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Foggy morning - Kasumi Hi Everyone! It's been a rough few weeks with ups and downs, and we know everyone is feeling a little drained by it, but rest assured, we are working through these issues and coming up with plans to resolve each and every one. Some of these plans may take a little longer to get into effect than others, but there is a path! I myself have been bobbing along working on Archaeology on Independence, I'm keen for 90, I can taste it! (I'm leaving so many fragments behind I think I need a maid though). Now it's time to touch on what we've been up to, we've got some good news ahead to lets get to it But first... Patch Notes WU Beta! It's been a long time coming, but with a lot of changes with the new tutorial system, fishing and everything else in the past six months WU will be getting a huge update in the coming weeks. We are working on an internal build and will have a beta build up as soon as we can for all the modders and hosts to ensure everything will run smoothly. Laggy hidden bugs! With our ongoing work on fixing lag with server side polling tweaks, we have encountered a few instances where improving the lag has caused other bugs to come out of the woodworks. This is what resulted in the crash on Xanadu earlier this week. Improving the servers speed in saving to the database by avoiding unnecessary polling and querying in batches has unearthed some issues with server configuration. Todays restart is focused on addressing that configuration error before it causes more crashes. As for the independence issues, we believe this to be due to the disk replacement or new hardware and are currently investigating. We are also currently in the process of looking for a more permanent solution to the hosting issues we have been facing in the recent weeks. We do understand the lag can be quite frustrating so want a resolution quickly. Once we have a solid plan on the next steps we will share them, along with a detailed postmortem of the server issues we have been facing. Alongside the 5 hours sleep bonus, we'll also be giving out a 3 day premium code for all players to redeem! This code will be available after tomorrows restart (not todays) along with the 5 hours sleep bonus. Far far away With vast improvements in client performance, we continue to look at ways to improve the look and feel of the game, and one area inparticular is the long distance terrain being rather bare. As you can see below, Samool has gotten his ever talented mind on the task of improving the look of distant terrain and I have to say, it looks amazing. That's it from us this week, we hope you enjoy the sleep bonus and premium time as our way of saying thanks for putting up with the issues, hopefully soon we'll have a solution guaranteed to end it to share with you all. Until then though, Keep on Wurming! Retrograde & the Wurm team

The cheeky forest giant has been found and we have it penned down, very securely.. no , we do. The slaying will be on Saturday night, aiming to make it an all time zone friendly slay. Should be 11pm UK, 5pm Saturday USA and 10am Sunday Australia. 'The Forest Giant is a unique creature that roams the forests of Wurm. The Forest Giant is armed with a 65ql Huge Club that it will use for attacking and parrying. The Forest Giant is easily recognised due to its massive size and antlers. When slain, every premium player in local will receive blood. Mixing Forest Giant blood with source salt will create a Potion of woodcutting.' The location will be up on Friday. We will roll some loot to fighters that will appear on the list abstracted from Niarja, minus alts. Pre-warning, you may want to bring stamina sandwiches and stay on climb during the fight, its rather high up.. if he throws you, it won't be that pleasant! Go up the tunnel as normal and follow the land across once up top, heading southeast.

That distant terrain render.........

"You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen down by the way and ignore them; You shall help him to lift them up again." Deuteronomy 22:4 Seleas(Edward Keene) was always giving, always honourable and a good hearted person. I simply wanted to share the knowledge of his passing with those of you who may have remembered his time here. To be brief and to my best knowledge: Edward stopped to help a person change a tire on the I4 in Florida around 1am on Feb 18th 2019, during which a car struck him well off the shoulder of the right lane. The Driver failed to stop but was apprehended soon thereafter. I need not post the news story here, it is easily searchable on google if desired. I was an online friend exclusively for roughly 3 years, but over that time we spent many hours gaming and simply chatting, I WILL miss him. Please feel free to post positive comments/tales of adventure here! Farewell Edward...

Congrats LL and Zora - will endeavour to be there. Thanks for making it public (as usual with you guys) - all unique slayings should be public !

We need Colosus from Sandstone maybe egiptian style. We have a lot of sandstone in mines we need more use for this.

