Changes

:Dying is something to be expected during your first days in Wurm Online – so don’t be worried. You will lose a small percentage of your current skills (which aren’t very high yet anyway), and some of your inventory items will be missing. They remain with your [[Death#Your_corpse|your corpse]] and can be retrieved later. (The items are safe for quite a while; nobody will be able to take them as long as the corpse is lying on the ground – typically a couple of real days.) When you die, a window will appear asking you where you want to respawn. You always have the option to respawn at the starter town, and – if you dropped your [[explorer starter tent]] somewhere – near your tent. (That’s why it is a good idea to drop your tent if you are staying at a place far from a starter town for a while.)<br><br>

:You may have noticed that your water and food bar are slowly decreasing while you play Wurm Online. Don’t be worried too much: you cannot die from hunger or thirst! However, having full bars is always a good thing, because the lower they are the slower you will regain stamina. Drinking water regularly is more important than keeping your food level up, because your body is able to “fast” several times if you become too hungry. “Fasting” “[[Fasting]]” will restore your food bar (while lowering your nutrition value; but you don’t have to worry about that for the time being). Getting water is easy: just find a well or fountain, or go to the sea coast or any lake shore and drink! (Yes, you can even drink sea water!) Getting food is a bit more difficult. You can either [[forage]] for vegetables or berries (which are not very nutritious), go [[fishing]] or try to cook a simple meal from fresh meat (look for animal corpses) and vegetables, using a campfire.<br><br>

:Characters that are close to you will appear in your local list (to the right side of the Event Tab)tab. You can chat with them by using the chat tab named [[Local#Local|“Local”]] (usually the first tab in the chat window). In order to type a chat line just press “Enter” and then type your line. Send it to the local area by pressing “Enter” again. If you have questions about the game and need help with game mechanics, you are welcome to use the chat tab named “CA HELP”. (Just click on the tab, then ask your question in the same way as explained earlier.) There are two more chat tabs that can be used to communicate with other players – but they usually have to be opened before you can use them. Typing “/shout <message>” will open a chat tab called “Freedom” and will send your message to all players on your current island (provided they are reading that chat). Typing “/gshout <message>” will open a chat tab called “Gl_Freedom” and will send your message to all islands (technically to all islands within your current kingdom). Both tabs will stay open, so you can continue chatting there. Finally, you can open a private chat with another player by typing “/tell <name>”, inserting the proper character name.<br><br>

:You can play Wurm Online for free as a non-premium player as long as you wish. However, becoming a [[premium]] player will grant you a lot of benefits: you can raise your skills above 20 (meaning you will be able to perform many tasks that you wouldn’t be able to as a non-premium player, like building stone houses, riding horses, using sailing boats and driving carts, becoming a priest, and many other things), you can invite citizens to your village, and your account will never be deleted even after a long period of inactivity. So, in a nutshell: If you want to enjoy all of Wurm’s features and “really play the game” you should become a premium player! The monthly cost for a premium account is 8 Euros, if you buy premium time from the [https://shop.wurmonline.com Wurm shop]. You can also buy 30 days of premium time for 10 silver coins at any settlement token in-game.(First time premium for new players has been reduced to 2 silvers, if bought in-game)<br><br>