[[CDB|Main]] / [[Skills]] / [[Carpentry]] / [[Ship building]] / '''{{PAGENAME}}'''

{{Item
|name=keel section
|active=[[hatchet]]
|passive=[[felled tree]] (90.00 kg)
|group=Miscellaneous
|materials=* None
|result=* 1 '''{{PAGENAME}}''' (60.00 kg)
* 1 [[wood scrap]] (30.00 kg)
|skill=ship building
|improve=carpentry
}}

== Description ==
This is part of a keel. Put together several of these and you will have the keel of a [[ship]].

== Notes ==
* The [[quality]] of the passive [[keel section]] affects the initial quality of the ship.
* The quality of the active [[keel section]] affects the success chance when creating a ship.
* The active keel section is damaged when you fail creating a ship.
* Requires some [[ship building]] skill to build. If you don't have the option, make a few [[tenon]]s first.
* The [[felled tree]] must be in your inventory. [[Woodcutting|Chop]] some [[log]]s off it, if it is too heavy to pick up.

* Keel sections do not fit into a cart unless they are unfinished
* Two keel sections joined together as the hull of a boat will fit into a cart

== Creation Success Rate ==

{| class="sortable" style="background: #f9f9f9;" border="1px" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4"
! style="background: #f2f2f2; width: 150px;"|Shipbuilding skill !! style="background: #f2f2f2;"|Keel QL !! style="background: #f2f2f2;"|[[Rowing boat|Small Rowing Boat]] !! style="background: #f2f2f2;"|[[Small Sailing Boat]] !! style="background: #f2f2f2;"|[[Corbita]] !! style="background: #f2f2f2;"|[[Cog]] !! style="background: #f2f2f2;"|[[Knarr]] !! style="background: #f2f2f2;"|[[Caravel]]
|-
| 16
| 25 || 49% || 32% || 19% || 9% || N/A || N/A
|-
| 28
| 25 || 62% || 44% || 30% || 18% || 9% || N/A
|-
| 40
| 42 || 80% || 64% || 50% || 35% || 21% || 10%
|-
| 50
| 40 || 85% || 71% || 57% || 42% || 27% || 14%
|-
| 50
| 42 || 86% || 72% || 59% || 44% || 28% || 15%
|-
| 50
| 50 || 89% || 77% || 64% || 49% || 34% || 20%
|-
| 60
| 42 || 90% || 79% || 66% || 51% || 35% || 21%
|-
| 60
| 60 || 95% || 88% || 78% || 65% || 50% || 33%
|-
| 65
| 42 || 92% || 81% || 68% || 54% || 39% || 24%
|-
| 65
| 60 || 96% || 90% || 81% || 68% || 53% || 37%
|-
| 70
| 42 || 93% || 85% || 73% || 59% || 42% || 27%
|-
| 70
| 60 || 97% || 92% || 84% || 72% || 58% || 41%
|-
|}

== Used for ==
* [[Rowing boat]]
* [[Small sailing boat]]
* [[Corbita]]
* [[Cog]]
* [[Knarr]]
* [[Caravel]]

[[Category:Babel/K]]

Guides:Game Concepts

2011-07-15T20:18:02Z

Tritus: /* Pvp */

= Disclaimer =

This is for illustrative purposes only.

I am '''not''' trying to dictate or in any way say that my perspectives are '''right'''

= Game Concept Definitions =

The idea here is to show how elements of the game might be loosely defined in a way that might provide both devs and player community with a sense of focus and direction, thus channeling the huge amount of creativity in the community.

I will write as though I am providing a definition but '''I do not expect''' anyone to agree with anything in particular.

That is, this is just an example.

== Pvp ==

Player versus player competition is intended to promote a sense of thrill and excitement, via victory and loss, in a way that players will enjoy.

=== Kingdoms ===

Kingdoms are intended to give the players a team to fight for so that they will feel that sense of thrill when they win and the determination to get their own back for their own side when they lose.

Kingdoms should each have a rallying point of morale for the players. In real life, real people support this or that team because they have an affiliation there already. "Obviously, I will support my own country at the olympic games!"

Kingdoms should have quite a stark delineation so that players feel either certainty or, for players who are less decided, a sense of tension about whether they have picked 'the right side'.

==== HoTs ====

We are evil. We are bad. We will do whatever it takes to conquer. Libila is our guiding darkness.

==== Jenn Kellon ====

We are the forces of organisation and construction. Rebels and destroyers must be removed so that we can build. Vynora is the queen of our armies.

==== Mol Rehan ====

We will not be suppressed. We will not tolerate slaughter. Magrannon is the volcanic source of our exuberance.

==== Tritons ====

''Yeah I know but I couldnt resist it ;)''

We love the earth and the sea and the sky. Those others have no concern for our living world, slaying and slaughtering as they do. Fo is the root of our faith and the shield that protects us.

=== Tentative Kingdom Overview ===

* JK hate Hots and vice versa. Selfish chaos versus suppressive order.
* JK hates MR because MR are rebelliously outwith their idea of 'order' and yet so humiliatingly and humanly the same.
* JK cant stand TR because TR cant abide construction and the preservation of human life with high walls and directed development.
* MR cant abide TR cos they are so similar but have such different ideas about how 'freedom' should be achieved. They both love the natural world but MR like the uncontrolled, challenging Magranon while TR like the benificient, nurturing Fo.
* MR detests Hots because they are as suffocating as JK. Its not so much that they are selfish and greedy, its that they want everything their way.
* MR cannot understand TR. Why would you waste time on trees when people are Dying?
* Hots hates everyone really, but TR are disgusting. They grow trees and light instead of comforting, humid darkness and fungi. They are not just antipathetic like the JK, they are scum! They grow things that counter Libila's comforting and silent death.
* Hots love to kill MR. Ha they wont even stand with their JK bedmates. And anyway, they attack us when they are not attacking the JK scum!
* Hots loathe JK. They have no sense of respect for our desire for freedom, to do as we wish. To use their vacant corpses as pillows!
* TR detests the JK disruption of the 'natural' order. Maybe they are human, but probably they are a distorted form of insect.
* TR think that MR are a perversion of Fo's kindness, his angry side if he ever had one (that they would acknowledge).
* TR reject HoTs, outright loathesome dwellers in the darkness who distort and pervert the natural order of the 'Creator'

''These are just ideas remember its the wording that people latch onto that provides a creative drive for the real people behind the characters. FRP? More psychology! These are not '''definitions''' so much as a sketch for people to aim toward''

== Religions ==

=== Fo ===

As a priest of Fo my purpose is to guard and consort with the world that Fo created. To preserve both animal and human, crop and unruly hillside.
You know nought of me that consort with gold or man or wife and yet fail to revere the land on which you walk.
I preserve the world as it was made and detest your inadequacy that cannot feel the land as it is and live with it.

=== Libila ===

Think thee that I choke and strangle, ye foul being that hath no compassion for the dweller in the dark?
I do not choke, it is you that choke that fail to live with the reality of death and decay.
Fo is not so strong! Without me his 'love' would persih and wilt as a flower!

=== Magranon ===

Hear the roar of the Wurm untamed. You are but a shadow burned upon a wall.
Let the compassion of the fires of wrath sear your soul and come to me clean and penitent.
I am not unkind. I am merely harsh.

=== Vynora ===

Oh woe! Woe! Woe unto thee that fail to see my light.
You are but Fo's creature, though to me you belong!
Haste not to thy death along the weary roads of entanglement and destruction,
But travel my path in speed and with will and create as I have tought you.

=== Gods ===

The gods must be distinct. Priests should have a calling and a sense of purpose. Followers should have some reason to follow.
Stratify the world so that players have to choose, if they choose to choose.
Followers of Fo must have benefits and penalties. Likewise followers of other religions.
Priests must adhere to the path of their god.

There has to be a sense of choice here. To follow or not. To be priest or not. There must be consequences so that the player is engaged by their own choice.

Humans are not good or bad, they are prejudiced or not. The extent of their prejudice is the degree of their limitation.

Gods and religion are important concepts in the mind of humanity but they are only ideas. But our choices ae not just ideas. We have to live with our mistakes or our success

== Carpentry ==

This should be a basic skill 'easily' gained.
''Note the immediate difference here. One skill is not an entire game concept. It is a small part of a big jigsaw.''

