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== New deed system Description ==The A [[settlement]], or deed system was recently updated, see this website for detailsis an area of land owned by a player or group of players: http://sitesa [[mayor]] and [[citizen]]s (if any).googleA settlement is marked by a [[settlement token]] on an outdoor tile somewhere within its borders.com/You receive a/wurmonline.com/newsettlement deed form in your inventory (that is no-drop) when you deed-system/a settlement.

== Description ==The mayor is the most important citizen of a settlement.  A [[character may only be a citizen or mayor of one settlement]] is an area of land owned by at a time per server. The same character can be a player citizen or group mayor of playersanother settlement on a different server. A player with multiple characters 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 marked by a [[settlement token]] in the exact center mayor of the one settlement.

== Advantages to Deeding Land ==* Control of who is allowed which actions within the settlement area.* [[Deed guards]] protecting the settlement.* Reduced Setting reputations to keep out unwanted people (see [[decayKill on Sight]]).* A settlement token to access your [[bank]] account.* On settlements with over 30 days upkeep in their coffers:** No decay on buildings, 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 [[structurespirit guards]]s.* Village chat.* Instant logout when leaving Wurm inside the settlement (some exceptions apply).

* Respawn at [[Ally#Allies_and_wars|allied ]] settlements that are within 50 [[tile]]s when you die.* [[Skill]]-loss when dying on your own deed or allied deed is only 0.025. [[Suicide]]s have the normal skill-loss of 0.25.* Control of who is allowed which actions within [[Branding]] animals to show the settlement area* Setting reputations village they belong to and to keep out unwanted peopleallow managing their permissions.* A settlement token to have your [[bankproductivity bonus]] account to item crafting for the citizens the older the deed is; see ''acquired knowledge'' in the village info atthe token.* Instant logout Note: It seems that the productivity bonus begins to decrease when leaving Wurm inside upkeep is lower than one month (you will receive a message in the settlement (some exceptions applyvillage chat tab when you log in when upkeep falls below one month). Keeping more than one month's worth of upkeep in the village coffers will reverse this trend.* Enchanting bonus, healing bonus, and increased [[Champion playerRarity system|Championrare window]]s suiciding on a deed get a 50% chance of not counting as a [[real death]]* Less skill decay (see the token for how much)from settlement members sacrificing items at altars.

To found Founding a settlement you must first obtain (deed) requires the use of a settlement form. Unlike [[Writ of Ownership|writsdeed stake]], .  Right-clicking a deed stake in your inventory brings up a "Settlement Application Form" dialog in which you have all the options for your settlement. The founding costs are created by building a [[house]]taken from your bank account. The cost for the minimum sized deed is 4 silver, 21 copper. This includes the cost of the tiles plus 3 silver coins towards upkeep. Stand on the tile that you want your village centre token to be on, right-click the Settlement deed stake in your inventory, settlement and choose Village > Found Village. A series of forms must be purchased from follows where you can set:* Settlement size (east, west, north, and south)* Perimeter size, beyond the five free tiles* Village name and motto and whether it is a democracy or dictatorship.** You can rename a [[NPC]] tradervillage in the resize option for 5 silver coins. This resets the productivity bonus of the village and locks the name for 6 months. The price *Number of guards. One tile on deed costs 1 copper to purchase and has a [[form]] is 10 silver20 iron upkeep. 1 perimeter tile costs 50 iron to purchase and has a 5 iron upkeep.

Settlements You can only be founded within your [[kingdom]]found a deed while you are still a villager of another deed. On Once you found the [[wild server]], this might require building [[guard tower]]snew deed you'll become the mayor of the new deed and automatically leave the old deed.

The settlement is usually centered on the settlement token, and covers its size in tiles in every direction. A size 10 settlement thus covers deed has a 21x21 square (10 + 1 + 10)rectangular form. This area includes One edge of the tile borders' "outside" deed can not be longer than four times the outermost tilesother edge. Minimum size is 5.

If 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 founding tile area better, make use of the settlement has a house or fences, Survey Area button in the forms that places temporary survey markers at the token is moved to a random spot away from them. The deed planned borders do not move with it.

