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Hello Everyone! As many of you already know, Wurm is now mainly being maintained and developed by a group of volunteers from the player base headed by our Product Manager Budda, most of which are under contract. My involvement and role in development is diminishing as I've been at it for 13 years now and I feel a bit of a drain. Hence, I am educating myself in new areas since WU brought in some breathing room for Wurm. I will remain CEO and do administrative tasks and stay involved in discussing the direction of the game but this group of active contracted players will henceforth be the ones taking strategic and day-to-day decisions much based on your input. This feels like a the natural way of developing the game and will be good for the longevity of Wurm and its continuous progress. I want to expand my knowledge and work on non Wurm projects for a change and I think the dev team has proven a lot and matured quickly since this spring when it was formed. Wurm is doing well financially and will be around for years to come. In case you are an able coder interested in becoming a volunteer and help improve the game and possibly do some bounty coding, don't hesitate to contact Budda. Long Live Wurm! Rolf

Since Budda has been project manager we have seen a ton of long asked for changes come in such a short time, i see people complaining here about waiting months/years for things without considering he wasn't leading through that time. I for one think that Rolf has found a good and passionate developer to hand his torch to and look forward to many more positive updates and over due bug squashing. To Rolf, many thanks, good luck and have fun. To Budda, cheers to the beginning of a new era and ever brighter future.

Hi all, I'm sure there's a lot of concerns and mixed feelings, sadness at seeing Rolf take more of a back seat in development, and worries about the future of Wurm. I'd like to remind you all that this thread is not the place for doom and gloom comments, such will be considered off topic and removed. The main reason for this announcement is simple, with Budda leading the development team Rolf has the opportunity to relax and focus on other projects while still being sure of Wurms future. Under Buddas guidance we've seen the introduction of the new rift system as well as its balances and tweaks, the PvP discussions and updates, and the varous fixes and changes that have come along with those. There is still a lot in the works for Wurm, so don't fear that this means the end of any development, we'll be releasing a roadmap later on this week, detailing our plans for Wurm in the next few updates. Rolf is still obviously a huge part of the Wurm team, and will still be kept in the loop with all future updates and developments as he always has been. Back on topic, I'd like to thank Rolf not only for creating this game, but for sticking with it for all these years, being on the inside of times when things get a little crazy, he's always been attentive and maintained a positive attitude. So thank you Rolf, and best of luck in your future projects. /Retro

listen to the community on what needs to be done, implement popular suggestions and be open to all suggestions. I wish you the best of luck on your road ahead but remember what makes the game is the community and the player base if you have non, no matter how great the game is it wont be successful.

****Please see 1st comment for all update information postings**** Just a heads up, I am taking a break from Wurm to get my business off the ground - Jackjones will continue on with the map updates & is currently revamping it all together. So please be patient while he does so >>>>>XANADU MAP HERE<<<<< How do you get a deed added or removed? Adding your Deed You must be the mayor or have permission to request deed be added. Map updates will be made every month if not more often just depending on amount. Single click anywhere on the map. Your clicked map coordinates will appear in the lower left hand corner on your screen. This will be your deed's coordinates throughout time, map dump to map dump. Post these coordinates below and we will add them to the map asap. Check out full instructions here : How does this work? Removing Disbanded Deeds We will update the map every other week with any disbands, if you know of any who are on the map as of now please post so we can get rid of them. (It should be up to date with any posted on the forums since May) Adjusting a Deed If your deed is currently on the map, but the coordinates are off please post that it is an update "To deed name" and not an add so we can just adjust the current mark. Adding Market Annotations Markets are now able to be seen by a white border around their marker. In order to qualify as a market there needs to be a minimum of 6 stocked merchants. While small sales areas are lovely and a great assest to traveling players, at this time only those deeds who offer multiple merchant options will be marked special. This will possibly change in the future with coming updates/colors. Adding Bridges Coming soon Adding Guard Towers Coming soonish Adding Highways Coming soonish Xanadu Community Map Contact: Aniceset Technical Support: Jackjones

Hi Rolf I started playing Wurm at a time in my life when I really needed an alternate world. Initially, I jumped in my chair when I saw a red outline around a moving object, and night times scared me to death. Champion lava spiders were the scariest...until I met champion trolls. I built so many fences that my noob nickname was Fairy Fency Pants. After a while I envisioned the houses I was going to build. I looked forward to the oceans to sail, the new places to explore and the way the land could be shaped. Wurm has given me more than just distraction. It has given me hours upon hours of fun. I made real friends in the game. Wurm is more than just a little game people just "play". You really have to LIVE the world to truly appreciate the depth and complexity of all the different aspects. You, Rolf, created something very special and we all are fortunate to share in this world. Thank you very much for everything you have done over the years, and for keeping the game alive so people who need something else to escape to, have a place to go and call home. All the best for your future. However, most times, people who were once bitten by the Wurm bug, always come back. Perhaps you will too Hugs, Fairy x

Can I buy your account Rolf

I've at times expressed pretty strong opinions both about your actions and the direction the game's sometimes headed in, but I really do wish you the best and hope you'll find something you enjoy!

