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I doubt that there will be a lot of people whom still play that remember this name. Nonetheless, I wanted to let you all know of his passing. For what has been a terrible last 2 years of people passing whom have had Wurm at their heart and soul, this one hits me the hardest. I learnt of his passing today through a friend whom no longer plays Wurm and reached out to me on Facebook. I don't know all the details yet so will update you all once I know more. For those that don't know, Wintersolstice began playing Wurm Online in Beta map 7, almost 14 years ago. A time when the graphics where near as good as they are now, the player base was tiny in comparison, but it was still the game we've grown to love over the years. Winter was a person who was extremely caring and spent a lot of his days helping out not only those in his village but also others whom were in need, whether it be friend or foe. At the forefront of this, helping out new players was what he was great at. I started playing Wurm in September 2005. I tried to learn as much of the game as I could within the confines of a deed known as Grey Town and it wasn't long before I decided to venture off on my own with my brother, Mee. We stumbled across Wintersolstices' deed one day and noticed there were some unlocked fences which we decided to help ourselves to the items inside. We loaded absolutely as much as we could into the two small carts and ran off with our newly found bounty. It had been about 45 minutes before we were stopped by this guy called Wintersolstice and he caught us red handed. Our carts loaded to the brim with items in his name among others. It was here that Winter gave us an ultimatum. He condemned us to live the rest of our Wurm lives with him, which turned out to be some of the most fun I've had in the years I have played Wurm and some of the most memorable. By the end of the very last beta map, I had been a part of his deed for almost a year, and we had made plans to make a deed called Silron Valley on the only PVP server that was accessible after the announcement that the game was going to go to 'Gold'. A year and a half had passed on this map, over this time, I'd joined multiple villages, quit two or three times and my parents had split up, I looked up to Winter as a father figure and still do. A catastrophic server failure meant that Wurm had to start over once more, in what is known as Gold 2, and the current cluster of servers, with the only surviving map from that era, known as Chaos. Again we found ourselves with Wintersolstice in the village known as Rivendell. We went through several iterations of this deed name and it was in the 3rd Rivendell that Winter learnt that he had congenital heart failure. He went in for an operation to have a pacemaker put in his heart and I had no idea what this was at the time but once he explained what it was, I knew it was serious and that at any time the unthinkable could happen. Winter tried to still log in as much as he had in the past, the various health problems that Winter had meant he would be on for weeks at a time, and off for a week, there were a few times he would disappear for months only to pop up once again and tell me he had gone back into hospital. He wasn't in good shape at all. The last time I spoke to him was over a year ago, but I didn't know it would be the last time we would ever talk. Winter called my brother and I Little dudes, we're all grown up now and I wish you had been around the last few years to spend some more time with us because we absolutely loved every moment of it and that's something I will never forget. Today is his birthday, December the 22nd. The Winter Solstice, the reason for his name. Rest in peace Tommy. I'll miss you and you'll forever have a special place in my heart. https://www.wurmpedia.com/index.php/Player:Wintersolstice

Now we know what to get Sindusk for christmas! This update has been pretty special even with the minor hiccups, and I must say that the game has really come a long long ways and I for one have enjoyed every minute of the progress.

Merry Christmas to all. Remember to drink and eat well and mostly try to have fun!!