Discard option on fragment, please?

Hiya, welcome to Wurm! Eventually you will use up all your fat layers and fasting will not be possible. At this stage you will find you really need to eat something. Being out of food means regaining stamina is slower. You won't die of starvation, but you may die as a consequence if you cannot run away from an aggressive creature, if you fall down a hill due to lack of stamina, or if you drown in water for the same reason. It might be a good time to think about food options. Practising your cooking skills, nominating one person in your party to be a chef, joining a village where free food is provided, or buying food such as pizza off another player in Trade Chat are a few ideas. Good nutrition means things will go better for you, actions will often take less time and be successful more often. Again, really glad you've joined us, and I hope you enjoy exploring the myriad of different foods in Wurm!

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As is for such missions to be completed you need from 5 players up to pray using a item at the shrine . Would it be possible to make it that 1 person can repeat praying as many time they can with say 30 minutes between instead of only one time ? This way it will get the mission completed if no one else wants to bother doing them , clearing the way for missions people will do ?

We are aware. I caught a wild Budda and a wild Samool discussing these issues last night. It's being looked into, but it's not specifically due to server lag. I'm sure we'll have more information and fixes as the investigation continues.

I'm equipping the hamsters with flamethrowers as we speak. Wait... maybe this is a bad idea. Do you smell smoke?

Wow, just wow, Samool. They said you were a wizard! Now Im saying it too. And thanks to the devs working on the server issues and lag. This work is so important and fundamental to the game and it is much appreciated the hard work you guys are doing. It seems this work has unearthed the spider webs under the bed so to speak, and it will be great when everything is all cleaned out.

Im absolutely goose bumped from the long distance terrain update! ? And a big hug and thumbs up on all the lag issue fixing!

@platinumteefyour home is waiting for you!

So I was working on finishing the highway through my deed and realized that my plan for having the highway run through my deed was conflicting with how I wanted my deed to look. It seems the game currently doesn't allow gates on a highway. Which makes sense so players can't lock up a highway for other players. I think gates should be allowed on deeded areas where highways run through as long as players are allowed to pass through them. This would help create a safe area for players to run into if needed, and can help achieve certain design aspects. Like having a Gate at the entrance to the castle.

Nice catch and gz was looking for it shortly before work but didn't have luck.

Nice catch! I'll be there to fly.

Should be there, thanks for making it public (and at a time I'm not at work!) ❤️

Will be attending!!!! Thank you for making another public slaying!

To be honest, there is nothing wrong with the game per se. You just hate rng. This doesn't make the game flawed, it just means you don't like the mechanic. Many people enjoy the way transmutation works to the point they do it themselves regularly and as a business. This is a graphical MUD game. Mud games are generally based on RNG to determine the result of actions (dice rolls). Its the nature of the beast and most people who play MUD games enjoy it. You playing a MUD and complaining about the RNG is like someone eating a lemon and then complaining about its bitterness.

Posts in this thread have confirmed that your perception was incorrect. We don’t have a silent issue with it. If you find it difficult you should make a post in the suggestions forum. Taking it personally and saying the devs are insulting you makes it difficult to take you seriously. Notch made a lot of mistakes when he was a Wurm dev, but most people seem to have forgotten about that or weren’t around for it.

I do believe you mean a Libila Priest, although it did give me a chuckle.

hm... I have a hard time to follow this. My NS Skill sits at 65 or so, I used 50-60ql lumps and 40-50ql juice. I got the random 70-80ql liquid, but in the end I just spamed my trash mats away that I would have never used for anything else anyhow but skilling and made 12 transmuted tiles (4x clay, 4x peat, 4x tar) within 4-5 hours. Considering how fast this went compared to other things in Wurm, I would have regreted using anything high QL on that task. ? I guess it makes more sense to go for high QL stuff if you plan to deliver the liquid to someone, as you will need a lot less but for my personal usage it was ok. Maybe the min-maxer within me died, no clue.

Are you using high ql lumps? It's not too bad for me and I'm at 90 skill too

Do what you want for WO, leave WU out of this crap. We got the same mechanics and none of the attached idiocy.

