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Disregard that, don't bring tents, feed the altars with corpses of the fallen

Hey folks! With the release of the new content tonight on Indie I would formally like to invite you all to watch all the action unfold live as I explore this new adventure with @Retrograde! Join us as we battle with the hordes of other keen adventurers to defeat the rift and then take the fight to them in a never before seen experience. See this link for countdown timer: Where can you watch this all happening? Over on Twitch, check out the spoiler window below to find the channel below! I can hear some of you saying; "Drongo, this timing sucks I can't watch live!" Well you're in luck, you can watch the VOD after the stream at this link in the spoiler window below (I've updated it now!) I hope to see you all there, much love ya'll!

Hi all, Most of you are probably aware that the forums have had... difficulties... lately. The issues we faced were hardware ones, similar to the issues Independence faced not too long ago. These issues were exasperated by some malicious traffic - not entirely a DDOS attack, but more like a swarming of bots. The extra traffic put a strain on failing drives which reduced disk I/O significantly. The result was a slow-down and eventual shutdown of the database. Rather than working with Hetzner on hardware replacement, we've moved the forums to AWS! Specifically we are using a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) server within their Lightsail offerings. For full transparency, I feel a quick explanation of what this means is in order. Lightsail is a "virtual private server" offering from AWS. For all intents and purposes the servers are private, though many servers can share the same hardware. This isn't a bad thing in today's world of mega servers, and it's why the Lightsail option is far cheaper than the hosting we have with Hetzner. On Hetzner we were basically on "bare-metal", which means the hardware wasn't shared. The forums and the wiki shared the host, and it was ultimately overkill for two web applications. While we're now on shared hardware, I expect performance to be close to what it was when the forums weren't acting up. If we find that the performance is degrading, we can always increase our instance size. One of the benefits of cloud hosting! Just in case it comes up as a question: When Wurm transitions to AWS it will be using full EC2 instances for hardware, not Lightsail. And yes, the Wurmpedia will be transitioned to Lightsail sometime after the coming release. For now it should still be functional as it's database is not hosted on the same machine. Only the code that drives it is and so far that's fine. Like I said though, there is a plan to transition it and retire the failing host entirely. So far the new host has been smooth for me. I'll leave this topic open for others to comment on their experiences. Edit: I should point out that there are background tasks running that may slow things down slightly. This is due to the upgrade I've also installed as part of this move. Any sluggish response should pass in another hour or two as these tasks finish. Thank you all for your patience during this.

Advice to everyone who intends to attend the rift: BRING A TENT. The difficulty of the rift has changed, and it may catch you out.

For the record, I for one welcome our new dog-faced overlords!

This is just good old gatekeeping, and the very flawed premise of your entire post. There can be tons of different reasons why and how someone plays WO (all of which you're tacitly trying to invalidate), that's the beauty of it being a game that goes well beyond the strict definitions of a sandbox game. Jackal will likely give a massive incentive for even the few players to come together and cooperate in communities, something that PvE has for the longest time not given in any way. The "higher creative basis" you speak of is basically everyone being able to do everything for themselves. Nothing inherently wrong with that, but there are two sides to that coin, and an environment that lets us flip it for once is very intruiging. If not for you, then for plenty of other people. You're also basing this all on the jarring misinformation that characters gain no progress whatsoever, which was, even among the scattered and sometimes vague information, clearly not the case from the very first post describing Jack's travel to Jackal and back. Could have saved yourself a wall of nonsense if you actually read, no offense.

They will all spawn immediately as of the servers coming up, then they will open at the listed times

I'll offer 1c per item and will take the whole lot. The awesome GM team can CoD all items to me, since Niki is unable to. Thanks in advance!!!

This game is one of the best game i ever played with Starwars Galaxie (pre cu,) Developper haved done a very good job with everything to work. (Bridge, Rift, Boat, Breeding animal, etc etc.) I will give it a try for sure and im also sure thats not gonna be perfect at start but everything will be fixed and this will be another addon to this fantastique game even if (some people) will not like it. Thanks for adding content.

