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A [[settlement]], or deed, is an area of land owned by a player or group of players: a [[mayor]] and optional [[citizen]]s(if any). A settlement is marked by a [[settlement token]] in the exact centeron an outdoor tile somewhere within its borders. See this website for details about the new You receive a settlement deed system introduced form in February of 2010: http://sites.google.com/a/wurmonline.com/newyour inventory (that is no-drop) when you deed-system/ Placing, or trading an already placed a settlement, requires [[Premium]] Time. If premium time expires for the mayor, the mayor DOES NOT lose the deed or their role as mayor.

A character may only be a citizen or mayor of one settlement at a time per server. The same character can be a citizen or mayor of another settlement on a different server. A player with multiple characters (alts) can have each character in a different settlement on the same server and may own multiple settlements on the same server if each character is the mayor of one settlement.

== Advantages to Deeding Land ==* Control of who is allowed which actions within the settlement area.* [[Deed guards]] protecting the settlement.* Setting reputations to keep out unwanted people (see [[Kill on Sight]]).* A settlement token to have access your [[bank]] account at.* On settlements with over 30 days upkeep in their coffers:* Reduced [[* No decay]] on structuresbuildings, fences, or decorative items.** No monthly partial loss of bulk items in crates or other bulk storage.* Maintenance of signs, lamps, banners and flags by [[spirit guards]].* Village chat.* Instant logout when leaving Wurm inside the settlement (some exceptions apply).* Respawn at your own settlement from anywhere on the map when you die.* Respawn at [[Ally#Allies_and_wars|allied]] settlements that are within 50 [[tile]]s when you die.

* [[Branding]] animals to show the village they belong to and to allow them to be lead by villagers* An enchanting bonus similar to the productivity bonusmanaging their permissions.* A [[productivity bonus ]] to item crafting for the citizens the older the deed is; see ''acquired knowledge'' in the village info at the token.

Founding a settlement (deed) requires the use of either a [[deed stake]] or a [[settlement form]]. Unlike [[Writ of Ownership|writs]], which are created by building a [[House (general)|house]], settlement forms must be purchased from an [[NPC]] [[trader]]. The price of a form is 10 silver.

Using Right-clicking a deed stake in your inventory brings up a "Settlement Application Form" dialog. If in which you have sufficient funds in all the options for your settlement. The founding costs are taken from your bank an 11x11 tile account. The cost for the minimum sized deed is selected (with no other choices)4 silver, 21 copper. This includes the cost of the tiles plus 3 silver coins towards upkeep.

When Stand on the tile that you use want your settlement form village centre token to found a be on, right-click the Settlement deedstake in your inventory, and choose Village > Found Village. A series of forms follows where you will have a credit of 10 silver. 3 silver will always be reserved for upkeep. The other 7 silver is used to cover your tile costscan set:* Settlement size (east, west, north, and any left over will also go to your upkeep. If your inital deed would cost more than 7 silversouth)* Perimeter size, you must have beyond the extra amount in your bank account. One tile on deed costs 1 copper to purchase five free tiles* Village name and motto and has whether it is a 20 iron upkeepdemocracy or dictatorship. 1 perimeter tile costs 50 iron to purchase and has ** You can rename a village in the resize option for 5 iron upkeepsilver coins. This resets the productivity bonus of the village and locks the name for 6 months.*Number of guards.

Stand on the One tile that you want your village centre token to be on, right-click the Settlement deed paper|deed stake in your inventory, costs 1 copper to purchase and choose Village > Found Villagehas a 20 iron upkeep. A series of forms follows where you can set:*Settlement size, east-west and north-south*Perimeter size, beyond the five free tiles*Village name and motto 1 perimeter tile costs 50 iron to purchase and whether it is a democracy or autocracy** You can rename has a village in the resize option. This resets the productivity bonus of the village.*Number of guards5 iron upkeep.

You can found a deed while you are still a villager of another deed. Once you found the new deed you'll become the mayor of the new deed and automticly automatically leave the old deed.

 Example: Settlement size east 5 west 5 and north 6 south 6 will create a deed 11 tiles by 13 tiles. You could not make a deed of 11 tiles by 45 tiles as that would make one side be more than 4 times larger than the other. To visualize the area better, make use of the Survey Area button in the forms that places temporary survey markers at the planned borders.

*'''Free players cannot can plant a deed, even though but won't be able to invite other players until they may own one (via [[Account_Types#Premium|turn premium]] expiration).'''Free players cannot take over ownership of a pre-existing deed.*You need the writs for to have management [[permissions]] of all buildings that fall within your new settlement area in your inventory to be able to place a deed. **''You can place a new deed's '''perimeter''' over existing buildings for which you don't own the writ, provided but you do not touch a house wall with the actual deed area - ie leave a 2 need at least two full tiles gap of perimeter between the edge of your deed and the edge and of any house wall.''**''You can expand a perimeter over houses building you do not own - provided your deed tiles do not touch the building''.*Settlements can only be founded within your [[kingdom]]. On Chaos , Defiance or the Epic servers, this might require building [[guard tower]]s.*On Chaos, Defiance or the Epic servers you cannot found a deed within 100 tiles of any non-allied same kingdom deed.

