January’s Monthly Skin

Want to butcher in style? The “Grimshadow” might interest you then – an elegant looking skin for the butchering knife, available in the Marks Shop at any settlement token in January/February!

“Grimshadow – An elegant weapon of silent death, its gleaming edge infused with the essence of darkness.”

Patch Notes 16-JAN-2024

Server Changelog

  • Change: Server performance and stability improved.
  • Change: Large barrels, large amphoras and felled trees can now be loaded into vehicles and hauled with ropes.
  • Change: Items that can be both loaded and picked up can now be moved from the player’s inventory into vehicles or other containers.
  • Bugfix: Trade chat messages are no longer affected by player alcohol level.
  • Bugfix: Fixed saddle sacks sometimes showing the wrong model when equipped.
  • Bugfix: Fixed the increased sickle swing timer getting applied against all creatures on PvP servers instead of just players.
  • Known issue: Empty saddles (without bags or sacks inside) may visually appear as bags. This will be fixed with the next update.

Patch Notes 27-DEC-2023

Server Changelog

  • Bugfix: Fixed festive name for Christmas fragments.
  • Bugfix: Paper Mask will now consume the paper sheet correctly.
  • Bugfix: Fixed not being able to “Disable Resource Node Spawning” if the village doesn’t have a spirit guard hired.

Patch Notes 22-DEC-2023

Happy Holidays! The Christmas event is now live.

Help Santa find his missing toy factory parts and turn them in for gifts! More details here.

Server Changelog

  • New: Christmas 2023 event has been added (click to learn more)
  • New: Craftable “large barrel rack” item has been added to the game
  • New: Craftable “paper mask” item has been added to the game
  • Change: Resource Nodes Tweaks
    • Villages can now use the setting to disable resource node spawning even when no spirit templar is hired.
    • Snow pile resource nodes are now slightly more likely to spawn.
    • Snowball item count from snow pile nodes has been significantly increased in winter. For instance, snow piles below the snow line will now yield 8 snowballs instead of 4.
    • Snowball quality now drops significantly less than it did before with each successive snowball collected during the action, and should now be much higher on average.
    • Items that decay in inventory, including snowballs and food items, now have a grace period after creation during which they will not decay. This is similar to the grace period items have outside of the inventory, but is shorter, at 12 real-life hours.
    • Forage and botanize will no longer require you to be on solid ground.
  • Change: Hanging lamps and torch lamps can now be placed on walls.
  • Change: Dirty caskets and bottles will now show what server they are from.
  • Change: World-map stamps on cartography maps will now be properly removed when an eraser is used on the map.
  • Change: Rebalanced tool weapons and salves for PvP servers
    • Added 1 second to swing timer of sickle and scythe if a player is attacking another player on PvP servers.
    • Removed the effect of salves on weapons if a player is attacking another player on PvP servers.

Client Changelog

  • Bugfix: Fixed a client crash when clicking on a world-map annotation that is linked to a cartography map that is no longer in an atlas.

Monthly Skin

Added “Santa Beard”, a skin for the new paper mask item. Available in the Marks Shop at any settlement token through December.

“A luxurious Santa beard meticulously handcrafted from the finest sheep’s wool, providing a cozy feel and gentle warmth to your face.”

Silver Shop Changes

  • Added Adorned Shovel, a new shovel skin
    • Priced at 10 silver coins
    • Available at a 50% discount, for 5 silver coins, until January 11th 2023
  • Added a Busy Gnomes Pack with 3 new garden gnomes. The pack can be purchased for 20 silver coins, the individual garden gnomes are priced at 10 silver coins each. These offers are 50% off until January 11th 2023.
    • Foraging Garden Gnome
    • Fishing Garden Gnome
    • Blacksmith Garden Gnome

Only from December 22nd 2023 until January 11th 2023 (during the Christmas event) the following items will be available on the shop:

  • Soft cap: 5 silver coins
  • Snow lantern: 3 silver coins

From December 22nd 2023 until January 11th 2023 the following items will be on sale:

  • Adorned Shovel: 5 silver coins (instead of 10)
  • Busy Gnomes Pack: 10 silver coins (instead of 20)
  • Foraging Garden Gnome: 5 silver coins (instead of 10)
  • Fishing Garden Gnome: 5 silver coins (instead of 10)
  • Blacksmith Garden Gnome: 5 silver coins (instead of 10)
  • Merry Gnomes Pack: 10 silver coins (instead of 20)
  • Axeman Garden Gnome: 5 silver coins (instead of 10)
  • Miner Garden Gnome: 5 silver coins (instead of 10)
  • Drunkard Garden Gnome: 5 silver coins (instead of 10)
  • Sleep Powder: 2 silver coins (instead of 3)
  • 5 Sleep Powder: 8 silver coins (instead of 12)
  • 10 Sleep Powder: 15 silver coins (instead of 20)
  • 20 Sleep powder: 25 silver coins (instead of 35)

