Category: Gaming

Days like yesterday make me wish we had a 3rd person view for Wurm Online. Let me paint the scene for you.

I’ve recently started playing with an alt on Pristine, the latest server to open. It’s not attached to the Freedom cluster even though it is a Freedom server, to give players that “new” player feel. Without me getting into the whole “us vs. them” debate, I will say that it’s been interesting.

Being a new server means there’s no rope to lead animals, so people are frantically growing wemp and cotton. Leather is pretty easy to come by. Not being able to collect animals via rope has been really nice. I did remember something yesterday though. You don’t need rope to ride a cow and you need very little body control. Less than 20. So I grabbed a pile of strawberry seeds and headed out into the wild to find a cow to bring home. See the problem with no rope means you can’t lead animals into pens. You can build the pens around them but animals won’t walk through buildings or fences with the “go here” command. I learned that the hard way with a few chickens of mine.

Found a cow. Tamed it. And started riding it! Yeeha! Now cows move VERY slowly, but my purpose wasn’t to actually ride it for speed so much as just ride it into a pen of mine.

Then the spider saw me.

So there I was, no armor, riding a cow up a very steep mountain side to get to my deed (on the other side of said mountain) WITH a giant spider chasing me. It was an epic moment. Which brings me back to the point about how I wish there was 3rd person view.

I now have two happy cows grazing in my pens. They’ll probably mash down all the wemp I’ve started, knowing my luck.

Before – my kitchen

After 1.0 update with new floors and a wooden shingle roof

Before 1.0 – the workshop

Brand new workshop after 1.0 with a new roof and new brick flooring.

Wurm Online is releasing 1.0 approximately 15 hours from the time of this post. That’s when the new server will be opening,  giving players an absolute new experience. A land with nothing built on it, no one arriving with tools or boats, no maps created.

I am both excited and nervous about it. I’m tempted to create a new character (only new characters can reach this server for the time being) to check out the server – but I have a well established home already set up on Deliverance and I was already tempted by Celebration when that server released. We all know how that ended up (I came back home, to Deliverance, after setting up not one but two deeds on Celebration). I think I’ll just keep cozy here on Deliverance and continue to do my thing. I love adventuring but my favorite sort doesn’t involve running unarmed through a lot of aggressive creatures. Instead I prefer to pick over fallen down ruins where people used to live, exploring whatever the land may tell as a story.

I’m looking forward to multi story. I’ve seen some really nice homes created on the test server and I have plans of a lighthouse for my dock. As long as I’m having fun it doesn’t matter what I spend my time doing, and I think 1.0 will add a lot of flavour to be explored. Keep in mind this is also the date for character models to be released, something we’ve been looking forward to for a long time now.

I hope those who have been putting off trying Wurm will give it a shot. I expect there to be many bugs upon release. Server instability and all the rest of the joys that come with a whole lot of changes hitting an MMO all at once.That’s part of the fun though!

As always, happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself.

I’ve always been a huge fan of player run events, no matter what game they happen to take place in, and for Wurm Online that means the Impalong. This years is going to be especially gigantic, not only is is the last year for Willow to be hosting it, but it also takes place after 1.0 goes live which means we’ll have armor graphics and multi story and “officially” be out of our 6 year open beta.

So what is an “impalong”? The name comes from ‘improve’ which is of course how you better all items in Wurm Online, you ‘imp’ them. There is a pretty detailed post about the event on the Wurm forums, which you can read here. The event takes place at Festival Cove, which is on the Independence server, just south (and slightly West) of The Howl, which is where new players on Independence first land.

You don’t need to be of high skill to participate in the event for prizes, and there are some very nice ones so far:

• 1 gold coin yes thats right a whole shiny gold coin!
• 95ql Drake Set    there will be some enchants on this set, but as of yet it is still being worked on
• 1 Settlement form    plus 10 silver to help you get started
• 7q pickaxe (102 coc) – thank you Eladia
• free pan filling   (10k  meals) everything supplied – thank you Ishy and Akan
• another 1g coin – Ruger will hold a contest to be decided later – thank you Ruger
• Boat – Thanks Ugora
• 2 cherrywood sailboats,  both are over 60 ql and will come with lock and anchor – Thank you Crutchly
• I will be donating a full set (minus greathelm) of enchanted 90ql scale.  AoSP from 83-93 across the set – Thank you Tam
• 5 freee forge imping – Thank you Raycg
• 91CoC 5QL butchering knife  – Thank you Blahsonson
• 2 rope tools of 26 and 23QL, both with 63CoC – Thank you again Blahsonson
• Brass Compass ql 82.60 – Thanks Raybarg
• super special prize alert* 1 newbie account comes with a full year premium already added
• Variety of high enchanted tools and weps for random daily shout out giveaways – c/o Tam again, thank you so much Tam, always my partner in crime.

I’ll be sailing down with some of my deed mates as we get closer to December 19th. The event runs from then until January 2nd, so there’s plenty of time for people to make their way.

Of course the more people who help out for this event, the better. I’ll be bringing two priests down with me to act as batteries / cast spells for those who need it, as well as Stargrace to help out where she can. Without the players behind this event, it would never happen.

If you play Wurm Online but you’ve never checked out this yearly event before, or you’re thinking of getting involved in Wurm and want to see what a player run event is like – this is your chance. Come help make this years the best ever.

As always, happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!