Are you sure you havent reached the fatigue limit? You have 12 hours of 'work' limit, that recovers by 1 hour every 3 real-life hours. Your message 'you feel rested now' is for fatigue limit; as for the part where you're too exhausted and can't work.. no clue what the message was for that.. but still sounds like you hit rock bottom on that 12 hours. Dragging the cart does nothing, so STOP doing that.. it's not helping You could forage for food and eat it raw(at first..), later DEFINITELY learn to cook. Nutrition HELPS.. further more there's a thing that some call ccfp, for me it's rainbow bars.., smaller colored bars below your stamina.. filling them up does wonders when you work later.. Even if you don't get to cooking decent food... try cooking something, anything... edible.. will be better than struggling with terrible nutrition, your stamina recovery, action timers and so on are just awful than... For a new player - pro tip.. carry a pottery jar(replace with waterskin when possible) with water with you.. and right click on grass tiles and forage for raw edible things to eat(until you get settles and able to cook..) keeping thirst and hunger bars filled ~70% will give you better experience.. at least for the thirst it's a must, it directly affects your stamina recovery time.

Perfect time for 2 and 3 tile gates!

Also, why are apples red on the tree but when you pick them they are green?

This is not a mod but a bunch of texture files you can use if you wish Its easy to use. I don't know how to use it with creature mod - I have just replaced other textures with my own. Rendered wall in the bottom - wooden version on the top: Oh, and last but not least, the blob! Not that I fear spiders, but IF I did, this games "phobia mode" version of the spiders have been gory and nasty and impossible to spot! Isn't this a lot better? Attack of the rainbow-slimes \o/ In order to use my method, first close your wurm-clients (Steam can be left running). 1. Make sure you have something that can open packed files (winrar, winzip, 7zip or something) 2. Navigate to Steam ---> steamapps ---> common ---> WurmUnlimited---> WurmLauncher ---> packs 3. Right click graphics.jar and choose to use your zip program to open it (I use 7zip and in the right click menu I have to navigate through 7zip ---> open archive) 4. Find where the texture you want to replace is located ( For instance, horses, unicorns and hellhorses are in creatures ---> horse - walls are in structures ---> houses - Tapestries are in furniture) 5. Drop the downloaded and properly re-named texture into the folder where it belongs (a question will pop up, that you want to say yes to). 6. Start your Wurm Unlimited game as usual. It should now load the chosen texture instead of the original game texture when you enter the world. NOTE: Some of my textures need re-naming. If it has a (2) at the end it must be removed. Rename the file name alltogether if you want them to replace another color or version of the item. To download my textures - click the link below and find the correct texture: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19vzyoQLdQW_r2fvGLqzfGKQ2jWUjCabo?usp=sharing A quick list of the current textures to more easily navigate which file you may want to download:

No matter what I do graphics-wise, the color of lemons on trees just isn't right compared to real-life. They look much more like oranges than lemons. This is no good for poor hermits and forest-dwellers.. no sir, no sir, not at all.

We have a skill for climbing, we have body and body stamina for walking, but what we don't have is a reward for the endless times we spend sailing, driving and riding around the lands of Wurm. My suggestion is simple: Introduce skills for sailing, driving on carts, riding, etc. that give perks when at certain skill levels. They can increase slowly, like climbing skill does, or even slower. Perks could be things like but not limited to.... Faster speed Actions possible that aren't otherwise allowed while mounted Course alignments Reduced penalties for slopes / going against the wind / etc. it would make the enormous amounts of time we spend traveling in this game a little more valuable to the game-play itself.

