DemonaNightshade

Not everything will be everyone's.... cup of tea

Delicious things are brewing! Here's a sneak peek at coffee and tea plants, as well as some lovely new dishes coming soon to the world of Wurm Online.

It was wonderful to work with you Samool, and I hope things start working towards an up-and-up. Keenan is a great choice in the passing of the reins, and will have much support from myself and other staff members in his new role. You just focus on getting better!

Actually I didn't check that before creating the scene

It's been talked about a bit but won't be any time soon if it does happen.

I don't use them in inventory, but when placed and used as decor they do not decay. I've had lanterns placed on my deed as decor, on barrels inside unfinished beehives, and they're been there for several months with zero decay and lit 100% of the time.

Hello! I'm waiting to hear back from our parent company who is reaching out to the company sponsoring and taking care of the payouts. I hoped it would be a quick process but it's a bit of a game of telephone. I'll reach out to the winners once I know the next steps!

Hello, Wurmians! We know you have all been patiently awaiting the release of the Northern Isles maps. Well, the time has finally come! You will now be able to view the original maps for Harmony, Melody, Cadence, and Defiance. We are still working on getting current ones up, and once we do you'll really be able to tell what hard work you all have done since colonizing the Northern Isles and what a difference you have made. Click Here to check out all of the maps we have available.

We've got a sermon group going at E15, Celestial Seaport

Nope. Each dev picked their top 3 favorites from each category and the ones with the most tallies won.

Well, nobody actually followed that. I did only want one or two to make processing entries easier but only a couple people submitted one or two images.

Winners have been chosen! Check out the Valrei International to see who has won.

Hello Wurmians! It’s been a little while since our last Valrei International, and I’d like to apologize for that and let you know we have not forgotten about you! Although things have been quiet, we have been working away in the background squashing some bugs, implementing some fixes, and working on new features and content for you all to enjoy. Thank you for your patience with us during this time! Squashing Some Bugs With the maintenance restart this week, we’ll be implementing some balances and bugfixes concerning the animal update, and a few other things. There will be a few tweaks to traits, such as a fix to make the “seems to pick stuff up” and “seems stationary” traits work properly and making less useful traits on a creature become less common (sheep with draft traits, for example). The chance to pass on dominant traits has been improved, and already existing traits in parents will be even more likely to pass on to offspring than newly generated ones. This includes an increased chance to pass on coat colors. The chance for miscellaneous traits has been reduced a bit to encourage dominant traits passing on. There will also be a fix for donkeys and mules making horse sounds instead. On top of trait tweaking, we’ve worked a bit on the feeding of animals. Creatures in caves will once again be able to eat food from the ground, and the nutrition of hay will be increased so your horses can become fat and happy on a diet of hay. We have also tweaked the pathing to food a bit and have reduced the chance of grass packing while your critters are moving around. This should cut down on some of the time spent unpacking and replanting grass and lawns. You will also now be able to breed animals when they are slightly hungry instead of needing to make sure they are stuffed to the brim before attempting to breed. While most of the update will be focused on animal husbandry changes, there will be a few other things (and a new 100 skill title!) coming with the patch. Creative Constructs Building Contest Many of you have been eagerly looking forward to the announcing of the winners in the Creative Constructs building contest. Well, the wait is over! The team has gone over every one of the wonderful entries, and your creativity was very inspiring. After a tough decision, we’ve finally found our winners. Congratulations to all of you! Combat and Defense Theme Wilczan Seriphina Thalorane Cozy Ranches and Farms Theme Miell Goldfinch LadyCygnet Place of Business Theme Annyil Kasumi Eudoxia Wacky and Wild Theme Ayaana Jaz Stanlee You guys came up with some amazing entries for the contest! It was definitely hard to pick the winners out of all of the entries we had. I will be in contact with the winners through the forums in the next few days, so watch your inbox if you're one of them! Upcoming Community Hosted Events (with a lovely Halloween theme!) Scary season is right around the corner, and with it comes two spooktacular community events in celebration of Halloween. With an event on each server cluster, everyone will have the chance to hang out with all the other boys and ghouls, BOO-gie down in arenas fighting off creepy critters, and improve items (or get theirs improved) while all the festivities go down. Festival of the Veil Impalong For those of you on the Northern Isles, you’re invited to attend the Festival of The Veil, hosted by Rogue Cathedral. This event will run on the Cadence server from the 24th of October to the 30th. For more information on this Impalong event, check out the post below! New Festival Cove's Halloween Haunted House Impalong For everyone on the Southern cluster of servers, you are invited to Independence to New Festival Cove where you’ll find a Halloween Haunted House Impalong hosted by Vooch and Thicket! This event takes place on the 22nd of October through the 25th of October. Information on this event can be found on the post below. Myself and other GMs will be there during both events to cause havoc, as usual.... Make sure to bring a tent along in the case of creepy critters galore! Of course, there will be some spooktacular happenings all around Wurm during Halloweentime whether you are able to attend a community event or not. That’s it for this issue of the Valrei International! Congratulations once again to the Creative Constructs winners.

I do have to say, though, I that I am amazed by everyone's creativity and personal touches in designing their entries!

I am the one who posts the skins actually. Updates on the contest have been posted in here, it's entirely separate from the skins posts. It's coming very soon, as I said just waiting on a few more votes. I know the delay has been a pain and I apologize, there were a lot of IRL happenings out of my control that caused the delay.