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TheTrickster

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Greetings, All.  I am new to the game - a couple of weeks in (don't ask why I didn't find Wurm years ago, I wonder about that myself).

 

I am trying to get started, but for now cannot afford premium so hit a lot of limits.  I joined Parris Dock village, but Parris Island is mostly deserted and there is little interaction.

 

Any kind of material help would be welcome (better tools, etc) so I can get set up enough for some trading. I have a small bunch of animals I would be happy to trade (sheep and pigs mostly, which I continue to breed for now, and a pair of young horses - male & female), but cannot yet travel back to the main island.

 

 

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I mean... the name is not encouraging. >.>

 

Seriously, though, post your ingame name in the thread (even if its the same as your forum name) and your server and map location (because posting stuff can get pricey but some people might live nearby) so folks can message you in game. Might try the freedom chat tab for your server too - there's plenty of folks who will help out where they see someone in need. You just gotta get them to see the request.

 

I'm not gonna be online for a few hours yet, but I always have spare tools sitting unloved in coffins on my deed and know others do too.

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3 minutes ago, crimsonearth said:

I mean... the name is not encouraging. >.>

 

Seriously, though, post your ingame name in the thread (even if its the same as your forum name) and your server and map location (because posting stuff can get pricey but some people might live nearby) so folks can message you in game. Might try the freedom chat tab for your server too - there's plenty of folks who will help out where they see someone in need. You just gotta get them to see the request.

 

I'm not gonna be online for a few hours yet, but I always have spare tools sitting unloved in coffins on my deed and know others do too.

 

The name; well I have used LowKey (pronounced Loki, not low key) as a handle for about twenty years, but lately find it unavailable a lot.  The trickster is a fitting alternative.  It still fits my fun first approach to games.  I take your point, though.

 

Ingame name is Thetrickster, on Independence at about E25

 

 

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Also worth considering offering up paid labour for ingame silver - you only need 2s to buy your first month's premium at a settlement token.

 

Setting up to trade can be a hard start, particularly if you haven't yet got a great idea of what people are buying right now, but in the last month I've paid out silver to a bunch of different folks for a whole lot of mats made, including easy starter mats like planks, bricks and mortar. Once you've got your basic tool set sorted, well worth considering that kind of labour route to get your premium paid, which gives you more time to gather other tools and skills and figure out what you'd like to specialise in in-game.

 

Suggest making a list of tools you need right now, too, so folk know what it is you're asking for. (There's way too many tools in game to be guessing). Give us specifics and I'm sure folk will help where they can.

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Thanks, I keep finding out how much I don't know bout how much I don't know.

 

Right now, I need reasonable quality basic tools;

 

Hammer

Small Anvil

Hatchet

Saw

Carving Knife

Shovel

Pickaxe

Rake

Sickle

 

Essentially, I am wearing them down faster than I am skilling up to make better replacements.  

 

If I can get a rowboat built, I can at least get to the main Independence island and happily take on any labour work - pretty much anything someone needs doing that doesn't need  high skill. It's a catch22 (or maybe I should call it a catch20) - one cannot get past skill level 20 without premium and it is difficult to pay for premium ingame without higher skill levels.  You'd think the developers want to make money or something. 😄

 

 

Bricks and mortar be difficult, as the village I joined is on a tiny island with no clay.  Planks I could do easily enough.  I like the idea of breeding animals, but need to get my husbandry up and genuinely don't know if there is a market.

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31 minutes ago, TheTrickster said:

If I can get a rowboat built, I can at least get to the main Independence island and happily take on any labour work - pretty much anything someone needs doing that doesn't need  high skill. It's a catch22 (or maybe I should call it a catch20) - one cannot get past skill level 20 without premium and it is difficult to pay for premium ingame without higher skill levels.  You'd think the developers want to make money or something. 😄

 

Bricks and mortar be difficult, as the village I joined is on a tiny island with no clay.  Planks I could do easily enough.  I like the idea of breeding animals, but need to get my husbandry up and genuinely don't know if there is a market.

 

Okay, well the good news is that when you get yourself a boat, you're in a good position for travel and trade - corners of maps are easiest for both delivering and collecting materials from. If you've got access to a mine of any kind, then it's perfectly acceptable to offer bricks without mortar. Bear in mind people buy materials by the 1000 generally, so you'll want to make yourself a few bsbs to store materials for selling in. Looks like the servers are shutting down right now but when they're back up, I'll pop on in my lunch hour and dig out some tools for you.

 

The standard price for bricks is 2s/1000 at the moment, and for planks, 1-1.25s/1000 but you're competing with bigger traders pushing out higher ql stuff at those prices. If you can crack out, say, 2500 planks even at low ql, you should be able to sell them for 2s with ease, particularly if you can get a buyer to collect. (Given time, you could sell them at market price for 2.5 silver, but if you want to make silver faster to pay for prem, which it sounds like is a priority for you, consider taking a bit less to earn your coin faster while you're finding your feet). If you have some iron veins in there, small and large nails are also one of those mats that usually sell pretty easily. The going rate for those is anywhere from 1.2-1.5s/1000, so again, you could pitch at the lower end or go slightly cheaper to try and sell them faster if blacksmithing is something you'd like to skill up.