Many people travel and leave carts/horses out and about when they have to log out to go to work. Please introduce a temporary "camp" to put around our carts or horses, something made of ropes and shafts, which can be placed around our cart or wagon or horse before we log out, and easily rolled up and packed away the next day. This will stop little camps being made all over the server in case a rift mob kills the horses or bison hitched in the cart, or the saddle horse out in the wilderness. This structure can decay fast if left off deed e.g. completely gone within a week. Edit: We could alternatively cut thorn bush branches and make a temp camp that way, which will keep all mobs out but be hollow like guard towers or forges? Point is whatever has to be quick to put up and quick to remove.

Subject lines pretty much says it all. I'm probably not the only one who's not crazy about the backpack model, but still appreciates the functionality of having a back-equipped container. Enter, knapsacks! Only problem is the Riddleresque question mark on them. Not every Wurmian wants to walk around looking like a Batman villain. If the question mark isn't going to be removed any time soon (maybe it could be?), please at least let us dye the knapsacks to make it less visible.

we'd give a little more warning if it were valrei mobs, it's just the gorilla and hyena

The rift was delayed for one more restart, I'm not sure where Emoo is but you can tune in on fabricants if emoo doesnt show up! Imagine choosing to sleep instead of streaming wurm at 4am

Question is because the rift mobs that are left on the server after the rift is closed (without killing all the mobs) DO kill any other creatures they encounter.

This is the kind of updates info I was referring to in another thread. I keep hearing that discord is not the primary way of communication but then I keep seeing posts where people ask a question and someone else will answer with the info they got on discord. This isn't earth shattering and eventually we peons who don't/won't use discord do get most of the info, but it is mildly annoying. (mostly right now I'm referring to questions asked in the Jackal update thread) So truly, is discord now the primary place for answers now, aside from the main update posts, with the forums as secondary?? So many questions in those threads go unanswered, only to find later that they were answered in discord with only discord users being fully in-the-know and occasionally willing to impart their knowledge to us here on the forums or in game.

In my humble opinion, for such a prolonged extended downtime, an ETA in game is always appreciated, so that players may quickly find a bed in which to sleep - In Real Life! Looking forward to getting back into game

No unexpected failure, downtimes expected to be another hour or so, everything going pretty much as planned. This is a big update and as such will take time.

I for one want to say thank you to the devs for the new addition. I know there are have been some negative comments about various aspects of the whole endeavor, but I personally don't see any negatives in what has been shared so far. Many will look at the Jackal Frontier in different ways- some positively and some negatively and each for various and highly personal and preferential reasons. For my part, I see it as a challenging hunting server with goals and objectives to accomplish for those inspired to do so. Some will play to break beacons and clear the corruption with an aim to take down the stronghold, others like me will enjoy jumping over for the challenge of taking on some new critters in a hostile environment and then jump back to our comfortable and peaceful personal settlements. If I can help take out some beacons along the way, fantastic! If I am able to get in on taking down the stronghold when the time comes, (or at least providing some supportive role in the process), even better! As with the whole of the Wurm experience in general, players play and enjoy the game for many diverse reasons. Jackal will not be any different. In a game where progress is determined by skill gain, and skill gain is determined by time spent in the game doing things, there will always be those who are able to spend a lot of time progressing, and those players will always be out front doing the harder things that some of the rest of us wish we had the time to skill grind in order to be a part of it. As long as there is no way for those advanced players to deed over, around, or otherwise wall or fence off the stronghold or beacons or mobs from others who would otherwise have the time and opportunity to take a wack at them, I will be fine with whatever goes down. Mechanics that allow advanced players to rob other players of opportunities simply so that the advanced players can take something down at their own personal convenience is about the only thing I have seen in Wurm that would get under my skin. I strongly hope that the game mechanics will not allow such things to happen on Jackal. So I just wanted to say thank you for all the work it has taken so far to bring us the Jackal Frontier, and offer some encouragement on all this! I, for one, am very excited about what is unfolding over the next days and weeks! Looking forward... ~TH~

Can i watch the VOD after too?

If we can avoid that elite groups defeat the Stronghold on their own (and spoil the fun for everyone else), this could be a great improvement for PvE. Looking forward to trying it out!

Today I was sent to Release and in the vicinity of Elymas who would have to face 3 random challenges... Unfortunately.... well... I will let this chat explain it.... 😭 If only he knew what I had to dump back into the void.... It was so warm and shiny.... I think it even washed windows!

Ah, also normal mapping needs to be enabled in the settings - I see that's disabled in the console log.