Generally involving the basic '''tools''' of survival, carpentry should be a default skill that all players gain as they play the game.
''Carpentry is a game mechanic, its not part of background atmosphere so .. a bit more specific definition about general limits ...''

Carpentry should not be a '''skilled''' profession but the ability to make some products to a high degree of effectiveness should make a big difference.
Effortless survival is not the same as effortful survival. But the the basic ability to survive is importatnt.

Carpenters, like masons, should be the base level supoprting personnel in Wurm.
--- In a game where you live or die by skill, basic skills have to be considered vital at both low and high level.

In Wurm this is already an accepted ethos. That is, that the most primitive skills still have value at greater degrees of accomplishment.

Guides:Game Concepts

2011-07-15T19:37:43Z

Tritus: THIS IS COMPLETE CONJECTURE

User:Tritus

2011-07-15T18:51:36Z

Tritus: /* Wiki */

== Intro ==

Hrm, interesting things to say?

Dunno. I edit the wiki some and spend a lot of time building my farming estate at Greendale.

Looking forward to moving to MR Home - which better not be tonight!

Please! Please! Please! Not to tonight!

A week or so later ...

3 real days, 8 hours staring at slowly shifting water each day to sail from Aeldell in Jenn Kellon to our eventual location, Kallana Verde, in Mol Rehan.

What a horrendous unending slog. But we found such a beautiful valley! :D

== [[Titles]] ==

=== Tritus (Follower of Vynora) ===

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*[[Renowned Carpenter]], [[Carpenter]], [[Bowmaker]], [[Fine Carpenter]], [[Fletcher]], [[Harbormaster]]
*[[Digger]], [[Excavator]], [[Land Shaper]]
*[[Farmer]]
*[[Handyman]], [[Tim the Toolman]]
*[[Lumberjack]], [[Timberman]]
*[[Mason]]
*[[Miner]]
*Cloth [[Tailor]]
*[[Carving knife|Stabber]]
*[[Smith]]
*[[Trollslayer]]

=== Svelte (Priestess of Vynora) ===

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*[[Farmer]], [[Crofter]]
*[[Mason]]
*[[Norn]]

=== Fop (Priest of Fo) ===

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*[[Digger]], [[Excavator]]
*[[Mason]]
*[[Miner]]

== History ==

*Played Wurm for a couple months during Gold 1(?) as Logos. This may actually have been early during Gold 2. I have had problems trying to resolve this accurately, but I know for a fact that it was the November immediately after the European open beta of Everquest New Dawn finished and the same year as the Neocron 4 open beta.
*Returned to the game in April 2008
*Started building Greendale west of NT and directly southeast of Aegis
*Crazily took on a commission to make 3 ql 30 large signs for Pacer when I had only 8 Fine Carpentry.
*Moved to Aeldell a couple of weeks prior to the opening of MRH
*Started to focus on Cloth Tailoring in order to help with ship building
*Gained my mason title while building a 24 wall stone estate for Kyros near Akhenaten on Jenn Kellon Home
*Started developing Fine Carpentry, currently around 35
*Built my small sailing boat the De Tritus with invaluable help from Nadroj
*Sailed for 3 real days to reach Kallana Verde in Mol-Rehan
*Was made village elder by KV mayor, Nadroj
*Made around 10 beds for our villagers .. lots more fine carp :D
*Built the Miners Cot at KV
*Helped terraform KV
*Helped create a cedar forest at KV
*Got the Cloth Tailoring title
*Helped build the village housing at KV (not as much as I should have done) but imped most of the coffins and forges to compensate
*Decided that KV were gonna mine through a mountain to create a 700 tile underground canal from North to South. Goldfishmoo, Moss and my other villagers did the most of the work. Incredible people.
*Built the guard tower (with some help) and the Tower Bunkhouse at the KV Tunnel entrance
*Built a rowboat and sailboat inside the KV tunnel.
*Got Bowyer title
*Got Fine Carpenter title
*Got Fletcher title
*Ran the 2008 Xmas Impalong on MRH. I say 'ran' - without all the help I got from players from MRH and Wild it would not have worked at all.
*Worked my ass off for 3 solid weeks on a road from KV to DS. Was offline 5 months from the resulting burnout
*Worked my ass off to get 80 Wood Cutting
*Joined DarkenStone prior to moving to Freedom when KV disbanded prior to moving to Wild
*Got LandShaper title while terraforming DS and Triton on Freedom
*Got the Stabber title for carving knife use
*Got Harbormaster title
*Made and enchanted a large number of mailboxes caross the Freedom server

*alts Svelte(Vynora) and Fop(Fo) remain in JKH near NT finishing off Greendale
*both moved to Freedom with Tritus

*My PC burned out = 18 month forced absence
*Started new Triton deed near Freedom Market Docks
*Got Smith title
*finished the Triton stair between Triton and Ravenloft. Small road really but satisfying to complete.

== Alts ==

=== Svelte ===

*aims to become Vynora priest and probably champ after that
*working to raise all important skills to 30
*gained [Mason] title while completing the construction of GD
*became Priest of Vynora just after the Vynora priest nerf .. lol :D
*moved to Freedom
*got the Norn title for 50 faith
*currently raising Ropemaking (43) and Cloth Tailoring (16)

=== Fop ===

*aims to become Fo priest
*gained [Mason] title while repairing and imping the perimeter walls of GD
gained Digger title
*gained Miner title while mining silver for the 2008 Xmas Impalong on JKH
*became Fo priest while on Wild and waiting for Freedom server to open
*gained Excavator title while helping Tritus terraform Triton and the Ds->BH road on Independance
*enchanted lots of mailboxes around Independance - an exhausting task
*many thanks to the nice people around Crystal Lake for making my work for them so easy and troublefree

== Wiki ==

* [[Making Wurm Work]]
* [[Cooking With Tritus]]
* [[Farming With Tritus]]
* [[User:Tritus/settlement | Settlement Template]] wip **obsolete**
* [[User:Ephemeral/Quickstart]] wip [[User:Tritus/Quickstart]] wip -> [[User:Tritus/QS New]] wip
* Local Client wip
* [[User:Tritus/Priest Guide]]
* [[User:Tritus/What Do I Do]]
* [[Kallana_Verde]]
* [[Game Concepts]]

== About Me ==

Contrary to popular opinion, I am not a troll, those fangs are from the wolf side of my family.

I am, very definitely, a lover of Wurm. When I am not playing I do like to spend a lot of time on the forums or here on the wiki, having my say and doing my best to help people get past the game's pretty steep learning curve. The first week is the worst, after that its just a joy to learn the intricacies of the game.

I play all sorts of MMO and, when I am not playing Wurm, I am probably playing the latest beta, closed or open, or just timing out in a game that requires a little less thought.

One example would be Freedom of Mankind, which I had run across inumerable times before I finally ended up playing as a result of reading a thread on the Wood Scraps forum here on Wurm. If you ever played, PI3 ftw! ;)

I am 44 and, like many scots, an extreme cynic. This probably comes across in my forum posts, though, kinda obviously, many people misinterpret my caustic nature as a nit picking one. I admit that I have very storng opinions but I am not quite as unwilling to listen to other perspectives as sometimes seems the case. I love forum discussions when you get intelligent feedback, even when I dont agree with it myself.

On the forums I most respect Othob Ribol, Urman and Spellcast. They are all very clued, intelligent posters.

Inside the game I am definitely not a grinder. I really just do whatever I feel like most of the time and I gets bits of skill here there and everwhere as I go along. I have only ever worked hard at wood cutting entirely and accidentally because, with strong carpentry skills, I was not really left with much choice. I am admittedly very proud of my meagre 60ish skill in ship building. I take a lot of happiness from seeing a new boat go into the water.

The people I most like ingame are Spellcast and the people that I met when I was in the village of Kallana Verde on MRH: Nad, Moss, Mobi, Gadget, Cali, FM, GFM. I feel a genuine bond of friendship toward these people that I have rarely ever developed in other games. I also have a strong affection for all my friends from DarkenStone, who kindly adopted me after the MRH server was closed. Batolomeaus being one of the kindest people I have met ingame, Gaffy, Rogan and Perse were hardly far behind him.

