Client Changelog

• New: Animation system rework
  • Players will now open and close their hands depending on whether they have weapons equipped.
  • Animations should no longer be interrupted by movement, and now they’ll just play from the waist up while moving. This also means many more animations should correctly show when riding a mount or commanding a vehicle.
  • Walking and running animations should no longer snap between poses and should now be more fluid.
  • Player walking animations should now be better synced with the terrain, reducing foot sliding.
  • Looping animations (such as action animations) should no longer sometimes snap between poses.
  • Animations should no longer cancel other animations, but instead will be queued to happen after them, unless their priority is higher.
  • Combat should now show more of the animations that are supposed to play for different combat events, such as being stunned.
  • Player feet will now be more aligned to the terrain underneath, reducing the clipping when going up high slopes etc.
• New: Added weapon sheathing.
  • You can now sheathe your weapons and shields to back and hip slots depending on the weapon type.
  • You can sheathe your weapons using the new quickbar buttons that can be added to the quickbar through the + button, or by using a new keybind (TOGGLE_SHEATHE), bound by default to the Backslash key ( \ ).
  • Your weapons will automatically unsheathe when you’re in combat (so if you have a target), and it should sheathe back when you exit combat.
  • Weapon sheathing is purely visual and should not affect any combat functionality.
• New: Creatures will now randomly look at players walking around them. They will also glance at players performing loud actions in their vicinity
• New: Mounts and hitched creatures will now look and lean towards the turning direction.
• Bugfix: Walls and fences placed on top of other walls should no longer display a shorter variant of the wall, showing a gap between them.
• Bugfix: The game should no longer freeze when placing items emitting particles.

Server Changelog

• New: The master cape can now be dyed, with separate colour slots for the trim and the cape’s body.
  • All master capes have been set to a color resembling the old default color, so you will need to remove the current color using lye before dyeing it.
• Change: Action timer for applying lightning grease and gale oil has been decreased from 20 seconds to 5 seconds.
• Change: (PVE Only) Actions targeting wounds, such as bandaging, are no longer canceled by traveling too far away from where the action started. This should make these actions easier to perform while riding a vehicle. Moving too far away from the targeted creature or player will still cancel the action.
• Change: Walls can now be supported by a perpendicular wall below on a corner. Left and right arches must be supported by the pillar side of the arch, T arches cannot be supported this way.
• Change: Old champagne bottles will now again show the 10 year anniversary graphics.
• Bugfix: Lighting a lantern attached to a vehicle should now light the lantern itself, instead of accidentally targeting the vehicle and making it extremely hot.
• Bugfix: Fixed a bug with some floors or walls saying they’d collapse from lack of support erroneously in some cases.
• Bugfix: Destruction of a wall or fence should no longer cause wall-hung items far above or below that wall to drop to the ground. Now, only items within the height range of the wall or fence will fall to the ground. Other values have also been tweaked to prevent items on adjacent walls or fences from falling down as well, although this may still occur in some cases where the item is fairly close to the wall or fence being destroyed.
• Bugfix: Fixed upper-level floors getting in the way of mining a cave ceiling even when you’re standing on them.
• Bugfix: Resolved an issue causing decay damage reduction runes to have the opposite of their intended effect. They will now reduce decay damage instead of increasing it.
• Bugfix: Fixed some decay damage modifiers, including decay damage reduction runes, applying to all damage instead of only decay damage.
• Bugfix: Fixed pawns being able to jump a piece on their first move in Chess.
• Bugfix: Fixed misleading message when trying to ride certain items that can’t be embarked upon, such as small carts and hitching posts.
• Bugfix: Changing colour of your armour or cape while it’s worn should now properly update your player model, without having to re-equip the item.
• Bugfix: Fixed a bug causing some actions targeting a tile not not be blocked properly by fences.
• Bugfix: “Reduce damage taken” runes no longer apply to decay damage.
• Bugfix: Effects modifying damage taken by items, such as from material or runes, are now applied in many situations where they were previously absent. This includes, but is not limited to: Using a pendulum, damage to creature cages from having a creature unloaded or inside them, vehicles being hit by hostile creatures, and items being bashed by players.

