- More server lag optimization.
- New: Added a new chat tab – Non-English Help.
Intended just for game play questions and looking for group, we’ll monitor the chat and decide if it needs more changes.
Regular chat rules apply (other than the English only rule)
The Non-English Help chat tab can be enabled and disabled via an option in Profile settings. It should also auto-detect the local client’s language and use it to open the chat tab for certain languages as well. - Change/Bug Fix: Village guard limit on Defiance has been reduced to 5.
Any villages with more than 5 guards will have them removed and refunded the hiring cost to village upkeep shortly after the server comes back up. - Change: Default alliance permissions will now be the same as default non-citizen permissions
- Change: Re-added the ‘Disable cursor when UI is hidden” option to the new settings window.
- Bug Fix: Actually fixed blurry world maps on low graphical settings.
Wurm Online
Patch Notes: 01 August 2020
Patch Notes 30 July 2020
About Referrals.
In the past, first time purchases of premium gave players a referral. This referral allowed a player to nominate someone to receive 20 days premium time or 3 silver. When we reworked premium prices, we added the special first time premium packages and removed the referrals as we felt the cheaper prices gave better value than a referral.
By a mistake in our shop code, Steam-purchased first time offers gave players a referral and 2s extra to the actual offer.
While it was never intended, we see that inconsistent shop offers can be misleading and players can follow the word-of-mouth in deciding what to spend their money on - for that reason, shortly after the server restart today we are granting 20 days of premium + 2 silvers to all accounts that have not received the referral when the same Steam Store purchase offers gave it away. Those are accounts that have purchased the starter packages from our website in the time since the Steam release until now.
Referrals are with this update no longer given away for any shop offer, as per the original intention since the latest shop changes.
Patch Notes
- Fixed invisible inventory items.
- Marks Store on Defiance will be enabled back shortly after the update.
- Marks Store moonmetal lumps on the Northern Freedom Isles cluster have been temporarily disabled as they unbalanced the natural progression of the server.
- Fixed referrals still being granted for purchases - expect a WSA about the referral situation soon.
Patch Notes: 29 July 2020
- Server code was significantly optimized to reduce lag.
- Dirt in the tutorial area should now properly replenish.
- Lightning strikes will no longer deal damage to items on the ground.
- Trade chat should now be shared between Harmony and Melody.
- Marks Store is now re-enabled. Note: the imbue potions are currently removed from the gift packs on Northern Freedom Isles, and tomes cannot be purchased on Defiance.
- Fixed PvP portals giving sleep bonus (intended only for Epic portals)
- Fixed PvP portals sometimes breaking the character's ability to transfer through again when the first transfer failed.
Patch Notes: 28 July 2020
We've noticed some players missing customisation options and unable to create accounts, so today's minor update is to clarify player creation for steam and to address some issues within the tutorial.
- The play button will no longer break in certain situations.
- Steam character creation process is now explained in the launcher.
- Added a mention of the golden mirror to the tutorial (character customization)
- Fixed blurry server maps on low texture settings.
- Fixed a crash when setting certain keybinds through the in-game settings window.
Regards,
The Wurm Team
Patch Notes: 27 July 2020
Large optimizations to server lag:
We have identified multiple causes of the lag, including a major one for the freeze spikes visible at high player counts, and some minor general lag issues. We will continue to monitor and tweak the situation as necessary. - Change: Trade chat between Harmony and Melody should now be separate from the Southern Freedom Isles
- Bugfix: Tents can no longer be thrown
- Bugfix: Tents may now be placed in a village by a citizen of that village
- Bugfix: Fixed world portal incorrectly mentioning Melody as a test server
Patch Notes: 26 July 2020
We’ll be continuing to monitor the server and will keep you updated if we encounter any further issues!
- Improvements were made to the server code to optimize and mitigate lag significantly
- An issue with some characters not being able to transfer to/from Defiance should be resolved
- Relogging should no longer show winter visuals
- You can no longer gain skills during the tutorial
- Fight skill required to capture battlecamps on Defiance to 20
- Addressed multiple issues causing crashes
Melody is now live!
Accessed via a one-way portal at Harmony starter towns and the tutorial or by sailing across the southern border of Harmony, Melody is a new PvE server that is 8km x 8km.
NOTE: If you are coming from Haven, you may need to relaunch the game to update your client!
The server has an online user limit of 800 and hopefully will help share the load of new players and ease the lag of Harmony as well.
We'll continue to monitor both servers and hope you enjoy the game!
Introducing Melody (PvE)
Over this time, thousands of players have flooded in to explore the world of Wurm smashing our record with over 2000 concurrent users, and we're thrilled to see this!
While we have dealt with the login issues and addressed the majority of crashes and error messages and working on resolving a few more crashes as we go, this amount of players has led to some problems with Harmony encountering some lag.
To address this, we're announcing the launch of a second PvE server, Melody!
Melody is a smaller server, only 8kmx8km (64 sq km) but will be a new fresh piece of land to explore. It will be accessible from both the tutorial server and Harmony via one-way portal and able to be sailed to from the south coast.
We'll be launching this server within the next few hours, so hold on tight!
Launch issues update: New Tutorial server
With the anticipation of the launch, we spent time ensuring our servers could handle the load of players, and beefing up the player limits to guarantee that.
Unfortunately, the tutorial server also handles player transfers, logins, and other vital connections, which meant the attempts to log in were hitting the login server twice as hard as it had to handle more connections per person.
We set the limit very cautiously, and we know this was a large cause of frustration, but while doing so, we took the steps necessary to address this.
Thanks to the hard work of our server dev, we have split the tutorial from the existing login server to a new, dedicated tutorial server, called Haven.
This addition will mean faster logins and transfers, and the hardware for the tutorial server can focus on players going through the tutorial alone.
We'll be doing a more extensive review of this to share later, and thank you for your patience with this time!
As a means of apology, we will be extending the 30% skill gain and affinity gain chance by 2 days.
PvP notes:
- Grave stones no longer stack in piles with other items.
- Grave stones will now spawn inside mines when a player is killed there.
- Removed 20 fightskill requirment to repair towers.
Welcome to Wurm Online!
Wurm Online is a game of exploration and imagination, with a focus on true freedom in a sandbox environment.
Explore, terraform, craft and build your home, wherever you choose.
You begin your adventures on our tutorial server, Golden Valley.
Once completing the tutorial, you may choose a server to join. Harmony (PvE) and Defiance (PvP) are new; fresh start servers launched on the 24th of July 2020.
You may also choose to go to the Southern Freedom Isles, with a rich player history and established lands.
You can purchase silver via the Escape menu and find the wiki at https://wurmpedia.com
Your journey starts here.