So after experimenting with this skill, I find this update seriously lacking. I will list out my reasons and suggestions below: A twitch based system in a skill check game: the necessity of clicking to hook a fish has been added in order to make the skill more interactive. However, I find it frustrating that I can complete the twitch based operation yet still fail the skill check. Additionally, you can fail the skill check while reeling in the fish and have it jump the hook. SUGGESTION: remove the skill check from the twitch based action to hook the fish, but keep it during the reel in timer. Watching text: In order to know when to click, you must keep your eyes glued to your event log for a particular message. You cant risk chatting with other players or let your attention wander during a 3 MINUTE TIMER lest you miss your cue to click. This makes fishing even more dull than it was previously. SUGGESTION: Split the timer into 2 parts - the first one starts just after you cast and lasts for 1 minute and extend the amount of time you have to click a little based on character's fishing skill. This is the period in which curious fish come to bite the bait. Once a fish is successfully hooked, a 2 minute 'fight' timer starts. Additionally, add a sound cue to when a fish hits a line - i had to do this via wurm assistant. The Mystery of the matryoshka dolls: The fishing poles themselves are a victim of Wurm's outdated UI - you have a container within a container ad nauseum. This makes changing your fishing strategy with different baits, reels, hooks, floats, lines a real pain in the ass. not only that, but looking at the description of the items gives very little clue as to what they do or what they catch. SUGGESTION: Simplify the rods by making them their own items: basic fishing pole, light fishing rod, medium fishing rod, deep sea fishing rod, and professional Rod - each assembled out of its respective parts as they exist now. Keep the bait system as is, but change the float system - allow floats to be crafted out of wood and include in their description what depth they are intended for. This will keep the desired fishing complexity while simplifying the pole itself (not to mention the amount of time it would take to imp all of the individual parts for each type of fishing). Also, please include more information on the bait so we have an idea what it can be used to catch. The disappointment of small fry: While fishing out in deep water, I would be excited to actually have a line strike only to be immediately be disappointed that it was a herring. While I understand that this is realistic, it isn't exactly fun. Not only is it a waste of bait for small fry, but you cant even use herring as bait. SUGGESTION: Allow the fishing net to be used in deep waters to catch herring and other small fish. Take the small fish (perch, roach, herring) off of the regular list of fish that will strike a line. Also, let herrings be used as bait. Tedium vs. Reward: I wont get into a discussion of Wurm's gameplay systems (and for the record I really love this game despite the grindiness), but while the complexity and apparent failure rates have increased for the activity of fishing, the rewards appear to have not increased in a similar fashion. You still get...fish that don't do much. You can feed yourself with them, use them on pizzas and...that's about it. I've heard of clams being caught with nets that can have pearls or seafood meat, but that's still not terribly impressive for the amount of time and effort involved. SUGGESTION: include new uses and recipes for fish and fish products. Maybe salted fish that don't go bad that can be used as travel rations, fish oil, something to do with natural substances/alchemy? new dyes or additives? Analysis: As it stands now, the only thing necessary for players looking to make things like pizzas is a fishing net and access to brackish water. The systems' overall complexity is daunting while at the same time presenting lackluster rewards. These two halves must be brought into balance to make this skill update more successful. PS: I really love what you guys did with salt and water types. Seriously, that's been a long time coming. 1 salt per 1kg of water was a little silly, but 1 salt per 10k should be perfect. Thank you very much for that.

i played it and now i'm waiting on a refund from steam edit: got my refund

May not have known him as long as others but I've spoken to him on and off over the last 8 years or so since the days of wild. He was one of the last people to play on desertion, up until around a year ago when he stopped logging in, but he sure loved to chat anyone that logged in with his weird charm and sense of humor. Sadly it seemed anytime winter came back it was more talk about his health, but now he is free from it. Rip Winter

OMG. Another ingame friend logs of for good. He was a good neighbour ingame. And i like to think he liked me aswell haha. Thx for many good tips and talks. We hadde a hard time ingame with allmost daily attacks on Rivendell and Valhalla. I se alot of my friends over here have written. Many fine words from Anettes family ?. Merry Christmas to us who still is here. We never know when we log of for good so live your life to the fullest ?. Greetings from Lokedott

Flying knarr! Special Edition! Only 20g per each

Heya, starting a quick thread here to bring some posetivity to the devs since people just tend to complain about stuff they dislike and skip praising the thing they like. I love the update, the sheer amount of work that's been going into to this is just pure madness. Fishing went from a mundane click game to something interactive and awesome, it's AWESOME! We got a Ninja update on clothing (white hoods and jackets etc) it's AWESOME! We got tower chaining so more things to work towards on PvP , it's AWESOME! We got new mechanic for climbing and grinding it finally grants results, it's AWESOME! We have a whole new level of spells, new priest mechanics and so much new stuff, it's AWESOME! So I just wanted to say that you are all awesome! From me to all of you, have a very Merry Christmas!