Patch Notes 05-DEC-2023

Server Changelog

  • New: Resource Nodes (Foraging/Botanizing Overhaul)
    • The existing foraging, botanizing, and snow-collecting systems have been replaced by a new system where visible resource nodes spawn on tiles from which you can gather resources.
    • Each type of resource node has its own appearance, set of possible items, and skill associated with it, and can be spotted visually while exploring the wilderness.
    • All items previously available through foraging and botanizing are still available in the new system, along with many others, such as clay, ore/mineral shards, and a wider variety of plant products.
    • Unlike the previous foraging and botanizing system, resource nodes are available on virtually every type of tile, including some exclusive to shallow water. Several tile types also have their own exclusive types of resource nodes that cannot appear anywhere else.
    • Resource nodes spawn and disappear randomly over time, and also disappear when items are collected from them. Only one can exist on a tile at any given time. A resource node will also be removed if the type of the tile changes, such as grass being packed with a shovel.
    • A new settlement management setting has been introduced to prevent resource nodes from appearing within your village. This requires at least one spirit templar to be hired as part of the village plan.
    • The possibility, and probability, of a type of resource node spawning on a tile depends on factors including, but not limited to, tile type, altitude, season, and proximity to water.
    • Similarly, the possibility and probability of getting specific items from a resource node can also depend on a variety of conditions. Some plants are more common in certain seasons, for example, and some very uncommon items might only be possible at high skill.
    • Using “Lore” on a resource node will tell you what kinds of items you could collect from it, in order of how likely they are, as well as how difficult the action will be compared to your skill level, and the number of items you will receive. Using “Lore” on a tile will tell you what resource nodes might spawn there, also in order of likelihood.
    • The number of items you can collect from a Foraging or Botanizing resource node depends on the type of resource node, some other factors (such as tile type or grass length), and your skill level. Unlike in the previous system, higher skill level simply adds a flat value to the number of items you will receive:
      • * 20-50 skill: +1
      • * 50-70 skill: +2
      • * 70-90 skill: +3
      • * 90+ skill: +4
    • “Snow pile” resource nodes, the new source of snowballs, can now be found outside Winter at sufficient altitude. This “snow line” changes elevation throughout the in-game year, so some areas may get snow year-round, while others may only experience it closer to Winter. All snow piles, however, will provide more snowballs in Winter than in other seasons.
    • Magical enchantments on equipped gloves can now be used when collecting from resource nodes, as well as when creating or improving clay items with the hand:
      • Only magical effects such as runes and spell enchantments function for this purpose. For example, Wind of Ages will improve action speed and Circle of Cunning will improve skill gain.
      • The glove is not being used as an actual tool, so it will not receive damage, and its quality, rarity, and material will have no impact on effectiveness. However, like a tool, enchantments will still decay from use.
      • Enchantment/Rune effectiveness is averaged between both gloves. For example, having 100 Wind of Ages on one glove and 50 on the other will be equivalent to having 75 Wind of Ages on a tool, and having a rune on one glove but not the other will result in that rune being half as effective as usual.
  • Bugfix: Black Claw will now spawn as steel.
    • The material change will also be applied to already existing items.
  • Bugfix: Animals hitched underground should no longer disappear on server restart.
  • Bugfix: Ribboned shoulder pads should no longer be burnable.
  • Bugfix: Fixed a situation where animals would teleport elsewhere after being led into water

Client Changelog

  • New: The client now uses a new method for outlining objects, intended to look cleaner on complex objects with a lot of transparent parts. This feature is only available using the modern renderer.
    • The default neutral outline color has been changed. The outline color can still be manually changed in the settings
    • Launcher settings allow you to set the outline color by RGB values. Values for the old default outline color: (128, 128, 255)
  • Change: Changed FoV (field of view) calculations to work better on widescreen setups. Note: If you run the game in a square or vertical window, you might need to tweak your FoV setting to have the same view angles as previously
  • Change: Increased the visibility of snowfall on the modern renderer
  • Change: Removed some unused options that have been causing an issue on graphics profile settings for some users.
  • Change: Changed default setting for “Cartography Indicator Fade-out Distance” to 2 tiles from 8.
  • Bugfix: Updated client runtime libraries with potential rare crash fixes.

Black Friday Sale 2023

We are running a Black Friday sale this year again!

From November 23rd 23:59 CET until November 27th 6:00 CET, all premium time and silver coin offers on our web shop and Steam shop are 30% off.

In addition to that, we prepared something special for the ingame silver shop.

From November 23rd 23:59 CET until December 2nd 6:00 CET, the following is available in the silver shop:

  • A rerun of the 10 most favoured old Marks skins, available for 5 silver coins each
  • Various discounts on other items, including sleep powder
  • A new “maple leaf necklace” item, redeemable for free for any player with an active premium account (claimable until December 7th 6:00 CET)

So don’t miss out on these limited-time offers and don’t forget to claim your free item through the ingame silver shop!

– The Wurm Online Team

November’s Monthly Skin

You like fighting with a scythe, but are worried that you look too much like a farmer with it? You might be interested in “Libila’s Liberator” then – a menacing looking skin for the scythe, available in the Marks Shop at any settlement token through November!

“Libila’s Liberator – A menacing-looking scythe, reserved for tasks entirely unrelated to mowing grass or harvesting grains”