I have intense respect for the entire Wurm team, GM's and devs especially and, usually ;), also for the player base, which is definitely one of the best I have come across since I got seriously MMO active in 2003.

In real life, before illness retired me, I was wrote PHP backends, did general computer programming and a little computer related teaching and training.

I have many interests but Science Fiction, Fantasy, pen and paper role playing and computer programming have usually been the strongest. Other strong interests are the martial arts, ancient history (folklore, myth, archeology etc), psychology and anthropology, and creative writing (essays, stories, poetry).

With such a strong background in computing and other Wurm related subjects, I have an intense, almost driven, respect for Rolf and the other creators of Wurm. Long ago, while at uni, I wrote a similar FRP system and, about ten years ago I did the design for a full blown world simulator (most focus on geographical and geological stuff but some life development and migration patterns) - so I guess its not really very surprising that Rolf is a bit of a hero figure to me for bringing to fruition something that I only ever did in bits and pieces.

=== Why Did I Write That? ===

Bceause I guess I get curious about whats in the background of the players I meet and play with in Wurm. Maybe if I put myself on the line a bit, other people will tell a bit about themselves too.

If you do .. remember .. no street addresses, phone numbers, real life traceable info such as school or place of work etc.

[[Category:Players]][[Category:Babel/T]]

Alignment

2011-07-15T17:41:49Z

Tritus: /* These actions can effect your alignment: */

[[CDB|Main]] / [[Religion]] / '''Alignment'''

===Description===
Alignment is a measure of how good you are to your god, 100 alignment being maximum for [[Fo]], [[Vynora]] and [[Magranon]], -100 for [[Libila]]. When having below 1 alignment, you cannot choose any of the [[White Light]] [[Gods]]. For [[priest|priests]], a high alignment value increases chances to successfully cast [[:Category:Spells|spells]] while a low alignment value lowers the chances. Alignment is also said to affect your fighting ability, but it is unknown by how much ([http://wurmonline.com/forum/index.php?topic=28321.msg276734#msg276734 source]).

Alignment will automatically go towards 1 over time for whitelighters, and -1 for blacklighters.

When it goes down it will drop at a value equal to 1-([[Faith]]/200). Thus, at 0 faith one would lose 1.0 alignment and at 100 faith one would lose 0.5 alignment.
This loss is halved in local range to the White light for white lighters.

If your alignment drops below 1 as a whitelighter, you will lose your faith.

===These actions can effect your alignment:===
* Butchering a human corpse (- 1)
* Burying a human corpse (+ 1)
* Listening to a [[confession]] (+/- 1)
* Confessing to a priest (+/- 5)
* Holding a [[sermon]] (+/- 1)
* Listening to a sermon (+/- 1 or more, depends on preaching success)
* Converting someone to your religion (+/- 1)
* Healing someone else (+ 1)
* Successful Lockpicking (-5)
* Casting [[Bless]] on players (seems random). (+ 1)
* Sacrificing items in an [[altar]] (at least worth 50c get price) (+/- 1)
* Praying at the [[White Light]] on the [[Wild server]]. (+ 3)
* Praying at the [[Black Light]] on the Wild server. (- 3)
* Desecrating an altar (- 2)
* Killing of a [[whitelighter]] (- 5)
* Killing of a [[blacklighter]] (+ 5)
* [[Fo]] special: plant a sprout (+ 1)
* [[Vynora]] special: pave a tile (+ 1)
* [[Vynora]] special: working on walls (+ 0.5)
* [[Magranon]] special: mine (+ 0.5)
* [[Magranon]] special: kill a creature (+ 0.5)
* [[Libila]] special: kill a creature (- 0.5)
(numbers with a positive (+) are good for whitelighters and negatives (-) respectively good for blacklighters)

=== Notes ===

* Not confirmed. Priests randomly lose Alignment. I have priest of Fo and of Vynora and they seem to lose alignment overnight for no reason that I can ascertain. The only thing that may be causing this that I can think of is taking falling damage or entering a mine. Vis: My Fo priest does nothing but pray all day and jump of a hill into a mine to go to his altar yet he loses alignment for no reason that I have yet spotted.

Gaining alignment to your choosen side has a cooldown timer. Once you gained alignment you have to wait 30 minutes before you can gain again.
[[Category:Religion]]
[[Category:Babel/A]]

Faith

2011-07-15T17:36:30Z

Tritus: Sermons vs Alignment

[[CDB|Main]] / [[:Category:Religion|Religion]] / '''{{PAGENAME}}'''

===Description===
Faith gives [[priest]]s the ability to cast spells at certain levels - see the information on each [[Gods|god]] for more information on these spells.

You gain [[faith]] (and some [[favor]]) by [[praying]] at [[altar]]s after [[Convert#Changing_Religion|converting]] to a [[religion]]. The maximum amount of favor you can get while praying is equal to your current level of faith. You can gain faith 5 times per real-life day, but you must leave 20 minutes between these prayers. Any prayers in between these 5 prayers will not raise your [[faith]] but will get your [[prayer]] skill up.

You cannot raise faith above 30 without becoming a priest.

At 30 '''faith''' you may travel to the [[Altar of Three]](WL) or the [[Bone Altar]](BL) (depending which of the [[Gods]] you follow) and become a [[priest]] of your god. If you're on the Freedom server, you'll need to find a priest from your religion with 40 faith to perform a ritual for you in order to become a priest yourself.

At 50 '''faith''' you can become a champion (this does not exist on the Freedom server). See the [[champion player|champion]] page for the other requirements. Side note: Youll begin getting gems too.

===Other Information===

*Faith gain is not affected by [[sleep bonus]] or by praying at different types of altars (i.e. made of gold, silver, stone, or wood). Faith skill is not lost when a player dies.
*It can take a player approximately a month (praying five times a day) to reach the 30 faith needed to become a [[priest]].
*It can take a player approximately 100 days (praying five times a day) to reach 70 faith, at which point most spells are available.

===Sermons===
*Holding a [[sermon]] will reward a preacher with a faith related bonus when preaching to a group of listeners. A listener is a [[premium]] player, of the same [[religion]], which has not received an [[alignment]] gain in the past half hour, and is near the preacher(4 tiles?).

# With six or more listeners the preacher's faith gains through prayer are reset to five. This can be done every three hours per a priest.
# With eleven or more listeners the preacher is rewarded with a .2 instant faith bonus in addition to the size six reward. This can be done every three hours per a priest.

*Sermon frequency is limited to every three hours for a priests. Although, within this window that same preacher can be a listener in another priest's sermon.
*Alignment gains are notorious for breaking a sermon, and make sure this requirement doesn't disqualify one of your listeners.
*If your priest has less than 100.00 alignment they will gain +1.00 Alignment and zero Faith (need this verified [[User:Tritus|Tritus]])

== [[Titles]] ==
* Padre/Norn at 50 faith
* Devout at 70 faith
* Enlightened at 90 faith

[[Category:Religion]]
[[Category:Babel/F]]

User:Tritus

2011-07-14T19:46:47Z

Tritus:

== Intro ==

Hrm, interesting things to say?

Dunno. I edit the wiki some and spend a lot of time building my farming estate at Greendale.

Looking forward to moving to MR Home - which better not be tonight!

Please! Please! Please! Not to tonight!

A week or so later ...

3 real days, 8 hours staring at slowly shifting water each day to sail from Aeldell in Jenn Kellon to our eventual location, Kallana Verde, in Mol Rehan.