They are crafted from existing rift materials and will be useable after the rift is closed

Skillgain on jackal will transfer in a fashion, it wont be 1:1, but you will progress on freedom while gaining skill on jackal.

Also for the chess board lovers !

I have been working with @Yagaover the past few days to provide a new Celebration Community Map Service. @Yagaand @Substr have developed a system which they implemented for the Deliverance server which I have now updated for Celebration New Celebration Community Map Features 1. Map coordinates The map offers a common type of map grid (as an optional overlay), using the same denotation as the in-game map (for example "E 24"). However, to place and find locations in a much more detailed way the new map is based on "tile coordinates" (x, y), making it possible to narrow down locations to a single tile on the server! This allows us to place deeds and landmarks much more precisely than before. (Map coordinates are explained in the next post.) 2. Zoom The map provides various zoom levels, allowing to zoom in from a view of the entire server to close-ups of single deeds. 3. Layers Deeds, Tunnels, Canals, Bridges etc. are actually map layers which can be toggled on and off. You can also choose among two map types (Terrain, Topographical). 4. Finding settlements The map offers an easy-to-use search function for deeds. 5. Selecting locations and copy coordinates You are able to select any point on the map and save the coordinates for future use. Colours and Symbols Map Information This new map has been reproduced based on the previous map maintained by me and as such some elements may not be 100% accurate since we are using a completely different system. To this point, if you notice anything missing or in the wrong place in terms of settlements (deeds), highways, tunnels, canals and landmarks, please post in the thread below using the Adding Data guidelines provided. Adding Data Please post in this thread to report new or changed data. (Do not send PMs, neither on the forum nor in-game! Do not use Discord to add data either!) Please use tile coordinates (x, y) to report new map data. (Hover your mouse pointer over the location you wish to report, click once to see the coordinates in the "Selected" field, copy the coordinates.) Deeds: Please report the settlement name and the coordinates of the settlement token. Example: "Serendipity Bay [1650, 1384]" Highways: Please report the coordinates of all points describing the highway (start, "corners", end). Please use this format: "[305,1453], [305,1415], [226,1415], [226,1383], [156,1383]" Tunnels, Canals, Bridges: Like highways. These elements can also be given a name. Please only add fully completed Tunnels, Canals and Bridges. Fully completed tunnels are those with both walls reinforced along the entire length, all veins in the roadway/canal gone and with the floors mined down to their final depth. Other: You can also report clay and tar resources, guard towers, and special named landmarks (like names of lakes and mountains, as long as agreed among the local community.) Note that Celebration is an Opt-In map, meaning that you must ask to have your deed posted on the map. We encourage you to do so as the more deeds that are shown on the map the easier it is for people to find their location when they're out exploring and lost , or when they're trying to come pick up that cool whatchamacallit that you offered for sale or check out your totally awesome deed. However, only a Mayor or an authorized villager can request that a deed be added. THANKS! I'd like to thank @Yagafor his very fast help setting up this map and for him to offering to host the actual map and input files. Also, I'd like to thank all the previous Celebration Community Map editors, without which this new map wouldn't have been possible. New Celebration Community Map

Are there plans to certify and get the wurm online setup package downloaded from the microsoft store? Many new PC's are coming with Windows 10 S-mode that does not allow any application to be installed unless verified by Microsoft. Taking the laptop out of S-mode presents obvious risks.

Yep, title. When you drag an item from your inventory onto a player character it should start the trade window with that item already loaded into it.