thx shakys for moving didnt know where to post that

Of course not: after all, you're the ones still playing the game. The silent ones I speak of tried it and left. So be it. The game randomly nullifies work I've put into it; I consider that insulting and petty. If you want to focus on mistakes, so be it, but he clearly got something right. Many, many people enjoy Minecraft: he made something fun for them. Need I point out that Minecraft is a sandbox where you gather, craft, and build? Clearly, Notch learned something from his time in Wurm, and I don't think it's a stretch to say he learned a great deal to -not- do. RNG certainly has its uses, and I don't mind it when used well, but throwing away people's time and effort with the roll of a dice is bad business, unless you're a casino. The truly maddening aspect for me is that I know it's completely unnecessary. From kindling to transmutation fluid, all you need for balance is the following: - Time - Materials That's it. Scale accordingly. If something needs to be hard, make it take more time, or more mats. Wurm, however, randomly wastes players' time and materials, making the process frustrating and unfun, and that drives people away, for no good reason. The process can be lengthy and costly, without being frustrating, and ideally the process should hook people, being fun in itself. I -hate- hearing about new players who are frustrated they can't make kindling. That design decision is horrible. If need be, make it take more wood or more time, but -never- punish a new player for playing, never tell them they wasted their time, never tell them they should be playing something other than Wurm. The rest of Wurm simply compounds on that error, leading to the extremely small playerbase we see now. And it's entirely unnecessary. Wurm could have had a significant percentage of the Minecraft population, but bad design decisions and the people defending and making excuses for them have kept that from happening.

+1. More use for sandstone please. They are literally everywhere.

Hello, I am moving to a different location and I am looking to sale my deed. Deed name is Neraka T23 Xan. This place is perfect for someone looking to go into Trading building mats. Min tiles of Marble just in the top part of the mine is like 60. Bottom your guess is as good as mine, tons of other metals and building mats. Please stop by and take a look. PM if you would like a walk thro. I have some images from the game and deed planner. This is the front view Total In Upkeep 50s 37c 56i - 183/days 62 x 62 Actual Images Deed Planner Images (Side Dock) (Front Dock) Asking for the amount of silver in upkeep, and will pass all buildings and change the tower name for you. I still have belongings there but if I get an offer I will clear out quickly.

Sorry, completely out of sync w the preceding stuff but decent music, and a particularly nice video, esp if u like time lapse . Profusion - "Nomen"

That view distance ! Can’t wait to look out from The Black Keep with it.

Different priests do not have different difficulty for spells. Casting BotD should have the same success rate and average power as any other priest with that spell, since all that matters there is your channeling skill and the bonus provided by alignment/altar/deed bonus. Prayer skill, other nearby altars, and god simply don't matter.

Transfer went smooth, i can recomend seller to other buyers

Flying sounds good if people cant use it to jump into other people's walled/fenced deeds.

but that would be stated as "attacking directly staff members" if you have issues with certain GM's you cant accuse them or insult them in public, have to complain to enki or above him. I have had pretty much only pleasant experiences with the staff along the way, some heated up/cry moment could might of happened when i first started playing and as a noob i dropped to a dropshaft with all my gear... and for not understanding mechanics, i made support ticket for someone to fish me out. He helped me after looong discussion and he said he shouldnt do it, but helped anyways... good guy One negative popped into my mind... it was a time i suddenly lost my prieshood and to wait 2 months without a word from staff and it only happened when i asked few times. what comes to pvp moderation.. only have had deed problems and those have went smoothly, what comes to exploits, alt using etc... cant say, havent done those i think.. at least i havent got banned. I guess staff will tell me if i use something i shouldn't, how the heck i am supposed to know. All in all, pretty positive feelings, few negatives...

Noted and good find. Will fix asap.

