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Server Changelog

• New: Ceilings have been added to the game and can be attached to built roofs and floors using a hammer or trowel. There are 5 ceiling types:
  • Wood
  • Rendered wood
  • Squared wood
  • Rustic wood
  • Pottery brick
• New: Chandelier item has been added. It can be hanged from ceilings and can be crafted using the Blacksmithing skill.
• New: Title has been added for 100 skill in Nature. Congrats Sgtscum!
• New: Added monthly skin for November 2024 – Hell Horse Rider Statuette.
• Change: Lights that use candles will now act like other street lamps in regards to fuel usage, refueling from villages, and auto-snuffing/lighting. They still need candles to light up first.
• Bugfix: Fixed a misspelling in the wagoner management window.
• Bugfix: Fixed a case where portals via Chaos to other server could set your Chaos kingdom incorrectly.
• Bugfix: You are no longer able to plant reed seeds on a tile that already has reeds planted
• Bugfix: Fixed a problem where vehicles and mounted creatures would frequently stop when moving on flat tiles at their exact minimum or maximum water depth. This frequently occurred with horses being ridden on flat tiles at the maximum depth a player can dig with a shovel. Vehicles and mounts should now move more smoothly under these circumstances.
• Bugfix: Fixed a case where portals via Chaos to other server could set your Chaos kingdom incorrectly.
• Bugfix: Fixed cave ceilings to open the correct Wurmpedia page
• Bugfix: Fixed wagoners loading a second, conflicting hair model under certain circumstances.

Client Changelog

• Change: Shadow rendering on modern renderer has been optimized to use less GPU power and memory
• Change: Volumetric fog rendering has also been optimized to not use as many resources
• Change: Shadows are now softer but have more detail in distance
• Change: Shadow map quality setting now has fewer options, as the optimizations have made some of them redundant
• Bugfix: Fixed fence gates not casting shadows

Client Changelog

• Bugfix: Fixed brightness setting not always affecting the entire screen when using legacy renderer.
• Bugfix: Fixed a rare issue where many of the UI windows containing check boxes would have their layout broken.
• Bugfix: Player list and action queue will no longer be removed from the Event tab on server transfers or reconnecting.
• Bugfix: Quick bar slots will now save correctly, fixing the issue where slots with items reverted back to buttons.

Server Changelog

• New: Added mine door permissions to role management settings on deeds.
• Change: Improvements to messages
  • Drop/Take messages that involve multiple items are now always condensed to single lines in most cases.
  • Cooked foods now use their actual names, fixing problems such as pancakes being called “omelettes” under certain circumstances.
  • Many drop/take messages have been made more clear and now list the items they refer to. For example, dropping dirt or sand to raise the ground now produces a different message than if you drop it to a pile.
  • When placing an item puts it in your inventory first, the standard “You get” message from taking the item is now sent, to make it clear you have picked up the item.
  • Formatting of these messages has had its grammar improved slightly, and has been made much more consistent in general.
• Bugfix: The “2g” and “5g” volume options for measuring jugs and measuring flasks are now available again.
• Bugfix: Fixed various issues when making floats from moss. Some messages have been corrected for grammar, the action now aborts if you have no space in your inventory or the moss is too light, and it will now use the correct amount of moss in all cases.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue with some items popping out of their containers when leaving Guidance.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue causing newly created torch lamps to be called “medium torch lamps” and renamed any offending items.
• Bugfix: Fixed meditation sometimes considering a position “too wet” when at the exact minimum height required.
• Bugfix: Fixed being unable to build a wooden parapet under an arched wall.
• Bugfix: Fixed issues with Halloween 2024 items
  • The new 2024 Halloween items (figurine of Grimbleat, arachnid necklace, and goat head necklace) can now be improved using Jewelry Smithing skill.
  • References to silver have been removed from the descriptions of the figurine of Grimbleat and goat head necklace, since they are sometimes made of other metals.
• Bugfix: Fixed issues with lockable containers
  • Pavilions no longer show “Open” and “Close” in the right-click menu, since they are not containers.
  • Crude canoes now show lock-related actions in the right-click menu properly.
• Bugfix: Fixed a rare issue with some characters loading wrong data and getting stuck on portal usage.

Client Changelog

• Change: The modern renderer is now available on MacOS.
• Change: The action queue will now display minutes and seconds for long actions instead of just total seconds.
• Change: Moved the emote list popup to a more convenient location, below the Emotes button.
• Change: Various changes to the journal window
  • You can now redeem adventure rewards (previously journal rewards) with a button below the listed adventure’s rewards.
  • Added a warning popup when redeeming rewards about some of the rewards not transferring to other servers after claiming them.
  • Active quest stage will now be highlighted with a different text colour.
  • Quest goals that are no longer needed to complete the quest stage will now be greyed out and have the checkbox removed to indicate they’re no longer relevant.
  • Journal window will now scale down properly on small game windows.
  • Journal window will now properly show in the center of the screen when first opened.
• Bugfix: Fixed firepillar effect not changing tile type to lava on the new terrain renderer.
• Bugfix: Fixed the black mesh appearing randomly over terrain after traveling for some distance.
• Bugfix: Blood hit effect should no longer show on the screen randomly without actually taking damage.
• Bugfix: Swimming in caves should no longer force switch to first person camera
• Bugfix: Swap mouse buttons setting should work properly again. (To swap actions performed by left and right mouse buttons.)
• Bugfix: Camera fixes
  • Fixed the camera jittering up and down randomly.
  • Fixed the player character jumping up for a frame randomly.
  • Fixed player shadows flickering.

Server Changelog

• Change: Kingdom regalia item changes
  • All new kingdom regalia items will now have exactly 90 QL.
  • All existing kingdom regalia items below 90 QL are now set to exactly 90 QL.
  • All existing kingdom regalia items above 90 QL will retain their original QL.
• Bugfix: Fixed the new Flatten and Level actions not properly triggering achievements or Journal goals when the action only requires adjusting the ground a single time.
• Bugfix: Fixed the new Flatten and Level actions sometimes trying to achieve the wrong target height when some or all of the terrain involved is underwater.

Server Changelog

• Change: Drinking Horn skin changes
  • The Drinking Horn skin can now be applied to the blessed water skin as well as the standard variety.
  • The examine text for item skin tokens has been improved, now mentioning both the skin name as well as the item type(s) to which the skin can be applied.
• Bugfix: Using a portal to return to Chaos to a kingdom that no longer exists will no longer crash the client.
• Bugfix: Using a portal to return to Chaos from Guidance will properly send you to a valid location for your kingdom on Chaos.
• Bugfix: Items received from scenario rewards will no longer disappear when returning to the server from being elsewhere.
• Bugfix: Tunneling a mine entrance is no longer possible if doing so would create a slope in the rock greater than what could be achieved through surface mining.

Based on player feedback, the tunneling mechanic fix won’t be included in today’s patch. The team will review and discuss it further before making any changes to it.