What a horrendous unending slog. But we found such a beautiful valley! :D

== [[Titles]] ==

=== Tritus (Follower of Vynora) ===

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*[[Renowned Carpenter]], [[Carpenter]], [[Bowmaker]], [[Fine Carpenter]], [[Fletcher]], [[Harbormaster]]
*[[Digger]], [[Excavator]], [[Land Shaper]]
*[[Farmer]]
*[[Handyman]], [[Tim the Toolman]]
*[[Lumberjack]], [[Timberman]]
*[[Mason]]
*[[Miner]]
*Cloth [[Tailor]]
*[[Carving knife|Stabber]]
*[[Smith]]
*[[Trollslayer]]

=== Svelte (Priestess of Vynora) ===

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*[[Farmer]], [[Crofter]]
*[[Mason]]
*[[Norn]]

=== Fop (Priest of Fo) ===

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*[[Digger]], [[Excavator]]
*[[Mason]]
*[[Miner]]

== History ==

*Played Wurm for a couple months during Gold 1(?) as Logos. This may actually have been early during Gold 2. I have had problems trying to resolve this accurately, but I know for a fact that it was the November immediately after the European open beta of Everquest New Dawn finished and the same year as the Neocron 4 open beta.
*Returned to the game in April 2008
*Started building Greendale west of NT and directly southeast of Aegis
*Crazily took on a commission to make 3 ql 30 large signs for Pacer when I had only 8 Fine Carpentry.
*Moved to Aeldell a couple of weeks prior to the opening of MRH
*Started to focus on Cloth Tailoring in order to help with ship building
*Gained my mason title while building a 24 wall stone estate for Kyros near Akhenaten on Jenn Kellon Home
*Started developing Fine Carpentry, currently around 35
*Built my small sailing boat the De Tritus with invaluable help from Nadroj
*Sailed for 3 real days to reach Kallana Verde in Mol-Rehan
*Was made village elder by KV mayor, Nadroj
*Made around 10 beds for our villagers .. lots more fine carp :D
*Built the Miners Cot at KV
*Helped terraform KV
*Helped create a cedar forest at KV
*Got the Cloth Tailoring title
*Helped build the village housing at KV (not as much as I should have done) but imped most of the coffins and forges to compensate
*Decided that KV were gonna mine through a mountain to create a 700 tile underground canal from North to South. Goldfishmoo, Moss and my other villagers did the most of the work. Incredible people.
*Built the guard tower (with some help) and the Tower Bunkhouse at the KV Tunnel entrance
*Built a rowboat and sailboat inside the KV tunnel.
*Got Bowyer title
*Got Fine Carpenter title
*Got Fletcher title
*Ran the 2008 Xmas Impalong on MRH. I say 'ran' - without all the help I got from players from MRH and Wild it would not have worked at all.
*Worked my ass off for 3 solid weeks on a road from KV to DS. Was offline 5 months from the resulting burnout
*Worked my ass off to get 80 Wood Cutting
*Joined DarkenStone prior to moving to Freedom when KV disbanded prior to moving to Wild
*Got LandShaper title while terraforming DS and Triton on Freedom
*Got the Stabber title for carving knife use
*Got Harbormaster title
*Made and enchanted a large number of mailboxes caross the Freedom server

*alts Svelte(Vynora) and Fop(Fo) remain in JKH near NT finishing off Greendale
*both moved to Freedom with Tritus

*My PC burned out = 18 month forced absence
*Started new Triton deed near Freedom Market Docks
*Got Smith title
*finished the Triton stair between Triton and Ravenloft. Small road really but satisfying to complete.

== Alts ==

=== Svelte ===

*aims to become Vynora priest and probably champ after that
*working to raise all important skills to 30
*gained [Mason] title while completing the construction of GD
*became Priest of Vynora just after the Vynora priest nerf .. lol :D
*moved to Freedom
*got the Norn title for 50 faith
*currently raising Ropemaking (43) and Cloth Tailoring (16)

=== Fop ===

*aims to become Fo priest
*gained [Mason] title while repairing and imping the perimeter walls of GD
gained Digger title
*gained Miner title while mining silver for the 2008 Xmas Impalong on JKH
*became Fo priest while on Wild and waiting for Freedom server to open
*gained Excavator title while helping Tritus terraform Triton and the Ds->BH road on Independance
*enchanted lots of mailboxes around Independance - an exhausting task
*many thanks to the nice people around Crystal Lake for making my work for them so easy and troublefree

== Wiki ==

* [[Making Wurm Work]]
* [[Cooking With Tritus]]
* [[Farming With Tritus]]
* [[User:Tritus/settlement | Settlement Template]] wip **obsolete**
* [[User:Ephemeral/Quickstart]] wip [[User:Tritus/Quickstart]] wip -> [[User:Tritus/QS New]] wip
* Local Client wip
* [[User:Tritus/Priest Guide]]
* [[User:Tritus/What Do I Do]]
* [[Kallana_Verde]]

== About Me ==

Contrary to popular opinion, I am not a troll, those fangs are from the wolf side of my family.

I am, very definitely, a lover of Wurm. When I am not playing I do like to spend a lot of time on the forums or here on the wiki, having my say and doing my best to help people get past the game's pretty steep learning curve. The first week is the worst, after that its just a joy to learn the intricacies of the game.

I play all sorts of MMO and, when I am not playing Wurm, I am probably playing the latest beta, closed or open, or just timing out in a game that requires a little less thought.

One example would be Freedom of Mankind, which I had run across inumerable times before I finally ended up playing as a result of reading a thread on the Wood Scraps forum here on Wurm. If you ever played, PI3 ftw! ;)

I am 44 and, like many scots, an extreme cynic. This probably comes across in my forum posts, though, kinda obviously, many people misinterpret my caustic nature as a nit picking one. I admit that I have very storng opinions but I am not quite as unwilling to listen to other perspectives as sometimes seems the case. I love forum discussions when you get intelligent feedback, even when I dont agree with it myself.

On the forums I most respect Othob Ribol, Urman and Spellcast. They are all very clued, intelligent posters.

Inside the game I am definitely not a grinder. I really just do whatever I feel like most of the time and I gets bits of skill here there and everwhere as I go along. I have only ever worked hard at wood cutting entirely and accidentally because, with strong carpentry skills, I was not really left with much choice. I am admittedly very proud of my meagre 60ish skill in ship building. I take a lot of happiness from seeing a new boat go into the water.

The people I most like ingame are Spellcast and the people that I met when I was in the village of Kallana Verde on MRH: Nad, Moss, Mobi, Gadget, Cali, FM, GFM. I feel a genuine bond of friendship toward these people that I have rarely ever developed in other games. I also have a strong affection for all my friends from DarkenStone, who kindly adopted me after the MRH server was closed. Batolomeaus being one of the kindest people I have met ingame, Gaffy, Rogan and Perse were hardly far behind him.

I have intense respect for the entire Wurm team, GM's and devs especially and, usually ;), also for the player base, which is definitely one of the best I have come across since I got seriously MMO active in 2003.

In real life, before illness retired me, I was wrote PHP backends, did general computer programming and a little computer related teaching and training.

I have many interests but Science Fiction, Fantasy, pen and paper role playing and computer programming have usually been the strongest. Other strong interests are the martial arts, ancient history (folklore, myth, archeology etc), psychology and anthropology, and creative writing (essays, stories, poetry).

With such a strong background in computing and other Wurm related subjects, I have an intense, almost driven, respect for Rolf and the other creators of Wurm. Long ago, while at uni, I wrote a similar FRP system and, about ten years ago I did the design for a full blown world simulator (most focus on geographical and geological stuff but some life development and migration patterns) - so I guess its not really very surprising that Rolf is a bit of a hero figure to me for bringing to fruition something that I only ever did in bits and pieces.

=== Why Did I Write That? ===

Bceause I guess I get curious about whats in the background of the players I meet and play with in Wurm. Maybe if I put myself on the line a bit, other people will tell a bit about themselves too.

If you do .. remember .. no street addresses, phone numbers, real life traceable info such as school or place of work etc.

[[Category:Players]][[Category:Babel/T]]

2011-07-05T12:15:22Z

Tritus:

= What Do I Do ? =

== Preface ==

Since I started playing Wurm (I make it November 2003 or 2004 right after the New Dawn beta of EverQuest), I have heard this question asked more times than any other.

Wurm is far too complex for anyone to give any easy answer to the new player wanting to know exactly what the game is about and how to get into it but maybe this page will gve you some ideas.

== Preliminary Advice ==

Read the wiki, read the wiki, read the wiki!

Just about any and every possible action you can undertake in Wurm is described here in outline, from making a nail to building a caravel. You will find it your constant companion once you get used to using it and start to get into the game.

== So .. What Is Wurm All About ==

Wurm is the most wonderful and involving Alternate Reality that I have found. It beats all other sandbox games I have played hands down (other, but inferior, examples being Runescape and Tale of the Desert).

