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Map dumps are officially released by GCG (the game company) - usually on an annual basis, typically within the first two months of a year. So we are all hoping for them to be available soon.

There seems to be some misunderstanding and confusion about how the Christmas stocking works, so let me try to explain : A premium player will find a maximum of 5 gifts (originally meant to be one daily gift between December 23rd and December 27th) . For those of you who are premium and, for some reason, missed the holiday period it is possible to claim those 5 gifts later (until Jan. 11th). The latest bugfix did not change the total number of gifts, so if you already received all 5 there will be no more. 😊

Happy New Year, Delians! 💥🎉

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I understand your feelings; it can be frustrating not to receive an answer to your questions. However, you probably misunderstand how CA HELP works, so let me explain. The names that appear in the list on the right-side of the panel are the names of Community Assistants (CAs) currently online on the same server as you are. But that does not mean they are paid employees on duty! CAs are players like yourself who volunteer to help other players by trying to answer questions about the game, the rules and the mechanics. But: primarily they also PLAY the game, so they may just be busy with other things or - like all of us - they may be afk for longer periods. CAs usually try their best to answer any question asked in CA HELP, and no player is deliberately being ignored! But CAs are not omniscient wizards, and sometimes they may just not know the answer or not be available at that moment. Also, there usually are more CAs online than you are aware of. (You can only see CAs on your own server.) So, even if one of them does not know the answer to a question, one of the others might, so a CA may be waiting for others to reply. As Coach pointed out, we don't want the chat being spammed by 10 people telling you "Sorry, I don't know", do we? So, if you don't get a reply just assume that currently nobody knows the answer. You are welcome to ask again after a while. Have fun and enjoy the game.

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Oh no! This sad news leaves me speechless. I did not know Minikilljoy personally and we actually never "met" in game, but - as most of you know - we worked together as colleagues in the community map team. He was a nice and pleasant person to deal with, and I had absolutely no idea that something was not right. Only recently he told me that he was going to take a short break from Wurm and the map, but he definitely planned on coming back! 😢 I have not the slightest clue what happened; as I understand he was still young. Being much older myself, sad news like these always make me humble and very pensive. Rest in peace, fellow Wurmian.

All servers are. It's the announced update:

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Map dumps are officially released by the game company on an annual basis. The next map dump is expected in January or February 2023.

Thank you. Added. Thanks, added. We try to remove deeds as soon as possible after they disband, in order to reduce the risk of pillaging and plundering. I'm glad to see that the deed is back, and have added it again.

This weird issue *may* be related to another strange effect I observed a few years ago. That one is about candelabras. What I found was: Once filled with a candle and lit, a candelabra burns out after about 2 weeks - but only in some places! It will burn forever in other places! Further investigation showed that it depends on which "zone" of the server the candelabra is placed in. (A server is covered by a grid of n x n "zones", each zone having a size of 64 x 64 tiles. The zones are numbered in vertical order, starting from the upper left server corner, and in n columns from west to east.) So, it turned out that in some of those zones a candelabra would burn forever, in others (adjacent ones) they would go out. As candles are involved in both cases, the issues *may* be related.

Named guard towers were moved to the "Special Places" layer after treasure maps were introduced.

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Nocturnal moods on Deliverance - perfect for the celebration of a very special anniversary!

[20:38:37] The items silently disappear from the spirit cottage. You expect them to reach Rgr in less than ten minutes. Thank you.

-- S O L D - - Here is another rare flaming skull for you: Price: 10s

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Indeed! Sadly, the mathematical concept of probability and statistics is widely misunderstood. Probability (or likelihood) always refers to an "infinite" number of tries, so in reality it is not uncommon (in fact it can rather be expected) that a simple counting of "fortunate" events in a set of, say 10 or 20 tries will not even come close to the actual mathematical likelihood. Even at a theoretical chance of 90% you can fail 5 times in a row! You can also be successful 20 times later.

Oh, speaking of blogs... You may want to take a look at this: https://wurmacademy.wordpress.com/ (First chapter: https://wurmacademy.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/ch-1-the-first-day/) The Wurm Academy was founded on Pristine in December 2012, only one day after the server itself was born. Its active time ended in 2014, after more than 400 new players had called the Academy their home - but it is still there today. Everyone who is interested in Wurm history should pay a visit.

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They appear at Wurmian midsummer, for a few days only. (Exactly when the first half of summer has ended.)

Thanks. It's a known bug, which will be fixed next week.

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