*A Token token must be placed at least two tiles second tile away from tiles submersed in water(center tile of 3x3 island is enough). *A Token token cannot be inside a cave, or a house.

*The mayor can destroy any building on deed, even if he/she does not have the writ for permissions to that building.

The mayor can expand his perimeter over a house which he do does not have the writ permissions for. This serves as a warning for a deed expansion and gives the owner of the house time to move. Only the perimeter can be expanded over a house - the mayor has to have permissions to the writ in his/her inventory house to expand the deed over the houseit.

The money needed to the cost of resizing will be taken from the deeds coffers first and then the player bank account if the coffers dont have enough. This will be reflected on the last screen of the resize must dialog. 3 silver will always be left as a minimum, so if you have less than that, the coffers will not be either on used. '''Warning:''' At the question concerning hiring of a spirit templar (or guards), if you leave it as 0 the person resizing resized deed will have no templar even if you originally had one (or more). <u>Always fill this in their bankwith the number of templars you want on your resized deed.</u>

'''Warning :''' Do not sail to another server in your cluster between issuing a Disband disband order, and the actual Disbanding disbanding of the deed. Doing so may cause you to not receive the any refund from the deed and the upkeep. Crossing to anther cluster (Epic / Freedom) is okay, as that is a separate avatar, and the original is still on the deed's server.

* A deed may be disbanded. If manually disbanded, the owner receives all of settlement coffer money back. The owner will receive nothing back if the deed is disbanded due to lack of upkeep. The money is placed in the former owner's bank account. It is believed this money comes direct from the King; reasonable since deed money goes to direct to the King.**Note - there used to be a 5s minimum refund. That has been removed as of June 2014.* Only people with the '''manage roles''' permission, or the mayor, may disband the settlement; citizens can stop a disbandvia the option at the token.* Disbanding a settlement takes 24 real hours. If set to disband immediately, it will take 1 hour.

* When a village disbandsdisbanding, all its [[gate]]s are unlockedbranded animals lose their branding. NOTE: This no longer appears to * The area occupied by a deed when it disbands becomes the area in which archaeology can be trueperformed on that deed, disbanded a no matter how large or small the deed in May of 2011 and gates remained lockedwas previously.

All settlements have a mayor. The initial mayor is the founder of the settlement. At any given time, the mayor is the one who holds the deed. Mayor and villagers get a bonus to bashing structures on deed. Mayors can pass through locked gates.  Trading the deed makes the new owner of the deed the mayor. A player must have premium time to take over the ownership of a deed.

Settlements can be protected by [[Spirit Templarstemplar]]s. Hiring or releasing Templars templars requires the ''Hire guards'' permission.

Spirit Templars templars will attack any aggressive [[creaturecreatures]]s that enter the settlement area, but not the perimeter. Unlike [[tower guard]]s, they do not respond to calls for help.

The maximum number of Templars templars you can have is 1 per 49 tiles. Example: Number of Templars templars in a 31x31 deed is 19. On the Epic servers, the maximum number is limited to 20.

Spirit Templars templars demand payment. Hiring each new Templar templar will cost 2 silver summoning cost, or 3 silver if the settlement is on an Epic server. This is deducted immediately from the settlement upkeep, before they spawn. Each Templar also adds 1 silver to the monthly settlement upkeep. On epic, the cost of templars will increase by .5s by each guard hired (I.E 1s for the first guard, 1.5s for the second, or 3 silver if 2s for the settlement is on an Epic serverthird).

Upkeep money is taken from the village funds every month (one month being 28 days)8 real-life minutes. If the upkeep fund is depleted, the settlement is disbanded automatically. A large upkeep fund reduces decay on buildings and [[fence]]s in the settlement. If the fund has more than a month of upkeep, there is no decay at all. Upkeep can be paid at the token under Settlement > Info or Settlement > Manage guardsAdd to upkeep, or from the Settlement deed paper under Village Settlement > Manage guardsAdd to upkeep. Anyone can donate money to the upkeep fund at the token, even non-citizens.  '''There is a minimum 1 silver cost per month for upkeep. For purposes of upkeep, a month is 30 days. "12x12x9x10" and "32x5x5x7" are examples that would fit this limit, if you are not sure how much a deed size will cost you can use [https://warlander.github.io/Wurm-Toolbox/#deed-calc Warlander´s deed Calculator]''' the calculator does not include the 3 silver for the upkeep coffers.

When resizing a deed, some of the charges can come from the coffers. This will be reflected on the last screen of the resize dialog. It seems that 3s 3 silver will always be left as a minimum, so if you have less than that, the coffers will not be used.