What that basically means is that Wurm is all about exploration, survival and crafting. At the end of the day, most players would probably say that Wurm is a crafting game.

That means that there is not really any one thing that you ''should do'' but that there is a vast array of things that you ''can do''. The real problem is choosing ''what to do''.

== What To Do? ==

=== Preliminaries ===

When you start the game you get a limited toolkit that includes the most basic tools required to do anything else. But now you have the horrible problem of being in a huge world with so many possible things you can learn and achieve that nearly everyone seems to feel incredibly lost right at the start.

The first thing to do is to bookmark this wiki. Really I cannot emphasise enough how important this is. The wiki is the only game manual and its completely and utterly essential.

The second thing to do is to gather your patience and perseverance because you will not get into Wurm if you expect to get started in an hour or two.

=== Laying Foundations ===

Okay you know the wiki URL off by heart and you have screwed yourself to the sticking point .. What's next?

For your first 24 hours of real time gameplay you will be given free food and drink by the bartender near the place where you entered the world after leaving the tutorial. That first 24 hours is invaluable.

You can return to that spawn point at any time by typing ''/suicide''. You will lose all you are carrying except your starter toolkit and be teleported back to that handy source of food and drink. Your corpse will remain on the ground where you died and will contain all your other items.

Now get ready for at least an hour or two of exploration. Yep thats a ''real'' hour or two.

'''Note: Completing everything in this guide will take at least 16 hours of playing time and, more likely, 18 to 20 hours. Dont waste too much of your first 24 hours of free food by sitting around idle.'''

==== Exploring ====

Be prepared to die. This happens and will definitely happen at some point anyway but its frustrating when it happens as you are trying to find a place to get started.

Be courteous and polite to people as you pass through. Village mayors can and occasionally do order their guards to kill rude strangers.

Anyway pick a direction to start exploring along. North, East, West, South, whatever.

This is just like real life. Watch what you are passing so that you are familiar with how to get back if you find a place you like. Use village names, mountains, an unusual spot on the road as a landmark that you can remember later.

If you are attacked, just keep running. You are travelling light and can outrun most creatures unless they get a lucky hit on you as you go by.

'''What you are looking for''' is a relatively unsettled area that has easy access to water, plenty of trees and preferably exposed rock where you can create a mine entrance. Optionally, an already open mine entrance is very helpful. Do not pick a place that has a high level of dangerous wildlife.

*As a new player '''you will find it difficult to build on a steep hillside''' so try to avoid areas where the slopes are more than 40 steep. ''Right click a '''Tile Border''' and select '''Examine''' to see how steep the slope is.''
*Relatively unsettled means that you want about ten tiles in a row where it does not say 'This is part of Village' or 'This is within the perimeter of Village'. Just right click the ground and select Examine to find out if the area is unsettled.
*Easy access to water, for a new player, really means access to water that you can fish in. You can get by without that, but it is much much harder.

As you travel, say hello to the people you pass and ask advice about any areas where you may be able to stay. Remember that these people may become your future neighbours and that they may be knowledgeable enough and nice enough to point you to a great place to set up.

It is well worth looking for an area that is not highly populated (ie has a village or house every minute of travel time) so I would guess that you may have to travel for at least 30 minutes of real time before you find a nice spot.You really do need to have a little patience at the start.

If you do not find a good spot after 40 to 60 minutes travelling in one direction then ''/suicide'' and start over again heading in a different direction. Remember you are just starting the game and its worth while just relaxing at this point and enjoying the scenery.

=== I Found A Place ===

Okay, so you find a place with not too steep hills, access to water and hopefully exposed rock or an existing mine nearby. How steep are the slopes? This is important!

Have a quick check to make sure that there is somewhere flat enough that you can dig in. You need this so that you can practice [[Digging]] to raise that skill.

If there is not a slope flat enough for you to dig on right now, thats not necessarily a huge problem. You can always practice somewhere not too far off or near the world spawn point.

I hope you were observant while you were travelling and noticed any open mines that you passed because you will need a list of things to set up home on your little patch of turf.

==== Preparations ====

If you have slopes level enough to dig in and there is an open mine nearby then you are all set. If not then refresh your memory on how you got to where you are and then type ''/suicide'' to get back to the server spawn.

''The list below assumes you are near the server spawn on Freedom where most of it is easily possible and where you will have easy access to the bartender for free meals.''

*60 mins. Go find a flat spot to practice digging and get your Digging skill to at least 10, preferably 15. Just dig 2 dirt, drop them, repeat - until your skill is high enough. This may take an hour or so but is going to be invaluable almost anywhere you are starting up. You can dig on any slope that is 3x your skill or less. 15 is mostly a great starting skill but takes a bit longer than 10.
*15 mins. Find some clay (its a type of tile on the ground), Dig some up and make a [[Clay Jar]] and a [[Clay Bowl]].
*30 mins. Find a place you can cut down trees and chop one down. Make a [[Mallet]], 4 or 5 [[Kindling]], and grab 2 logs or 40 kilograms of wood scraps.
*25 mins. This will take a while and is strenuous so make sure you top up on food first. Head to the nearest open mine, preferrably one with a forge buit in. Mine 20 [[iron ore]].
*60 mins. Activate your Steel & Flint, then right click and Light the forge, or right click a Kindling in your inventory and Create->Campfire. Activate the log or your wood scrap then right click the forge/fire and select Burn. Right click the Forge/fire, Open it and put the [[iron ore]] and the [[clay jar]] in.
*15 mins. , if necessary by attempting this several times until you get one that is not ''Unfinished''.
*60 mins. Once the [[iron ore]] has become [[iron lump]]. First Make a [[Small Anvil]]. Then make at least 4x [[Large Nails]], 2x [[Door Lock]] and 12x [[Small Nails]].
*10 mins. If you died and lost your backpack, have a look around the area nearby to see if there is one lying around where someone else died.
*Go to the bartender at the world spawn and top up on food.

'''Note:''' This entire process will take you roughly 5 hours and really is best done near the world spawn. Depending on how much time you get to play each day, it may take you a few days of patient preparation. The one part that you must have all the time available for is the smelting of the ore.

You should now have atleast: a Mallet, a Small Anvil, 4 Large Nails, 2x Door Lock, 12x Small Nails, a Pottery Jar, a Pottery Bowl, a Leather Backpack, and your new player tools. Drop anything heavy like logs or ore, '''top up with food at the bartender''' and run back to the spot you found to build on.

== The Building Begins ==

'''Remember these things:''' You will not die from hunger but you will become very slow in everything. You can ''/suicide'' to go get food during your first 24 hours that you play. You can [[fast]] at least once, gaining a full food bar at the loss of body weight.

Decide where you want your house to be initially. This is easily changed later if you are not happy with your initial choice.

Select a 3x3 area of land to build on then [[botanize]] then [[forage]] that area and one tile all the way around outside it. That's a 5x5 area all in. What you want is [[cotton]], but anything that is a crop seed or can be used to [[cook]] is useful.

=== A quick level ===

Estimated time of 90 mins.

This method may not work on steeper slopes but is probably the fastest way to get a flattish starting space ..

[[Flatten]] that 3x3 area with your shovel starting at the highest point and working down to the lowest point. This area needs to be a nearly flat, slope of 4 or less on all tile borders, so you may have to flatten down from the highest point two or more times to get this right.

Note: You may have to practice your digging skill a bit to finish the process as the tiles highest up the hill will end up with a steeper

=== Or, A slower but safer level ===

Estimated time of 3 hours.

''Creating a Dirt Pile:'' To create a pile of dirt, drop 4 or more items, such as woodscrap, on the same tile. Open the resulting pile and drop in 3 or more dirt. Remove the items you started the pile with.

Starting at the highest corner of your 5x5 area, dig the slope down by 20 dirt, dropping the dirt in a pile of dirt as you go. Move along that top line of tiles digging the upper edge of your area down until it is the tile borders are level all the way along.

Now move to what used to be the lower edge of the first tile and dig along the tile borders of the 5 top tiles making those top 5 tiles flat.

Go back to the top tile border and dig it down another 20. Dig down the lower edge of that line of tiles again to return them to being flat.

Repeat the process of lowering the top row of tiles until either the upper slope is too steep for you to dig on or until you hit rock, which will also prevent further digging.

