* New: Added a craftable variant of the checkerboard
* New: Rifts, Runes, and Imbues are now enabled on the Northern Freedom Isles
* Change: Checkers Boards will now fit on more tables.
* Change: Source Spring Rework
** Source springs will now respawn periodically around servers with a finite amount of source.
** Springs disappear once the source is collected from them.
** Current source springs and fountains will also stop regenerating source in them and will disappear once empty of source.
** Underground source springs that spawn upon breaking cave walls will now spawn more often.
* Change: You must now be on the same floor level as the vehicle in order to embark it.
* Change: Gathering Runes and Imbue rework for woodcutting and mining
** Gathering Runes add +10% to the base quality, but that is capped at your skill level.
** Imbues now add a bonus of up to 25% of the difference between the resulting quality and 100 at 100 imbue power. This can exceed your gathering skill.
** The rune bonus is applied before the imbue bonus.
** A breakdown of the imbue formula can be found here: https://forum.wurmonline.com/index.php?/topic/181865-imbue-rework-formula
** This only applies to woodcutting and mining
* Bugfix: Removed duplicate message when taking items from Bulk Storage Bins and Crates
* Bugfix: Fixed issue causing you to not be able to fight back when a hostile creature on deed targeted you first.
* BugFix: Particle effect will no longer remain visible after picking up the Checkers Board.
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Patch notes:
* Change: You can no longer bury corpses on deeds where you cannot terraform. Requires terraforming village role permission.
* Change: Wool items may now be used to bandage wounds, functioning identically to cotton items.
** The master cape, like kingdom robes, may now be used to bandage wounds an infinite number of times.
** Some unique items, such as newbie items and anniversary gifts, are now unable to be used as bandages, to prevent accidental destruction.
* Change: Player disease will no longer worsen if there are no other players or creatures present on the same tile.
** Players will now be slightly less likely to catch disease, and when a player is diseased, it will heal slightly more quickly when healing, and worsen slightly more slowly when worsening.
* PvP Change: You now need to wait 2 minutes on PvP servers after combat to be able to use /stuck.
* Bugfix: Light Tokens will now properly decay on deed, inside forges.
* Bugfix: Creature tile position is now saved when hitching, this should help solve hitched creatures getting diseased for no reason.
* Bugfix: Removed repeated text from summon soul question popup.
* Bugfix: Wrath of Magranon will no longer deal damage on villages outside raid windows
* Bugfix: No longer possible to lead more creatures than intended by using karma to summon creatures
* Bugfix: Roaming depot will now show its light at the proper time
* Bugfix: Marks shop swap deity will always give proper alignment for your new god and is no longer blocked for mayors when not changing kingdom also.
* Bugfix: Traitor missions will now properly trigger when there is also a kill x mission of the same creature.
* Bugfix: Single server Valrei instances will now properly give out prizes to the winner on completion of a scenario.
* Bugfix: When entering or leaving a cave creatures following will now always enter your layer and no longer get stuck on a different layer than you.