Founding ===Notes===*Free players can plant a deed, but won't be able to invite other players until they turn premium. Free players cannot take over ownership of a pre-existing deed.*You need to have management [[permissions]] of all buildings that fall within your new settlement too close area to be able to water will failplace a deed. **''You can place a new deed's '''perimeter''' over existing buildings for which you don't own, but you need at least two full tiles of perimeter between the edge of your deed and the edge of any building you do not own. Each token must *Settlements can only be placed 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 certain distance from deed within 100 tiles submersed in waterof any non-allied same kingdom deed. In *If the case founding tile of the settlement has a size 5 house or fences, the token is moved to a random spot away from them. The deedborders do not move with it. You cannot build a house or fence on the token tile later on either, there but [[terraforming]] is possible.*A token must be no water placed at least second tile away from tiles submersed in water (center tile of 3x3 island is enough). *A token cannot be inside a cave, or a radius of 2 tiles from house.*Aggressive animals, on what will become the center deed, prevent planting of the deed; kill or lead them away first. Creatures in the future perimeter do not count. This means *The mayor can destroy any building on deed, even if he/she does not have permissions to that building.*You may not plant a 5x5 square should be at deed on [[Holy Ground]].*When founding a deed, it will add 3 silver to the center cost of where you plan founding, and apply that to deedupkeep.

'''Tip:''' You can test whether you are able to plant a deed at your current location simply by trying to found it.

After founding, you can edit your settings from the Token > Settlement menu, or from the Settlement deed paper > Village menu. == Perimeter ==The perimeter around a deed disallows non-citizens building structures, and the founding of other deeds. Your deed perimeter cannot overlap with the perimeter of another deed, although they can share a perimeter border. On the Epic servers, the kingdom guards will hunt down any player that have less than -30 reputation in the deed within the perimeter.  The first 5 tiles around a settlement deed are free perimeter. You can extend beyond the free perimeter, but this will come at a cost. Initial fee per tile is 50 iron, with an added monthly upkeep of 5 iron. Perimeter can be resized at any time, but the minimum perimeter allowed is 5 tiles. Perimeter is treated the same with wilderness, thus do not reduce decay.Nor does it increase decay unless the owner of the structure has been away from the server for more than three months. At which time the building will begin to accumulate increased perimeter decay. This occurs in addition to the “abandoned” status decay increase. To understand the concept of perimeters and their implications to deed planting, you can check this example: [http://i.imgur.com/4ANSNmE.png] == Deed resizing Resizing ==Deeds can be resized by the mayor at the token or with the settlement deed.You cannot resize if the settlement is under siege, or if your Templar is fighting an aggressive animal. There are '''no refunds''' for downsizing. Premium time is not required to re-size a settlement. The mayor can expand his perimeter over a house which he does not have 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 house to expand the deed over it.  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 dialog. 3 silver will always be left as a minimum, so if you have less than that, the coffers will not be used. '''Warning:''' At the question concerning hiring of a spirit templar (or guards), if you leave it as 0 the resized deed will have no templar even if you originally had one (or more). <u>Always fill this in with 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 order, and the actual disbanding of the deed. Doing so may cause you to not receive any refund. 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. The If manually disbanded, the owner receives half all of the cost of the settlement form (5s), and half of the remaining [[upkeep]] if manually disbandedcoffer 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).* 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.* If you remove all villagers and resize the deed to smallest size before disbanding, disbanding will take 1 real hour.* When disbanding, all branded animals lose their branding.* The area occupied by a deed when it disbands becomes the area in which archaeology can be performed on that deed, no matter how large or small the deed was previously. == Mayor ==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. *If trading to a player who is not in a village, the transfer is immediate.*If trading to a player who is in that village, they must have been a member for at least 24 hours before the transfer can take place. '''If you are purchasing a Settlement from someone, do NOT join the village first. If you do, you will not be able to take ownership for 24 hours.'''=== Voting ===If your deed is a Dictatorship, the mayor cannot be voted out. (This was changed, as an 81% vote used to be enough to evict the mayor) If your deed is a Democracy, your villages disbandcan elect a new mayor by a successful vote, by using the command ''/vote''. Success requires a majority: 51% or more of the votes.  Citizens may vote at any time, once per election. The election ends immediately whenever one candidate has received a majority of the votes, or when all votes have been cast. Elections can continue, even though the [[gate]]s are unlockedincumbent mayor is already clearly going to win, until a majority has voted. Each citizen is allowed only one vote per election, and can only vote for another citizen, not for themselves. A vote cannot be changed after it is cast. If a new mayor is elected, the deed transfers into their possession. Once an election is completed, a new vote will initiate a new election.  ''Note: Vote command gives the confirmation message: "You vote for Name as mayor this week.", so possibly the mayor can only be changed once per week, regardless of the number of elections?''

