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Does she have ANY idea of how you build things? Vali's Wife: "Where's the laundry soap?" Vali: "You have to go into the pantry first, where you'll find the key to the garage." Vali's Wife: "So the soap is in the garage." Vali: "Oh I don't know, I just put the key to the garage in the pantry. Enki decides what you get in the garage."

heh there wasn't a lot of process per say. I had the rough idea of how I wanted the maze to work, multiple paths that you had to work simultaneously with the courtyard halfway through to bring them all together and then split them back apart. In september I started experimenting with how to create the missions for the doors, and ended up with the very simple method of one mission per door to keep it less confusing for me, and made a few test buildings to see how the whole bridges between structures ended up looking. (decided on wood, all of the others except rope were too tall on the ends, and rope left too much chance of players falling off as they entered the bridge) October we picked the site, and I started to lay out the google doc for it. November we placed the deed, and began building. I set the bottom shell of the structures, enki and logi came along behind me and built the floors and walls up to 4 stories. (a LOT of clicking, even with our GM advantages) Once the shells were in place, I just... started laying out paths... I would travel the maze, planning walls (the only ones i actually built were the doors, oriels, and the occasional window) and building staircases and bridges in the various buildings. Enki followed along behind as he had time and actually built the plain stone walls. Once I had the first half done, and everything connected to the courtyard in the middle, we recruited hestia to try to solve the first part of the maze. (thats when she said : " I take back anything nice I EVER said about Spellcast ") After a few days, as I finalized the paths for the second half of the maze (some of which were quite long because I was running out of usable space in some of the buildings for branching paths) I took pity on her and gave her the map, and asked her to help decorate the rooms where the solutions could be found. The ones that are pretty and full of decor are hers... the very basic ones with minimal decoration are the ones i did...... After that it was just a matter of creating the missions and triggers for the doors and the final room chests. Enki went around and put the little side things to find wherever he found a nice dead end, and hestia decorated stuff for me. After the mess in december I about cried. Thankfully I was able to get the buildings to (mostly) remember what floor players are on when they log out. (there are still a few spots in a couple of the buildings where it doesn't remember right... very frustrating) Learned a lot from building this one, and watching players solve it. I will probably do another one in the future, not anytime soon however. Real life is going to take priority for at least the next several months... My wife has had a bad back all her life, and it is getting significantly worse lately. I need to renovate the ground floor of my house to change a storage room, pantry and couple of closets into one single bedroom and add a laundry room to eliminate as many stairs as i can for her. (currently our master bedroom is on the 2nd floor, and the washer/dryer in the basement) I may find time to do a couple of small hunts, but it will not be 1 per month unless enki can find time to do some as well. Thank you all for the kind words and constructive criticisms of this event... and I really am glad that you enjoyed it despite the false start in december.

We can already make Seryll scythe's in game yet it shows in color the same as normal one..wouldn't it look good to have the red show...ie a bloodscythe!

We have requested storage systems many times, since I have been playing. Houses (craft halls) littered with BSBs, chests, rafts, etc. you try to drop another item, but "the floor is already to littered" etc. Stacking crates is great. Big vaults to stuck chests, rats, coffins or whatever would be great. But the new version of this would be a bit like Asheron's call houses, or Ryzom apartments. Virtual storage. Think of a BCSB - Bulk Container Storage Bin. For any passer by, only that storage device would count as an item that has to be loaded into memory. All the containers inside are in their own instance. These BCSBs are ONLY available on deed and are tied to the deed. If the deed expires, the BSCBs and all their items vanish. BCSBs are free, not a paid service like templars. BCSBs would have multiple design choices. Pick one style for your kitchen. Pick another for your forge. Another look for your farm shed, etc. After all, we can afford more variety if we are adding a container that eliminates the need for millions of other containers laying around, hogging precious resources. I'm using Wagons, carts and rafts, to try making my crafting area functional. This is really dumb looking. Some people build ships in their craft rooms. How does this make sense? We do this, because the game has not evolved to meet the needs of the players. This would help players and Code Club both. Virtually eliminate the lag when entering local to a well established area. There is still an issue of too many players causing lag, but we CAN solve item clutter lag.

