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=== Measurements === * 1 tile = 4 meter x 4 meter square. * 250 tiles = 1 kilometer

250 tiles * 10 dirts (dropped or dug) = 1 kilometermeter of slope

10 dirts === Time === * 1 RL hour = 8 Wurm hours * 1 RL day = 8 Wurm days * 1 Wurm day = 3 real hours * 1 Wurm hour = 7.5 real minutes (dropped or dug0.125 real hours)  * 1 Wurm year = 336 Wurm days = 1 meter of slope42 real days

* The standard measurement designated to measuring distance in Wurm is the “tile”. Tiles are the equally sized squares that the landscape of Wurm Online is entirely composed of. In the 3D world of Wurm a tile can be either flat or inclined, so that one or more of its corners can be higher or lower than the others.

* A relatively flat tile represents what in real-life would be a 4 meter by 4 meter square. Subsequently, 250 tiles then equals what would be, in real-life, 1 kilometer.

* Exact linear distance can easily be gleaned by using a [[spyglass]], as this tool will display the exact distance between the user and any distant object targeted within its viewing crosshairs. See picture for example:

{|class="wikitable"! style="font-weight: bold; text-align:leftcenter;" width="200"| Object! style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" width="100" | Height (m)

|Player character| style="text-align: right;" |1.7

|House wall (1 floorone level)| style="text-align: right;" | 3.0 *|-|Standard mine tunnel| style="text-align: right;" | 3

| style="text-align: right;" | 5.6

| style="text-align: right;" | 25

| style="text-align: right;" | 34

| style="text-align: right;" | 40|}''(*) Note: floors are 0.3m over walls (example standing on 2nd floor is at 3m + 0.3m = 3.3m)

''*) Note: the ground floor of a house has a height of 3.3 m'' Finally, talking about measuring heights, we must look at another basic unit of measurement used in the Wurm world: “dirts”. Whenever we see sloped tiles defining the 3D landscape, the elevation of slopes is given in terms of the amount of “dirts" dropped. When terraforming the land you use a shovel to dig or drop dirt - you add or subtract one “unit of dirt” with each action of the shovel.

* Using the method of triangulation described above, we can find out how these “units of dirt” correspond to metric units. By dropping dirt, we make elevated platforms of various heights thus creating different slopes. We then position an observer in a pit, so that the eye level is slightly above the ground, and take screenshots:

We obtain This table shows the following table (angle for slopes spanning a single tile):

{|class="wikitable"! style="font-weight: bold; text-align:leftcenter;" width="100"| Slope! style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" width="100" | Angle! style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" width="100" | Elevation (m)

| style="text-align: right;" |10| style="text-align: right;" |14.0| style="text-align: right;" |1.0

| style="text-align: right;" |20| style="text-align: right;" |26.6| style="text-align: right;" |2.0

| style="text-align: right;" |30| style="text-align: right;" |36.9| style="text-align: right;" |3.0

| style="text-align: right;" |40| style="text-align: right;" |45.0| style="text-align: right;" |4.0

| style="text-align: right;" |50| style="text-align: right;" |51.3| style="text-align: right;" |5.0

| style="text-align: right;" |60| style="text-align: right;" |56.3| style="text-align: right;" |6.0

| style="text-align: right;" |70| style="text-align: right;" |60.3| style="text-align: right;" |7.0

| style="text-align: right;" |80| style="text-align: right;" |63.4| style="text-align: right;" |8.0

| style="text-align: right;" |90| style="text-align: right;" |66.0| style="text-align: right;" |9.0

| style="text-align: right;" |100| style="text-align: right;" |68.2| style="text-align: right;" |10.0

| style="text-align: right;" |150| style="text-align: right;" |75.1| style="text-align: right;" |15.0

| style="text-align: right;" |200| style="text-align: right;" |78.7| style="text-align: right;" |20.0

* Liquids happen to be 1kg to 1L (weight to volume), and because of this, are often referenced in liters (L). Many sold solid items have different kg to L relationships. Examples:** A small bucket can hold 12 L. A full bucket of water containers contains 12 L of water weighting 12 kg. ** A pottery bowl can hold 9 L and weights 0.50 kg. A filet fillet of fish is 0.20 L and weights 0.30 kg. Thus, a pottery bowl can hold 45 filets fillets (9 / 0.2 = 45) and will weight 14 kg (13.50 kg filetfillet, 0.50 kg bowl).

* Volume puts limits on how much of something can fit in a container. All containers themselves consume slightly more volume then they hold. Hypothetically then, players can carry infinite volume and containers can hold infinite weight.

