Guides:Starting with Nothing

Wurm is designed so that a player can start with nothing, and create every essential and craftable item. No starter gear, no weapons, no tools, just a shirt and pants, not even shoes! Noobs start with a set of starting weapons and tools. These can be lost, or thrown out. Wurm allows that. 'It isn't easy', starting over in Wurm, 'but it is possible'.

If you:

• Died an lost an essential item
• Lost everything to raiders on a PVP server
• Dropped your starter gear and lost it
• Or you just want a challenge, aka Wurm Hard Mode

then this is for you. This is not for the faint of heart, even more so than Wurm normally is. But if you like a challenge, you may find it rewarding.

Make crude tools

• crude knife
• crude shovel

Your first order of business is to find iron rock and branches. Once you find a rock face, you need to rummage over it. Rummaging is like foraging but for rock instead of grass, trees, or steppe. You will likely only turn up two types of items: rock shards (in smaller amounts than you would mine) and iron rock. You will need both to make your first tool, a crude knife.

• find a large area of exposed rock, like a cliff or mountain, now rummage on a rock tile until you have
  • at least 1 iron rock
  • 1 rock shards
• Forage in a forest until you have
  • 1 branch

• Use the iron rock on the rock shards to make a crude knife
• Use the crude knife on the branches to make shafts
• Use the crude knife on the rock shards to make a crude shovel blade
• Use the shaft on the crude shovel blade to make a crude shovel

Tips for foraging:

• keep all cotton (healing)
• crush all pumpkin into seeds
• crush wemp into fiber for a rope
• save sprouts for fuel
• drop acorns

Smelting iron

• mallet
• iron lumps

Rummage again until you have:

• 12 iron rock

(When you smelt the iron rocks in a campfire you get .2kg for every 3kg.)

Use your crude shovel to cut down a "mature tree", an "old and shriveled tree", or a "fruit tree". use your crude knife on the log and make a shortbow this will give you 2kg woodscrap use your crude knife on the log and make a kindling. use the kindling on the woodscrap to make a campfire put the iron rocks in the fire.

While the iron rocks are heating up, you need to forage 2 more branches cut them into shafts make a mallet and a handle

Make iron carving knife and small anvil

• small anvil
• carving knife

• Combine all of the *hot* lumps into one big lump.
• Use the mallet on the lump to make a small anvil
• use the remaining lump on the small anvil to make a carving knife blade
• use the knife on the shaft to make a handle
• attach the handle to the carving knife blade

Your Choice

Clay (best option, imho)

At this point I recommend making 3 or 4 crude shovels, and crude pickaxes. and search for clay. Make some jars to carry water and bowls to cook in.

large anvil

Or you can rummage for 50+ rock iron and make a large anvil (10kg)

more iron tools

put that small anvil to use and make more tools

Have Fun

This should be enough to get you going. You will need to get more iron rock for a pickaxe, hatchet, large anvil and a shovel, but now you can use the carving knife to make shafts, and the shovel to cut down trees (tip: only cut down mature trees, or fruit trees, you need a hatched to chop up felled trees)

Good luck in the lands of Wurm!