This week's rift is in O19. See Niarja for the time for this rift. Not sure at this stage if I will have the time to ride down to this one...

This game flopped harder than a 7-year old learning to dive.

Havens landing is a start town with no actual mayor, please have it on the map, it is necessary

giant cherry ? you mean giant walnut ?

I remember Winter from the early days... and especially right after gold and we had PVP servers. Winter helped me out a lot when I was searching for artifacts, especially during the insidious spider wars. Rest in peace Wintersolstice.

Very sorry to hear this. Rest easy old foe.

I'm very sad to hear this. Winter was an honorable player and a worthy foe throughout the years.

Oh, the other thing I'd like to see: - Some kind of credit for sleep powder when your sleep bonus is already full. Not getting sleep bonus because I'm already max is perhaps the number one reason I don't bother with missions when the Valrei scenario looks bad for my god. If the SB award could be converted into some kind of credit for sleep powder coupons, I'd be more interested.

I just wanted to share some screens of my deed, Lorewood Gardens, on Xanadu. Been working hard to get it in nice shape, but still a lot of work to do! I've been having a lot of fun with some of the new items from the update, but also getting inspiration from the priest changes as well.

I'd like to have my deed, Thule, added. It's at 27x, 29/30y. J15. It's on the southeast corner of Blackdog Island past the Blackdog canal.

sold

The anaconda model should be significantly larger than it is. Anacondas are huge, and the model is the size of any ol' run of the mill snek. their description is even "An over 3 meters long muscle, this grey-green snake is formidable." and they are clearly not even 1 meter. thank you for your time and god bless

Change: Coops will now have a small chance to produce fertile eggs Bugfix: Mail cost for items with internal non removable compartments adjusted. Bugfix: Fishing reels should now show rarity in examine. Bugfix: Reveal creatures and manage animal locate help will no longer show caged creatures. Caged creatures / Cooped creatures or creatures on another server will now give a generic message “This creature is loaded in a cage, or on another server.” from the manage animal popup locate. Caged or animals on another server will not show on Reveal Creatures spell. Bugfix: Buoys can now be planted in deep water The post Patch Notes: 23/DEC/18 appeared first on Wurm Online.

There are some issues still to be worked on regarding religion, but the reason for the temporary ban on rituals has been corrected today. The ban is lifted. Thank You, Wurm Online Team

The rift appeared on the 23rd, and will open on the 25th (Christmas Day).

Will they hatch normally if you leave them in a coop? Currently, eggs only hatch if you keep them on grass, dirt, or crops? Will this limitation still be true inside of a coop or will the coop override? (And can we get lawn added, please? I've always wanted the visual of keeping my chickens on lawn.)

Transfers of Faith, Chaos to Freedom Please be advised that the free faith transfer DOES NOT move your Chaos faith to another server. Using the free one time /transfer command allows you to switch deities but only with the faith level that you have on the server you are currently on. It does not pull your Libila or other faith numbers from another server just because you switch to that deity elsewhere. If you do switch deity on one server with a lower faith and then go to a server with the higher faith of the same deity you will lose that higher faith. This is the current way that the /transfer command works. Thank You, Wurm Online Team

Merry Christmas Sklotopolis! The Sklotopolis staff team wants to wish everyone of our players a merry christmas and a happy new year. As promised Sanata already arrived at New Hope on Novus and Genesis on Liberty. But as usual you also can collect your gift from a christmas tree which you can craft yourself. This years christmas gift includes two items, something useful and something decorative, we hope you will enjoy your presents. Thanks for being part of our wonderful community, considering this is a free time project for all of us you are the only reason why we are still working on this success story and improving it every day. Thanks for being a part of our unique server adventure. Since some players will find this out for sure, you can get a present on both servers with two different accounts. But make sure that you DO NOT cross servers with an account which has already received a present on your origin server, otherwise you will only receive one gift.

Not added to the ingame map yet, but it's here: http://prntscr.com/lylmv5

I'm pretty sure I will not be the first person to ask for this. Could we perhaps at some point get a setting in the text setting that will only show events that your own character does? something that can be enabled and disabled.

Congrats on the achievement, and now for the 100 woodcutting title after you chop down every harvestable piece of foliage in your sight.