Public Letter - Retrograde 'Abuse of Power' Claims This is an open letter in response to a number of 'abuse of power' claims made against Retrograde our Community Relations Coordinator as a fair number of people have some very misguided ideas about what transpired in some specific situations. Rolf has been investigating these 'abuse of power' claims and has requested that I as Head Game Master investigate years worth of logs in detail for context on every issue that he indicated. After a very in depth review I have been asked to make known to the public the results of this investigation. 1 - Horse with good gear taken from one person and returned to its owner. Claim – Retrograde is accused of abusing his powers to take a horse from someone and return it to someone that he is friends with. Status – False Origin – In December of 2018 one or more of the servers had to undergo multiple restarts. These restarts were necessary but not planned and caused a player to lose a horse with a lot of high quality gear as they did not have a chance to secure, tame, or brand the horse during these restarts. By the time the player had managed to log back in someone else had obtained the horse and the gear on it. Following precedent in this situation, I retrieved and returned the horse, as it was lost by no fault of the player due to extenuating circumstances. Retrograde was not involved in the return of the horse to the player. 2 - Summer Hat Claim – Retrograde gave a Summer Hat to a friend of his. Status – True Origin – Game Masters, Developers, and Team Volunteers are given an item or a coupon for each years Christmas as an appreciation of their service to the community. These items must be approved by the Head Game Master after a review of their affect on the game or community to avoid any overpowered or improper items being allowed in. Retrograde's last Christmas wish was a Summer Hat which is a gift that Rolf handed out once in the past to Game Masters. Team Members are allowed to use their gifts or coupons as they wish, including giving them as gifts. I approved the Summer Hat for Retrograde's Christmas gift and after that he was allowed to do with it as he saw fit. 3 - Dragon Shoulder Pads Claim – Retrograde gave dragon shoulder pads to someone Status – True Origin – For the purposes of advertising and promotion within the Vynora Entertainment Network, Retrograde did in fact create a pair of dragon shoulder pads that were given away during a streaming event. I found no illicit activity involved in this matter as the event and giveaway were public and anyone interested in participating had a chance to win them. 4 - Finding creatures during unique hunts Claim – Retrograde used his powers to locate dragons for his friends. Status – False Origin – Mainly just coincidence. Myself, two Developers, and Retrograde had been monitoring some peculiar situations regarding unique creatures. I can see very clearly who tries to use any powers to interact with creatures and when. Retrograde used his access five times in the last 2 years and during each instance it was for official business and did not coincide with any hunts that he or his friends were involved in. 5 - Retrograde hired a friend as a Game Master Claim – Retrograde added a close friend as a Game Master and a Community Relations member. Status – False Origin – We have a team member who is connected to Retrograde who came up through the ranks and was given a green light for training as a Game Master. Retrograde has no authority to add Game Masters to the team. I added this team member to training on the recommendation of six of my most active Game Masters at the time. Their assessment was based on that members activity and positive record of good responses and quick responses and I agreed with their assessment. It is true that this team member is also part of Retrograde's community relations work. I have no issue with that at all, as we even have a Developer who is also a forum moderator. This is the bulk of the main points brought forward by those who feel Retrograde had at some point abused his powers to help his friends. Because of the nature of these claims Rolf asked me to look through years of logs and look for any irregularities. After a lot of sleepless nights reviewing line after line of logs and comparing to events and official business we have identified every single thing Retrograde has used his powers for on the live servers. Every item, every lamp, every brick, every teleport, and so on, I can point to an official action or event and have found absolutely no abuse of his access to create items or assistance for his friends. The single most important thing that must be maintained by all of us is that if we cannot be public and transparent about an action that we take, then we are doing something that we should not be doing. In one fashion or another, that has been a guiding principal to my actions as Head Game Master, and every team member from Rolf on down should always keep this idea in mind when we are working on anything. It is this very principal that allows me the freedom to post the results of this lengthy investigation for public consumption in the interest of quelling these false narratives about Retrograde. Retrograde himself, as our Community Relations Coordinator has been pushing me to be more transparent with our community, which has not been an easy battle with all the years I have spent protecting confidential information so that you could enjoy the game without us spoiling it for anyone. With very few exceptions, our Community Relations Coordinator has always done his best to keep me informed of his plans regarding promotion of Wurm Online and Wurm Unlimited, especially when he needs certain items or creatures and has kept me appraised of his activities, usually to request permission to act, before I even review the logs. With transparency in mind, this is how our team is currently setup. Rolf is at the top of the food chain as CEO of Code Club AB, and then there is Budda who is our Project Manager here for Wurm Online and those are the only two with the authority to investigate me should any claims be brought to them. As Head Game Master it is then my job to oversee anything that is done on the live servers by any avatar from our players on up including our Community Relations Coordinator. This means that no one may use any powers without my knowledge or ability to review. Thank You, Wurm Online Team

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How about making those compost bins work, and let us turn old food and other leftovers into dirt!