A village can have manycitizens, with maximum being the exact number depending on the sizeof deed tiles divided by 11. You may remove even that restriction if you pay double upkeep. Making  Inviting someone a citizen of a to join your village requires that you have the '''(make people) citizens' '' permission. Right-click them and choose ''Invite to join'' permission. They will get a Settlement invitation confirmation window. If the village is a dictatorship, the mayor can also remove citizens. Citizens can also leave on their own volition using the [[chat command]] ''/revoke <village name>''. Citizens of a democracy cannot be removed; they must revoke their citizenship. If you have become a citizen of a settlement in the past 24 hours, you will not be able to join a new village until 24 hours have passed. You can however found a deed and become a villager of the newly founded deed without having to wait for the 24 hours to pass. Each citizen is assigned a role determining which actions are allowed inside the settlement. Customizing, adding, and removing roles, requires the '''manage roles''' permission. The non-founding mayor of a deed can change from democracy to dictatorship by opening the resize deed box and unchecking the box for democracy.  == Spirit Templars (Deed Guards) ==Settlements can be protected by [[Spirit templar]]s. Hiring or releasing templars requires the ''Hire guards'' permission.  Spirit templars will attack any aggressive [[creatures]] that enter the settlement area, but not the perimeter. Unlike [[tower guard]]s, they do not respond to calls for help.  They will also attack anyone who is marked as Kill on Sight for that deed. ''(See [[KoS]] and [[Reputation]] for details)''. Citizens with the '''manage roles''' permission can also set reputations manually. To remove someone added manually, set their reputation to 0 and tick permanent, then save the form.

Each citizen The maximum number of templars you can have is assigned 1 per 49 tiles. Example: Number of templars in a role determining which actions are allowed inside 31x31 deed is 19. On the settlement. CustomizingEpic servers, adding and removing roles requires the '''manage roles''' permissionmaximum number is limited to 20.

== Voting ==All settlements have a mayorSpirit templars demand payment. The initial mayor is the founder of Hiring each new templar will cost 2 silver summoning cost, or 3 silver if the settlementis on an Epic server. At any given time, the mayor This is deducted immediately from the one who holds settlement upkeep, before they spawn. Each Templar also adds 1 silver to the deedmonthly settlement upkeep. Trading On epic, the deed make the new owner cost of the deed, the mayortemplars will increase by . Villages can elect a new mayor 5s by a successful voteeach guard hired (I. Success requires a majority: 51% of E 1s for the votes if the village is a democracyfirst guard, 81% if it is a dictatorship1. Citizens may vote at any time, once per election. The election ends immediately whenever one candidate has received a majority of the votes, or when all votes have been cast. (Elections can continue, even though 5s for the incumbent mayor is already clearly going to winsecond, until a majority have voted.) Each citizen is allowed only one vote per election, and can only vote 2s for another citizen (not for themselves). A vote can't be changed after it is cast. If a new mayor is elected, the deed transfers into their possession ''(not testedthird)''. Once an election is completed, a new vote will initiate a new election.

''Possibly the mayor Templars can only be changed once per weekmanaged at the token under Settlement > Manage guards, regardless of or from the number of elections in a week? - investigatingSettlement deed paper under Village > Manage guards.''

== Guards and upkeep Upkeep / Coffers ==Settlements Upkeep money is taken from the village funds every 8 real-life minutes. If the upkeep fund is depleted, the settlement is disbanded automatically. If the fund has more than a month of upkeep, there is no decay at all. Upkeep can be protected by heavy [[paid at the token under Settlement > Add to upkeep, or from the Settlement deed guards]]paper under Settlement > Add to upkeep. Changing Anyone can donate money to the guard settings requires upkeep fund at the ''hire guards'' permissiontoken, even non-citizens.

Guards will attack aggressive [[creature]]s '''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 enter the settlement areawould fit this limit, as well as any character with -30 or lower if you are not sure how much a deed size will cost you can use [[reputation]]https://warlander.github. Negative reputation is automatically acquired when [[stealingio/Wurm-Toolbox/#deed-calc Warlander´s deed Calculator]] and otherwise breaking the settlement rules. Citizens with the '''manage roles''' permission can also set reputations manuallythe calculator does not include the 3 silver for the upkeep coffers.

The maximum number === Upkeep used for expansion costs ===When resizing a deed, some of guards you the charges can have is 1 guard per 7x7 tiles areacome from the coffers. Example: Guard amount This will be reflected on the last screen of the resize dialog. 3 silver will always be left as a 31x31 deed is 19minimum, so if you have less than that, the coffers will not be used.

Guards demand payment. Hiring each new guard will cost 1 Example : :The settlement has 7 silver summoning cost. This is deducted immediately from the settlement upkeep, before they spawn. Each guard also adds 30 99 copper to the monthly settlement upkeepand 96 iron in its coffers.