Please Rolf, if you don't love Wurm anymore, sell it to someone who can take proper care of it.

It's called shares, and it's 100% legal.

Well, WU ain't WO, with a player count still dropping I do hope you are right. You created the game, you made decisions (good or bad doesn't matter) that push the game forward and shaped how it is now. You can be proud of the game you created and the hardcore community that gathered in, but please make sure the Wurm Online spirit will remain even with you stepping down, the game and community deserve it. Good luck in your new projects.

Hello all, public FG slay in Pristine this next Saturday. Come and get your Woodcutting pots to chop those 100ql logs Loot is private, but a rare enchanted tool will be rolled for those who hit the beast! It should be in local from water, for those lazy alts. Slay at our deed, Darkness Falls in P8, in game map. Have fun!!

With people playing from all around the world I find it quite irritating trying to figure out how many hours ago something occurred, or when someone else link's there time stamped logs. I would at least like the option to set my time stamp in my logs to the server time.

Or EA/Activision/Ubisoft.

Good luck in your future projects, Rolf. And please don't sell us to Microsoft

On a serious note, big thanks for WU. Many may not see it now, but this basically ensures that no matter what happens to WO (killed off, put on ice for WO2, global flare offs our internet and a lucky few still got working PC's), we got Wurm on our PC's.

I wish you the best in your endeavors, Rolf, but I fear for Wurm without you running the show.

This is something that I've been wishing for years, and I don't think has been updated once (other than adding lightning) in the over 10 years I've played. A good weather system with storms and rain are one of my favorite things in a game. But as of right now, the only clue that it's raining are the occasional drops around you, there are hardly any clouds around, the sky doesn't get dark, puddles don't form on the ground, things don't look wet. I and many others would be incredibly grateful if the Dev team could give the weather system some much needed love. Thank you for taking the time to read this.

Map Feature Added: Search/Find/Goto... Click the "F" on the left hand side to bring up the "I Want To Go To There" prompt.

Each time another person comes by, the area is changed in a way. Sometimes this will make it easier for the next person. It isn't always to everyone's taste. But it was what that person wanted or was able to do. The next person that comes by will change it again. Having the game erode it might affect something that someone is working on that perhaps isn't deeded. I know many people that have come by and deeded areas that were ruins. They kept some of the terraforming and changed what they didn't wish to keep. This is how it should be in my opinion. If you don't like it, fix it.

Rolf before you leave issue a presidential pardon on the fountain pans! Let us keep them!

I appreciate all of the hard work you've done Rolf as well as the work from the Wurm Team. I am looking forward to seeing what the next chapter holds for both and regardless of the hate from some, none of us would be here without the game you've created. You've really accomplished something here and I hope that motivates you further in everything else you take on.

google; games like wurm online, nothing comes close, why does this smell like the end

Before you go, can you leave us with that dancing rolf elf animation your wife made for you all those years ago? Good luck in what you do next, dont know much about the current devs but hope they have the right mindset for the future development of the game and that they'll value community feedback above all else when considering changes and ideas.

Thank you Rolf for all the great years! Looking forward to the Budda team years to come. I hope you keep us updated on your future projects and adventures! -Wurmhole

With settings turned up, Wurm can look pretty good relatively speaking. Though, when you crank up water, while it looks real nice, you can't see the sunken crap on the floor. You're forced to have horrific blank water just so you can see important stuff below such as item piles, mission items, arrows (has been suggested to float before), you name it. Not to mention, this blank water at nighttime just strains your eyes when you're checking the seafloor for stuff as you sail, so only checking for things on the same level as your boat/character would be visually comfy So let everything float. Corpses float, even if it's scientifically reasonable (ignoring that they sit on top of the water not in it), sunken ships float and that's not that reasonable (edit forgot even live sea animals float). We still have unicorns and giant spiders on fire though, so letting everything float so we can crank up water settings should be ok

Bought 5k corn, really fast and nice delivery,thanks guys

In one of your next projects, could you make a scifi version? I could really see digging a base into the side of a mountain and defending with a gauss rifle

Slaying of The venerable fat white dragon hatchling - Pictures Campsite all fighters meeting up This campsite was really too small, nobody imagined such a great response and about 80 fighters showing up. Only seconds before the drake was freed Fight Fight Fight! Success!

Yea, some Wurm raindrops a-fall'n to bring those old nostalgic moments to mind. Got to be on the roofs though. *You and me and rain on the roof* ~The Lovin' Spoonful~ =Ayes=

It gets worse when that miserable feature known as DST kicks in and part of the world moves over to fast time while the other part just keeps plodding along on slow time.