..... because we have received so many requests for the location of Haven's Landing via PM in game from those who want to visit and check it out.. ..... Here is why we can not reveal where it is... (as quoted from the Albia Roads Map of Indy forum topic) ...... So per this protocol established back distant past by Darkmalice, carried on by Mamadarkness, carried on by Archaed, and now carried on by ourselves, to never reveal where any Off the Map deeds is located unless a request to be added to the map is posted in the proper forum (Skyefox does like a paper trail), we can not reveal the location of Haven's Landing. But that does not stop you from going and looking for it. Indy is a fun place to explore. Good luck finding it and don't forget your armour. Multiple restarts have really boosted the mob/aggro population. Warmest regards and Merry Christmas to all, Cheers! Hughmongus Co-Administrator - The Albia Roads Map of Indy

..... and we have finalized this weekend's Update of the Albia Roads Map of Indy. Any geography changes and deed addition requests time stamped AFTER 00:01 UTC (GMT) on Sunday, December 23rd, 2018 will be added to our next update. Indy is waiting.... go and explore it! Cheers! Hughmongus Co-Administrator - The Albia Roads Map of Indy

This is absolutely terrible news.. My story with Winter is very similar as Rudies in the sense that he took me in a complete newbie from outside of Fathertimes old deed and gave me a home in West Haven. I know he always struggled with health issues but I hadn’t realized that he developed heart issues. People don’t realize how many players he had helped out over the years, whether if it was giving them directions or simple items to help them in their way. He never said no, it was always “I’ll see what I can do man”. Even though he wasn’t as active in the past few years, this community has lost one of the true original Wurmians and someone who had shaped the way for tons of players to continue on playing or hold interest in the game. Wurm has been an outlet for me for many years to enjoy the company of others and built friendships lasting over 10 years now. If it wasn’t for Winter I would’ve never stuck with Wurm and developed these lasting friendships. I’m forever in debt to him.. He never said bye in Ventrillo.. so I guess it’s fitting. Later dude...

As a newbie I'm curious how you've even managed to catch fish large enough to fillet. I've no experience with the old fishing system but with the new one I've only managed to catch sardines, roaches and perches. All too small to fillet and so small that they'll barely sustain what food you lose in the time you spent catching and cooking them. Fishing Net only seems to be good for catching the small fish in large quantities but it gives practically no skill. Fishing Pole and Light Fishing Rod are good for skill but don't seem to get me any larger fish with the quality of tools and skill I'm fishing at. If I didn't have two more experienced friends doing a new settlement together I think I'd be starving because there's no way Fishing would feed me the way it is. On a somewhat related note Fishing Net is great for leveling HFC because you easily get loads and loads of small fish to cook. Still does practically nothing for feeding you though. Mechanics wise I think the new system is interesting but could use some improvements. The timer is a bit long just to get one chance to fish and you can easily get distracted waiting for fish to appear for sometimes over 2 minutes and then miss your window to catch the fish. I've also tried spearfishing but it seems either incredibly flawed or I simply have too bad quality spear and skill to do it. I managed to catch 3 fish over maybe 50 attempts and those fish were the same small ones I could've caught with a net. I'm fairly sure I hit my feet with my spear more times than I caught fish. One major gripe I have when it comes to rods and poles is floats. Me and my friends settled on a bit of coast on a mountainside with little trees or bushes and no moss and neither do we have chicken. To find just a few twigs I have to sail to a nearby shore and by pure bad luck those twigs can quickly get eaten away by failures in fishing which makes increasing my skill even harder. Getting floats shouldn't be that hard. I also don't quite understand why we can't craft our own. EDIT: Weirdly enough even with all this I'm enjoying fishing as an activity in the game. I just think it could be improved in many ways, especially for the newbie experience.

