Natural Composability in Autonomous Worlds

Etherplay argues that an Autonomous World is a game whose rules are immutable and permissionless, with no overlord or developer able to update them, and that such worlds can be extended through "Natural Composability," letting new rules emerge without permission. The article says Etherplay has built fully on-chain games since 2016-2017 and Autonomous Worlds since early 2019, starting with Ethernal and launching the autonomous Conquest.eth in April 2022. It cites Dark Forest, Conquest.eth and Mithraeum as examples of plugin systems where players add logic such as marketplaces without needing permission. It states that upgradeability would forfeit the immutability that lets extensions rely on the world's rules, and it sets logic hooks against this approach.