Tag: Wurm Online

Despite the fact that a lot of my posts talk about me creating my deed in Wurm Online – that’s actually my least favorite thing to do. I would prefer to purchase a full deed already built, which is what I did when I first obtained Thorin’s Bay. There was very little work that needed to be done. Since this time I was starting over completely from scratch (literally, no tools or armor or anything until Yetian donated some) I had no choice but to build Mystic Cove from the ground up. Now that the village is up and running I’m enjoying myself 100x more than I was before, which is a huge amount since I was enjoying myself while building the village too. That’s just how smitten I am with Wurm Online. Anyhow.

What else is there to do if you’re not working on your deed? Well. There’s a LOT of things. Some of my favorite things to do include alchemy (making healing covers, and dye), animal husbandry (taking care of animals, grooming them, breeding them), working on a skill like weaponsmithing, leather working, chain armor, or cloth. Creating bows, or arrows. Exploring and pillaging old lands that have since been abandoned. Building ships. Working on hot food cooking – and under that same category, making wine. Farming. Fishing. Working on my meditation skill.  That doesn’t even include the ‘basic’ skills that people tend to work on (especially to sell in bulk) like mining, making bricks, digging, making planks, etc.

There’s always a LOT to do in Wurm, and it really depends on what you enjoy doing. If you don’t enjoy building your own village then don’t do it! That’s the fastest way to get annoyed at the game. Later this week I’ll be posting a few “what the tutorial doesn’t tell you” posts, so look for those in a few days time.

Meanwhile, I’ll be working my weaponsmithing. Slow. That’s the word that best describes this skill, lol. It’s perfect to do while multi tasking though and watching shows on Netflix or writing a blog post and working on NaNoWriMo.

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

A week back in Wurm Online, and Mystic Cove is coming along nicely. The digging has been completed, which took the majority of the week to do. The dirt from the hills Moumix and myself have cleared was used to fill in the waterfront and square it off. The land used to have rows jutting out for people to try to park between but they were really difficult to navigate and I more often than not found myself parking the boat up on land, through a fence. Now that it’s squared off, parking is much easier. There’s also a lot more usable land, having covered a good portion of water.

That’s one of the (many) things I love about Wurm online. You very literally change and adjust the layout of the land. You can build mountains or take them down. You can create islands (so long as you have the dirt), tunnels, caves, anything in your imagination.

The kitchen was completed out of wood. The public shrine building will be stone, which is my project for today. The workshop is also stone, and my villa is wood (which I should also be able to complete today). Working on one deed for so long can make you a bit stir crazy, so I’ve taken some trips exploring old lands, to see how they’ve held up since I’ve been gone. Sadly Arkenor’s place is no more, but I did salvage a few items from where his buildings once stood.

I also read today about the December “Impalong” which is a player run event on the Independence server. I’m going to try my hardest to attend, it runs from December 19th until January 2nd, and there are some very amazing prizes being given away. It will also be the final time that the event is hosted by Willow, who is an amazing person.

I’m still sorting through my progress pictures, but I am going to have an album organized fairly soon. It feels very good to be back in game, even if it’s not the most popular game out there. Wurm has always felt like home.

Happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!

Progress pictures of Mystic Cove, my new deed in Wurm Online. It used to be the old location of ‘Thorin’s Bay’ but the previous owner was unable to keep the land (they own another place on another server) so they took all of the buildings down and disbanded. When I came across it there were locked gates everywhere so I couldn’t get INTO the area, but I did manage to set up a deed outside, which unlocks the gates.

What me and a friend have been doing is slowly leveling the massive hill (seen in the screen shots) and taking the dirt from that hill to expand the waterfront. The area with the boat in the shot all used to be water. In fact everything from the wooden door on the right hand side to the path on the left hand side, was water. We’ve extended the land quite a bit.

Looking forward to all the teraforming being completed so we can move on to building the actual village. Then I can get to things like crafting gear, weapons, breeding animals, working on a farm, cooking, etc. For now it’s just a lot of chopping, digging, bashing down old walls, and placing dirt.

This weekend Sincor organized a mass casting of ‘Rite of Spring‘ ‘Holy Crop‘ and ‘Ritual of the Sun‘ on the Deliverance server. Each of these spells belongs to one of the three Freedom Gods, and requires 300 favor to cast which means a lot of linking. I was only too eager to help out in any way that I could and so I volunteered a priest of each deity, and helped out with a few gems.

One of the major benefits to casting these spells is that the players online who are followers / priests of that deity will gain 5h of sleep bonus when the spell goes off. The downside to this is that too many people want the sleep bonus but don’t want to help out with the cast. I was sad to see that a few of the ‘old timers’ were unwilling to come to Green Dog to help with the cast, giving some pretty feeble excuses. All community events like this only work if they have the help of the community behind it.

For those who did come out, I was thankful, and had fun. It was nice to see parts of the community come together to help benefit the entire server, although it did not help that the following day the servers all went down numerous times so everyone (online or not) was granted 5h of sleep bonus. Some players even went so far as to complain that they already had 5h sleep bonus so they didn’t personally benefit from the 5h that was granted from server issues. Really? We are so selfish that we have to complain when others benefit from something that we already have? Honestly, it just made my head hurt.

There are a few other community events scheduled for this summer, including a summer festival of sorts on the Independence server which I am looking forward to attending. There will be games and prizes given out as well as priests casting and other good things. I love these player run events, and I think they really add character to a game – as long as they can be managed well. It’s only too easy for one person to spoil it for a group and for arguments to follow. Thankfully we don’t see too much of that.

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

I spent most of my time this weekend on the Isle of Dawn in Vanguard, trying to reach 10/10/10 before leaving. So far I’ve reached 10 adventuring, and 10 diplomacy, now all that’s left is 10 crafting and then I can leave and explore the rest of Telon. Getting this far has taken approx. 15 hours so far, which is quite long considering I know the Isle of Dawn very well (this isn’t the first time I’ve passed through).

The psionicist is a great class and one I’ve enjoyed playing no matter what game I happen to be in. When players were able to buy and sell characters I actually purchased a level 50 psionicist, and then sold it for a profit. I wish now that I had of kept the character, but I suppose it’s probably better to level up one of my own.

The shaman I’ve been leveling up with Hampooj reached level 39 before the weekend began. Only a short hop jump and skip away until we’re both level 40, and then maybe one day, 55. Figuring out where to adventure has been an adventure all in itself. We’ve spent the past two levels at Dragon’s Backbone, which is a quest area I’ve never been to before. I love that there are still places on Telon I’ve never been to, after playing since beta. Most of the quests rewarded coin and not gear which is becoming a bit of an issue, but so far we’re managing.

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