crimsonearth

Thanks all who came to watch and came to run it with me - we had loads of fun and I didn't get any of you killed! For anyone who wants to watch it on catchup, there's a link and a summary here.

Yesterday I was on Xanadu for a spoiler-laden 'How to speed-run the Puzzle Labyrinth' stream, first with a more ambling walkthrough of the speediest route which nearly came to a very sticky end when, just a hair's breadth from the prize, I got thwacked by an unexpected pair of trolls laying in wait on the final bridge. After limping back to Vrock's Landing, clutching my first Puzzle King's Ball of the evening, we kicked off the community speed-run and I ran it again at a pace leading a tour group of 8 very well behaved Wurmians (though we very nearly got one of them trapped in the Puzzle City, never to be seen again), and I was making such good time after we completed the community run that I wrapped up with a third and final (on stream) run as fast as my legs could carry me to see if I could beat my very best time through, which was 18 minutes, end to end, when I last timed it! (Originally livestreamed on Twitch on the 18th Jan 2025: https://www.twitch.tv/crimscoterie) And some folks had so much fun on the stream run, they decided they wanted to run it again on more alts, so post-stream, we did a sneaky extra fourth speed-run with a party of four! Big big thanks to the Factional Fight brothers whose several years of hard work and ingenuity brought us the labyrinth back in 2018 (and it was lovely to have them both in chat for the second half of the stream to watch the community speed-run) - and if you've already run it or aren't worried about spoilering yourself too much, I thoroughly recommend going and having a watch of some of their VODs about how they built the labyrinth over on their YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@FactionalFight/search?query=labyrinth

Not sure if I'll do it on stream again but I do run toons through there semi-regularly and am always happy to help escort folks through. Once streamed, the VOD will be available on both Twitch and Youtube (also @crimscoterie) from the next day, too, so you can always then watch the walkthrough at your own pace when you're ready to take a toon through!

Hello folks, I promised on the last stream that I'd pop something on the forums for those who wanted to come and speed-run the labyrinth with me, on stream, and I nearly didn't forget! So here I am, duly posting. This Saturday I'll be streaming from about 8pm GMT on Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/crimscoterie, doing a How to Speed-Run the Puzzle Labyrinth (as someone who must've now done it more than... er... 70 times?) And once I've done the slightly gentler paced walkthrough, I've said if anyone wants to come and speed-run it with me, I'll lead folks through at a faster pace in a second run. (And if I have time left after, I'll do a third and final solo run as fast as my little legs can carry me and see if I can beat my best time!) So, if you'd like to join in and come follow me through the labyrinth to the grand prize, at a pace, on stream, all you have to do is assemble near the Vrock's Landing portal on Xanadu, SFI ready to go by 9pm GMT (1hr into stream). @meemersand @ruffle- I promised to tag you both. If anyone else remembers anyone else on the last stream who wanted to join, feel free to tag them in too. Here be the caveats! 1. Needless to say THERE WILL BE SPOILERS. If you've not yet solved the labyrinth and you like puzzles, I'd heartily recommend skipping the stream (and the event) - or at the very least, following on audio only - and going and enjoying solving the labyrinth for yourself. Gryph and Faerun spent years building it and its marvellous and well worth your time. For those half-watching/listening I'll try my best to shout spoilers before I explain any of the really big stumbling blocks in case you want to mute/look away for a minute on the initial walkthrough - once we get to the speed-runs though, all bets are off. It'll be hard not to spoiler yourself at that point. That said, the labyrinth has been open for over 6 years now, has absolutely been completed on stream before and some people just want the fun of going through it and seeing what it's all about but don't enjoy the puzzles; some folks will have been through it before and would like to revisit on a different toon for a different experience and some folks just want their shiny Puzzle King's ball, goddamnit. 2. As implied above, you can only get the prize on a toon that has not gotten the prize before. It is a once per toon shiny thing. BUT unlike many shiny prizes in Wurm, you do not have to be premium to get it. You just have to complete the maze. So you can absolutely run it on a brand shiny new alt, freshly spawned into the wilds of Xanadu if you want. Whoever you bring, my advice? Bring a bit of cotton (2-3kg), something to eat and drink, and travel as light as you can. 3. If you want to join the speed-run, you will have to try to keep up. We won't be timing this one, but we won't be dawdling either, so if anyone ooh-look-a-squirrels away from the the group en route, you might just have to find your own way back out (but we'll help if we can, and I'll have a priest parked back at Vrock for emergency summons in case anyone manages to get themselves thoroughly lost in there). You need to allow for at least an hour's in game time - it won't take that long if we keep a good pace, but the herding of cats will undoubtedly slow us down a bit. See some of you there! Maybe. (Probably :P)

I know, I know - I've been terrible at updating the thread, but Little Venice has been happily trading away in the past 18 months since I did (big thank you to all the folks who do go there in spite of my complete failure to advertise). I have just restocked most of the bulk pens, the dye shop, gift shop, the pub and the PMK shop and shortly before Christmas also restocked the archaeology frags, skins and jewellery shops. ❤️