 

Also, try foraging and botanising. You have to do quite a lot of it to make enough coin for that first premium, but you have a chance of finding a coin while foraging and botanising which can be anything from 1 copper all the way up to 1 silver each time. Some herb foraging sessions I've come back from an hour or so's foraging with 1.5 silver, sometimes I've come back with only a couple of copper or nothing at all. It's not a reliable way to get coin for premium, but for that first 2s it can be super helpful in making up the shortfall while you try and earn the rest, and the bonus is you're finding loads of seeds, sprouts and helpful fruit and veg while you're at it.

 

In my experience, there is not much of a market for animals - most folk who keep them and breed them do it for the love of keeping and breeding animals. There is a bit of a market for 5 speed horses, hell horses and unicorns, and an even smaller one for 5-speed bison and champion-trait animals) but there are a lot of horse breeders in that market, so it could be a longer term goal for you but probably won't make you money before you've skilled up a way past your premium caps. Do it for love and interest now, and keep an eye on the trade channel over the next few weeks to see if there seems to be people buying animals and what kind.

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Sent over an assortment of ql40-60 tools for you, all of which are impable as your skills improve (higher ql won't help you a great deal right now since your skills are capped and your repair skill won't be high enough to make super high ql last too long). Only thing I didn't have was impable hatchets, so I sent you a couple of starter ones you can wear down, and hopefully someone else will send you a decent hatchet that can be imped.

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thank you very much

 

I can get on with other grinding not have to worry about meta-grinding :) 

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I would add that you should try making support beams.  QL on them (and the QL of the components only matters in terms of ease of assembly) doesn't matter at all and they sell well at 4c and up to 5c each (I would suggest 4c with pickup by buyer).  They usually sell in batches of 100, which will get you your first premium month and then some.

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On 12/19/2019 at 10:21 AM, TheTrickster said:

Good tip, thanks

 

I am aware its been over a month, but are you still in need of tools? I'm thinking of working on blacksmithing a little so I can probably make you a starter pack. Let me know!

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On 1/22/2020 at 3:29 AM, Angelklaine said:

I am aware its been over a month, but are you still in need of tools? I'm thinking of working on blacksmithing a little so I can probably make you a starter pack. Let me know!

 

Thanks!  Crimsonearth has given me some good tools, but I could still use a good scythe and a good hatchet.  If you are looking at weapons/armour smithing, I am looking at changing to a combo of axe and medium shield so anything of good ql would be welcome.

 

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7 hours ago, TheTrickster said:

 

Thanks!  Crimsonearth has given me some good tools, but I could still use a good scythe and a good hatchet.  If you are looking at weapons/armour smithing, I am looking at changing to a combo of axe and medium shield so anything of good ql would be welcome.

 

Barring me forgetting, I'll go ahead and see if I can sort you out tonight. If you dont get anything in the mail in  a day or two, poke me with a pm here or a letter through ingame mail. I'll see what I can do!

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On 1/26/2020 at 2:31 PM, Angelklaine said:

Barring me forgetting, I'll go ahead and see if I can sort you out tonight. If you dont get anything in the mail in  a day or two, poke me with a pm here or a letter through ingame mail. I'll see what I can do!

Sent you a hatchet. Not sure which you wanted, but I have a CoC Hatchet (for skilling.) Imped it to like 50 since I am not sure of your skill. I can imp it to like 80 if that's not sufficient, but should be good for skilling up at low levels. 
 

I'll owe you the Scythe since its Weaponsmithing and I don't have that skill :(

 

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A brief update on this.  I am now about 6 months in and have consistently found Wurmians in general to be extremely liberal with items, advice, and their time.  

 

I have been given all sorts of stuff - offered without me asking - including 3 full sets of armour, each better than the last, my first saddle, bridle and shoe-set, a huge axe that I just keep coming back to.  I have a whole range of tools that are still too high QL for me to properly maintain  🙂 , all given with nothing asked in return.  Our mayor levelled my yard for me when I didn't have the body strength to level near paving.  Most recently a neighbour has been putting in time imping my boats. 

 

Interestingly, I came across a newbie a short time ago (newbie even to me, so yeah) and I found myself offering all sorts of stuff.  Turns out it's infectious.

 

I have tried to thank people at the time, and now the list of names is too long for me to attempt, so I would like to say a hearty Thank You! to all the "older" Wurmians who have helped me or any other newbie in the game.

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I would say you are indeed right. Wurm Online community, aside few exceptions, is very welcoming and helpfull with newbies. I found myself in situations in the past where I needed help and always found it, needed tools and got them for free. So if you are goodhearted and polite with others, you will always receive love and friends. So keep going in this adventure and you will have wonderfull time playing the game. Give a shout whenever you need anything.

 

Ciauz

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In my travels, I have come across several of the undeed already looted but with a bunch of low-to-middling QL tools and weapons that the scavengers must have figured not worth taking.  I took them  😃.  The low QL items have either been recycled or have gone into the pile for imping and the others are already better than I can make so have either gone directly to new villagers or I have bunged them in the nearest thing we have to a town storehouse.  

 

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