Change: Drinking champagne on PvP servers now takes 30 seconds, and cannot be drank while in combat.
Bugfix: Fixed an issue where a player would get stuck in an infinite world loading state (“Refreshing…”) in areas extremely populated with items and creatures, upon logging in or walking on certain tiles.
Bugfix: Fixed an issue with floors/ceilings not saving when changed, their rotation should no longer revert after a restart.
Patch Notes 23-December-2024
Server Changelog
Bugfix: Reindeer should no longer spawn inside villages
Bugfix: Hanging star lamps no longer lose quality when lit, and are fueled using candles (like candelabras)
Bugfix: Christmas reindeer will no longer despawn with players nearby, except when retrieved by Santa
Bugfix: Possible fix for a rare issue where Santa failed to give a gift after completing the mission
Please note that reindeer spawned for the event aren’t regular animals and will disappear after the event.
New: Title has been added for 100 skill in Long Spear. Congrats Subie!
New: Title has been added for 100 skill in Large Axe. Congrats Rocklobster!
Change: Traps no longer get destroyed instantly and instead take damage now when their setup action fails.
Change: Lava adjustments
Lava tiles no longer damage fences or walls.
The Erupt and Freeze meditation abilities have had their permission checks fixed and tweaked. Now, they exclusively and consistently check the “Use Meditation Abilities” permission, and always check the village of the tile being changed and not the tile the player is standing on. Additionally, on PVE servers only, these permissions are also checked in the village perimeter.
Bugfix: Chandeliers can now only be placed on completed ceilings.
Bugfix: Items placed on ceilings should properly drop to the ground when the ceiling (or floor and ceiling) is destroyed.
Bugfix: Fixed some decorations erroneously decaying on deed. This includes open fireplaces, chicken coops, and archery towers.
Bugfix: Fixed a bug which sometimes caused the server to send large numbers of nonexistent resource nodes for tiles beyond the southern and eastern borders of the map.
Bugfix: You can no longer use an epic portal to return to Freedom from an enemy server.
Bugfix: Using an epic portal to return to an enemy server from Freedom should now auto-forward you to your kingdoms portal on Elevation instead of not letting you return at all.
Bugfix: Fixed several issues with new Harvest action when Wishing Tree is harvested
Harvesting from a Wishing Tree now properly requires the holy site to be active instead of inactive.
Cleaned up and corrected some text when harvesting from a Wishing Tree holy site.
Client Changelog
Bugfix: Fixed rotation of placed items on a ceiling not matching the preview.
Christmas Event 2024
Oops!
After the Great Santa Factory Mishap of 2023, yet another disaster has fallen on Santa’s complex on the North Pole!
Polar trolls have bashed into the stables, and almost all of Santa’s reindeers have escaped! He needs help tracking them down to make sure all of this year’s gifts get delivered!
This year’s Christmas event runs from December 21st, 12:00 CET (noon) until January 11th, 12:00.
You can now find tiny bells through foraging, botanizing, chopping down trees, digging and mining. A tiny bell can be combined with any vegetable to create reindeer food - you need to feed it to one of reindeers found all over the world of Wurm to help Santa find and recover it. Tiny bells can also be hung from walls as decorations.
You can track your progress through missions, divided into three stages:
Recover 2 reindeer - Santa will reward you with a star lamp, a new decorative item that can be hung from a ceiling
Recover 5 more reindeer - get a figurine of Santa
Repeating missions that require you to recover an increasing amount of reindeer, granting you one of the new or old Christmas gifts
You can also find four new wooden snowflake decorations through archaeology. The snowflakes can be hung from ceilings.
Gears, valves and pipes that were part of last year’s event, have also been added to archaeology.
Like last year, we’ll be running a 10% skillgain and affinity bonus through the entire event.
Happy Holidays from the Wurm Online team!
Patch Notes 03-December-2024
Server Changelog
New: New title has been added for 100 skill in Medium Maul. Congrats Emoo!
Change: Squared wood ceilings will now take their material from the last shingle added instead of the last beam.
Bugfix: Ceiling placed chandeliers should now properly show their metal material colour.
Bugfix: Fixed ceiling rotation on stairs not always matching.
Bugfix: Fixed an issue with ceiling related actions not showing under roofs at certain locations.
Bugfix: Cornucopia should now properly spawn items when placed on other items (tables, etc).
Patch Notes 28-November-2024
Server Changelog
New: Ceilings have been added to the game and can be attached to built roofs and floors using a hammer or trowel. There are 5 ceiling types:
Wood
Rendered wood
Squared wood
Rustic wood
Pottery brick
New: Chandelier item has been added. It can be hanged from ceilings and can be crafted using the Blacksmithing skill.