Ensure that top line of tiles is flat all the way along, if necessary by dropping back some dirt to raise any tile intersection that are too low.

Successively dig down the other 4 rows of tiles in the same manner, ensuring that each is flat before moving on to the next. You may need to drop dirt that you dug up on higher tiles to raise the level of lower ones.

You should, under nearly all circumstances, end up with a flat area that is at least 3x2.

=== Planning a Shack ===

Estimated time of 30 mins.

Cut down a tree and make 4 [[plank]].

Decide which of the tiles around the edge of your flat area is easiest to get to (its usually the one that used to be the lowest one) and, using your Mallet, right click that tile and plan a 1 tile building on that spot. (Read the guide on how to [[Build House]])

You will need a door on the '''outer''' edge of your flat space and a door leading to the '''inside''' of your 3x3 space.

So now, with your mallet active, and the large nails and planks in your inventory, walk round each of the 4 walls of your hut deciding where you want doors, walls and windows.

Make 10 [[shaft]] from your felled tree logs and, with a Mallet activated and carrying 10 [[small nail]], plan [[Wooden fence]]s around the outside of your space. (Your shack and its two doors will be the gate to the inside)

This '''roughly''' safeguards your personal base in Wurm but you will need at least another 10 Shafts and 96 Planks to complete the process.

=== Finishing the Shack ===

Estimated time 180 mins

'''Finish your hut first''' and attach the Door Locks to give you a safe place to store stuff or hide from dangerous creatures. Build one wall then cut the planks for the next etc.

Estimated time 40 mins

Finish your fences next to give you space to grow stuff.

When both your hut and fence is complete, plant any seeds you have found inside your fenced area. Vegetable crops like corn, onion, potato and cotton should take priority. Two tiles cotton and the rest veg. Plant half the area one day and the other half a day or two later.

=== I Found Cotton !!! ===

You will find it sooner or later but this is not easy!

As soon as you find cotton you should make a [[spindle]].

Then you should make [[string of cloth]] and then you should make [[fishing rod]] or [[fine fishing rod]]. You should make as many of these as you can from your first lump of cotton.

Always Fish then Repair your rod then Fish again. Fishing rods are easily damaged but can feed you for months if you take care of them.

== Established ==

So .. you have your 3x3 space. A hut and a tiny farm. What's next?

First, read all of these: [[Useful links for beginners | New Player Guides ]]

It is vital to understand how to cook! High skill is not necessary but you do need to make sure you read the various cooking guides. [[Casserole]] is recommended for the new player since it tends to decay more slowly and has reasonable nutrition value.

Now you need the real Wurm player's toolkit and it's not that hard to make. However most of these involve [[mining]] and [[smithing]] quite a lot.

=== Tools ===

One of your earliest priorites after you can feed yourself is a set of tools ..

*A [[hammer]] is vital. Mine 10 ore and attempt several of these until you get lucky and complete one on the first attempt. You can use this to attempt to complete the others.
*Without a [[stone chisel]] you cannot make bricks or improves forges or ovens. Again, its easiest to make one by making several attempts.
*To smith well you will also need a [[whetstone]]. Your Stone Chisel will help you make one.
*For most carpentry and smithing skills you will need a [[pelt]] to refine and polish what you make. These are acquired by [[Butchering]] various types of animal, rats and dogs being ideal for inexperienced fighters.
*For more advanced carpentry, normally essential if you want a [[bed]] and other nice perks, you should have a [[file]]. Again make several attempts until you get lucky and make one that is complete on the first attempt.
*Now improve all your tools. Bad tools make your life harder.
*The [[large anvil]] becomes a necessity later on but is best made for the first time when your [[mining]] is around 10-15.

=== Skills ===

In Wurm, you are not measured by anything simple like a character level. A good character is a good smith or carpenter or tailor or etc. Someone who can make quality goods for their friends, neighbours and villagers is more liely to be welcome in a village and can make ingame money with their handiwork.

There is no right way to become good! But, there is an easier way to get there!

This means, develop your skills ...

Trying to give you the best skill outline I can, develop each of these skills in '''roughly''' this order to get an easier start in Wurm ...

* 20 Digging - an invaluable skill that is incredibly effective at 20 and only gets better
* 20 Carpentry / 15 Wood Cutting - these are interdependent but Wood Cutting can be hard to raise, so raise the carpentry to 20 and move on and let wood cutting rise naturally or as you have time to spend on it later
* 20 Mining - raising your mining is vital to both [[smithing]] and [[masonry]] and you usually get plenty of excuse to increase it
* 20 Smithing - invaluable skill but get your mining higher before you dedicate yourself to raising this one
* 20 Masonry - may seem not so important but a ql 20 forge is so much better than a campfire - this skill can really work wonders - at higher levels its awesome. Raise it by making walls and improving your [[Forge]], [[Oven]] and [[Coffin]]s
* 20 Fine Carpentry - not a great skill in many ways but spamming and imping barrels means you can make good ql [[practice doll]]'s (these are good for [[fighting skill]]) and you will have a much easier job of making a [[bed]]
* 8 Fighting - it helps you survive but this skill is very hard to raise - use a QL 1 shaft on practice doll at the start
* Animal Taming - its fun and eventually the animals you gain as pets can be awesome - but this is not a priority skill

= SO WHAT DO I DO? =

== The game is really all about exploration, survival and '''skill'''. ==

Wurm is extremely deep, having many layers and a vast array of possibilities.

This guide has told you more or less what every Wurm player ''must'' do at the start but you dont actually have to. You can just grab your newbie toolkit and run out into the world to explore.

Its very hazardous and you will probably die but very fun also.

Eventually, though, you will almost certainly find yourself doing the things described here and asking yourself 'What now?'

Honestly, you really do need to have a bit of that pioneering spirit, the ability to be self motivated and the courage formulate and pursue your own goals.

For myself I have mostly found that a fairly natural process though. You build your house and you realise that you need or want some tool, weapon, bit of furniture or more space to farm in .. and there you have your goal. Terraform a large space for fields. Make your house bigger so that you have more storage space. Make a better weapon so that you can kill better or some armour so that you dont die quite so quickly again.

== And, of course, money! ==

Money is a great luxury in Wurm just like it is in the real world. With money you can buy much better equipment, or save yourself the time and difficulty of building a boat. You can buy the land you live on and safeguard yourself against wild animals and destructive players.

You can exist in and enjoy the game on a basic account. Its a bit restrictive with its 20 skill cap but not so limiting that you cannot get a lot of great fun out of playing. There are hundreds of things to make and many many skills to develop.

So there is plenty to do before that 20 cap means that you have done it all. And along the way you always have the chance to make some cash working for another player.

=== The Reward Tool ===

Or you can look at [[The Reward Tool]] which is accessible, [[http://shop.wurmonline.com/WurmWeb/index.jsp here]], and earn yourself some ingame pocket money.

=== Premium ===

At the end of the day though, the advantages of premium are huge. You can raise your skills much higher and so achieve a lot more, set more interesting and extensive goals. Become a reknowned crafter or explorer in ways that a basic account player simply cannot.

Some aspects of the game are only available to premium players.

As a premium player with high skill, the potential to make money selling your handiwork to other players is much greater. You can become financially self sufficient inside the game without spending real money. Its difficult but its been done by many hard working, perseverant players.

[[Category:Guides]]
[[Category:Babel/W]]

User:Tritus

2011-07-05T11:59:06Z

Tritus:

User:Tritus/What Do I Do

2011-07-05T11:57:51Z

Tritus:

= What Do I Do ? =

== Preface ==

Since I started playing Wurm (I make it November 2003 or 2004 right after the New Dawn beta of EverQuest), I have heard this question asked more times than any other.

Wurm is far too complex for anyone to give any easy answer to the new player wanting to know exactly what the game is about and how to get into it but maybe this page will gve you some ideas.

== Preliminary Advice ==

Read the wiki, read the wiki, read the wiki!

Just about any and every possible action you can undertake in Wurm is described here in outline, from making a nail to building a caravel. You will find it your constant companion once you get used to using it and start to get into the game.

== So .. What Is Wurm All About ==

Wurm is the most wonderful and involving Alternate Reality that I have found. It beats all other sandbox games I have played hands down (other, but inferior, examples being Runescape and Tale of the Desert).

