Patch Notes 06/AUG/20

  • Change: Maximum Archery skill that you can gain by using an archery target was increased to 45.
  • Bugfix: Fixed bug that allowed players to get over 40 Archery on an archery target.
    • Northern Freedom Only: We have identified a few players who used this bug to raise archery higher than intended. After verifying that their archery skill was below 45 before the bug was introduced in yesterdays patch, the Archery skill of those players will be moved back to 45.0.

Patch Notes 05/AUG/20

  • New: Added separate Russian and German help chats in addition to the general Non-English one. Those can also be toggled from the Profile menu, and are detected by your client’s system language.
  • New: Added a Tutorial Help channel spanning all of Haven (both the tutorial and portal area)
  • More server lag optimizations have been done, and we have several more improvements for that in the works.
  • Change: Allow bow skills to be trained to 30 even when 40 archery.
    Change: Destroy Grave has been renamed to Loot Grave to help avoid confusion on what it does.
  • Bugfix: The open option on player graves has been removed.
  • Bugfix: Language-specific chat toggles will now save properly when re-logging

Patch Notes 29/JUL/20

  • Server code was significantly optimized to reduce lag.
  • Dirt in the tutorial area should now properly replenish.
  • Lightning strikes will no longer deal damage to items on the ground.
  • Trade chat should now be shared between Harmony and Melody.
  • Marks Store is now re-enabled.
    • Note: the imbue potions are currently removed from the gift packs on Northern Freedom Isles, and tomes cannot be purchased on Defiance.
  • Fixed PvP portals giving sleep bonus (intended only for Epic portals)
  • Fixed PvP portals sometimes breaking the character’s ability to transfer through again when the first transfer failed.

Patch Notes 28/JUL/20

  • The play button will no longer break in certain situations.
  • Steam character creation process is now explained in the launcher.
  • Added a mention of the golden mirror to the tutorial (character customization)
  • Fixed blurry server maps on low texture settings.
  • Fixed a crash when setting certain keybinds through the in-game settings window.

Patch Notes: 27/JUL/20: More lag fixes

  • Large optimizations to server lag:
    • We have identified multiple causes of the lag, including a major one for the freeze spikes visible at high player counts, and some minor general lag issues.
    • We will continue to monitor and tweak the situation
  • Change: Trade chat between Harmony and Melody should now be separate from the Southern Freedom Isles
  • Bugfix: Tents can no longer be thrown
  • Bugfix: Tents may now be placed in a village by a citizen of that village
  • Bugfix: Fixed world portal incorrectly mentioning Melody as a test server

Patch Notes: New Tutorial Server

Hi Everyone

With the anticipation of the launch, we spent time ensuring our servers could handle the load of players, and beefing up the player limits to guarantee that. 

Unfortunately, the tutorial server also handles player transfers, logins, and other vital connections, which meant the attempts to log in were hitting the login server twice as hard as it had to handle more connections per person. 

We set the limit very cautiously, and we know this was a large cause of frustration, but while doing so, we took the steps necessary to address this. 

Thanks to the hard work of our server dev, we have split the tutorial from the existing login server to a new, dedicated tutorial server, called Haven. 

This addition will mean faster logins and transfers, and the hardware for the tutorial server can focus on players going through the tutorial alone. 

We’ll be doing a more extensive review of this to share later, and thank you for your patience with this time!

As a means of apology, we will be extending the 30% skill gain and affinity gain chance by 2 days. 

  • PvP notes:Grave stones no longer stack in piles with other items.
  • Grave stones will now spawn inside mines when a player is killed there.
  • Removed 20 fightskill requirment to repair towers.

Welcome to Wurm Online

Welcome to Wurm Online!

Wurm Online is a game of exploration and imagination, with a focus on true freedom in a sandbox environment.

Explore, terraform, craft and build your home, wherever you choose.

You begin your adventures on our tutorial server, Golden Valley.
Once completing the tutorial, you may choose a server to join. Harmony (PvE) and Defiance (PvP) are new; fresh start servers launched on the 24th of July 2020.
You may also choose to go to the Southern Freedom Isles, with a rich player history and established lands.

Your journey starts here.

Patch Notes 03/JUL/20

This update includes the new UI available via the Preview client. The information regarding the Preview client can be found here: https://forum.wurmonline.com/index.php?/topic/176028-new-ui-public-testing/

  • Change:  The mention of trader value has been removed from the Get Price option on items.
  • Change:  The current healing rate of a wound is now visible when the wound is examined, and when hovered over with the mouse or viewed in a window.
    • The information given is more precise at higher skill levels.
    • Information for wounds on another creature or player requires higher skill levels than viewing your own wounds.
    • Information given when hovering with the mouse or viewing the wound in a window requires higher skill levels than examining the wound.
    • The most basic level of information (whether a wound is stable, healing, or worsening) is always available for a player’s own wounds.
  • Bugfix:  Changed nolocate spell action verb to “casting” instead of “hiding” when casting the spell on a stack.
  • Bugfix:  Gods will no longer accept portions of food when sacrificing.
  • Bugfix: Changed “in the eyes” to “in [his/her/its] eyes” in insanity event message
  • Bugfix:  Fixed unintended pluralization of Valrei mission items.
  • PvP Bugfix: Blocked marks faith swap if new diety does not fit the kingdom template.