New: Title has been added for 100 skill in Nature. Congrats Sgtscum!
New: Added monthly skin for November 2024 – Hell Horse Rider Statuette.
Change: Lights that use candles will now act like other street lamps in regards to fuel usage, refueling from villages, and auto-snuffing/lighting. They still need candles to light up first.
Bugfix: Fixed a misspelling in the wagoner management window.
Bugfix: Fixed a case where portals via Chaos to other server could set your Chaos kingdom incorrectly.
Bugfix: You are no longer able to plant reed seeds on a tile that already has reeds planted
Bugfix: Fixed a problem where vehicles and mounted creatures would frequently stop when moving on flat tiles at their exact minimum or maximum water depth. This frequently occurred with horses being ridden on flat tiles at the maximum depth a player can dig with a shovel. Vehicles and mounts should now move more smoothly under these circumstances.
Bugfix: Fixed cave ceilings to open the correct Wurmpedia page
Bugfix: Fixed wagoners loading a second, conflicting hair model under certain circumstances.
Client Changelog
Change: Shadow rendering on modern renderer has been optimized to use less GPU power and memory
Change: Volumetric fog rendering has also been optimized to not use as many resources
Change: Shadows are now softer but have more detail in distance
Change: Shadow map quality setting now has fewer options, as the optimizations have made some of them redundant
Bugfix: Fixed fence gates not casting shadows
Black Friday 2024
We are running a Black Friday sale this year again!
From November 28th 23:59 CET until December 2nd 18:00 CET, all premium time and silver coin offers on our web shop and Steam shop are 30% off!
Like last year, this time we’ve also worked to add some attractive offers to the in-game silver shop.
From November 28th 23:59 CET until December 9th 6:00 CET, the following is available in the silver shop:
A rerun of 15 most popular skins, available for 5 silver coins each
Multiple permanent new skin offers will be available, at a discounted price during the sale - including a chandelier skin
Various discounts on many other items, including sleep powder
Cornucopia - a new item redeemable for free for any player with an active premium account (claimable until December 16th 6:00 CET)
The Cornucopia will randomly generate small food items that you can take out of it
The sale start-off post on Thursday will contain more details as well as pictures of the new skins.
In case you missed it, we also posted a new development update post here: https://forum.wurmonline.com/index.php?/topic/204786-wurm-development-update-fall-2024/
Patch Notes 12-November-2024
Client Changelog
Bugfix: Fixed brightness setting not always affecting the entire screen when using legacy renderer.
Bugfix: Fixed a rare issue where many of the UI windows containing check boxes would have their layout broken.
Bugfix: Player list and action queue will no longer be removed from the Event tab on server transfers or reconnecting.
Bugfix: Quick bar slots will now save correctly, fixing the issue where slots with items reverted back to buttons.
Server Changelog
New: Added mine door permissions to role management settings on deeds.
Change: Improvements to messages
Drop/Take messages that involve multiple items are now always condensed to single lines in most cases.
Cooked foods now use their actual names, fixing problems such as pancakes being called "omelettes" under certain circumstances.
Many drop/take messages have been made more clear and now list the items they refer to. For example, dropping dirt or sand to raise the ground now produces a different message than if you drop it to a pile.
When placing an item puts it in your inventory first, the standard "You get" message from taking the item is now sent, to make it clear you have picked up the item.
Formatting of these messages has had its grammar improved slightly, and has been made much more consistent in general.
Bugfix: The "2g" and "5g" volume options for measuring jugs and measuring flasks are now available again.
Bugfix: Fixed various issues when making floats from moss. Some messages have been corrected for grammar, the action now aborts if you have no space in your inventory or the moss is too light, and it will now use the correct amount of moss in all cases.
Bugfix: Fixed an issue with some items popping out of their containers when leaving Guidance.
Bugfix: Fixed an issue causing newly created torch lamps to be called "medium torch lamps" and renamed any offending items.
Bugfix: Fixed meditation sometimes considering a position "too wet" when at the exact minimum height required.
Bugfix: Fixed being unable to build a wooden parapet under an arched wall.
Bugfix: Fixed issues with Halloween 2024 items
The new 2024 Halloween items (figurine of Grimbleat, arachnid necklace, and goat head necklace) can now be improved using Jewelry Smithing skill.
References to silver have been removed from the descriptions of the figurine of Grimbleat and goat head necklace, since they are sometimes made of other metals.
Bugfix: Fixed issues with lockable containers
Pavilions no longer show "Open" and "Close" in the right-click menu, since they are not containers.
Crude canoes now show lock-related actions in the right-click menu properly.
