its own role in the daily routines of residents and the player's own student schedule, and most appear in the in-universe Witchbrook Oracle newsletter, on the public Mossport map, or in dev blog spotlights.

Faculty and Named Residents

Witchbrook College's faculty and the wider Mossport cast are still being introduced in the run-up to launch. A handful of named figures have surfaced through dev blogs and The Witchbrook Oracle newsletters in addition to the four confirmed coven members covered elsewhere on this page.

Photography and Side Hobbies

Photography is one of Mossport's confirmed side activities. Branded Snippy Snaps vending machines are dotted across the town and dispense the camera film that players need to actually take pictures, and the in-universe Oracle has run reader letters from amateur snappers asking for tips on getting their cameras to load properly. The hobby sits alongside the other extracurricular threads that students can pick up between classes, including foraging in Shadhollow Forest, fishing along the winding river, growing magical crops at Shadbrook Cottage, and selling crafts at the Sunday Market.

Autumn Calendar Highlights

Annual Pumpkin Growing Competition

Autumn brings the Annual Pumpkin Growing Competition, hosted by Wild Flower, the town's flower and gardening supply shop. The competition draws gardeners, students, and casual hobbyists alike, with the heaviest pumpkin pre-carve taking the year's prize. Past honourees include student gardener Fenkel Blomgren, whose entry, raised across the season, came in at twenty stone before any carving touched it, and earned a feature in the inaugural autumn issue of the Oracle. The competition runs alongside the rest of the autumn calendar and is one of the seasonal anchors that pulls the whole town through the doors of a single shop on competition day.

Trick-or-Treat Walk

Mossport also runs a community trick-or-treat walk during the autumn calendar, leaving from the promenade at four-thirty in the afternoon and wrapping by seven in the evening. The walk threads through the named residents who answer their doors in costume and hand out seasonal sweets along the route, and the Oracle has covered it as one of the autumn highlights for first-year students looking to meet neighbours they would otherwise only see in passing. Like the rest of Mossport's seasonal events, the walk runs against the same town simulation that drives every other resident's daily routine, so the door-knocking happens in real time as the witches move along the route.

Traffic, Wildlife, and Weather

Mossport's traffic simulation runs deeper than a static stream of cars. Drivers honk in displeasure when a witch obstructs the road, and a small traffic jam can build up if a student lingers too long in front of moving vehicles before crossing. Cars signal their indicators when turning, follow road rules, and yield to pedestrians at the right moments, and the same simulation drives the regular bus route and the moped riders weaving between them. Blocking traffic visibly affects the rhythm of the surrounding streets rather than only producing a generic horn sound.

Wildlife threads through the same world. Squirrels and small birds flit across the gardens and the high street, with larger animals appearing in the wooded edges around Shadhollow Forest. Confirmed weather conditions are rain, snow, and falling pink flower petals that drift through the streets in spring as the bloom progresses, and residents react to all three the same way the player does, with umbrellas in the rain, scarves and mittens in winter, and lighter layers when the petal-fall gives way to summer.

Possible Ferry Service

Pre-launch material has hinted at a ferry as part of Mossport's transportation lineup. A boat is visible docked near the beach on the public map, and debug footage in dev blog material has shown ferry-adjacent infrastructure that has not yet been formally itemised. The studio has not confirmed a ferry as a player-controlled travel option, and any specific routes, timetables, or destinations should be treated as unannounced until Chucklefish details the system directly.