Tag: Wurm Online

A fierce unicorn has made her way into my ‘collection’ – the pretty pink creature posted above. Can you spot her hiding in the shrubs? I attempted to charm her on my own but she gave me a really hard time, taking me down to 1% health. No doubt it was some sort of communication error, she probably didn’t know just how lovely my deed is, or how many other unicorns romp around the pen. Thankfully my neighbour Soleca was around to help me out. He ended up tanking the creature for me long enough so that I could cast charm and lead her home.

While a lot of people complain about their neighbours in WurmOnline, I’ve had nothing but good things to say about the majority of mine. In fact I’m in an alliance with most of them and we spend a lot of time talking. It seems that almost all issues can be resolved with some friendly communication, and some times it’s just a matter of the neighbour being too young, or not speaking much english that causes the issues to begin with. A little patience goes a long way.

Last night I was heading over to Darkpaw Bay and Moumix came along for the ride (he owns the deed next to mine). We spotted someone attacking a troll (much stronger than any of my own characters) so we helped. When the mighty troll fell we were both granted titles! It’s my first ‘official’ title on Stargrace, aside from Community Assistant. Arysh already has a title from her faith in Fo, but Stargrace is a bit behind. It will be quite some time before I can ever handle a troll on my own so I was thankful for the opportunity.

Two of the changes from yesterdays patch notes require a bit of a blurb here in today’s post. First of all, the ability to pick up empty bsb and fsb containers is amazing. Of course it did also entice everyone on server to run out and collect all of the off-deed containers that were laying around, but I don’t see that as a bad thing. You can’t put the containers in a boat, nor in a cart, but you can carry them on your person (and your person can ride a cart, for example).

Getting rid of scrap metals (directly into lumps) was a mixed blessing. On one hand it sounds nice not to have to cool down scraps so that you can re-melt them into lumps but they’re also a bit broken at the moment and some metals are not returning low quality lumps at all. On that same note any time a change like this is implemented it causes me a bit of concern because I do not want the game any ‘easier’ than it already is (it’s not an easy game, I’m just saying I don’t want it to change too much). Over all I’m pleased with the changes, and I just hope the glitch with the lumps gets solved soon.

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

Dye is a wonderful thing. You can’t use it on everything in game, but you can add just enough colour to give things a personal feel. Arkenor made some olive dye and passed it to me, and I promptly used it on some furniture. Doesn’t it look great?!

Things in-game have been going well. I applied (and was accepted) as a CA. That’s a Community Assistant for those curious. It means that when people have questions in the CA channel, I’ll do my best to answer them. I’ll try to help out new (and veteran) players as much as possible. It’s a ‘job’ that I’ve been looking forward to doing, and have done off and on as I’ve played these last few months anyhow. Just in a more ‘official’ role. I’m hoping (eventually) to move up to CM, and help out with moderation.

What have I been up to? Well. Since I was having issues with griefers, I decided to deed that mountain top residence that I had created. I took down the old wooden shack (1×1) and built myself a 1×3 stone house. Stone houses are much more sturdy, although since I’m deeded it shouldn’t decay anyhow (as long as you have 2 months of upkeep paid). With my new ‘home away from home’ secured, I decided it was time to work on a few skills. I’ve been trying to get my Fo priest to 21 body control, that’s the base amount you need to ride a horse. Last night, after three months, I FINALLY got there! See, as a priest you’re restricted by what you can do, so while archery is a great method for raising the skill, it’s not something most priests can do (there are exceptions, Mag and Lib priests are able to use bows). Priests also can’t improve items, which is another great way to raise body control! So I was limited to doing tailoring, rope, and the best method I found (thanks to the suggestion of Arkenor) was combat. I traveled around Darkpaw Bay looking for unsuspecting creatures like wolves, mountain lions, and wild cats. I even managed to find a few cave bugs at the neighbours place. I still can’t quite handle a spider.

Of course as soon as I hit 21 body control I climbed up onto the first horse in my pen and ran around cackling like a crazy woman. It was a blast! Much faster than riding around on a cart, perfect for my quick trips to the mountains.

Now I need to get Stargrace to the same level. Hopefully it doesn’t take another three months.

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

While I love going on about how much I adore WurmOnline (and in fact I’ve started a 3rd account) there’s one aspect to this giant sandbox that bothers me to no end, and that is the fact that when something goes wrong, it is incredibly difficult to get any help in the matter. I don’t mean wrong like an account issue or like a glitch in game, I mean wrong like someone comes along, abuses a bug or casts a spell or bashes an undeeded portion of land and breaks down a door, steals horses and a cart, drags them back up to their own deed, and there’s not a lick that anyone else can do about it. The general response to any of this is “deed your valuables” – that’s the problem, these horses were on the perimeter, which does not technically count as on-deed. Even though breaking down enclosures is technically against the rules, and even though many logs with combined evidence were given, it still comes down to ‘the gate decayed, keep your items on-deed.’

This infuriates me. I do not appreciate thieves, especially when there are specific servers where these acts can be performed without breaking any rules (ie: there are pvp servers, go grief there). Taking the time to steal from someone on a pve server is just acting like a troll, picking on people who can not fight back.

“Griefing” also lends itself quite well to wurm, because players are allowed to build enclosures in the wild and technically those enclosures SHOULD be safe. However the server does not reinforce this and so if someone wants to come along and bash open your walls and take all your items they’re more than welcome to. Unless you go and get GMs involved (who will quite often tell you the item in question has decayed and then do nothing) there’s not a lot you can do.

That is just a part of the game and as a player you’re expected to learn this and just deal with it. It’s one of the few parts I do not enjoy in the least bit. It’s also why I now own a third deed, to protect my mountain escape from vandals. Remember, if you care about it, deed it (and lock it).

It is 01:32:57 on day of the Ant in week 3 of the Raven’s starfall in the year of 1021.

Things were a little rough today. I was visited by a wanderer who mentioned that my walls were not strong, and that because I had settled in the wild, they could easily be removed and all of my things taken. I didn’t appreciate the comments but I did spend some time reinforcing the small property. I was happily given another bull from someone near by and this makes my trips to gather clay and peat much easier. Since burning peat is a much easier on resources than burning wood scraps, that’s what I’ve been up to.

I also spent some time in the mines, hammering silver from the walls. I haven’t collected much yet, but I’m getting there. Soon it will time to smelt what I’ve collected, and hammer it into bowls.

First thing in the mornings I wander out with my young hardened dog to clear the mountain top of wild cats and mountain lions. I spotted a large spider in the distance, I don’t want to mess with those quite yet. The creatures can still hurt me since I’m without any armor (aside from a leather glove I picked up along my travels) but perhaps in time I’ll find better.

It’s peaceful up here and I enjoy it so much. I know it won’t always be this way. Before long others will come, paving the green grass, and cutting down the trees to make room for whatever their hearts fancy. When that happens I’ll move on. Until then, this is my  little slice of paradise.