Art Changelog

• New: The following new animations for player emotes have been added: Call, Chuckle, Comfort, Cry, Curse, Dance, Disagree, Disbelieve, Fart, Flirt, Follow, Goodbye, Grovel, Hug, Insult, Kiss Hand, Kiss, Laugh, Lead, Poke, Roll with the Eyes, Slap, Spit, Tease, That Way, Tickle, Worry, Worship, Wrong Way
• New: The following new animations for actions have been added: Close, Cultivate, Disarm, Eat, Examine, Feed, Light, Lock, Milking, Open, Pick sprout, Plant, Snuff, Sow, Talk (for NPCs), Tame, Track
• Change: Upper fence portcullis reverted to previous (higher) version with wheels on top but now without ground reserve.
• Change: Added the following 1st person animations for player actions to avoid head clipping through camera: Bow, Cut down, Dig, Mine, Push
• Bugfix: Fixed “reelMetal.wom” errors that were showing up in the game console.
• Bugfix: Fixed arrow heads and arrow head piles easily being hidden by terrain.
• Bugfix: Shield bash sound is now properly in sync with the animation.

Server Changelog

• New: Added title for 100 Ropemaking. Congrats Bombi!
• New: Added titles for 100 Small Maul and 100 Warhammer. Congrats Rocklobstar!
• Bugfix: Roaming depot loot should once again spawn at the correct quality level. The roaming depots will be enabled again on PvP servers shortly after the update.
• Bugfix: Vision orb quality level is now properly capped at 100.
• Bugfix: Picking up items placed on walls should no longer be erronously blocked by the floor below you.
• Bugfix: Possible fixes for more blocker issues.
• Bugfix: All instances of sleep candy should now properly be created with 75 quality. All existing sleep candy items will be changed to 75 quality.

A bit more stylish of a container to store your best arrows in is here!

This skin is available through June 2026 in the Marks shop.

The Ethereal Quiver skin can be applied to any quiver.

Monthly Skin Reruns

Here are this month’s skin reruns, available for purchase in the in-game silver shop only until the end of June 2026:

• Small Cherry Tree (marble planter)

• Bunny Backpack (backpack)

Server Changelog

• Change: Riding a creature and embarking on it as a passenger have been converted to the new action system, with the following improvements:
  • Riding a creature no longer requires manually leading it first, but only if leading would actually allow the player to ride it. This has all the requirements of the Lead action itself, and will fail with the same messages as the Lead action if leading would be impossible (e.g. no rope available). This will allow for skipping the “Lead” action entirely if it would succeed anyway and would allow riding the creature.
  • Fixed some minor typographical errors in related messages.
• Bugfix: Various bugs related to dropping tents have been fixed:
  • The “ground is too wet” message will now only occur if part of the tile is below sea level. Previously, this also occurred at exactly sea level.
  • The “ground is too wet” check is now performed underground, not only on the surface, so dropping tents underwater in a cave is no longer possible. It is also no longer triggered by water on surrounding tiles aside from the one the tent is dropped on, or if the tent is being dropped on a floor or bridge.
  • Checks for village or perimeter are now only performed on the actual tile the tent is dropped on, not surrounding tiles.
• Bugfix Fixed not being able to remove non-support floor plans inside a house.
• Bugfix: Fixed cave walls getting in the way of building walls along their borders.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue with bridge walls blocking actions when the wall was on the other side of the tile.

Art Changelog

• Bugfix: Fixed sealed wagoner crates missing a texture.
• Bugfix: Fixed Metal fishing reels, Pile of oats, Hammer heads and Hammer piles of certain metals showing wrong model.
• Bugfix: Fixed many cases of armor jackets clipping through drake hide cap neck shield.
• Bugfix: Fixed back of the head easily sticking through great helm.