One of the first things we notice when observing the * The world of Wurm Online is the rapid succession of day and night: a full day-night cycle only lasts 3 hours of our real-world time. Thus, we conclude that the planet Wurm rotates rapidly around its axis: approximately 8 times faster than our Earth. (At this point, we will not discuss the physical implications of this observation, nor will we speculate on the possible reasons for the rapid planetary rotation. This will probably be done in one of the following parts of this series.)  '''1 real day = 8 Wurm days''' or: '''1 Wurm day = 3 real hours''' (By “day” we mean one full planetary rotation, i.e. a complete “day-night cycle”.)Just like in our real world, the rotation of our planet determines how we measure timelife Earth. In the Wurm universe, instead of saying that As a full planetary rotation lasts 3 hoursresult, it was agreed to split the day-night cycle into 24 time units, called “Wurm hours”. (Bear in mind that this is only an arbitrary convention – we could also have agreed on a Wurm rotation having 12 or 30 “Wurm hours”. By choosing the number 24 we just made it easier for us, because now there following statements are as many “Wurm hours” in a “Wurm day” as there are real hours in an Earth day.)Once we made that definition, it is clear thattrue:

'''1 real hour day = 8 Wurm hoursdays''' or: AND '''1 Wurm hour day = 0.125 3 real hours (7.5 real minutes)'''

It must be noted that this definition has caused a common misunderstanding. On the forums (and even on Wurmpedia) you can sometimes read that “Wurm time passes '''1 real hour = 8 times faster than real time”. Wurm hours'''This is not true!AND ''' Time in the 1 Wurm universe is the same as time in our real world – we only use a unit of time measurement which is 8 times smaller than in hour = 0.125 real life! hours (It is the same effect as if you defined a new unit of length – say: “1 Wurm meter”, corresponding to 25 7.5 real centimeters - and you would say that a 1-meter ruler has a length of “4 Wurm meters”. This doesn’t make the ruler 4 times longer than it was before!minutes)'''

You can easily see that Wurm * For more help with time passes at the same rate as real time by watching the speed indicator below the GUI status window: [[File:Speed_Indicator.png]] Let your character run a while and count the number of tiles you cross in a given length of time. Considering that 1 tile corresponds to 4 meters (, see part 1 of this series) you will easily see that the speed indicated in the GUI uses “real time” instead of some kind of pseudo “accelerated time”. If we take a closer look at the 3 hours defining a full “Wurm day”, we find that Sol (the sun of our planet Wurm) rises at following '''04:30Game Time Conversion Table''' (Wurm time) and sets at '''19:30''' (Wurm time) each day. That’s why the time between about 20:00 and 04:00 is dark (“night”), and the time between 04:00 and 20:00 is bright (“day”). == Game Time Conversion Table ==

Now that we have defined the “Wurm day” and the “Wurm hour”, we * The Wurm world also observe that the visual appearance of Wurm’s nature changes as time passes. Just like in real life, we experience experiences 4 different seasons, called “winter”, “spring”, “summer”, and “autumn”. These seasons reoccur regularly after during 336 Wurm days. Thus we can define the “Wurm year”As such:

* This is a convenient number, because 336 = 7 x 4 x 12, allowing us to split a Wurm year into 12 months (called “starfalls”), each with 4 weeks of 7 days.As such:

# '''Spring''' (beginning in week 3 of the Diamond Starfall)# '''Summer''' (beginning in week 1 of the Leaf Starfall)# '''Autumn''' (beginning in week 4 of the Raven Starfall)# '''Winter''' (beginning in week 2 of the Silent Starfall). ===Starfalls (12)===''(In-game wiki-friendly list)'' # Diamond Diamonds Starfall - ''[[Pinenut]] (week 1)''

# Bear starfall - [[Lavenderflowers]] (week 2), [[Roseflowers]] (week 3), [[Maple]] (week 4)''# Snake starfall - ''[[AcornAcorns]] (week 2)''

# Fire Starfall - ''[[Olive]] (week 1), ''[[BlueberryBlueberries]] (week 2)'', [[Hops]] (week 3)'', [[Orange]] (week 4)''# Raven starfall - ''[[Grape]] (week 1), ''[[Lemon]] (week 2), [[Apple]] (week 3)'', ''[[ChestnutChestnuts]] season (week 4)''# Dancer Starfall - ''[[RaspberryRaspberries]] season (week 1)'', ''[[WalnutWalnuts]] (week 2), [[HazelnutHazelnuts]] (week 3)'', ''[[LingonberryLingonberries]] season (week 4)''

# Day of the Luck

# Day of the Wrath# Day of the TearTears# Day of the Sleep# Day of the Awakening

 [[File:Wurm Calendar 09wurmcalendar.pngJPG]]