DevBlog

In todays update we made music songs in Wurm play more frequently since they were too rare before. We will work on the possibilities for you to control music better eventually.

We are really excited to announce the new album made for Wurm Online by Tom E Morrison, “Wurm Online Travel & Exploration”. The music was released on iTunes and Spotify earlier this week, and you can hear it ingame today. Compared to the previous album, “Meditation & Work”, these new songs are designed for travelling and have a higher overall tempo and a contemporary sound. Even though the soundscape works very well with the long roads, vast plains and distant mountain ranges of Wurm, this is not your common fantasy music. Album cover The album tells a story about travelling through the lands of Wurm and the song titles contain a few names that players may recognize such as Iron Gap or Haven Bay. Initially the album contained a song called “Meeting the Blood Roy” as well, but it was replaced. As usual, the songs in Wurm play only now and then according to certain algorithms and in order to hear these new tracks you have to venture out of your settlement. In case you can’t wait for the music to play ingame, here are a few handy links where you can find the album: iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ie/album/wurm-online-travel-exploration/id768175554 Spotify: Tom E Morrison – Wurm Online – Travel & Exploration: Chapter 1 The next album will be named “Wurm Online Battle & Danger” and the project is scheduled to begin during the spring of 2014. We also suggest you visit Tom E Morrisons website: http://www.bigskysong.com/

Catapulting skillchecks tweaked Curb damage tweaked Valrei: Demigods will no longer attack friendly gods Valrei: When a Demigod slays an enemy, any items that enemy carried will be scattered on the map. The current Source Diamonds were moved to random regions The ruler of a PMK may now expel kingdom members at will You can no longer invite players with negative reputation since in order to avoid leave-grief-join abuse The Physical Damage buff and Poison debuff for Epic abilities have been tweaked downwards

Valrei items no longer lose quality level automatically The Continuum spell was tweaked The “everyone” permission now properly overrides other permissions in Village Roles

Finally we’ve managed to get our servers back online! These are the details of the situation: Since the servers have been shut down not a lot of ingame time has passed so there was negligble decay and settlement upkeep cost. Those of you who had premium time this Friday have been reimbursed 7 days premium time. Everyone has received full sleep bonus There is a 24 hour PvP ban on the Chaos server where a raid took place. The reason behind the ban is to let stranded players get home safely. The decision to block corpse looting except by the person who died was never implemented. This will help friends and allies retrieve corpses. Thank you for your support through this ordeal!

We have taken the game servers offline for now since they were unplayable and sluggish. We are investigating why, since the DOS attack should be over. The most probable cause is that our hosting provider is limiting our bandwidth.

The servers are online again, but they are painfully slow. You should consider whether you really want to log on in case your character is in a dangerous area. We are investigating the matter and will get more news out when available.

We were the targets of a Denial Of Service attack, and our login server is no longer being routed from the internet. We will know more about the situation on Sunday, Swedish time. Any premium time lost during this downtime will be reimbursed. We post updates in City Hall in our forums:Â http://forum.wurmonline.com/index.php?/forum/11-city-hall/

The game servers are inaccessible due to a problem with the internet connection at our hosting company. They are hard at work trying to solve the situation. We do not have more information at this point but will post anything we find in the forum.

We took down the servers today (Friday 25th) as we noticed an unnatural amount of coins being mailed. As this looked like a sign of an exploit we decided to shut down the servers and investigate. We have not been able to reproduce the exploit so we have disabled mailing and retrieving coins from the mailing system for now. If you have information about this please PM Erikn. We were anxious to get the servers back up and missed setting the sleep bonus flag. You will receive sleep bonus in the next restart. Thank you for your patience, Rolf

We are currently looking into some important details that has to be addressed before going live again. There will be further information as to what this is about once we are certain it is resolved. Thank you for your patience!

The current floorboards will look a bit weird until we update some clientside things You may now aspire to become kingdom leader about once per real day Champions may no longer use /transfer on Chaos to convert to Libila Kingdom tower construction and continuing should now check for enemy kingdom 150 tiles away if you build it outside own kingdom and 60 tiles if you build it within Epic terraforming events were toned down in scale pending tweaking Flattening and levelling is now enabled for caves again

You may now raise and level inside caves using concrete Enchants shattering was tweaked and generalized. Some enchants now have a lot less chance of shatters while failing now always has a very small risk of shattering. The reason for some recent crashes was fixed Various epic missions have been tweaked and debugged. The /time command now gives information about when you started playing Wurm  There’s a new premium only “/snipe playername” command which will mute the player if enough people issue it roughly at the same time. You have only one snipe per time period. The algorithm behind it is deliberately fussy in order to prevent abuse. The command “/ignore playername” has automatic snipe functionality.

Hey everyone! Recently, we’ve been very impressed by the fanart that many members of our community have been creating. Not only are many people regularly sharing fanart that they’ve created, but the recent art competition that we ran was incredibly well participated, and we’d like to keep up that momentum. So, beginning in November, we’ll be running monthly fanart roundups. We’ll collect all of the fanart that you make and gather it together in one place for everyone’s enjoyment! In addition, we’d love to see a much wider range of art forms published. So we’ll be opening the doors to any stories, poems or music as well as more painted/drawn art! We’d also love to see more people trying their hand at creating things – even if you aren’t particularly experienced, we want as many people as possible to try. Practice makes perfect! We’ll try to do our best to gather up all art for every roundup, but to ensure that your stuff gets posted, please send it to Docterchese on the forums. The roundups will be posted to the forums and our social media outlets (e.g. Facebook.) We literally can’t wait to see what you come up with! And, if the roundups are successful enough, then we’ll expand on the original concept, with monthly competitions, prizes and more… See you in November! P.S. We will do our utmost to respect the creators of all art that we post, and will be more than happy to remove any art from all of our outlets if so requested by the creator of that work.

We invite you all to enjoy WurmOnline and have put together some crucial information for you to get into the game and to the right place. Bashur has chosen to play on the Desertion Server in the Epic cluster You will find maps of all the Servers/Islands at this page: http://blackburrow.s3-external-3.amazonaws.com/overmap/wurm_overmap.html Desertion map can be found at the lower left corner in the Epic Cluster section.For Help/ Tutorials about anything concerning Wurm GamePlay and Features go to: http://www.wurmpedia.com/ Started on Serenity? More information about the game? Just follow this link.