Batolemaeus

I don't understand why you are fixated on the fireall. If that were the issue, you would get an appropriate error message. You have obscured all the useful details from the shots, so I can only guess. Most likely you have something on your computer interfering with those downloads. Delete every trace of Wurm's files and if you use anything but Windows Defender, put that in the bin as well.

Not necessarily, you can also have "security" software intercepting and screwing up. That's been a recurring theme with Windows issues.

Tbh., to me it sounds like file system corruption. Would like to see a file listing of wherever you installed Wurm, or a screenshot. Whatever the location is Windows is complaining about. There have been people that had problems because something was breaking launcher update downloads, so they ended up with 0kb .exe files that, for obvious reasons, don't work. See also this from way back

You need to post the actual error or what is actually happening. What does "corrupt and unreadable" mean?

Wurm is in constant tension with the developers focusing on Number Go Up, because a significant portion of the vocal playerbase literlly only plays to see a number go up in a table. Meanwhile, another section of the playerbase wants to build something interesting (and the entirety of the potential playerbase, I might add. You don't put "you can now gain 10% more skill per hour" into promotional material for a reason). It goes further than the lack of substantial decorative items though. Entire game systems only serve to make a number go up faster. See caffeine, the cooking system, even alcohol.

Along with the players who caused that lag, yes. If Xanadu had the population/km² of some other servers it would catch fire again. Another Jackal would be nice. No to new servers otherwise, there's plenty of unused space on all servers.

It's a segfault in the steam library Wurm uses. You could probably replace the library in the Wurm client jar file with one from this decade, but I'm not touching that.

Coal piles are items, and items don't show up in the map dump. It's only processing the actual tile types. And I see nobody has pointed it out yet: yellow means hay.

Have you considered that nobody wants to play with you because you are such bad posters?

Sounds like Windows Defender sucks, then. e: Here's how the tar was created: #!/bin/bash for d in $(find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -not -name '.'); do A="$(find "$d" -regex '^.*terrain.*2024.*$')" B="$(find "$d" -regex '^.*terrain.*2023.*$')" OUT="$(basename "$d")-diff-2023-2024" OUT_TMP_FILE="${OUT}_tmp.png" OUT_FILE="${OUT}.png" if [[ -f "$A" && -f "$B" ]]; then echo "Processing $A -> $B = $OUT_TMP_FILE" magick "$A" "$B" -compose ChangeMask -composite "$OUT_TMP_FILE" echo "compressing $OUT_TMP_FILE" optipng -o3 "$OUT_TMP_FILE" -out "$OUT_FILE" && rm "$OUT_TMP_FILE" fi done tar cf "Wurm Online Diffs 2024.tar" *.png --owner=0 --group=0

Another map dump is out and I have once again processed all available maps, showing what has changed between 2023 and 2024. Also, once again, the resulting images are too large for image hosts. I have uploaded a tar file containing all of them here: https://fb0.eu/wurm/Wurm Online Diffs 2024.tar I assume you can guess the file name of the 2023 edition. What follows are resized thumbnails to give you an idea of what the diffs look like. Cadence Celebration Chaos Defiance Deliverance Desertion Elevation Exodus Harmony e: I can't be arsed to deal with the insanely annoying post editor, here's an imgur album of the thumbnails https://imgur.com/a/YeOFB67

Interesting; used to work though. Can't be arsed to debug why it's SIGSEGV-ing. e: That's a steam API segfault. To debug (or update) the steamworks4j library I would have to modify the client, and I'm not going to.

https://gitlab.com/fb0/wurm-ll/ Note that I am not maintaining it anymore, hoping against hope that the Wurm devs update their runtime making that entire thing obsolete.

The Java license landscape is incredibly stupid, but OpenJDK and OpenJFX exist and are GPL2, so you can run Wurm with Java 11 if you know how to replace the runtime. I have run it in Java 17, and apparently Java 21 is another LTS release as well. I just ran some Wurm in Java 21, working fine as far as I can tell. Running client version 4.3.67 client build# 49d29efd2f8af876ecf7adbfca4ff26f6b46ac0d client build time 2024-02-13 13:46 === System information === Executing from /tmp/tmp.Tk8G1NScTM/ Operating system: Linux (arch: amd64, version: 6.7.4-gentoo-x86_64) Java version: 21.0.2 (Eclipse Adoptium) <https://adoptium.net/> Jvm version: 21.0.2+13-LTS (Eclipse Adoptium) [OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM] Available CPUs: 16

The crash is a known bug in the version of Java the Wurm devs insist on using. The solution is to use a supported version. That's the job of the Wurm developers. Updating the runtime Wurm ships is nontrivial for most people.

There's hardly any difference between the two. It is generally easier to just instruct standalone Wurm to use steam auth instead of trying to hack around with Steam's layers of indirection. (It's literally adding "-steam" to the launch parameters of the client .jar, see https://gitlab.com/fb0/wurm-ll/-/blob/56b31d3b19a5bc0f4fd75294e1ae0edf2b1cb0b7/wurm-ll.py#L364 , order of parameters is important)

WurmLauncher dynamically loads some libraries from the host system. If your host system differs from the libraries partially bundled by the launcher, you get a crash. Try _JAVA_OPTIONS="-Dprism.verbose=true" ./WurmLauncher to get some output from the OpenJFX part at least. You can try to screw around with LD_LIBRARY_PATH order and whatnot, or just ditch WurmLauncher entirely. (The latter was what I did, because I grew so tired of it)

I have literally never had this issue, and I killed thousands of animals. Does this happen with newer Java as well, and is there a crash log? It sounds suspiciously like a GC problem, and we know the Java runtime the Wurm devs insist on using has crashes during GC sometimes (exclusively on Windows, not on Linux)

Could the bug that caused this be reintroduced for a day or two? I'd love to have some greenery in my mine.

Not just a disconnect, but a DNS lookup error as well. Not a timeout either, but a TCP RST. This screams "security" software or a hostile ISP.

Seriously though, it's just the Java version the Wurm developers insist on using.

I had to switch ISPs to get Youtube to work in the evenings, FWIW.

Making sure the graphics driver for that CPU is installed and working seems prudent to me. Whichever CPU that might be.

You do not have OpenGL support. That is a graphics driver problem.

Impossible to tell without logs. The launcher isn't particularly verbose. I dug into that thing when I implemented my own launcher and was thoroughly underwhelmed.