I would like to see the ability to create an adamantine sickle. You can make an adamantine scythe, I don't see any reason for there not being sickles.

It's not 80 dirts above ground. I have a fairly long bridge with several supports way up on a hill and that bridge hits the ground at 0 height at the end. But when I went to duplicate the bridge from the terrace to the bottom of the deed, I can't. Why? Because a support needs to be 80 dirts above water. Not 80 dirts tall. 80 above water, even water that is not there. I admit, there are a such thing as Prairie Schooners... but there is not... It's bad enough that we who live on the coast need to pile up to 10 dirts at the bottom of a bridge but to be limited to bridges 5 long and under because supports won't fit is annoying to say the least.

Did you notice that since today's restart the items are no more sunk intot the floor? THANKS!!!

Rare mooring rope to Aeryck please. I would take all of your rare cordage if you'd go 10c.

the whole thing is a mess. from a matter of balance i'd rather see uniques spawn with a pattern, 8 days between goblin leaders, 40 days or more for the tougher dragons. tweak the loot accordingly so we can see more tomes (3 in two years on deli) or make armors without drowning in them as well. On the matter of moon metal, i do think we need to see them on pve, but that would remove one of the pvp incencitive. We will also have those new invasions thingy... so maybe that could be used to add those rewards in.

Gone mine done by Jaz in prep for casting, was very fast and the service is always friendly, highly recommended!

Ditto

David Bowie "Lazarus" ( From his last album, released 1/8/2016 ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-JqH1M4Ya8

After reading those other threads one thing stands out to me: Despite so many players asking for this change, or at least a reasoning behind not wanting to change it, nobody from the dev team seemed interested enough in what the players were asking, to respond. I am wondering why, in this current situation where Rolf asked us for a Plan for a Plan to not only attract new players but also retain older players, we are not given reasons for why this change cannot be made? Please devs, respond to our questions and tell us why you refuse to change bridges to not need 80 above water even when they are NOT over water? Why do they even need that height clearance over water? Arched bridges, five tiles wide, can be sailed through by any ship, given there is enough depth below the bridge itself. And arched bridges, five tiles wide, need a ten clearance above water... There are many instances where long term and loyal players ask for something and never get any responses back, just being ignored or told "no, because we say so". This is not the way to retain your customers. I am sure most people can understand if the answer to a request is "no", given reasonable explanation as to why, but just being ignored usually irks even the most reasonable of people. Bump to this and all the other requests to change the height requirements for bridges, and a serious request to please respond to us, the playerbase, if you are not going to change it for some reason.

It never ceases to amaze me the things people dream up and spout out as fact, the alt killing is hilarious though since I only seem to see that coming from one place good one guys. The real kicker is the constant flow of awesome ideas to fix or increase pvp from the so called pros and the never ending car wrecks that result from them. I can only speak from my own experience but I used to be all over old elevation in every kingdoms territory doing missions providing countless opportunity for pvp and a lot did come from it, enemy servers too .. And then a bunch of these so called wise guys got the place wiped and quadrupled in size which quite frankly killed the fun because I know I don't enjoy traveling for 4 hours just to do something that in all likely hood won't amount to much. Consider exactly who's fault the current state of affairs is for a moment and then ponder a while if this change will honestly reverse things back to doing missions on Ele or enemy servers. I would love things to go back to the way they were, I would love to not be doing stupid home server missions but the cold hard truth is that without doing them then the scenario rewards will be confined to people who have zero interest at all in pvp and the ones who do enjoy it when it's not an outright slaughter will never see a tome. This suggestion won't fix pvp, if you are concerned then maybe try catching some on their server but you don't want to waste all your time traveling either. TL;DR Elevation got messed up and unless you can get the damn thing shrunk back to a respectable size and land formation then nothing is gonna change