What that basically means is that Wurm is all about exploration, survival and crafting. At the end of the day, most players would probably say that Wurm is a crafting game.

That means that there is not really any one thing that you ''should do'' but that there is a vast array of things that you ''can do''. The real problem is choosing ''what to do''.

== What To Do? ==

=== Preliminaries ===

When you start the game you get a limited toolkit that includes the most basic tools required to do anything else. But now you have the horrible problem of being in a huge world with so many possible things you can learn and achieve that nearly everyone seems to feel incredibly lost right at the start.

The first thing to do is to bookmark this wiki. Really I cannot emphasise enough how important this is. The wiki is the only game manual and its completely and utterly essential.

The second thing to do is to gather your patience and perseverance because you will not get into Wurm if you expect to get started in an hour or two.

=== Laying Foundations ===

Okay you know the wiki URL off by heart and you have screwed yourself to the sticking point .. What's next?

For your first 24 hours of real time gameplay you will be given free food and drink by the bartender near the place where you entered the world after leaving the tutorial. That first 24 hours is invaluable.

You can return to that spawn point at any time by typing ''/suicide''. You will lose all you are carrying except your starter toolkit and be teleported back to that handy source of food and drink. Your corpse will remain on the ground where you died and will contain all your other items.

Now get ready for at least an hour or two of exploration. Yep thats a ''real'' hour or two.

'''Note: Completing everything in this guide will take at least 16 hours of playing time and, more likely, 18 to 20 hours. Dont waste too much of your first 24 hours of free food by sitting around idle.'''

==== Exploring ====

Be prepared to die. This happens and will definitely happen at some point anyway but its frustrating when it happens as you are trying to find a place to get started.

Be courteous and polite to people as you pass through. Village mayors can and occasionally do order their guards to kill rude strangers.

Anyway pick a direction to start exploring along. North, East, West, South, whatever.

This is just like real life. Watch what you are passing so that you are familiar with how to get back if you find a place you like. Use village names, mountains, an unusual spot on the road as a landmark that you can remember later.

If you are attacked, just keep running. You are travelling light and can outrun most creatures unless they get a lucky hit on you as you go by.

'''What you are looking for''' is a relatively unsettled area that has easy access to water, plenty of trees and preferably exposed rock where you can create a mine entrance. Optionally, an already open mine entrance is very helpful. Do not pick a place that has a high level of dangerous wildlife.

*As a new player '''you will find it difficult to build on a steep hillside''' so try to avoid areas where the slopes are more than 40 steep. ''Right click a '''Tile Border''' and select '''Examine''' to see how steep the slope is.''
*Relatively unsettled means that you want about ten tiles in a row where it does not say 'This is part of Village' or 'This is within the perimeter of Village'. Just right click the ground and select Examine to find out if the area is unsettled.
*Easy access to water, for a new player, really means access to water that you can fish in. You can get by without that, but it is much much harder.

As you travel, say hello to the people you pass and ask advice about any areas where you may be able to stay. Remember that these people may become your future neighbours and that they may be knowledgeable enough and nice enough to point you to a great place to set up.

It is well worth looking for an area that is not highly populated (ie has a village or house every minute of travel time) so I would guess that you may have to travel for at least 30 minutes of real time before you find a nice spot.You really do need to have a little patience at the start.

If you do not find a good spot after 40 to 60 minutes travelling in one direction then ''/suicide'' and start over again heading in a different direction. Remember you are just starting the game and its worth while just relaxing at this point and enjoying the scenery.

=== I Found A Place ===

Okay, so you find a place with not too steep hills, access to water and hopefully exposed rock or an existing mine nearby. How steep are the slopes? This is important!

Have a quick check to make sure that there is somewhere flat enough that you can dig in. You need this so that you can practice [[Digging]] to raise that skill.

If there is not a slope flat enough for you to dig on right now, thats not necessarily a huge problem. You can always practice somewhere not too far off or near the world spawn point.

I hope you were observant while you were travelling and noticed any open mines that you passed because you will need a list of things to set up home on your little patch of turf.

==== Preparations ====

If you have slopes level enough to dig in and there is an open mine nearby then you are all set. If not then refresh your memory on how you got to where you are and then type ''/suicide'' to get back to the server spawn.

''The list below assumes you are near the server spawn on Freedom where most of it is easily possible and where you will have easy access to the bartender for free meals.''

*60 mins. Go find a flat spot to practice digging and get your Digging skill to at least 10, preferably 15. Just dig 2 dirt, drop them, repeat - until your skill is high enough. This may take an hour or so but is going to be invaluable almost anywhere you are starting up. You can dig on any slope that is 3x your skill or less. 15 is mostly a great starting skill but takes a bit longer than 10.
*15 mins. Find some clay (its a type of tile on the ground), Dig some up and make a [[Clay Jar]] and a [[Clay Bowl]].
*30 mins. Find a place you can cut down trees and chop one down. Make a [[Mallet]], 4 or 5 [[Kindling]], and grab 2 logs or 40 kilograms of wood scraps.
*25 mins. This will take a while and is strenuous so make sure you top up on food first. Head to the nearest open mine, preferrably one with a forge buit in. Mine 20 [[iron ore]].
*60 mins. Activate your Steel & Flint, then right click and Light the forge, or right click a Kindling in your inventory and Create->Campfire. Activate the log or your wood scrap then right click the forge/fire and select Burn. Right click the Forge/fire, Open it and put the [[iron ore]] and the [[clay jar]] in.
*15 mins. , if necessary by attempting this several times until you get one that is not ''Unfinished''.
*60 mins. Once the [[iron ore]] has become [[iron lump]]. First Make a [[Small Anvil]]. Then make at least 4x [[Large Nails]], 2x [[Door Lock]] and 12x [[Small Nails]].
*10 mins. If you died and lost your backpack, have a look around the area nearby to see if there is one lying around where someone else died.
*Go to the bartender at the world spawn and top up on food.

'''Note:''' This entire process will take you roughly 5 hours and really is best done near the world spawn. Depending on how much time you get to play each day, it may take you a few days of patient preparation. The one part that you must have all the time available for is the smelting of the ore.

You should now have atleast: a Mallet, a Small Anvil, 4 Large Nails, 2x Door Lock, 12x Small Nails, a Pottery Jar, a Pottery Bowl, a Leather Backpack, and your new player tools. Drop anything heavy like logs or ore, '''top up with food at the bartender''' and run back to the spot you found to build on.

== The Building Begins ==

'''Remember these things:''' You will not die from hunger but you will become very slow in everything. You can ''/suicide'' to go get food during your first 24 hours that you play. You can [[fast]] at least once, gaining a full food bar at the loss of body weight.

Decide where you want your house to be initially. This is easily changed later if you are not happy with your initial choice.

Select a 3x3 area of land to build on then [[botanize]] then [[forage]] that area and one tile all the way around outside it. That's a 5x5 area all in. What you want is [[cotton]], but anything that is a crop seed or can be used to [[cook]] is useful.

=== A quick level ===

Estimated time of 90 mins.

This method may not work on steeper slopes but is probably the fastest way to get a flattish starting space ..

[[Flatten]] that 3x3 area with your shovel starting at the highest point and working down to the lowest point. This area needs to be a nearly flat, slope of 4 or less on all tile borders, so you may have to flatten down from the highest point two or more times to get this right.

Note: You may have to practice your digging skill a bit to finish the process as the tiles highest up the hill will end up with a steeper

=== Or, A slower but safer level ===

Estimated time of 3 hours.

''Creating a Dirt Pile:'' To create a pile of dirt, drop 4 or more items, such as woodscrap, on the same tile. Open the resulting pile and drop in 3 or more dirt. Remove the items you started the pile with.

Starting at the highest corner of your 5x5 area, dig the slope down by 20 dirt, dropping the dirt in a pile of dirt as you go. Move along that top line of tiles digging the upper edge of your area down until it is the tile borders are level all the way along.

Now move to what used to be the lower edge of the first tile and dig along the tile borders of the 5 top tiles making those top 5 tiles flat.

Go back to the top tile border and dig it down another 20. Dig down the lower edge of that line of tiles again to return them to being flat.

Repeat the process of lowering the top row of tiles until either the upper slope is too steep for you to dig on or until you hit rock, which will also prevent further digging.

