Wurm Online

My Wurm Online To-Do List

stargrace January 30, 2014 0Comment

The work in Wurm Online is never done, and it can be hard to keep the list of chores straight. I was pleased when I logged in this morning, there were two baby chicks waiting for me in my pen. That means out of my collection of 44 eggs, two hatched. I’m now the proud owner of Toast, and Joseph. Wonderful names if I do say so myself.

Things go much easier if I break them up into separate days and work through a schedule. For example, my main character Blesse is focusing on working the deed, along with fine carpentry, and shipbuilding. I try to dedicate each play session to a different thing, that way I’m not getting bored, my skills are leveling up, and stuff is getting done. Yesterday I spent the day working on my deed, today I will work shipbuilding, and then tomorrow I’ll focus on fine carpentry. The same can be said for my priest, I generally spend time on the alt praying and working up meditation. Today I burned sleep bonus and worked on natural substance which is the ability that lets me create dye. I created healing covers that I sacrificed for a bit of deed bonus, and I created candles for my snow lanterns which were a christmas gift.

1. Reinforce Les Reveurs mine
2. Reinforce Starcrossed Outpost mine
3. Wooden houses at Starcrossed Outpost
4. Finish horse pens at Les Reveurs
5. Build 10 bsb at Les Reveurs
6. Build 10 small barrels at Les Reveurs
7. Find Blesse’s affinity
8. Make Kurwer a lantern
9. Make 2 beds at Les Reveurs
10. Finish iron balcony at Les Reveurs

I also had a bit of a scare as one of the avatars made his way to my deed to hang out for a while. These things are gigantic, and can easily catch a player off guard. Thankfully they’re not aggressive.

I love how relaxing Wurm is, and the pride I take in creating the deed and then running it. Working skills is rewarding, and makes the characters worth something. It will be interesting to see how Landmark stacks up as far as a creation game goes.

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

Deed Progress #WurmOnline

stargrace January 16, 2014 0Comment

Things have been going pretty well in Wurm Online. My priest is closing in on 30 meditation which means she will have the ability (finally) to enchant grass. I have a lot of pens along one side of my deed and I’m looking forward to getting those enchanted. I have also almost finished the crafting hall (pictured above). All that remains is the third floor and the balcony area. After that I’ll be moving on to the villa. I haven’t decided what the layout of that building will be quite yet, but it will have multiple beds so my characters can earn sleep bonus.

Finally there’s the untouched waterfront area of the deed. I raised a few tiles up so there’s a nice flat area for a shipyard but I haven’t decided on what to actually build on the location. Probably another stone house to act as a shipyard, with a pen for horses and bulk storage bins. I also want to finish adding wooden planks to the dock area and path but that will take some time.

Blesse (my main character on Pristine) has been working away at fine carpentry and is getting quite good at it. Once I have that skill at a comfortable level I also want to continue on with my shipbuilding. I just earned the carpentry and masonry titles this week thanks to all of the construction I’ve been doing lately, and the priest has been working away on natural substance so that I can (eventually) make quality dye (as well as lye for leather working).

All in all? Progress is going very well. Wurm is still one of my favorite games and I can’t wait to continue to raise my skills so that I can create better products. I need a lot of lights for the deed and multiple other knickknacks before it starts to feel like home but it is getting there.

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

Lets Build a Tunnel #WurmOnline

stargrace January 12, 2014 0Comment

Yesterday was an incredibly busy day in Wurm Online, though the screenshot above doesn’t exactly do it much justice. It has been one of my goals on Pristine to create a tunnel that goes from the front of my property (along the shore) to the top of the mountain that I live on. This serves a few purposes, but the biggest is just that it’s a quick way to get down to my boat or the mines from within my property. First I had to mine the tunnel upwards until I got a message that if I were to mine any further, I would be buried alive. This tells me that I’m at the surface but that the surface tile is not rock.

Next was to dig down on the surface (after counting tiles to make sure I was lining up) and then to tunnel and open an entrance. If everything went as it should, I would have a mine entrance. It did work out except for one small issue. The entrance is on quite a slope which prevents people from walking normally. I can enter the mine with a large cart drawn by horses but for some reason I can’t exit said mine. It is perplexing.  Thankfully my neighbour Naitey offered to help me out with the entire project, so he busied himself helping me dig and helping me mine and then applying concrete to the tiles we need to fix the slope of. It’s not completely fixed yet but it will be eventually and in the mean time I do have a tunnel and a way down.

Aside from my glorious tunnel I’ve been working on my craft building. The second floor has been started, though I need to get more clay and make more bricks to finish it off. I also built a little horse pen attached to the building so that my cart pulling animals are within reach. The rest of my pens are down a ways, a good place for the Fo priest to go for animal husbandry but not really practical for when you want to quickly hitch a cart. I also removed one of the walls from the building and added another double door so the cart and horses can pass easily. Once the building is done I’ll post a bunch of screenshots with my progress.

All in all, a great weekend building some really neat stuff. As always, happy gaming no matter where you find yourself!

Fo Priest Reaches 90 Faith (and Construction Continues) #WurmOnline

stargrace January 9, 2014 0Comment

You have just received the title ‘Enlightened’!

My Fo priest finally reached 90 faith, which I am very happy about. Nothing especially fancy happens with that much faith aside from the fact that she gained a new title and has more mana to play with, but it’s still a goal none the less.

Construction on the deed is going well. I’ve finished the main floor to the crafters hall and have been working on the second level which will be for storage. Once that is complete I want to spend some time working on my fine carpentry, I owe my neighbour Naitey some signs for his deed and I have a few beds that I need to improve as well as other odds and ends.

In the mornings when I log in I have my priest do her ‘chores’ which consist of tending the fields, grooming the animals, praying 5x (that’s the max a day without sermons or server resets), checking the tree farm for sprouts, and feeding the hen. Once those general chores are done whatever else I want to do can follow my whims for the day. I like the order that Wurm Online provides, and while the game is certainly not for everyone, it still remains one of my absolutely favorite sandboxes.

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

It’s the Simple Things #WurmOnline

stargrace January 7, 2014 0Comment

Last week during a server glitch I lost two new animals that I had brought home. Animals update on the server much later than things like skills do, and so when we crashed they reverted to their positions before I captured them and brought them home. Thankfully I had branded both animals right away, so when they were released back to the wild, they kept their brands. Branding animals means you can lead them off of any deeds they may have wandered onto.

I looked for my hen for hours, and could not find her. Then a few days later while visiting a neighbour I spotted her in the brush! Hens don’t exactly serve a purpose in game – but they CAN lay eggs. You can also name those eggs so the chicks that hatch are named when they are born. Not all eggs will hatch into chicks, but I’m hoping at least one out of my batch does. In order for an egg to hatch it has to decay, hence the pile of named eggs in the screenshot above.

I’ve been working on completing my houses before I get too much further in skills. Last week I built a workshop along with a villa and a shipyard, but so far the buildings have sat as plans and I had not actually completed any of them. The workshop is first on my list and I purchased a rare forge that was up for auction at a reasonable price. I’d love a loom, but for now I’m happy with the one I’ve created.

All in all, the new deed is going very well. It will be nice to have completed with the base buildings so I can continue the skills I want to work up (fine carpentry being one of them).

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