Anyone can donate money :This change will cost 26 silver and 80 copper.:Up to the upkeep fund4 silver, even non-citizens. If 99 copper and 96 iron can be taken from the settlement upkeep fund is depleted the settlement is disbanded automaticallyfunds. A large upkeep fund reduces decay on buildings :21 silver, 80 copper and [[fence]]s in the 4 iron will be taken from your bank account. :The settlement. If the fund has more than a month of upkeep there is no decay at all3 silver in its coffers.

On the Wild serverChaos, 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.

Draining cannot take more money than the upkeep fund actually contains. If a drain empties the upkeep fund completely, the deed will disband in a short while. (The reason given will be the generic lack of upkeep message.) Unlike normal dsibandsdisbands, no money is refunded to the former mayor.

== 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===* Allies have their own deed role.* Citizens need a role with the "allow actions on allied deeds" permission to get the benefits of the ally role permissions

* 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===Wars in Wurm need to be accepted by both sides to come into effect. When a war is in effect, the normal penalties for sameSame-kingdom fighting do not apply. Enemy citizens will have a red outlinewars are possible on [[Epic]] and [[Chaos]].

==Permissions & Settings = Permission Roles ==== Permissions ===Each role can have a different set of permissions enabled. There are no known For permission information, please see [[Permissions#Settlement|Settlement Permissions]] in the permissions that control butchering and buryingtutorial.

=== Settings ===; Build Village motto: Plan, color, and continue buildings and fences <br> Also allows [[lockpicking]]The Motto will be on all gates when examined.; [[Forestry]] : Chopping down young [[tree]]s, picking [[sprout]]s, planting sprouts; Cut old trees14: is required for cutting down old trees; Destroy buildings 28: Destroying buildings, [[building plan13]]s, fences, and You see a wooden fence plans. Only works on citizens, not allies. gate in the settlement of <brvillage name> Also allows lockpicking.; Farm : Sowing, [[farming14:28:13]] and harvesting fields <br> Also allows [[milk]]ing and leading [[animals]]; Hire guards A plaque is attached to it: Changing guard level; Citizens : Making non-citizens into citizens. If your village has the maximum number of citizens, none can be added.; Manage roles [14: Change role permissions and role assignments, change reputations <br> Also allows disbanding the settlement; Mine rock and ore28: [[Mining]13]-----------------; [:[Terraform]] 14: Dig, pack, pave and flatten; Expand 28: Expand the settlement with a larger deed13] <Motto>.; Pass all fences : Passing through all fences, even locked ones; Lock fences [14: Locking fences; Attack citizen 28: Attacking citizens; Attack non13] ----------------citizen : Attacking non-citizens; Diplomat : Form alliances, declare war, make peace; Fish [14: Allows fishing; DELETE 28: This permission will delete the role if set13] QL=26.913738, dam=0.0

These additional permissions are not linked to roles;Village message of the day :Message of the day for village chat. Displays on login / change.; Politics: Marking this will make the settlement a democracy[14:21:04] MOTD:TESTING IT

'''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.

; Items and creatures : This allows ''anyone'' to pick up items and [[tame]] animals within the settlement (but not inside buildings). Allies are always able to do this, unchecked or not. ==Perimeter ==The perimeter around a deed disallows building structures and the founding of other deeds. Your deed perimeter cannot overlap with the perimeter of another deed, though they can share a perimeter border. On the wild server, the kingdom guards will hunt down any player that have less then -30 reputation in the deed within the perimeter.  The first 5 tiles around a settlement deed are free perimeter. You can extend beyond the free perimeterTo leave an Alliance, but this will come at put a cost. Initial fee per tile is 50 iron, with an added monthly upkeep of 5 iron. Perimeter can be resized checkmark at any time"break alliance. == Cost ==See the [http://sites.google.com/a/wurmonline.com/new-deed-system/cost-calculator Cost calculator]" via Manage > Settlement > Manage Politics

<tr> <td> Cost Initial cost per tile of a settlement: </td> <td> 200 100 iron coins</td> </tr><tr> <td> Upkeep cost per tile for settlement: </td> <td> 20 iron coins</td> </tr><tr> <td> Cost Initial cost per tile for a perimeter:</td> <td> 50 iron coins</td> </tr><tr> <td> Upkeep cost per tile for a perimeter: </td> <td> 5 iron coins</td> </tr><tr> <td> Cost Initial cost for hiring a guard(per 1): </td> <td> Freedom = 2 Silver silver / Epic = 3 silver coins</td> </tr><tr> <td> Guard monthly salary(per 1): </td> <td> Freedom = 1 silver / Epic = 3 silver coins</td> </tr>

== Additional Information ==You can [[sell]] items at a [[settlement token]] for iron coins as 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]]