One way to make the uniques easier to find (except the goblin, it can hide behind a blade of grass) would be to have them wander across the entire map, but leave a trail behind them. The humanoids could leave snapped trees along their route, the dragons could leave scorched trees or bushes. Observant or hunting players would see these and off they`d go on the hunt. The kyklops apparently can`t swim, but look at the size of it, surely it can wade across channels? And the dragons have flight(ish) so nowhere should be offlimits to them (cue knarrloads of people frantically rowing after the oversized lizards) And no instances. Ever. Logging in every Sunday at the same time so I can enter a private instance where I can find a dragon just chilling out until it`s appointed time is up would become boring and utterly meaningless (I`ve yet to stab a dragon, and I want it to be an achievement)

My dad would like me to find him a new graphics card for his computer. I am currently in the process of finding him a new one, but the most graphics intense thing he runs is Wurm Online, and I don't think he needs anything too powerful or too expensive. Does anyone have any suggestions for cards that can run Wurm with nice graphics, or does anyone else really only run Wurm and has found a nice graphics card for it? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

They never ever.. ever stop moving unless you move out of range of them. They run around and pack the grass.. and if you don't pen then in 1x2 little pens they all flee and disease each other. I'm certain there are also some lag/fps benefits no not having them roam and roam and act like idiots for hours as well..

We should really be able to pave over clay. I wouldn't even care if the tile under the pavement is still clay for after the pavement decays or is destroyed. I really hate that clay can't be covered at all (any other tile type that acts the same aswell).

adamantine sycthes too! Im pretty sure glimmer acts this way as well. ALL MOON METALS! +1

+1 because SO MUCH AWESOME!

been on the server from the start its been pretty good starting fresh. really interested in having economy with other players. we have a ts3 channel aswell. GM is pretty active and open to ideas. its been pretty fun.

As I see a slight business opportunity here, I hereby offer my imping service for the shiny supreme tin shovels from 90ql to 95ql for 4s each. COD is of course covered by me. PM me here or ingame if interested.

Honestly, moon metal as a pvp incentive doesnt work. it's simply a way to have an edge over other pvpers at best, and at worst just forces the bar higher

This usually happens when the file is ran from a different directory. For example, If it has been extracted to a different directory or moved once extracted. It should be ran from the DeedPlanner 2.4.2 folder, the error just means it can not find the files it requires.

Audrel - you are just one of many of us, who are fed up with this - see: http://forum.wurmonline.com/index.php?/topic/135807-saroman-please-reduce-min-for-flat-bridges/ http://forum.wurmonline.com/index.php?/topic/135292-call-to-action-bridges/ http://forum.wurmonline.com/index.php?/topic/134838-remove-height-mins-over-water-bridges/

Long time ago there was a discussion regarding a dedicated hunting server. No deeds, no permanent dwelling, just as it sounds... you go, you hunt, you fight like mad, you bleed all over the place, you drink and be merry by the campfire and tent... then you go home. What about a Dragon homeworld? It's a continent. You can't live there, and likely wouldn't want to on account of all the flaming breath all over the place. Not so good for crops. But the dragons, there's so many of them. There's young ones, old ones, in-betweens that all give loot scalable (badum bum, sry.) to their age/size. There's enough that group 1 might be attacking the venerable herd to the north while group B is tackling a single aged in the southeast. Wipe-out? Regroup at the battle tent, or maybe offer up a GM run town with some basics for rent/sale? How do you get there? One of them wood things with a sail on it. Or, while I can understand people saying "no instances, for we are one world," it's a bit batsh blind. Epic portal? Behold, the dragon portal. Maybe. Or the wood thing, whatever. Bottom line is, "go find it yourself," isn't all that great an attitude is it? It's simple, I'll give you that. It's also boring, short-sighted, unimaginative, brutish, knuckle-draggin', spoiled-brattish, bullsquat only a two year old going through their "MINE!" phase would come up with. Not that I have any particular feelings on the subject.

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What does riding to HotA have to do with building an obelisk in the south east or killing a traitor in the south or cutting a tree at a JK deed in the north east? Deeding close to spawn means an easier time for home guys to find and migrate without traveling on foot for days, not every kingdom hates their entire home server.

