May 2023

Wurm Online Streams

stargrace May 23, 2023 No Comments

I’ve been trying to get back into streaming for some time now, but I haven’t really felt enthralled with World of Warcraft, so I decided why not go back to my roots. I’ve been playing Wurm Online – what about streaming it. Last night was my first stream, and I had a ton of fun (though I did not get much accomplished). I travelled to the Northern part of Independence to work on my 83ql map, and found some pillage along the way.

I stream Mon/Fri/Sat from 7:30 EST to 9:30 and you can find me over on Twitch. If that’s not your thing or the time doesn’t work out for you, there’s always YouTube where I tend to upload my broadcasts after. I’d love to one day be able to do this full time, but we’ll just have to see. It has been ages since I’ve done any real streaming, and I’m pleased to see how Twitch has added alerts to their own dashboard so I don’t have to fiddle around with third party sites. That was always something that I seemed to struggle with, and this should make it easier for me.

I imagine I’ll continue to remain a ‘variety’ streamer for now, with some fiber arts thrown in there from time to time, and maybe some traditional art too. In any case, it’s certainly nice to be back.

The Second Stage of Capybara Assimilation

stargrace May 22, 2023 No Comments

Thanks to a very kind player who sent me TWO lavender pegs, and Moumix, I have my very first lavender sailboat – which I am planning on dying pink (over top of the already pink layer) and turquoise – to match my capybara sultana themed deed. I can’t wait to see how it all looks. I’ll post screenshots once I get it set up but in the meantime here’s the boat in comparison to the wood colour of other boats, against the backdrop of my docks on Independence.

Happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!

Cartography? Sure!

stargrace May 21, 2023 No Comments

Pictured above is my VERY rough cartography map of the little corner of Hermit Island that I live on. Because my cartography skill is VERY bad (we’re talking less than 5) it’s more a series of mashed up blobs and vague colours instead of anything that actually looks like my deed. The act of cartography is pretty neat, it reminds me a lot of smaller version treasure chest hunting. You follow some little glowing balls to a POI (point of interest) and mark things down with some dye. Eventually when you’ve completed the survey and imp’d it to as high as you’re willing to go, you can take it back to your map table and turn it into a map. You can also make copies of them and hang them up or keep them in an atlas. The skill itself doesn’t seem to lend very much to me as a player, but I’m always happy to have one more skill to work on to prevent burn out in a game that is INCREIDIBLY grindy.

Have you worked on cartography yourself? What’s the highest skill you have in it so far? Let me know in comments and as always, happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!

Tents make great bandages.. or do they?

stargrace May 20, 2023 No Comments

Today I decided to take some time to work on treasure maps. I bought a 95ql map off of my deed mate Moumix, and I was really excited about it. Probably more excited than I should have been given the RNG that is associated with treasure maps.

The problem is I forgot my tent after the first clue, and I forgot my cotton before leaving the house. My second clue was a nasty bunch of greenish, champion, even a deathcrawler. I had an alt mail me some cotton but my mailbox is still slow, 9 minutes to deliver. I needed to heal or I was going to die in the middle of no where with no tent. As luck would have it.. I did have a tent on me. It just didn’t belong to me, it belonged to Faralithe, my alt.

Wurm is funny in the way it works. If you have a cloth item, you can use it as a bandage. Tents are cloth. Therefor, tents are bandages.

It worked, but it wasn’t quite enough. I eyed my wool hat that I had received in the post – and I inched closer to death, the decision was made for me. I used the hat as a bandage.

It kept me alive! I did not die, I was able to defeat the greenish troll, and then received the cotton so I could move on to the next clue.

Sadly the treasure was less than stellar when I got to the 6th and final location. Some days, I really wish there was LESS rng in game. Sigh. It was a crummy end to an otherwise very long and useless day. Maybe the next maps I have will be better.

You Never Know

stargrace May 19, 2023 No Comments

Way up on the side of a mountain beside gurubear’s crater on the Independence server is a deed called ‘Nightmare’ and on it I found an entire collection of little reindeer keeping guard over the deed. I was there working on my 95ql treasure map (which ended up being a bust, I got practically nothing and it was really frustrating after all the time I had invested) and it was just a little reminder that you never know what you’re going to stumble into when you explore the lands of Wurm Online.