Ensure that top line of tiles is flat all the way along, if necessary by dropping back some dirt to raise any tile intersection that are too low.

Successively dig down the other 4 rows of tiles in the same manner, ensuring that each is flat before moving on to the next. You may need to drop dirt that you dug up on higher tiles to raise the level of lower ones.

You should, under nearly all circumstances, end up with a flat area that is at least 3x2.

=== Planning a Shack ===

Estimated time of 30 mins.

Cut down a tree and make 4 [[plank]].

Decide which of the tiles around the edge of your flat area is easiest to get to (its usually the one that used to be the lowest one) and, using your Mallet, right click that tile and plan a 1 tile building on that spot. (Read the guide on how to [[Build House]])

You will need a door on the '''outer''' edge of your flat space and a door leading to the '''inside''' of your 3x3 space.

So now, with your mallet active, and the large nails and planks in your inventory, walk round each of the 4 walls of your hut deciding where you want doors, walls and windows.

Make 10 [[shaft]] from your felled tree logs and, with a Mallet activated and carrying 10 [[small nail]], plan [[Wooden fence]]s around the outside of your space. (Your shack and its two doors will be the gate to the inside)

This '''roughly''' safeguards your personal base in Wurm but you will need at least another 10 Shafts and 96 Planks to complete the process.

=== Finishing the Shack ===

Estimated time 180 mins

'''Finish your hut first''' and attach the Door Locks to give you a safe place to store stuff or hide from dangerous creatures. Build one wall then cut the planks for the next etc.

Estimated time 40 mins

Finish your fences next to give you space to grow stuff.

When both your hut and fence is complete, plant any seeds you have found inside your fenced area. Vegetable crops like corn, onion, potato and cotton should take priority. Two tiles cotton and the rest veg. Plant half the area one day and the other half a day or two later.

=== I Found Cotton !!! ===

You will find it sooner or later but this is not easy!

As soon as you find cotton you should make a [[spindle]].

Then you should make [[string of cloth]] and then you should make [[fishing rod]] or [[fine fishing rod]]. You should make as many of these as you can from your first lump of cotton.

Always Fish then Repair your rod then Fish again. Fishing rods are easily damaged but can feed you for months if you take care of them.

== Established ==

So .. you have your 3x3 space. A hut and a tiny farm. What's next?

First, read all of these: [[Useful links for beginners | New Player Guides ]]

It is vital to understand how to cook! High skill is not necessary but you do need to make sure you read the various cooking guides. [[Casserole]] is recommended for the new player since it tends to decay more slowly and has reasonable nutrition value.

Now you need the real Wurm player's toolkit and it's not that hard to make. However most of these involve [[mining]] and [[smithing]] quite a lot.

=== Tools ===

One of your earliest priorites after you can feed yourself is a set of tools ..

*A [[hammer]] is vital. Mine 10 ore and attempt several of these until you get lucky and complete one on the first attempt. You can use this to attempt to complete the others.
*Without a [[stone chisel]] you cannot make bricks or improves forges or ovens. Again, its easiest to make one by making several attempts.
*To smith well you will also need a [[whetstone]]. Your Stone Chisel will help you make one.
*For most carpentry and smithing skills you will need a [[pelt]] to refine and polish what you make. These are acquired by [[Butchering]] various types of animal, rats and dogs being ideal for inexperienced fighters.
*For more advanced carpentry, normally essential if you want a [[bed]] and other nice perks, you should have a [[file]]. Again make several attempts until you get lucky and make one that is complete on the first attempt.
*Now improve all your tools. Bad tools make your life harder.
*The [[large anvil]] becomes a necessity later on but is best made for the first time when your [[mining]] is around 10-15.

=== Skills ===

In Wurm, you are not measured by anything simple like a character level. A good character is a good smith or carpenter or tailor or etc. Someone who can make quality goods for their friends, neighbours and villagers is more liely to be welcome in a village and can make ingame money with their handiwork.

There is no right way to become good! But, there is an easier way to get there!

This means, develop your skills ...

Trying to give you the best skill outline I can, develop each of these skills in '''roughly''' this order to get an easier start in Wurm ...

* 20 Digging - an invaluable skill that is incredibly effective at 20 and only gets better
* 20 Carpentry / 15 Wood Cutting - these are interdependent but Wood Cutting can be hard to raise, so raise the carpentry to 20 and move on and let wood cutting rise naturally or as you have time to spend on it later
* 20 Mining - raising your mining is vital to both [[smithing]] and [[masonry]] and you usually get plenty of excuse to increase it
* 20 Smithing - invaluable skill but get your mining higher before you dedicate yourself to raising this one
* 20 Masonry - may seem not so important but a ql 20 forge is so much better than a campfire - this skill can really work wonders - at higher levels its awesome. Raise it by making walls and improving your [[Forge]], [[Oven]] and [[Coffin]]s
* 20 Fine Carpentry - not a great skill in many ways but spamming and imping barrels means you can make good ql [[practice doll]]'s (these are good for [[fighting skill]]) and you will have a much easier job of making a [[bed]]
* 8 Fighting - it helps you survive but this skill is very hard to raise - use a QL 1 shaft on practice doll at the start
* Animal Taming - its fun and eventually the animals you gain as pets can be awesome - but this is not a priority skill

= SO WHAT DO I DO? =

== The game is really all about exploration, survival and '''skill'''. ==

Wurm is extremely deep, having many layers and a vast array of possibilities.

This guide has told you more or less what every Wurm player ''must'' do at the start but you dont actually have to. You can just grab your newbie toolkit and run out into the world to explore.

Its very hazardous and you will probably die but very fun also.

Eventually, though, you will almost certainly find yourself doing the things described here and asking yourself 'What now?'

Honestly, you really do need to have a bit of that pioneering spirit, the ability to be self motivated and the courage formulate and pursue your own goals.

For myself I have mostly found that a fairly natural process though. You build your house and you realise that you need or want some tool, weapon, bit of furniture or more space to farm in .. and there you have your goal. Terraform a large space for fields. Make your house bigger so that you have more storage space. Make a better weapon so that you can kill better or some armour so that you dont die quite so quickly again.

== And, of course, money! ==

Money is a great luxury in Wurm just like it is in the real world. With money you can buy much better equipment, or save yourself the time and difficulty of building a boat. You can buy the land you live on and safeguard yourself against wild animals and destructive players.

You can exist in and enjoy the game on a basic account. Its a bit restrictive with its 20 skill cap but not so limiting that you cannot get a lot of great fun out of playing. There are hundreds of things to make and many many skills to develop.

So there is plenty to do before that 20 cap means that you have done it all. And along the way you always have the chance to make some cash working for another player.

=== The Reward Tool ===

Or you can look at [[The Reward Tool]] which is accessible, [[http://shop.wurmonline.com/WurmWeb/index.jsp here]], and earn yourself some ingame pocket money.

=== Premium ===

At the end of the day though, the advantages of premium are huge. You can raise your skills much higher and so achieve a lot more, set more interesting and extensive goals. Become a reknowned crafter or explorer in ways that a basic account player simply cannot.

Some aspects of the game are only available to premium players.

As a premium player with high skill, the potential to make money selling your handiwork to other players is much greater. You can become financially self sufficient inside the game without spending real money. Its difficult but its been done by many hard working, perseverant players.

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A '''stew''' is the second easiest dish to [[cook]], and most new cooks should start with them.

All the recipes below have difficulty 4. For higher difficulty, try adding more [[food]] of different types. This may also cause you to create a [[casserole]] instead of a stew.

==Recipes==
* Any 2 different [[Foraging|foraged]] berries: [[strawberry]], [[lingonberry]], [[blueberry]]
* Any [[meat]]/[[fish]] + crops ([[pumpkin]], [[corn]], [[potato]], etc)
* Any 2 meat, or 1 meat/fish plus fillet (needs to be verified)

* Any crops + any foraged berries
* Any 2 different [[herbs]]: onion (actually a [[vegetable]]), garlic, basil, parsley, lovage, sassafras, thyme, belladonna

Simply place the items into a [[pottery bowl]], [[sauce pan]], or [[frying pan]], and cook the ingredients until [[glowing]] hot.

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