Sharing Your World
Every world has a Share button, and every share is a direct door: whoever opens the link lands straight in your world — no searching, no browsing, no "where do I go?". This page covers where the button lives, what your friends see on the other end, and the one thing that can turn them away at the door.
Where the button is
Look at the world info bar in the top-left corner of any world — the pill that shows the world's name. The lime Share button is right there in the bar. You can share any world you're standing in, not just your own.
What happens when you tap it
- Inside Discord, Discord's own share sheet opens. Pick a channel, group, or DM to post the link into — or copy it — and you're done. The message carries a link that launches Hideout directly into the world.
- In a browser, the link is copied to your clipboard, ready to paste anywhere. Anyone who opens it in a browser lands in the world the same way.
Either way, recipients skip the world browser entirely: tap the link, arrive in the world. If they're brand new to Hideout, they'll create their avatar first and then land.
When you share through Discord's share sheet, the link carries your name as the inviter: if someone new to Hideout joins through it, you earn 100 coins and they're prompted to send you a friend request. A link copied from a browser is still a working door — it just doesn't carry the inviter tag, so it doesn't pay the bonus.
The door still has a lock
A share link is a door, not a key. Your world's access policy still decides who may enter:
- Public worlds welcome anyone with the link.
- Private or Friends only worlds will turn away anyone the policy doesn't allow — they get dropped somewhere safe instead, with a note that the world couldn't take them in.
So when you hit Share on a world that isn't public, Hideout checks with you first: if you're the owner (or a world admin), it offers a one-tap "Make it public & share", or you can share anyway and let the policy do its thing. Note that the one-tap option opens the world all the way up: it sets the access policy to Public and switches Show in Explore on, so your world gets listed too. Prefer link-only? Share anyway, then adjust the two switches yourself in World Settings.
Sharing a link never flips Show in Explore by itself (only the one-tap "Make it public & share" button above touches it). So turn the listing off and keep the access policy Public, and you've got an unlisted world only reachable by its link — perfect for a private hangout you share with exactly the people you want. See World Settings for the lock-vs-listing distinction.