Todays update to the game encountered a few errors with connecting to servers. After a preliminary look into the issue we’ve made the decision to temporarily revert the update to avoid long downtime. We’ll continue to work on the issue and announce when the update is available.

While disappointing, the reason we’ve made this decision is to minimise downtime of the game and time lost while we work on the issue. We have managed to reproduce it on our test servers and will be able to work on the fix without impacting play but currently have no ETA.

We do apologise for the inconvenience and we know everyone was eager to get building and storing. Hopefully we will have the issue resolved and the update back in action soon.

If you are having issues connecting after the revert please read this thread:
https://forum.wurmonline.com/index.php?/announcement/35-client-connection-issues/

Regards,
The Wurm team.

Changes and additions:

• New method for getting rid of unwanted hedges:
  • Hedges can now be cut down similar to trees and bushes with a cut down action or the CUT_DOWN keybind.
  • Destroying hedges on deed is tied to the “destroy fences” permission.

• Dredging additions and changes:
  • You can now flatten and level with a dredge.
  • You must not be embarked when using flatten or level.
  • When dredging from a boat, the dirt/sand/clay will go directly into the hold if there is room. (You must have room in the dredge for this to happen).

• The spawning of Valrei mobs has changed so that they spawn spread out across the server instead of in groups of 10.
• Keybind MILK added.
• Underground housing will now be enabled on PvP servers.
• Happy Easter! Hot cross buns have been added as a recipe, you’ll have to find out how to make it yourself though!

New housing additions

• SANDSTONE INTRODUCED:
  • Will act like marble or slate vein.
  • Will spawn randomly out of rock tiles across the server.
  • Can be created with a transmutation rod.

• NEW ITEMS:
  • Sandstone bricks (Sandstone shard + chisel).
  • Sandstone slabs (Sandstone shard + chisel).
  • Slate bricks (Slate shard + chisel).
  • Slate slabs (Slate shard + chisel).
  • Round stones (Rock shard + chisel).

• CHANGED ITEMS:
  • Slate slabs now are created with 88kgs of slate shards and a chisel.
  • Pottery bricks now require 5kgs of clay instead of 15.
  • Pottery brick floors will have new textures.
  • Stone slab house floors will have new texture.
  • House stone slabs will be changing to sandstone slab flooring to retain the same texture (if this is not immediate it will be addressed).
  • Round cobble roads are now paved with round stones.
  • Rough cobble roads are now paved with colossus bricks.

• NEW WALL TYPES:
  • Left arch.
  • T arch.
  • Right arch.

• NEW WALL TEXTURES:
  • Rendered wall – Plain stone wall + 20kgs of clay
  • Sandstone wall – 20 sandstone bricks and 20 mortar.
  • Pottery brick wall – 20 pottery bricks and 20 mortar.
  • Slate wall – 20 slate bricks and 20 mortar.
  • Rounded stone wall – 20 round stones and 20 mortar.
  • marble wall – 20 marble bricks and 20 mortar.

• NEW PAVEMENT TYPES:
  • Sandstone slab pavement.
  • Sandstone brick pavement.
  • Slate slab pavement.
  • Slate brick pavement (existing slate slab pavement will become slate brick pavement).
  • Marble brick pavement.
  • Pottery brick pavement.

• NEW FENCE TYPES:
  • Pottery brick fence.
  • Pottery brick iron fence.
  • Pottery brick iron fence gate.
  • Sandstone fence.
  • Sandstone iron fence.
  • Sandstone iron fence gate.
  • Marble fence.
  • Marble iron fence.
  • Marble iron fence gate.
  • Rendered fence.
  • Rendered iron fence.
  • Rendered iron fence gate.
  • Slate fence.
  • Slate iron fence.
  • Slate iron fence gate.
  • Round stone fence.
  • Round stone iron fence.
  • Round stone iron fence gate.

Siege weapon changes:

• CATAPULTS AND TREBUCHETS:
  • New algorithm now used for Catapults/Trebuchet projectiles that properly takes into account starting power, gravity and firing angle of the siege weapon:
  • Starting power determined by number of winches for catapult, and loaded amount for trebuchet – power directly relates to starting velocity (so 20 winches is 20m/s).
  • Arc of the projectile is checked along it for any walls, floors, bridges or fences it hits, otherwise it will travel the full arc until it hits the ground.
  • Anything within a small radius of the landing position will take damage, radius depends on the size of the thrown projectile.
  • Weight, quality, and final velocity of the projectile all add into how much damage it deals to the things it lands on – metal and stone projectiles do the most damage.
  • Projectiles still have a maximum of 20 damage per shot.
  • Added new actions to catapults and trebuchets to allow changing of the firing angle.
  • Firing angle defaults to 45 degrees, can be changed to be between 5 and 85 degrees.
  • Added messages when winching and changing the firing angle of a catapult or trebuchet that will give an approximate firing distance of the projectile.
  • Action time for winching now takes skill into account, will be 33% faster at 100 skill.
  • Projectile landing messages now give a full breakdown of everything they hit, and how many of each thing – as well as naming which structure(s) received damage.

• BATTERING RAMS ADDED:
  • Minimum 21 body strength to use it.
  • Uses the War Machines skill for skill checks – action time is 33% faster at 100 skill with a base timer of 30 seconds.
  • Checks a short area in front of the ram for anything to hit, first thing it hits will take damage. Area should be closely lined up with the model.
  • Can only be used by one person at any time, user must be quite close to be able to use it.
  • Damage dealt increased by the ram quality and the skill check result.
  • Ram does double damage to walls underground.
  • Citizen or ally with destroy wall permissions will deal bonus damage.
  • Cannot be used on steep slopes.