I recieved no money from the person I sold the items to. My dealings with PayPal, although caused by this situation, have nothing to do with the items in Wurm. Now move along darling

Dear Rolf, I found myself growing a bit misty eyed as I read of your impending departure of the god of Wurm and yet I tried in various indirect and circuitous ways to warn you of the Gnome Conspiracy. Now you have finally succumbed to their evil plot to wrest control of these Wurm lands from your fading grasp. Still, you have made it out alive with much remaining sanity intact. Go forth now to experience your freedom and peace of mind and let go those nightmares of the dancing red hats deep within the bowls of Wurm tunneling everywhere to make the substance of it all little more than the Swiss cheese favored by your predecessors. Gnomes! Woe the day that they subtly influenced your subconscious to bring them into existence. Now with minds of lesser determination that your own in a dispersed pattern of control I am sure that their fun will continue, as they now more readily shape these Wurmy worlds to their liking. Just beware that none give them back their glow on those red hats for that is where their true power lies. Lies? Yes, all lies within lies, no lie. Well maybe a few here and there but that is another matter. You might think this all a bit peculiar of a revelation for me to make so plain where otherwise I had need to obfuscate it under the guise of other issues; however, since you have now abdicated your godhoodieness I feel it only wise to state otherwise, even to those guys. For although prying eyes have no fingers to leverage their investigations, they still might do much damage to those of not so subtle thought processes. But you and Ayes we've been through that and that is not our fate. So let's not talk falsely now for the hour, well you know. Eras come and go, time passes, new eventualities arise. Within these shorter timeframes Wurm has arisen. Therein some minds have dwelled and expanded their perceptions through their creations. Mini-gods we all can be here in various ways, traveling with the shallow perception of mere puddles or the depths of Wurm's oceans where no one but the Gnomes have introspected. Who could deny that the One of Two who created this is but the god of it all. Mere Gnome usurpers are only profiteers of what they themselves could not imagine to bring into existence. Go in peace. Happy Trails =Ayes=

Always been up for weather and temperature to impact gameplay more. The current servers can be the more temperate zones to diminish and ease such changes.

Sparta reborn

Good way to do it. I guess your not leaving completely but thanks for making such an awesome game, truly a gamers game. GL

It's the natural progression of the evolution of genius. Working on a project as passionately as you have with Wurm you will succeed in whatever the future holds. I've only been around almost 4 years now, but I tell ya, 3 hours into playing Wurm I was hooked and never looked back. Thank you for the time, effort,hair pulling, laughter and frustration you have given the community and the game. With the changes in the past and those to come, you wouldn't take a step up, note NOT a step away, from those that continue to be part of this community and those that develop this wonderful game because you trust that we are left in capable hands. Sometimes it is easier to step up another rung on the ladder to see the future, as you have discovered, and indeed the future is bright. ( besides, now it gives you more time to actually Enjoy your fruits of labor ) Good luck Rolf and nothing but best wishes.

Rolf please create Wurm Online 2 Good luck

I only got here a year ago so didn't get to know your era well, @Rolf. All the best to you and thank you for creating this. Can we finally get saddlebags as a farewell gift, please?

Hello Everyone! As many of you already know, Wurm is now mainly being maintained and developed by a group of volunteers from the player base headed by our Product Manager Budda, most of which are under contract. My involvement and role in development is diminishing as I’ve been at it for 13 years now and I feel a bit of a drain.Hence, I am educating myself in new areas since WU brought in some breathing room for Wurm. I will remain CEO and do administrative tasks and stay involved in discussing the direction of the game but this group of active contracted players will henceforth be the ones taking strategic and day-to-day decisions much based on your input. This feels like a the natural way of developing the game and will be good for the longevity of Wurm and its continuous progress. I want to expand my knowledge and work on non Wurm projects for a change and I think the dev team has proven a lot and matured quickly since this spring when it was formed. Wurm is doing well financially and will be around for years to come. In case you are an able coder interested in becoming a volunteer and help improve the game and possibly do some bounty coding, don’t hesitate to contact Budda. Long Live Wurm! Rolf

I wasn't active to get one and it's hugely unfair some people have shiny backpacks made from materials I cannot manufacture one with It's just down right unbalancing.

There is a very large thread that has discussed this topic inside and out, and had plenty of responses from Devs and other staff. I would advise reading up on it for your answers instead. http://forum.wurmonline.com/index.php?/topic/142854-fountain-pan-replacements/

How will fountain pan owners be reimbursed for the item they spent 10-15s on ( or way back, 50+ )? Obviously this item wasn't considered an exploit and was allowed to be traded in-game for years with no repercussions...quite frankly we deserve refunds or the item itself to stay ingame

I think the best reimbursement right now would be removing the timer so we can use them forever.

Nice. Thanks for putting something like this up. Some way to add roads and possibly other things (guard towers? mission structures?) would be nice as well.

Bring on the map dumps!!!

could just give the option to turn them in for a large magical chest or some ######

I offer 18s for the rare imbue pick If you can do for 18s please cod me. (Same name ingame)

Various items for sale from rifts and a few potions. Reasonable offers will be considered. If you want to know what something does, just ask. This is a cleanout of stuff stashed away.