Server Changelog

• Change: Floors on top of destroyed/unfinished supports will take more decay damage.
• Change: Floors on top of supports can now be bashed without first destroying the house on top of them if one exists – if it does the floor will revert to a plan and cannot be removed without first removing the tile from the house.
• Change: Dock supports can now be bashed without first destroying the floor on top of it – if there is a floor the support will revert to a plan.
• Change: Affinities will now transfer to/from Defiance. On the first Defiance/NFI transfer after the update, the higher value of the two sets for an Affinity will be saved for each skill.
• Bugfix: Fixed mining and tunneling failing silently if the action would create a new cave exit too close to an existing cave exit.
• Bugfix: Removed duplicated “Remove reinforcement” entry in right-click menus on reinforced cave exits.
• Bugfix: Corrected error message when trying to plan a building on a cave exit tile.
• Bugfix: Fixed crude wooden rail fence gate animation and description.
• Bugfix: Telling a pet to “Go here” on an adjacent tile will no longer report they can’t reach that location if they also start moving there. 
• Bugfix: Fixed some code issues causing problems with Defiance missions, such as missions being replaced even when in progress and/or not expired yet, or not being replaced at all.
• Bugfix: Fixed Defiance mission-related event messages sometimes saying “waiting for help” instead of the actual new mission name.
• Bugfix: Items and creatures will no longer fall through mine doors when dirt or sand is dropped on a nearby tile.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue that would prevent the player from being forced to stop dragging an item, such as when embarking on a vehicle while dragging a cart.
• Bugfix: Line of sight checks involving floors, docks, and bridges as blocking objects have been updated to be more accurate.
• Bugfix: Siege engine projectile checks for hitting floors, docks, and bridges have been updated to be more accurate.
• Bugfix: Merchants and traders should no longer sometimes fall down to the ground floor after a server restart.
• Bugfix: Due to buggy behavior, dishwater has been removed as a possible scrap material when crafting items.
• Bugfix: Trying to cross by boat to a PvP server while having disabled PvP transfers will now show the correct message explaining that in event chat.
• Bugfix: Fixed capitalization of tile type names in an error message when placing an item.
• Bugfix: When checking for existing items that would block dropping or placing an item onto the ground, the correct tile should now be checked more reliably.

Client Changelog

• New: All actions that were converted to the new actions system can now be quickbound to a key directly from the context menu, without requiring the keybind to be added to the client settings first.
• New: Added a keybind to toggle mute all sound in the game client. The mute does not persist between client restarts. This can be bound to a key by using the settings menu, or by using the MUTE_SOUND keybind name in the “bind” console command.
• New: Inventory item tooltip will now list the components required to complete the item.
• New: Added multiple new action keybinds. These can be bound by the settings menu, or by using the console with those keybind names:
  • COLLECT_ASH
  • PAINT1, PAINT2
  • REMOVE_PAINT1, REMOVE_PAINT2
  • LOCKPICK
• Change: Embark as driver keybind will now also work on animal mounts, activating the Ride action on those instead.
• Bugfix: Hair and clothing colors in character window and character customization window should no longer differ from how they look in the game world.
• Bugfix: Roofs in caves will no longer block and disable the third person camera on the surface above them.
• Bugfix: Player’s target (and target bar) will now be cleared when changing servers.

Art Changelog

• New: Crude wooden rail fences and gates now have their own models.

Hotfix #1 Notes

• Change: PvP kills on Defiance will no longer cause affinities to be transferred between players. We’re looking to introduce an alternative mechanic to make up for this, see the feedback thread here: https://forum.wurmonline.com/index.php?/topic/211672-pvp-affinity-mechanics/
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue preventing players from exiting some bridges.
• Bugfix: Fixed various issues related to line of sight checks, making it so you couldn’t reach certain items.

Supposedly, the first one of these was cut from a fallen dragon’s tooth, but blacksmiths have switched to more advanced materials by now.

This skin is available through May 2026 in the Marks shop.

The Dragon Fang skin can be applied to any longsword.

Monthly Skin Reruns

Here are this month’s skin reruns, available for purchase in the in-game silver shop only until the end of May 2026:

• Bucket Helm (great helm)

• Dark Maul (large maul)

The Easter Bunny has heard your calls and allowed an anonymous sculptor to capture their likeness, for everyone to enjoy while waiting for the next Easter period

This skin is available through April 2026 in the Marks shop.

The Bunny Statue skin can be applied to a statue of boy and a statue of girl.

Monthly Skin Reruns

Here are this month’s skin reruns, available for purchase in the in-game silver shop only until the end of April 2026:

• Sigvard’s Wrath (huge axe)

• Festive Light of the Gods (candelabra)