• ARCHERY TOWER AND MAGIC TURRET CHANGES:
  • Turrets and archery towers now have increased range based on their quality – up to 5x their base range at 100ql.
  • Turrets and archery towers will now shoot faster based on quality – up to 33% faster at 100ql.
  • Turrets that fail to fire anything when they have a chance to will now do a firing animation without sending out a projectile.
  • Changed the projectile starting positions of turrets and archery towers to line up with their models – This should allow them to fire from anywhere they have proper line of sight to a target.

• Added a 3x bonus to damage when bashing arched walls manually.

Bug Fixes

• Bug fix: Fix for negative quality rift resources as participation reward.
• Bug fix: Fix to prevent most uniques from spawning inside a deed.
• New dragon types use a different spawn mechanic and may still spawn in a village.
• Bug fix: Christmas trees and snowmen were removed from the mission items lists.
• Bug fix: Fix for offline tamed/charmed pets sometimes not logging back online with their owner.
• Bug fix: Addressed a few spelling and text errors.
• Bug fix: Hot stills can now be picked up from the ground if empty.
• Bug fix: You can now properly use the /join village command even if the village which recruited you
• has more than one word in its name.
• Bug fix: Some recipe fixes:
  • Eggnog can no longer use itself to make more eggnog.
  • Sausage skins can no longer be nested inside each other.
• Bug fix: Improved checks to allow pushing items from a house floor onto a bridge and from a bridge
• onto a house floor.
• Bug fix: Improved bridge checks, if a bridge is destroyed or decays, planted items on that bridge
• should no longer give the error message ‘You need to be on the same bridge’ when interacting with
• them.
• Bug fix: Addressed infrequent issue in which roof and floor damage exceeded 100.
• Bug fix: Fixed dual faith issues between Chaos and Freedom PvE servers.
• Leaving Libila on Chaos and joining no other deity will now properly set you to no deity when
• crossing back to Freedom servers.
• Bug fix: Deity colossi can now be destroyed by owner and/or mayor on a deed.

Trebuchet and catapult changes

• Weight and ql of ammo add more damage, though damage is still capped at 20
• Distance traveled adds more damage
• Stone and metal projectiles are best
• Angle of fire can be set between 5 degrees and 85 degrees, affecting not only how far the projectile goes, but also how high it can go over walls and obstacles.
• Skill check now occurs when firing, it now takes into account catapult ql and skill to determine if you get the right firing angle, failing the skill check will alter the angle of fire.
• Winches affect initial power, which in turn with angle determines distance travelled
• Added approximate distance messages when winching. Distance calculation is made on the assumption of firing across flat ground, so it’s not going to be exact depending on where you’re firing, but it should be pretty close. (Unless you’re firing off the side of a cliff, or into the side of a cliff, in which case it’ll be pretty far off.)
• Added test messages to the winching message showing the current power and firing angle of the catapult.
• Added two new actions for increasing and reducing the firing angle of catapults. They should be defaulting to 45 degrees, and can be changed to a max of 85 degrees and a min of 5 degrees. Each action changes the degrees by 5, and takes a few seconds depending on your skill.
• Changed action time for winching to take your skill into account instead of a flat 1s per winch. At 100 skill the winch speed should be 33% faster. At 1 skill it is the same as previously, 1s/winch.
• Changed the “it sounds like X hit Y” messages on projectiles landing. Will now give a breakdown if each type of thing hit and how many of them were hit.

Turrets and archery towers

• Turrets and archery towers will now have their range increased based on their QL. Base ranges are the same of 3 tiles for turret and 5 tiles for archery tower, then increase up to 5x that range at 100ql.
• How often turrets and archery tower can shoot is now modified by the QL as well, up to 33% faster at 100ql.
• When a turret has a chance to fire but fails, it will now do an animation without firing any projectiles.
• Changed the projectile checks for turrets and archery towers to use their proper height, instead of checking near the ground.
  • This means they should be able to shoot over walls etc if they are high enough – they just need direct line of sight between their firing position (near the ball for the turret, top of the tower for archery tower) and their target. Will need some testing.

Battering rams

• Damage dealt will need to be balanced pending discussion.
• Min 21 body strength needed to use it.
• Uses the War Machines skill – skill effects time to use and a skillcheck modifies the final damage. Base 30 second timer, 33% faster at 100 skill.
• Failed skillcheck results in no damage done. Difficulty is based on the wall’s current quality (i.e. QL – damage (or there abouts)), so the first hits will be lower damage and harder, later hits will get easier and deal more damage.
• Only hits the first thing it comes across in front of it, and it needs to be pretty close to touching the thing you want to ram.
• Player using it has to be pretty close to the ram to be able to use it, and only one person can use it at a time.
• Dragging a ram should be a bit slower than dragging other things (e.g. a catapult).
• Damage to the wall is modified by skillcheck result (as said above) and the QL of the ram.
• Double damage is dealt when used underground.
• Does not work against mine doors.
• Exact values are up for discussion after some testing is done.

As usual, testing feedback can be left here:

http://forum.wurmonline.com/index.php?/topic/152397-catapult-and-trebuchet-testing/

Today Xanadu encountered a technical fault that cased it to crash. While we are fairly certain no items or skills were lost, player and creature positions may have rolled back slightly. We apologise for the inconvenience, and will announce any possible compensation when we can ensure that no further losses have occurred.

There is currently an issue which can cause effects such as stun, etc to not wear off. We are aware of the issue and are in the process of implementing a hotfix.

Until this hotfix please refrain from entering combat on both PvP and PvE servers.

A full PvP ban is also in place until this issue is confirmed resolved.
A public list of what directives are in effect can be found here.
http://forum.wurmonline.com/index.php?/topic/137025-pvpraid-ban-directives/

PvP ban resolved