Patch Notes : Jackal Awaits! Announcing the Jackal Server Jackal is a new time limited server lasting six months that players can transfer to from every other server. Accessing the Jackal server will require the player to be premium. To initially access Jackal, rifts will spawn at server opening with specific scheduled start times listed below Independence 6PM Fri UTC Deliverance 10PM Fri UTC Pristine 2AM Sat UTC Chaos 6AM Sat UTC Celebration 10AM Sat UTC Xanadu 2PM Sat UTC Exodus 6PM Sat UTC Release 10PM Sat UTC Serenity 2AM Sun UTC Desertion 6AM Sun UTC Affliction 10AM Sun UTC Elevation 2PM Sun UTC Once rift on that server is closed a lodestone will appear allowing transport to Jackal. Jackal lodestones can be player crafted with rift materials, stone bricks and mortar and used as regular portals to Jackal after the initial rift is closed. Jackal Jackal is a hostile alien server with a vastly different aesthetic to the lands of Freedom. Pine, orange and lemon tree types have been removed from Jackal. Six new tree types have been added. Jackal has the Epic hybrid skillgain system with 3x skill and 3x action speed. Skill gained on Jackal will transfer to Freedom at a reduced rate Disabled for the first few weeks to ensure when it is enabled it works smoothly When enabled will apply to any skill gained from the beginning of jackal A new Jackal journal tier has been added Certain tasks within the standard journal tiers have been disabled from triggering while on Jackal. Completing certain tasks on Jackal will reward the player with Jackal points, redeemable for new item skins on Freedom. Item skins to come in the coming weeks and months Jackal creatures Added Isopod Added Giant Crab Added Weta – the new ridden creature. Cannot wear gear Can ride up 50 slope Custom spawn table for jackal, not all creatures will spawn there Corruption Clearing Corruption can be cleared by creating freedom beacons and destroying jackal beacons. Jackal beacons are defended by increasingly difficult groups of creatures, which will all need to be defeated before their hearts can be burned at the beacons in order to destroy them Destroying jackal beacons will make it easier for freedom beacons to radiate their influence in the area Following a god and becoming a priest will be available from freedom beacons The prayer faith gain limit has been doubled from 5 to 10 per 24 hours uptime on jackal only. Rift changes New point calculation system New point buy system Defeating rift creatures and closing rifts will now reward players with Rift Points. Rift points are now used to purchase specific items instead of RNG loot as before. Accessible from lodestones and mailboxes when you have points to redeem Updated Rift Creature AI Each rift creature now has attacks and special mechanics depending on their type New sounds for all Jackal creatures Tweaked combat stats of Jackal creatures Rifts now spawn in 4 waves that ramp up slower Rift scouts Small groups of Rift creatures will spawn across the server. These creatures will provide a small challenge and reward the players with rift resource collection nodes and some rift points when defeated. Changes to creature spawns We will be trialing a new creature spawn table on two Freedom servers, Deliverance and Pristine. Players may see some new creatures previously only known on PvP servers. Miscellaneous Changes Change: Guard towers on elevation now take 2x damage, the warning message to kingdom has been lowered to 50 damage to account for this. Change: Players on elevation can now lead 2 horses while walking only. Epic Bugfix: Village reputation will now be checked before declaring war PvP Bugfix: Tile distance limitations will no longer block transmutating tiles to dirt. Elevation Bugfix: Epic players will now deal damage again while path of hate rage is active. Client Changes Bugfix: Fixed ‘FBO not bound’ launch crash Bugfix; Fixed certain quickbind key names not showing Bugfix: Fixed select bar selection updating when moving the camera instead of clicking The post Patch Notes 30/AUG/19 Jackal Awaits! appeared first on Wurm Online.

+1 every time

Curious what White/Red or Red/White looks like, any chance you have some?

Don't reinstall Java - just download the new native launcher from our website and run that, you most likely need the Windows 64-bit version. https://www.wurmonline.com/wurm-online-downloads/

@Odinkar @Muse @VirusMD Okay, so we've run into some kind of a signing issue and (yay java) people who want to keep using the JNLPs have to clear their Java cache, and redownload the JNLP. Instructions on how to clear Java cache: JNLP client: https://wurmonline.com/client/wurmclient.jnlp Low memory client: https://wurmonline.com/client/wurmclient_lowmem.jnlp

.the JNLP client has always launched to whatever display the launcher sitting on when i click play. I simply drag the launcher over to whatever screen before hand. The launcher itself never remembered what display it was on last, witch is not a problem for me since i shuffle my characters around the screens several times a day, id says its better that the launcher itself dosent move so its always in a predictable location and then moved to the designated display. The issue is the new one always forces it to the primary display each time, regardless of what display its sitting on. Even thoe i hate windowed mode, guess ill go mod my 6 regularly used config files for now but we should not have to use workarounds to play the game as expected. I get you want to get away from some of the cost associated with Java, but you should not even be considering removal of the JNLP version so soon. Also running in windowed mode seems to interfere with some of things i do outside of wurm, this is not wurms fault, but it def integrates with my normal usage better in full screen. Hopefully this clarifies my issue

You are new to Wurm? The question is very valid, and I would like an answer as well, because when these creatures were introduced on Freedom last time, they did indeed bash down fences and house walls on deeds, causing a major uproar and causing tons of new players to leave the game.

