- Newbies now receive a few buffs the first 24 hours, making it easier to survive in different ways.
- A bug with mission generation on Valrei was fixed. When there was an enemy in the target hex no mission was generated.
- Champions will no longer be able to change kingdom under most circumstances.
War declaration fix
- A bug with war declarations was fixed which caused people to become hunted. You will probably have to redeclare any village wars.
Current Focus & Dev Diary #3
If you have not already seen it, watch the Video Developer Diary introducing the subject.
We are currently focusing on the first 5 hours of Gameplay. We need to do a lot more in order to make it easier to get into the game and we have decided that this is a good time to do that.
Plenty of new features in development aiming at giving a better gaming experience to New and Old players alike.
You can read all about it and discuss the updates in this Forum Post.
Sincerely
/The Wurm Online Team
Community Assistants Wanted
What is a Community Assistant?
A Community Assistant, also referred to as a CA, is a player that volunteers their time to answer questions in the CA Help channel in game.
Community Assistants are pillars of the Wurm Online community, assisting new and old players alike.
The reward is the pleasure of helping others. Also future prospects as It is the entry level staff position where all of our Game Master’s got promoted from.
Requirements for becoming a Community Assistant:
- Positive track record with the community
- Helping out in the CA Help channel
- 30 Days of In game time
- Any applicants with prior bans (macro/chat/game) will be turned down.
Please answer these questions and message EnvyODB on the forum for consideration.
- Name of your character.
- Why you want to be a CA.
- How much experience you have.
- What server you are on and time zone you usually play on.
Regards,
Lead Game Master Envious
Item decay catching up
- An old bug with item decay where everything decayed as if inside was fixed. This will cause items in the open to catch up decay and quite a bit of lag after restart.
- You should now be able to destroy buildings properly in enemy villages
- Some bugs with catapulting and hunted status was fixed
- Villages on home PvP servers now have a Notoriety value based on offensive actions of their citizens. It is only if Notoriety goes above a certain amount (currently 50) that other villages may declare war.
- You may now loot corpses of players that was recently attacked by a citizen of an enemy settlement
- A bug with the /support function was fixed
- Farming yield has increased to a minimum of 2 if you farm the field at least once
- Mission description text now wraps
Alliances fix
- You can now form alliances on Freedom servers again
- A bug which caused teleportation near off-deed gates during pvp should be fixed. Like off-deed doors they will remain open for 2 minutes if you are near enemies.
- Houses without writs will now decay faster. If a house you own lack the writ, please contact gms and they will try to retrieve it for you.
Reputation stuff
- You will never leave the world if logging off on an enemy home server deed
- Village war declarations are now active again on PvP servers. Diplomats may declare war on players, walls, fences and tokens. The war will begin when the responding deed accepts or after 24 hours. If this option is abused by other kingdoms to grief on enemy home servers and defenders don’t manage to help eachother out the option will probably have to be removed
- The bug that has crashed the servers now and then should be fixed now
- Fixed a bug in the spy prevention system
- We found a bug with things growing on Affliction so it should start working now.
Creature spawn age, hunted status, settlement guards
- Sacrificing reborn creatures will no longer advance mission states
- Several bugs with hunted status were fixed
- Settlement guards on Epic were buffed a bit since they were underpowered compared to price
- The “everything spawns as young” change was reverted for now
- Improved friend list
Destroy Wall option back
- The option to destroy walls is back
- A bug where you could become hunted if you attacked a hunted persons pet was fixed
- Shaker orbs should work again
Developer Diary: Record Release
In the second instalment of our brand-new Developer Diaries, Rolf takes a moment to talk about the recently commissioned new Wurm music, entitled “Meditation and Work.” It’s out now on Spotify, iTunes and Amazon, and you’ve probably heard it already in-game too!
The Dev Diaries are produced & edited by our latest full-time team member, Johan. He’s going to continue to bring more to the table in regards of marketing Wurm. Expect to see more of his work in the future!
If the video does not show, click here.
Links to the music release: