• Change: Changes have been made to Legendary creatures regarding spawning and locating as listed below:
  • Removed from pendulum locates..
  • Removed from Reveal Creatures casts.
  • Removed from Get Info from Path of Knowledge.
  • There is no longer a preferred type of region for specific unique spawning.
  • Removed Server and Twitter notifications of Legendary Creatures spawning.
  • Legendary Creatures will path back to their spawn when over 30 tiles away if they have no target to attack and will not spawn within 30 tiles of a deed.
• Tweaks and additions to Valrei mob AI
  • Nogump and drakespirit AI added.
  • Fixed pathing and targetting issues.
• New:  You can now grow woad in pottery planters.
• New:  Dyeable cloth barding has been added.  See notes below:
  • Dyeable cloth barding has been added.
  • Standard cloth barding has had its creation recipe changed.
    • It now is created with a needle and cloth square, and finished with 1 woad and 1 cochineal.
  • The dyeable cloth barding has two colour values – one for the barding and one for the pattern.
  • Dye pattern dyes the pattern only and uses LYE to remove that dyed section.
  • Paint colours the whole barding (except for the pattern) and uses a metal brush to remove.
• Bugfix:  Added a check to prevent a  journal completion reward to be executed again.
• Bugfix: Removed Stasis spell message from bank management popup question.
• Bugfix:  Lunchboxes will once again be tin instead of lead.

Art Changes

• Added white cloth barding, dyeable with two colour values.
• Bardings, saddle, saddlebags and bridles now show dye when equipped.
• Added woad planter model.
• Deer now show condition colours.
• Added salmon pile model.

• Bugfix: Possible fix for inaccessible piles of items and ghost piles.
• Bugfix:  Sandstone veins should no longer reappear after being mined out and the tile collapsed.
• Bugfix: You can now drink via right click from containers again.
• Bugfix: You should no longer be able to cast Dirt on various racks.
• Bugfix: Fixed a max container limit bug with racks.  This fix also now allows amphora racks to hold a max of 30 amphoras – large, small and a mix – instead of just 12 large or 30 small.

• Bugfix:  Skill tracker bars should update properly again.
• Bugfix: Target window background will no longer remain red after a creature kill.
• Bugfix: Fixed a modern renderer crash which would happen only in certain places
• Bugfix: Possible fix for the flashing invisible objects issue
• Bugfix:  The meteorological phenomenon that is caused by reflection, refraction and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a spectrum of light appearing in the sky has returned. (We fixed rainbows)

• Change: Round table, large dining table and small square table were made larger for placing items.
• Bugfix: Fixed the mission journal entry which was not triggering as intended.
• Bugfix: You can once again improve the cast of lurker spells.
  • Note: Multi cast, pre-existing pendulums will be unable to have their lurker casts improved, nor will you be able to cast another lurker spell on them, you will need to dispel them down to one lurker cast.

• Change:  Raw, foraged and low quality food will now fill the food bar more based on weight eaten.
  • Players with the newbie food buff will receive an even bigger bonus.
• Journal Bugfix: Destroy 25 veins via mining has been fixed to include those veins which become depleted instead of destroyed (as when you mine out an ore at a cave entrance and it turns to rock instead of being destroyed.)
• Journal Bugfix: Restore 250 items from fragments should trigger properly.
• Journal Bugfix: Old creature skill achievements will be added to the journal for a better baseline for older accounts. Info below:
  • Upon first login after this update, the server will check all old creature slaying achievements and total their count. If the count is higher than the amount required to trigger the journal goal it will set it to that new value. This will not be an exact count of creatures slain as some creatures do not have their own individual achievement for tracking kills, but this will provide a better baseline for older accounts.

New:  More Journal tiers added.

• Bugfix: Possible fix for an uncommon shield skill bug which resets your skill to 1.00.
• Bugfix: Cache lumps will now have the correct material type.
• Bugfix:  Fixed the ‘You must not move while doing that’ message when you were not moving.
• Bugfix:  Fixes for Lurker in the Woods odd behavior.