On the Wild Chaos, Defiance and Epic servers, citizens of the enemy kingdom can drain your token once all your deed guards are dead. An enemy draining your token will remove 15% of the monthly upkeep cost from the upkeep fund, of which the drainer receives half. Upkeep cost is treated as always being at least 5 silver, which gives a minimum drain of 75 copper (37.5 to the drainer). A drain can occur once every 24 real-time hours. Every time a deed is drained, the drained amount will increase by 50%. This is reset if the deed is not drained for 2 days. Enemies can drain from an adjacent tile and do not need to be on the same tile as the token, even if there is a wall or palisade in the way.

== Allies and wars ==

To form or add to an alliance, right click on a person with diplomacy rights from another village, and ask to form alliance.Unlike village invites (which can be done remotely with a slash command), adding a village to your alliance requires you to do it face-to-face.)

* Allies can be allowed or denied the ability to loot your [[corpse]] when you're onlineusing the "corpse lootability" profile option.* Allies can pick up items on the ground, even if they're on deed and your permissions would otherwise not allow people to do so

Wars Same-kingdom wars are only possible on the wild server[[Epic]] and [[Chaos]].

Note: if playing on a pvp server, where [[Lawful]] can be disabled, a [[Spirit Templar]] is required to enforce the permissions set here === Permission per Role Permissions ===Each role can have a different set of permissions enabled. There are no known permissions that control butchering and burying.; Build : Plan, color, and continue buildings and fences. <br> Also allows [[lockpicking]].; [[Forestry]] : Chopping down young [[tree]]s, picking [[sprout]]s, planting sprouts, [[gardening]].; Cut old trees: is required for cutting down old trees. This setting will not work on its own, so Forestry must still be enabled for a player with this For permission to cut any trees at all.; Destroy buildings : Destroying buildingsinformation, please see [[building plan]]s, fences, and fence plans. Players with this setting will get a large bonus to damage done, and will be able to quickly destroy structures. Allies with this setting will be able to destroy structures, but will not get the damage bonus. <br> Also allows lockpicking.; Farm : Sowing, [[farming]] and harvesting fields. <br> Also allows [[milk]]ing and leading [[animals]].; Hire guards : Changing guard level.; Citizens : Making non-citizens into citizens. If your village has the maximum number of citizens, none can be added.; Manage roles : Change role permissions and role assignments, change reputations. <br> Also allows disbanding the settlement.<br><b>Also allows pickup of items on the deed!</b>; Mine rock and ore: [[Mining]].; [[Terraform]] : Dig, pack, pave and flatten.; Expand : Expand the settlement with a larger deed.; Pass all fences : Passing through all fences, even locked ones.; Lock fences : Locking fences.; Attack citizen : Attacking citizens.; Attack non-citizen : Attacking non-citizens, disabling this will also keep players from attacking [[:wikipedia:Mob_(video_gaming)Permissions#Settlement|mob'sSettlement Permissions]] on the deed.; Diplomat : Form alliances, declare war, make peace. '''Also can change settlement from a Dictatorship to a Democracy'''; Fish : Allows fishing.; Map : Allows ability to add and remove village annotations on the map.; DELETE : This permission will delete the role if set.''' Note that you cannot give specific permissions to solely a single player that is a non-citizen of the deed''' Be aware that even if you specifically put a player's name into the role field and the village that they are a part of in the village field, any permissions granted under that role name is allowed to any member of the village entered in the village field. For example, if Player1 was entered into the role field on VillageFunTime's settlement permissions, and was given the permission to terraform, and the village Player1 is a citizen of (say, VillageCoolBreeze) is entered into the village field, then if Player2 from the same village as Player1 came to VillageFunTime, then Player2 would be able to terraform even though their name was not specified in the role field. The town does not have to part of your alliance to be added in this manner. This has been tested as of 21/01/13 and is correcttutorial.

=== Settings & Settlement permissions ===

These additional permissions are not linked to roles'''Additional Settings''':; Politics: Marking this will make the settlement a permanent democracy (founding mayors can revert).:;Aggressive Creatures: Mark this if you want guards to ignore aggressive creatures. (Note: Changing this setting while one or more templars are engaged with a hostile creature will not disengage the templars from combat.):; Unlimited citizens: Allows the recruitment of citizens above the maximum amount. While you are above the maximum amount of citizens upkeep is doubled.; Merchants: Allows placing of personal merchants.; Items and creatures : This allows === Alliance ===An Alliance''anyone'' to pick up items and [[tame]] animals within the settlement (but not inside buildings)s MOTD can be changed via Manage > Settlement > Manage Politics To leave an Alliance, put a checkmark at "break alliance.. Allies are always able to pick up items, to let them tame animals this permission still needs to be checked." via Manage > Settlement > Manage Politics

You can [[sell]] items at a [[settlement token]] for iron coinsas long as there is funds in the kingdoms coffers. See the sell link for more information.

See [[Faith_bonus#Deed_Faith_Bonus|Deed Faith Bonus]] for information about possible bonuses given to your settlement for sacrificing items.[[Category:MiscGuides]]