I feel like every tome after 9 giving a new title is overkill. After the first bunch it goes from 6 to 9, so it makes sense to do 6->9->12->15

need to made all 90ql then cast it with atlast 70+ woa+coc pm me with offers 2x trowel 2x pickaxe 1x rake 2x shovel 2x stone chisel 1x file 3x carve knife  3x sickle 1x sythe 3x hatchet 3x saw 3x hammer 2x smal anvil 2x large anvil 3x butcher knife 2x needle 2x meditation rugs 3x pelt at 100QL coc+woa 3x whetstone at 100ql coc+woa *if you dont have 100 ql pelts and whetstones i can send you. ingame name Paulofdune

If you buy them somewhere other than Steam, it goes against Wurm rules. Enki posted about that not long ago...

I am still shell shocked from when you rang me this morning with the news. That is a very heartfelt post son. You and Mee would always talk about this guy called Winter. It was all you spoke about when telling me about the game. I remember when I first met Winter. When you and Mee talked me into walking from freedom to wild in the water. Mee came back to get me. Then we got lost lol and you and Winter came looking for us. He used to tell me about how you met him, and call me momma bear because he knew that I would stand by and protect you two no matter what. Winter was one of the few players that I have met in game that would always help you out no matter what. Always there to have your back, always there to drive you insane with his ranting. Speaking with him in ventrilo over the years and hearing how much he was struggling to breath at times was always tuff. At least now you are no longer in pain with your back. Thanks for always being there Rest In Peace Tommy. Catch you on the flip side xxx

One of the things I like about spear fishing is that I can hear the fish approaching. If pole fishing doesn't have a similar audio cue for a fish biting, adding one would be quite helpful.

Good job Devs! Thanks to all of you, Sindusk you are the hero of Wurm PVP and I look forward to seeing many more changes and balances from you, ausimus and darklords. To the group doing water and UI... This game is starting to look quite amazing KEEP this kinda stuff up! Shout out to alectrys for all your bug smashing as well, scary to think what this game would look like without you... As well thank you Enki and the rest of the support staff team for all the time you put into assisting the Devs in various ways during these kinds of updates and in general for all the time you put into this game. Happy Holidays to all of you, know that at least some of us truly appreciate everything you all do for this community.

5s and I'll rat him out

I found a wild appaloosa! A lovely girl. ^-^ That makes in total, 3 wild skewbalds, 2 wild chestnuts, 3 skewbald foals, and an appaloosa.

+1, Having to use mule alts and magical chests should never be a necessity. Period.

Both my new colored horses turned grey again ... And while my other 2 turned grey again, this one was born. Just posting it here so I have proof next time the server reboots.

What a pleasant surprise: Fantastic colossus of Tich Beautiful.

Welcome back Zenity. We have already completed this week's map update and are uploading it at this time. Thank you for the photo of the map showing where you are, you will be on the next update. Kindest regards! Hughmongus Co-Administrator - The Albia Roads Map of Indy

This isn't triggered by someone fleecing your deed, is it? For those who don't know, someone has "recycled" one of Nes's deeds just after it fell, while it isn't breaking game rules, it does break the spirit. Nes did post in forums that he's back (5 or 6 days later) explaining the situation, his friend was holding the deed and he didn't know how much is left in the upkeep. If the person who got the stuff for "safe keeping" would raise their hand, maybe this could have been avoided. He did ask in Freedom chat as well, no response. I didn't get a chance to befriend you but I did use your map a lot and you were a good neighbour while I lived in N/E Exo, I don't want you to leave. Kind Regards. Locath/Kawopij

Hi all. It's a lot of time i play wurm, and since my first toon on Release i had the lingering idea to found a dwarven-like place...only to find that i could not build into caves. Then xanadu came, i made a new toon and made my first, Rauros, a priest. After a lot of time (in wich i played and left the game) i returned and bam! now we can build underground: my wish could become true! I found a suitable site, and started my project... after near a year, it's half done but at least it start to show up as i wanted to. It was hard, but here is the results, i hope you like it, because in some time i may start to build a village and if someone want to share the place with me, i'd be happy to be the King under the Mountain. Just the entrance... a lot of time ago. First buildings: the gatehouse Make it bigger The Castle, inside The Castle first entrance Digging up the dock Private forge Outside Still mining... Underground lake Moria, a city, not a mine

A lot of people have done major projects on Xanadu. The highway network addition worked to bring the community together but what is the point of a highway network without a map.