Client Changes:

• Bugfix:  Highway show links and show protection should now be visible again with the modern renderer.
• Bugfix: Fixed certain animations glitching out near the end

• Bugfix: Fixed rare issue with zero skill gain.
• Bugfix: Fixed the ‘xxx must stand still’ message when trying to listen to a confession when the player is already standing still.
• Bugfix: Battlecamp HotA should now correctly display the win message to server.

Fishing Changes:

• Using no float (or using net or spear for fishing) has had it’s difficulty lowered from +20 to +10.
• Fishing specifics relying on the time of day now work properly.
• Fixed fishing skillgain ticks capping because of the length of time an action can actually take.

New HotA System added:

• Battle Camp HotA

  • This system does not replace the existing HotA, but will run in tandem with it 
  • Battle Camps now spawn every 25 hours at random locations on the map.
  • These camps will not spawn in a village, under water, or on extreme slopes (mountains).
  • Lurker in the dark will now reveal the direction of 1 nearby battlecamp along with it’s normal 1 nearby enemy player (Distance based on cast power/pendulum)
  • New Battle Camps start neutral, and can be conquered by using an action on it which takes 5 minutes. If a camp is claimed by an enemy kingdom, it must first be neutralized, which takes 5 minutes as well.
  • When four Battle Camps are conquered by a single kingdom, a HotA statue reward is created at the most recently conquered Battle Camp. All four camps that were controlled by the kingdom are removed from the map. Any neutral camps, or camps controlled by other kingdoms, remain in play.
  • Battle Camps have a loot option that lets the owning kingdom loot a lump of moon metal every 24 hours from it with a 5 minute timer to claim it.
  • When a new Battle Camp is created, all other active camps on the server will take 10 damage. When a camp reaches 100 damage, it is removed from play.
  • When a Battle Camp is created, it forms a 40×40 zone around it.
    • Players cannot terraform inside the zone unless they conquer it. When conquered, terraforming slopes are limited to 40 steep.
    • Players cannot create or continue fences inside the zone unless they conquer it. When conquered, locked fences will not unlock for enemies when an allied player passes through.
    • Players cannot place mine doors in a Battle Camp zone.
    • Players cannot place deeds or extend deeds into the Battle Camp zone.
    • Players cannot construct or expand buildings into a Battle Camp zone.
    • When the zone is removed all fences in the zone will be deleted regardless of it they were made before or after the zone.

• Bugfix: Various text and grammar issues.
• Bugfix: Fixed the rarity check while cleaning a furnace to properly reset for each ash.
• Bugfix: Fixed journal entries that were at 100% but not properly shown as completed.
• Bugfix: When creating items,  If both pieces can transfer their enchants/runes, only take them from the active item and not the target item.
  • Ex: If you find two scissor blades via archaeology, each with 2 runes/enchants, only the runes/enchants on the active item when creating will be carried over to the completed item.
• Bugfix: Conditioned unicorn foals should now be born normal sized again.
• Bugfix: Furnaces should no longer remain lit with no fire/smoke upon server restart.
• Bugfix: Possible fix for the ‘unknown wall type’ fence parts which cannot be destroyed. (No foxes for Fabricant).
• Bugfix: You are no longer able to eat something within 10 seconds of being attacked.
• Bugfix:  Fixed an issue with the 3 day premium redeem code sometimes not calculating correctly.
• Bugfix: Reworded some mission items which were still too generic.
• Bugfix: Fixed some issues which improperly ignored strength/weight checks in inventory.
• Bugfix:  Fixed up the order that a quiver is found for Archery use.
  • Order is now as follows since arrows will not be used from unequipped backpacks:
    • Back Quiver
    • Hip Quiver
    • Inventory Quiver(s)
    • Basic Inventory
  • Or
    • Hip Quiver
    • Inventory Quiver(s)
    • Equipped backpack
    • Basic Inventory

• Bugfix:  Drakespirits should no longer be invisible.
• Bugfix:  Fixed the display of masked items in character window.
• Bugfix:  Fixed the shading of items in the character window.
• Bugfix:  Fixed placing indicators for some items.

• Fixed invisible rift beams
• Fixed square fish
• Fixed a crash issue

We hope that the intermittent java crash issue has been resolved with this update. Further crashes can be reported here: https://forum.wurmonline.com/index.php?/forum/27-client-bugs/

If you do experience any crashes please post information such as:

• Crash/client logs
• What you were doing at the time