Sorry folks, it's been a bit of a week (or two) and I've been getting a bit behind with updating the thread with stream VODs. Will try and do better. Did a sneaky little one on Monday eve - Feeding time at the Wildlife Park - and it was enough to tink me over into affiliate status, so channel point madness coming to a stream near you 'soon' (TM). On this one, I took my Fo priest, Eshri, out to feed the 400+ rather unique residents of the Brambleheim Wildlife Park, shared some tricks and tips for animal husbandry, how to pen untameable mobs and how to manage a small army of care-slot alts! (Originally live-streamed on Twitch on the 6th Jan 2025) And then yesterday, in the usual Saturday evening slot, @bunnloseand I went out treasure hunting together for the first time ever! Primed with armfuls of part-completed maps, we manage to dig up a full nine different treasure chests and circumnavigate almost the entirety of Release! (Originally live-streamed on Twitch on the 11th Jan 2025) And as announced on stream, either one weeknight this week or possibly next Saturday in the usual slot I'm going to be streaming a 'How to speed-run the Puzzle Labyrinth' and I've invited anyone who'd like to join me to come and speed-run it with me on the second run through, halfway through the stream. There will be spoilers in this stream for anyone who hasn't yet puzzled their way through the labyrinth at all, and I'll try and signpost the bigger ones for those that still want to listen to the stream - I'll also try and get a forum post up in advance when I've decided the stream date and time but for anyone who catches the stream in the first hour, I'll be running a countdown timer or similar to try and give anyone watching who wants to join a bit of time to assemble toons at Vrock Landing for the part 2 - community speed-run part of the stream.

Last night, @ruffle and I went on a shopping spree, market-hopping our way across several Southern Freedom Isles servers. Ruffle got accidentally inducted into a cult in what shall henceforth be known as the 'bellcident', we got a lovely bit of insight into Wurm's history before the Southern Freedom Isles servers began and got to visit some of the very many beautiful examples of market deeds that players have created across Deliverance, Release, Pristine, Independence and Celebration, even if we didn't manage to make it to our very last destination (as we were fast approaching 6 hours of streaming without a break!). We had some really lovely conversations on last night's stream and might've recruited one or two new players to Wurm! Thank you, too, to all the folks who popped in across the course of the evening and effectively doubled my follower count in one evening in pursuit of those shiny channel points and shenanigans we can add in after the 50 follower threshold (with some gentle encouragement from @Miraluxand others). You're all super supportive and I appreciate you hugely. ❤️ The VOD is now uploaded to Youtube and should be viewable on Twitch for the next week or so too!

Hey folks, had a few PMs from people but maybe will catch more of you here. Calvert's had to take a step back from streaming, and from everything for a bit. Didn't want to leave you all hanging, as I know some will be looking for his Twitch channel for a stream tonight. Take care all x

I did it again! This is becoming a bit of a habit! The latest should be on Twitch for at least a week, but is also now on Youtube too for longevity. 😃 As I've accidentally managed three in a row on a Saturday night now, I'm gonna try very hard to keep a consistent schedule and hit a regular Saturday evening slot - aiming to kick off between 8-9pm GMT, but there will likely be some weeknight ones slipping in and please bear with me if the schedule has to shift a bit while I find my feet (and coordinate with my three guest-streamers, Calvert, Bunn and Ruffle about times we can all make for our planned stream-shenanigans). 🙂 If you want to try and catch 'em live you can follow on Twitch and/or catch the VODs on Youtube at a time that works better for you: (both @crimscoterie) In this one, a bout of festive archaeology is peppered with some rescuing of special GM Christmas spawns, decorating and storage tips and hatching of hare-brained schemes for future streams. (Originally live-streamed on Twitch on the 28th Dec)

Better late than never I suppose! Updated a couple of markets info and added in a couple more - both Shadowhold Harbor on Indy and Havoc's Station on the site of the former Tap Dance Market on Cele. Trying to make my way back around all markets over the coming weeks to take good screenies of them all so I can help advertise them to folks on cooldown screens for my new (eek) streaming adventures. Will take notes as I go and try and do another update of this thread when I've finished to make sure the details here are as up to date as possible. May try and do some on stream in a special marketplace sail-about edition too Keep telling me when you find new ones on SFI! I loves them all

What happened: I tried to bury a corpse by activating a gravestone and using it on the corpse. I got the event message: 'You need a shovel in your inventory to do this action.' My shovel is in my toolbelt, but when moved to my inventory, I can then bury. What I expected to happen: Either that since the gravestone is the activated item, the shovel would not be needed, or that the game would recognise tools in my toolbelt as valid for the purposes of burying corpses with gravestones so I don't have to remove the shovel from my toolbelt to my inventory just for the purposes of burying something, and then move it back. Steps to reproduce: Have your only shovel in your toolbelt, not your inventory, activate a gravestone, attempt to use it on a corpse to bury it.

Nothing sinister about that... just planted a @Josuhacalvert corpse in the Champ Crimsonearth pen where we nearly managed to get him eaten

I've been at it again. This time at Brambleheim on Release, making reindeer food, trying and failing to throw snowballs at Santa, putting a Christmas tree up and learning a bunch of new ice cream recipes ready to make and send gifts out to folks in time for Christmas! And Santa came and paid a visit to show us what a glow-up he's had this year!

I love it when someone has a new player experience like this and starts to discover the magic of this game very early on. And it sounds like you've already discovered that one of our most unique and charming features is our wonderful community - there are so many people in it that are kind, welcoming and keen to share their love of this game with others who are just beginning; I'm super glad you found some of them and had such wholesome first experiences. You're gonna have a super time here! Welcome to Wurm!

I've just hung baubles up on a mantlepiece without issue. If you've not tried it yet though, don't forget the rotation axis of the ornaments are finicky, so I often have to rotate the piece of furniture (til *it* is facing south) to then rotate and place ornaments on it correctly, before turning the furniture back to its original position. Don't know if that addresses your problem at all 😕