A last desperate from this profiteer to sell out before they embarked upon their nefarious scheme that resulted in their forever being banished from our fair lands. The question arises then why let these posts remain as evidence that they once existed. Erase them I say and let old memories fade of their market manipulations and advantageous profit inducing creativities! Only should they remain hanging there in the Gallows section where we might see their disfigured rotting remembrances exposed to all who dare to attempt to elude the noose's fatal embrace. Then throw all their remaining trinkets of contempt into the awaiting altars of sacrificial oblivion and the chapter will come to a fitting close of nothingness...... =Ayes=

the new launcher is garbage, it takes more resources per client for me, and forces all my clients to display on one screen bascially killing my muti-box expericence, it would be great if you would work this crap out before taking away the only way i can actually multi-box thank you.

Actually they do. I've been watching them slaying everything on a steppe on Serenity just like how all of them attack anything you are not riding (including hitched animals or ones you lead) during rifts.

I cannot use launcher either but maybe they should at least throw in some extra sleep bonus for us.

I'm for this. When I first started wurm I went to the register page no where back then did it say this account creation would be my ingame name. Every mmo I've ever played makes you create a account then log in game and create name and make character. So on the day I made my character and found it odd when I logged in I had no naming option but I was not concerned I just went out playing. After a few months of grinding skills On a toon which was male cause females didn't exist back then It started to bother me cause I used a female name to register my account which was used in other mmo's like EQ and EQ2 Wow etc.. I need a name change but have been shot down even by asking a gm. I'm still waiting for a name change ticket or a gm to fix this. Sorry restarting a new toon and working 5 years of skills is no option. And thanks for finally adding on the registration page (This will be you in game name). This will prevent others in the future of not making the same mistake I did.

i think the swing timer cap is 3 seconds. not sure if you know this but you may appreciate the input.

The problem is if we are not told that this is going to change, i.e. if we assume that horses will be protected as they currently are, while they are NOT, many people may log in to find their horses dead. The previous time this happened, one of my friends logged in to find his two five speed bison dead under his cart. He took his cart home, and then never logged back in. And since the update is so close, I am certain that the developers already know whether these scouting parties will or will not be attacking saddled or hitched horses left on the server while the owners log out.

this is just a rolling restart of rifts so everyone has a rift in their timezone to attend. They will again start drifting according to finish times

You missed the part where EVERYONE is going there with no skills. You go there and you're as noob as everyone else. This is designed literally for people like you in mind, to create and experience you can feel comfortable in.

I think it is universally understood by most MMO players that those who are able to put more time into the game get more out of the game at a faster rate than others. I don't think CodeClub can or should be responsible for mitigating that fact. I think if these new Jackal scenarios immediately reset after the stronghold is defeated, it gives a constant active scenario for anyone to pop into and contribute in whatever way they want, gaining a bit of this and that along the way. It almost seems to me to be a sort of extended quest/story line you see in other MMOs. If so, and if it is not totally wrecked by greedy PVP content, it will provide some PVE content readily available ANY TIME for ANY player. I am liking this, to be honest.

As someone who doesn't use twitter or discord or any other social media, I'm perfectly happy with forum updates on things. Honestly, I'm not sure I understand how the forum can't be just as "live" as social media since all it requires is a post. But that's just me and using social media for updates wouldn't affect me one way or the other unless updates stopped being made on the forums in favor of social media. p.s. Just being conversational here, not trying to be critical or adversarial. It was brought to my attention that it could have been taken that way. So, apologies if I don't always come across in the way I intend.

Added: Black/white for that TC wagon ! Black/pink - pink color slightly changed, new picture added.

Could you guys re-visit the scorn of libila spell? Literally only healing spell for BL and it just doesnt cut it, compared to LoF, it feels like it aint doing anything. Heals are pretty much nonexistant and the dmg aint that fabulous either. Thanks.

Nope, a mirror was never available for purchase from a trader. And the only ability to trade them was due to a bug in which you put the mirror in a container then traded. Would be nice to have them available for simply 1s from a trader though, or even just the ability to change your appearance at any time, as I hardly see any harm in it.