Bugfix: Fixed a rare issue with some characters loading wrong data and getting stuck on portal usage.
Halloween Event 2024
The witching hour is upon us again!
Hircine smells have spread through the world of Wurm, and the bearded spirits (some evil, some less) have taken residence at your homes and smithies.
Some say that a knock on the door, an odd custom from a distant realm, is just what the ghosts are waiting for to reveal themselves...
The Halloween event starts on October 27th 2024 (00:00 CEST) and lasts until November 5th 2024 (23:59 CET).
This event features:
20% skill gain rate bonus
20% affinity gain rate bonus
New Halloween specific activity and rewards
Rewards from previous Halloween events available through hunting and archaeology
Discounts on sleep powder packages in the shop
You can find three new items as rewards for the event:
Figurine of Grimbleat - A silver figurine portraying a frightful goat demon.
Arachnid Necklace - A spooky necklace in the shape of an eight-legged horror.
Goat Head Necklace - A gleaming necklace featuring a sturdy goat head. It is made of cast silver.
You can now knock on doors to get ghosts to appear - most of them are peaceful enough, but defeating the aggressive ones will give you the desired rewards.
The structure you knocked on gets a 24 hour cooldown until you can summon the ghost again (other players can still do it), and you cannot knock on your own structures, so you may need to travel around to find the haunted structures.
You will also be able to get the new items as fragments by doing archaeology during the event, and as usual, you can still get fragments for old items, as well as gain some old event rewards by hunting creatures.
Below is a list of other items that you can find during this event:
"Skjaldi the Scarecrow" (archeology item)
"Autumn wreath" (archeology item)
"Black-winged shoulderpads" (creature drop)
"Sigvard the Skeleton" (archeology item)
"Flaming skull candle" (archeology item)
"Pet bat cage" (archeology item)
"Statue of Pumpkin Terror" (archeology item)
"Pumpkin shoulder pad" (creature drop)
"Troll mask" (creature drop)
"Skull mask" (creature drop)
"Deception mask" (creature drop)
"Plague mask" (creature drop)
"Faceless mask" (creature drop)
"Minion mask" (creature drop)
"Witch hat" (creature drop)
"Black bear helm" (creature drop)
At the same time, we’ll be running a sale on sleep powder in the in-game silver shop, so that you can take full advantage of the bonus skill gain event.
We'll be updating the game today, in a few hours, with a short downtime to implement this event. However the event itself will begin only on October 27th.
Happy Halloween from the Wurm Online team!
Small bit of unrelated news: Monthly skin reruns will also make a return to the shop on November 1st, with two skins showing up in the shop each month, instead of only one like before.
Patch Notes 15-October-2024
Client Changelog
Change: The modern renderer is now available on MacOS.
Change: The action queue will now display minutes and seconds for long actions instead of just total seconds.
Change: Moved the emote list popup to a more convenient location, below the Emotes button.
Change: Various changes to the journal window
You can now redeem adventure rewards (previously journal rewards) with a button below the listed adventure’s rewards.
Added a warning popup when redeeming rewards about some of the rewards not transferring to other servers after claiming them.
Active quest stage will now be highlighted with a different text colour.
Quest goals that are no longer needed to complete the quest stage will now be greyed out and have the checkbox removed to indicate they’re no longer relevant.
Journal window will now scale down properly on small game windows.
Journal window will now properly show in the center of the screen when first opened.
Bugfix: Fixed firepillar effect not changing tile type to lava on the new terrain renderer.
Bugfix: Fixed the black mesh appearing randomly over terrain after traveling for some distance.
Bugfix: Blood hit effect should no longer show on the screen randomly without actually taking damage.
Bugfix: Swimming in caves should no longer force switch to first person camera
Bugfix: Swap mouse buttons setting should work properly again. (To swap actions performed by left and right mouse buttons.)
Bugfix: Camera fixes
Fixed the camera jittering up and down randomly.
Fixed the player character jumping up for a frame randomly.
Fixed player shadows flickering.
Server Changelog
Change: Kingdom regalia item changes
All new kingdom regalia items will now have exactly 90 QL.
All existing kingdom regalia items below 90 QL are now set to exactly 90 QL.
All existing kingdom regalia items above 90 QL will retain their original QL.
Bugfix: Fixed the new Flatten and Level actions not properly triggering achievements or Journal goals when the action only requires adjusting the ground a single time.
Bugfix: Fixed the new Flatten and Level actions sometimes trying to achieve the wrong target height when some or all of the terrain involved is underwater.
You can now knock on doors to get ghosts to appear - most of them are peaceful enough, but defeating the aggressive ones will give you the desired rewards.