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For bison, how about a difference between hitched speeds for wagons vs carts? From Wurmpedia:

Maybe this: Bell tower ? I built one on my Fort Buda deed on Independance. I don't have a link to a recording of the sound, but it's very similar to what you describe and can be given a command to cease by a player (say, after the second chime has been heard).

Renaming an unhatched fertile egg will produce a chick with that name if the egg actually happens to hatch. At the stage of life when that chick becomes a hen or rooster, the name will be lost and you'd have to use the normal mayoral means of branding and renaming if you want a rooster or hen to have a name.

It's the public Town Square room. Thanking developers for their work is perfectly fine here!

I'd just like to add to note that I believe I was mistaken when I said the Christmas Cake from 2022 was taking large amounts of decay from within a Large Magic Chest. I've been observing since then, and the cake in the LMC (with about 81% decay) hasn't taken any further noticeable decay since. What I believe happened was that it took all that decay inside a /larder/ that had 100 very high quality snowballs in the icebox....adding to the sense expressed in this thread that larder have been nerfed considerably for decay rate of items inside within the past couple years. Then the cake was moved into the large magic chest, no further decay happened. IMHO: Larders should fulfill their purpose of greatly lessening the decay rate of prepared foods and not simply be a standby till a player can afford a magic chest to really keep their prepared food safe.

To add to the original post, new players wishing to build their first home should do it where there's good access to *full-sized trees*. At starting stats, you'll be unable to even attempt a stone building (except for having a stone floor). Building a wooden house takes lots of planks, which means logs from cut-down trees to saw into planks. Pine's the fastest growing tall tree, but others like birch will work too for your source of lumber. Don't count on fruit trees being able to provide for your needs, though.

My Snow Lantern gift from 2022 is 80 QL.

I have a Christmas Cake that's taken loads of damage while in a Large Magic Chest. Those shouldn't take any damage at all in one of them, as unlike larders there should be zero decay, not just a slowed decay,.

Don't forget to give some idea of where on Harmony you're planning on holding the public slaying. Normally there's some preparation as well, such as fencing with a gate and a clear campsite area for tents/wagons/carts.

Hi Sicor, Check out the Hamony section of the North Freedom Isles forum and there's a Harmony Community map thread that you can submit your info in (deed name, grid location, etc) so it can be added to the community map for Harmony there. You might find more Harmony players pulling up the map there than would access it in Wurmnode.

When I saw 'chess' in the forum topic, I was thinking the life-sized chess gameplay that an old-timer like me remembers on Wurm Online using levelled built tiles for a chessboard and statues dropped on them for a real game of chess with characters moving the chess pieces, not the coded chess that came along much much later with the individual chessboard items. Anyone remember those? There were only a few, and one remains still back on Golden Valley near the upper center of the map. NW of what was known back then (10 yrs ago) as NoName Lake, I checked a mapdump and it's still there. There were totally player-built, using slate and stone slab tiles, with various types of statues representing the individual chess pieces on a lifesize scale.

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I'm closer to Heartland, just where there's long series of bays and channels due east of it. 'Sanderling Priory' is my deed there (character Tantris). Heartland has a large lake that's part of it if water for drinking or fishing or access to clay is what you need. You can advance onwards after you start if building a boat and travelling the seas is what you want later. I even think the Heartland lake has a tunnel canal to the sea now for boats to travel through. Either Heartland or Harmony Bay is allright to start at. Moxie did great posting the map links in their last post so you can click on them and see what the regions look like, mapwise. All the PvE Northern Freedom Isles (NFI) can be sailed between by boat. That's, in order of creation: Harmony, Melody, and Cadence. The PvP server for the NFI is Defiance, which is only reachable by a portal from one of the three PvE servers (you can travel both directions through the portals, but only back to where you came into it from). Note that your Defiance character would be more like a clone, you can't carry items/inventory or skill gains between the PvP and PvE. You PvP stats will stay on the PvP server when you leave it that you can come back to, and your PvE stats/gear/items remain on the PvE side to switch back to when you go back through the portal to PvE. So yeah, think of it as a PvE character and a PvP clone where each is kept on its own side of the Portal to return to. Don't worry about PvP for now, it'll just be there for you to try out later once you're more experienced. Have fun in your new adventure!

Harmony has a great player community that's always willing to help newcomers out on Freedom channel. It's the original Northern Freedom Isles PvE server before Melody and Cadence were added to that cluster. Defiance, mentioned above, is the PvP server for the Northern Freedom Isles cluster. I'd not recommend starting on a PvP server as a relatively new player unless Player vs Player is exactly what you're seeking. UPDATE: Nevermind, as I see you did join Harmony already. My character there is 'Tantris' if you happen to see me on in CA Help or Freedom chat channel.

Thanks for the note, but I believe you're confusing locations of where Airedale is. Your coords seem to be at I19, but Airedale's at J15 instead (or very close to the edge of it). For any interested, my deed Sanderling Priory is at the top of I17. If anyone is trying to find a disbanded deed that might've once neighbored mine, I likely can be of help in your search for locations. There are a number of disbanded deed sites next to my place and I'll try to add them into this message thread in the future so others can read the info on the forum here.

Thank you very much, Pheonixluvsfire! Although it's not the location, the create/disband dates might be useful in trying to track Airedale down. What's really great is your post showed the character who founded the deed, Inspgadget. Still looking, but now I have alot more info. Thanks!

For the flowers, cooking as herbs really. Healing covers if I'm desperate as I prefer animal parts and mushrooms for those.

I use camellia for hedges. Would really like some more!

In case anyone was wondering, I believe ThatYoungLad's last post was in response to his original post in this thread and not in response to my post in the thread and not with regard to my post in the thread. I'd really really like any info others might have about the location of the former deed of Airedale at grid J15. I'm sorry that I'm unable to post any screenshot on the forum.

Well-said, Batolemaeus. The larger the database of characters, the slower the access to character records/information as well.

WTS Sleep Powders, 20 available, at 1.1 silver each. You can pick up at Fort Buda deed on Independance or I'm willing to deliver to sites in the SFI (except Chaos) with coastal access. PM me to arrange scheduled date/time. Character doing transaction will be Zoltan, mayor of Fort Buda. Currently the total available is: 20 (will edit to update the post if changes) Let me know if you want more than that, as it can be arranged.

I know that you can lure aggro non-humanoids too out through mine doors that have been set as passable-to-all unlocked.

Not exactly the format you were requesting for this thread, but I'm really in the need of the location of the expired deed Airedale on Harmony. My understanding from the treasure map is that it's around the SW corner of the large desert area that's a ways SE from the starter town of Heartland, presumeably in the area of grid I/J 15 . If anyone can recall where Airedale is, and either post here for PM me, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Try waiting a week. The amount of time before you can investigate again is somewhat random. It's possible to be as short as a day, but also possible to be as long as a week.

I don't have the knowledge of the database coding Wurm Online uses, but from a general experience it's possible the original crafter's name used a key # (database number linked to info like the character's name) and the original character was later deleted and so when the key # was reassigned for use in the database, it was associated with one of Aneila's zombies. This is just a guess, but it could explain how.