• Source crystal drop rate from cave walls was increased.
• Rift loot chances increased slightly.
• Permissions change:  Attaching a lock to an on deed gate used to automatically give citizens of that deed May Pass permission, even of the deed role did not allow citizens to pass gates. It will now only give the person placing the lock permission to pass, and sets the controlled by deed flag.
  • If you restrict access to gates to citizens, please check individual gates to ensure the correct permissions are set.

• Bugfix:  Rift altars should no longer decay if the rift is still active.
• Bugfix:  You can no longer lock an unlocked gate for which you have no permissions.

Bugfix – Corrected an issue with rifts that caused the server to crash upon opening.

Following an update yesterday Xanadu encountered severe lag. To rectify this we have reverted Xanadu to using the old domain system. We will investigate the cause of this lag and hopefully be able to address the lag issue with this feature in a future update. We apologiise for the inconvenience the lag caused.

• New Domain system added!
  • Altars will now extend their domain depending on quality.
  • Underground and above ground zones are no longer separate, instead domains will have a 50% reduction in their power in the opposing layer.
  • Metal and wood altars may now be pushed/pulled.
  • Altar creation restrictions were removed.
• Creature spawn counts altered
  • Bison,  dogs, roosters, pheasants and hens will be a smaller amount of the total population
  • Spawn cap for horses has been increased
• Bred creatures now have a 1 in 20 chance of giving a rare coin when killed, as opposed to the former 1 in 50 chance.
• A minimum cool down period of one hour was added to the meditation ability Final Breath.
• Path of Insanity followers can change path one time with no penalty via an option on the meditation rug.
• Reduced the amount of terrain variation caused by rifts, should now not occur on corners with fences, walls, etc.
• Tile borders will now show slope information again when examined.
• Non-premium characters that have previously been premium will now keep their characteristic stats up to 30 on PvE servers.
  
• Enchanted grass chance of reverting to grass on deeds with good ratio has been halved to have a 1 in 240 chance when an animal grazes. If the deed has a bad ratio (less than 15 tiles per animal) it has the usual 1 in 120 chance of reverting to grass. Off deed enchanted grass now has a 1 in 80 chance to revert to grass when an animal grazes.

• Bugfix: Boulders from volcanoes will no longer become part of an item pile.
• Bugfix: Fixed text error for brass brass ribbon on unfinished birdcage examine.
• Bugfix: Fixed a permission bug which allowed some paving without permissions set.
• Bugfix: Corrected the fix for source crystals being removed from veins.
• Bugfix: Focus icon mouseover text will now update properly when focus is lost during combat.
• Bugfix: Text error for examine of rift beast heart was fixed.
• Bugfix: You can no longer cast dirt on a smelter.
• Bugfix: Pick up items and pick up planted permission are no longer needed in order to fill a lamp inside a building.
• Bugfix: Plugged a few loopholes for trading new player tents.
• Bugfix: Fixed a text error with socketed rings.
• Bugfix: Traders and Merchants will once again stay on the the same story where placed instead of falling to the ground level.
• Bugfix: Fixed a text error when burying a body at sea.
• Bugfix: Attempting to send mail to a server that is offline will no longer attempt to send and then destroy your mail.
• Bugfix: Fixed a bug with no drop items remaining in locked chests upon death.
• Bugfix: Fix for cakes not cooling down when removed from a heat source.
• Bugfix: Increased the tolerance for lag when moving on vehicles, random dismounts when riding on a horse or other vehicle should occur less often.
• Bugfix: Fixed a bug to prevent rejected mail being auto-sent back to the person who rejected it if not picked up by the original sender. If the original sender does not retrieve the rejected mail, it will be deleted after 2 weeks.
• Bugfix: Fixed a respawn issue on Deliverance and added code to prevent it from happening elsewhere. If a spawn point does not satisfy requirements (above water, not too steep, empty) It will not show.
• Bugfix: Dirt spell will no longer terraform Rift terrain.
• Bugfix: Can no longer cast dirt in a tent while in inventory.
• Bugfix: Converting to HOTS only sets you to Libila and faith to 1 if you are coming from Fo, Magranon or Vynora.

Rift loot range has been slightly increased.

In order to be eligible for loot upon killing a Rift creature you need to be engaged in active combat and within range of the creature as it dies. This means any strategies of “tagging” or scoring hits and moving on to increase participation will severely reduce chances of getting loot.

• Added a message to /rift to give an approximate time of the Rift opening if it is not already open.
• Source crystals can no longer be mined from veins. This is to prevent excess crystals being mined in a short timeframe.

• Bugfix:  Fixed a few capitalization issues.
• Bugfix:  Rift loot will no longer be required for missions.
• Bugfix:  Fixed a bug where higher nutrition was not properly giving the healing bonus to wounds.
• Bugfix:  Fixed a bug with Village Healing bonus which could have increased damage instead of heal damage.
• Bugfix:  Fixed a bug with the dirt spell sometimes giving 7 dirt.
• Bugfix:  Fixed an issue with planning/building an inner wall in a cave dwelling if there was a wall or fence on the same tile border above ground.
• Bugfix:  Tools should no longer take massive damage when destroying unfinished fences.
• Bugfix: Fixed adamantine weapon bonus to actually be +10%.
• Bugfix:  Fix for randomized tunnel height calculations so that the distribution is now symmetrical.
• Bugfix: Possible fix for lost items when mailing across servers.

10th Anniversary gift!
Show off your Wurm pride with this iconic question mark knapsack! To celebrate ten years of Wurm, we’re giving every premium player a Knapsack that can be worn as a backpack. Depending on how long you’ve been premium the knapsack gets even better with different material types, rarity and the quality based off the length of time you’ve been premium, these will be the perfect place to show off your status and keep your memories of Wurm and wogic as you play.

Bottoms up!
You can’t celebrate the 10th anniversary of Wurm without champagne! Luckily we have that too.  Again, the longer you’ve been premium the higher the rarity. One swig of this and you’ll be glowing! (Stable client only.)

Bugfix – Rift hearts can no longer be used to make healing covers.

• Later waves of Rifts should now scale to the number of people in the Rift zone.
• Traders have been disabled for underground dwelling, merchants will stay in their underground abodes.

• Text fix – Corrected message seen by watchers when burying a corpse.
• Bug fix – Corrected an issue allowing corpses to be looted on PvE servers.
• Bug fix – Fixed the bug where traders and merchants who were placed underground popped to the surface.
• Bug fix – Locks removed from locked gates after today’s update can now be attached correctly to other gates.

The “Disabled for non-premiums” message no longer shows when a player enters local of a non premium player on PvP servers.

Unstable client updated with more fixes!

• Bugfix – Underground buildings no longer show up as off deed if they are on deed.
• Bugfix – Wild growth can no longer push camellia hedges past medium height.
• Bugfix – Birthday cakes should now be available.
• Bugfix – Rift loot and crude knives removed from future mission requirements.