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The Raid Ban on PVP servers initiated on 01/06/2016 is now lifted. We have shown the issues to the Developers and spoken with Rolf about certain mechanics and have most issues that caused this temporary raid ban to be implemented understood and taken care of. Catapults -- Almost all of the information sent to me by players game wide is incorrect! LT + AOSP -- Rolf has looked at it and taken action on it. Impossible structures for defenses -- consult your nearest catapult dealer. and a few we have not discussed publicly... Thank You, Wurm Online Team

lol, for the curious, it is just south of the giant crater mountain dead center of the xanadu map.... also, here are a few aerial shots (at a decent distance) of the labyrinth. they do contain mild spoilers of the general layout

In case anyone is interested, someone has posted a rather detailed walkthrough video of the entire maze here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRL5durPleI

Some people don't get it, when you are new yes mining can be hard, but harder yet is finding the iron to build a simple house, unless you are near the side of a mountain with more than 30 tiles of exposed rock, there is no way you are going to rummage enough iron to just get started. A new player may find a readily accessible mine with iron, but if that mine is filled with trolls, hell hounds, lava spiders and cave fiends he will not be doing any mining at all. Just today a new player working on her new settlement set out in a rowboat to try and find a iron mine that was not filled with critters so she could get some iron to make nails. When I noticed her in local I asked what was up and she explained to me her predicament so I set her up with enough iron lumps to get started out with and she rowed back to her new settlement site. I do think a log cabin type structure requiring logs (no iron) would be ideal, perhaps substitute dirt/grass for the chinking rather than clay, most pioneers had to settle for mud to use to chink the log walls, and used sod and more logs for the roof.

I helped catch a dragon a couple weeks ago and I found it more fun trying to get it penned to schedule the slaying that the slayings ever were. When it's 4 people working to get it captured without being lunch, it's far more exciting than 50 people beating to death.

Forgot to update --- $950 USD has been donated to the cancer center at John Hopkins. I've posted a picture of the confirmation email below. I should receive a letter in a few days, should I also post that for confirmation? Thanks to all of you awesome folk who bought items and/or silver to make this possible. You guys rock!

I know, this is already fixed and will disappear in next client update.

Baloo has some good points and I agree... lower the flat bridges, please. +1

bump - it would be good to receive your reply, Saroman - an explanation as to why it must stay at 80 above water, if nothing else.

80 high is too often too big and looks out of place. Flexibility to make our homes look good is important. I agree with a 40 minimum.

My other question: Why does the 10 height minimum for short bridges exist at all? In order to build a bridge across my bay from my dock, I had to: Raise the land at both ends to at least 10 dirt height (was closer to water, being a dock). Build 1x1 support buildings on each end. Build 3 or 4 tile flat bridges up to those support buildings. Build the actual long bridge between the support buildings. This is especially problematic if any part of it is off-deed, since off-deed buildings will decay even if they're just used as part of a bridge, which does not.

definite +1 ( and the rest )

Arrow to the Knee

Players can do this with sand. Do we have people going around turning the whole map into desert? Not that I've noticed. Priests are powerful enough. We shouldn't need a "spell" to create clay. Come on I think that's a fair compromise. If you want to be able to pave over clay, if you think clay shouldn't be as special, why be apposed to allowing players to create clay tiles?

Remove it completely please it's not cute just annoying, especially hunting - you think you finally stumble upon some critters to kill and next thing you know they're all gone...

+1

burn coalpiles over clay to harden tile, use a shovel or pick to remove (50 or 100actions) making tile dirt

It's horrible working for me.

It's actually not that easy to find wurm unless you know what terms to use. I myself only had a lucky a blunder while looking for a new game to play. I did not think to include building houses or crafting in my search and wurm is so much more than that anyway. this game needs more visibility, because more players equals more money to spend on optimization and servers. Tho I think it would be a definite safeguard to bring back the Golden Valley non premium test server. I see how an influx of players could hurt wurm but the benefits seem to outweigh my concerns at least.