Changes and additions

• Added the name of the Capital City of the Alliance in the Village Info screen.
• Secured/Planted forges and ovens will no longer take decay ticks on deed.
• Removed the taming difficulty modifier on Black light kingdom players.
• Epic structure changes on freedom.
  • Deeds can now be placed and resized over Epic  structures.
  • Epic structures no longer require a mission to create them.
  • Missions have a chance of generating at any off deed Epic structure.
  • Ritual missions will pick a random structure type before picking a random structure of that type.
  • Epic structures now report helpers and percentages correctly.

Bug Fixes:

• Bugfix:  Metallic liquid will require and use up only the base weight of the liquid when imbuing.
• Bugfix:  Changed the description of metallic liquid as it can be used on other things, not only weapons.
• Bugfix:  Increased tower guard pathing range, addressing instances in which tower guards did not respond when called in range.

Creature movement changes

• Disabled champions fleeing on all servers.
• Reverted a change that made bred seals constantly flee on all servers.

Client changes

• The game clients have been updated and should now work correctly with the latest java version 8u141
• This update also includes a change to how the memory management system works, and should reduce “stuttering” when running the client for an extended period.

Unstable client changes:

• The memory limitation has been swapped to a dynamic memory usage system, which will allocate RAM depending on the available amount system-wide. Systems with larger amounts of memory will see an increase in the amount that Wurm takes up, but will scale down if it does not require it.

• Bugfix: Corrected issues in which cave dwelling walls did not render
• Bugfix: Butterflies and fish will no longer glow at night
• Bugfix: Removed the swimming sound when embarking a boat from water.

The game clients have been updated and should now work correctly with the latest java version 8u141

This update also includes a change to how the memory management system works, and should reduce “stuttering” when running the client for an extended period.

The unstable client also carries the following changes:

The memory limitation has been swapped to a dynamic memory usage system, which will allocate RAM depending on the available amount system-wide. Systems with larger amounts of memory will see an increase in the amount that Wurm takes up, but will scale down if it does not require it.

• Bugfix: Corrected issues in which cave dwelling walls did not render
• Bugfix: Butterflies and fish will no longer glow at night
• Bugfix: Removed the swimming sound when embarking a boat from water.

• Wurmian dendrologists have noted that the girth of Olive and Chestnut trees has diminished. (olive and chestnut tree trunks are now thinner by 60%)
• Cave entrances can now be reinforced, prepared, and paved like other cave floors.
• Priests that can dig without going faithless can now dredge.

• Bugfix: Fixed an issue where keys ended up in a bugged state if they were inside a bank or mailbox when the lock was destroyed.  Now the keys should be destroyed as well.
• Bugfix: Fixed a bug that caused cave ceilings to examine as floors and requirement remove reinforcement permissions when above a reinforced floor.
• Bugfix:  Fix for some underground bridges causing errors resulting in players rubberbanding as they travel across the bridge.
• Bugfix: Hota should no longer break if there is a server restart during an active event – remaining pillars should spawn seconds before the shutdown.
• Bugfix: Fixed the issue causing decayed organic material from being stuck in a your bank taking up a slot until server restart.
• Bugfix:  Metallic Liquid will now come in a potion bottle when looted and will actually work when ‘smeared’ onto an item.
  • The imbue will start with 100 power, no matter what your actual skill is as long as the action succeeds.
  • Protect against items “cracking” 5 times, lose 20 power from the imbue every time it “forms cracks”
  • Protect against a single shatter. As long as the power of the imbue even exist listed on the item, it will be protected.
  • You can NOT smear another potion to “refill” the lost power, effect must be gone.

Client updates

• 4.0 Client fix: Straightened out reinforced walls next to veins with cave detail set to high.
• 4.0 Client fix: Wild hive message on screen should now appear again if you  do not have it hidden in settings.
• 4.0 Client fix:  Rangefinder numbers are again visible when using a spyglass.
• 4.0 Client fix: Corona position (glow) for some items was fixed from hovering above to a center position.
• 4.0 Client fix: Fixed orientation issues of embarked players.
• 4.0 Client fix: There should be no more ‘lightning’ flashes on animals, people and items.
• 4.0 Client new:  Added a post-process tab in client settings to to add or remove some effects.
  • Bloom
  • FXAA (antialiasing)
  • Vignette

• Can use keybinds FLATTEN or LEVEL on tile borders resulting in the raising or lowering of the tile border.
• Less random slopes when mining forward,  depending on skill level.
  • skill less than 50, +-3 (current)
  • skill = 50, variance is +-2
  • skill = 70, variance is +-1
  • skill = 90+ no variance
• Tile corners are now available on bridges.
• Champion changes
  • Kingdoms will no longer require the player god to favour them in order to ascend a champion
  • Each kingdom may have one champion per god, with a maximum of three champions
• Courier and dark messenger no longer have cooldowns
• Genesis now has a cooldown of 30 seconds

• Bugfix:  Creatures without bodies should play a proper death animation before being deleted.
• Bugfix: Strange devices courier casts can now be improved while in the correct spirits domain
• Bugfix: Fixed the bug that caused the pave option to show on packed dirt with floor boards, resulting in a gravel tile.