Guides:Wurmians starter guide
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--Arcanias 04:12, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
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Starting out in Wurm!
Starting out in Wurm can be tough at first, but as long as you're pointed out in the right direction you will be able to thrive off the land.
Stats
In Wurm you have a Thirst bar , Hunger bar and a Stamina bar; these stats are your lifeline. This section will teach you how to keep an eye on each one, and replenish them accordingly.
Hunger bar
You must eat in Wurm just as we all do everyday. But in Wurm, when you eat, you gain Nutrition as well as replenishing the food meter. But as a new player you shouldn't have to worry about eating too much. This is because if your hunger meter hits 7%, you will fast which will use up a fat layer to boost your hunger meter back up to 80%. You can examine your body to get an idea of how many fat layers you have (generally, new players have 8 layers). See Starvation for more details.
Thirst bar
The Thirst meter is one that you should always keep in check. Thirst affects your stamina regeneration, which in Wurm is very important. As said before, your stamina affects the speed in which you complete tasks and other actions inside Wurm. Keeping your thirst meter above 80% will give you the best regeneration.
Keeping your thirst meter filled is very simple, so once again, no need to worry. There is plenty of water around Wurm for everyone, and it's never a problem for a friendly neighbor to share some. Keep in mind that most of the Wurm community is very helpful, and will either share their water, or guide you to a location to find some.
Stamina/Health bar
Lastly, you have your Stamina bar, which doubles up as your Health bar. This shows how tired your character is. When it hits 0% you will walk slower and complete tasks slower. You will need to stop doing tasks, climbing, moving, etc. for the stamina bar to replenish. Your thirst bar, as said before, will affect the speed of which your Stamina regenerates.
If you take damage, it will remove portions of your stamina based on how severe the wounds are, how many wounds you have, and where they are at. This will mean your max stamina will be reduced until you have either been healed by a Priest or have used a Healing Cover (see First Aid for in-depth explanation).
Finding a place to start up
The best place to start would be a place with:
Water
Close or not to far from water is a good place to be especially for a new player.
Mine
Not too far from a public mine or a rock face.
Space
You don't want to be building on someone else's building plans so check in local or kingdom chat to see if anyone's building near you.
Wood
As a new player wood is a main resource for most of the games items so find a pretty forest with big trees like Pine, Cedar and maple.
Help
Make sure not to go far away from spawn you dont want to not know were you are if you need help.
Once you have found all of these you have a nice place to set up camp!
Starting off
First
You want a house to keep all you're belongings in and to keep you safe from all the nasty mobs that wont to naw on youre flesh.
1. Chop some trees with you're axe and make some planks, for a 1x1 house you would need around 80 planks and 4 large nails.
2. Use some off that left over wood to make yourself some shafts then use them to make a mallet head and a handle and attach them to make a mallet.
3. Next you will need some nails find some iron ore in a nearby mine or public mine (ask in CA HELP for a pointer in the direction of some) around 10x Iron ore will do just fine
4. Look for a public furnace (also ask in CA HELP) and light it with some kindling and a flint and steel, then plonk the iron ore in it.
5. Wait for the Iron ore to turn into lumps use a log to fuel the fire so it don't burn out.
6. Activate youre mallet and right click on the lump (make sure its glowing with heat) and make a Small anvil.
7. once you've got you're small anvil use the lump on the anvil to around 4x large nails.
8. now you have got the materials needed to make you're house.
9. now you should flatten the ground you want it to be (see Flattening for help).
10. lastly activate you're mallet and right click a tile click plan building.
11. now just add all the materials to it by clicking continue building.
Second
The next task would be to get some storage up in you're house like a Bulk storage bin or BSB as there known as.
You will need:
1x iron ribbon
24x planks
4x nails
You may also need a food storage bin.
You will need:
1x iron ribbon
24x planks
4x nails
Feeding yourself
Foraging/Botanizing
Probably the simplest way to obtain food simply righ click a grass tile and select nature then forage/botanize.
Foraging Can give berries and some herbs, vegetables and nuts.
Botanizing Can give you Herbs, vegatables and seeds
Hunting
Going out and finding a animal thats at you're Fighting skill and killing it then butchering it with you're carving knife is a good way to gain meat with the updates in spawn times.(see Animals for your Fighting skill limits)
Fishing
Fishing is the best source of meat when you don't want to risk fighting, to fish you will need a fishing rod
To make a rod you will need:
1x shaft 1x string of cloth 1x fishing hook
Cooking
To start cooking you need to make a Campfire to cook you're stuff or you can use a oven but you will need a one botanizing item and one foraging item and add them into a pottery bowl then place the bowl in the campfire until it makes casserole.
There are loads of other dishes to cook but this is the most basic one, there are foods such as:
