Interesting Links: World Building Resources

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General Guide:
A short guide to worldbuilding - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Ultimate worldbuilding guide for writers
Guide To World-Building: How To Write Fantasy, Sci-Fi And Real-Life Worlds
Short Primer of the Making of Invented Cultures
30 Days of WorldBuilding
The Ethnographical Questionnaire: Questions for World Builders, Conculturers, Writers, Game Makers
Orion's Arm Resources: Worldbuilding Links and Software
A list of worldbuilding resources on worldbuilding stack exchange

First and Final Step
The Rules of Quick and Dirty Worldbuilding
How can I break down the task of creating a world into manageable chunks?
Magical World Builder's Guide
Setting the Fantastic in the Everyday World
How to know when I'm done?

Physical Worldbuilding
Apple Pie from Scratch, Part VA: Tectonics: Constructing a Plate Tectonic History
Climate Classification Systems
SpaceCalc Climate Calculator
Effect of Climate on Human Physiology
World Biomes
Fundamentals of Physical Geography

Language:
How Language Works
Lexicity: A repository of resources to learn ancient languages
Google Ngrams Viewer: This online tool searches for how often your input word(s) was used in literature during a given year, represented by a line plot
A Guide to Names and Naming Practices (pdf)
Dictionary of Victorian Slang

Science, philosophy and religion
Myths, Creatures, and Folklore
Sacred Texts Archive
Superseded Scientific Theories
Alchemical texts
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps (audio)

Objects
Food Timeline
Technology Timeline
Clothing and Fashion
Guide to Conworld Architecture
Oakeshott Typology for Medieval Swords
How a Handgun Works

Animals (Imaginary & Realistic)
Medieval Bestiary
Circle of the Dragon
Yokai
Common Animal Niches
List of Feeding Behaviors
Everything You Need to Know About Feathers
Picture Guide to Animal Eye Types

Alternate History
Making History Sandbox a map making tool for alternate history
What if the United States of America were based onwatersheds? (pdf): political division of US based on watersheds, with a full repartition of the USA based on watersheds as well as hypothetical state names.