'''Happy Holidays! The Christmas event is now live.'''
Help Santa find his missing toy factory parts and turn them in for gifts! More details: [https://forum.wurmonline.com/index.php?/topic/200093-christmas-event-2023/ Christmas event 2023]
===Server Changelog===
*New: Christmas 2023 event has been added (click to learn more)
*New: Craftable “large barrel rack” item has been added to the game
*New: Craftable “paper mask” item has been added to the game
*Change: Resource Nodes Tweaks
**Villages can now use the setting to disable resource node spawning even when no spirit templar is hired.
**Snow pile resource nodes are now slightly more likely to spawn.
**Snowball item count from snow pile nodes has been significantly increased in winter. For instance, snow piles below the snow line will now yield 8 snowballs instead of 4.
**Snowball quality now drops significantly less than it did before with each successive snowball collected during the action, and should now be much higher on average.
**Items that decay in inventory, including snowballs and food items, now have a grace period after creation during which they will not decay. This is similar to the grace period items have outside of the inventory, but is shorter, at 12 real-life hours.
**Forage and botanize will no longer require you to be on solid ground.
*Change: Hanging lamps and torch lamps can now be placed on walls.
*Change: Dirty caskets and bottles will now show what server they are from.
*Change: World-map stamps on cartography maps will now be properly removed when an eraser is used on the map.
*Change: Rebalanced tool weapons and salves for PvP servers
**Added 1 second to swing timer of sickle and scythe if a player is attacking another player on PvP servers.
**Removed the effect of salves on weapons if a player is attacking another player on PvP servers.
===Client Changelog===
*Bugfix: Fixed a client crash when clicking on a world-map annotation that is linked to a cartography map that is no longer in an atlas.
===Monthly Skin===
*Added “Santa Beard”, a skin for the new paper mask item. Available in the Marks Shop at any settlement token through December.
''A luxurious Santa beard meticulously handcrafted from the finest sheep’s wool, providing a cozy feel and gentle warmth to your face.''
===Silver Shop Changes===
*Added Adorned Shovel, a new shovel skin, priced at 10 silver coins, available at a 50% discount, for 5 silver coins, until January 11th 2023
*Added a Busy Gnomes Pack with 3 new garden gnomes. The pack can be purchased for 20 silver coins, the individual garden gnomes are priced at 10 silver coins each. These offers are 50% off until January 11th 2023.
**Foraging Garden Gnome
**Fishing Garden Gnome
**Blacksmith Garden Gnome
*Only from December 22nd 2023 until January 11th 2023 (during the Christmas event) the following items will be available on the shop:
**Soft cap: 5 silver coins
**Snow lantern: 3 silver coins
*From December 22nd 2023 until January 11th 2023 the following items will be on sale:
**Adorned Shovel: 5 silver coins (instead of 10)
**Busy Gnomes Pack: 10 silver coins (instead of 20)
**Foraging Garden Gnome: 5 silver coins (instead of 10)
**Fishing Garden Gnome: 5 silver coins (instead of 10)
**Blacksmith Garden Gnome: 5 silver coins (instead of 10)
**Merry Gnomes Pack: 10 silver coins (instead of 20)
**Axeman Garden Gnome: 5 silver coins (instead of 10)
**Miner Garden Gnome: 5 silver coins (instead of 10)
**Drunkard Garden Gnome: 5 silver coins (instead of 10)
**Sleep Powder: 2 silver coins (instead of 3)
**5 Sleep Powder: 8 silver coins (instead of 12)
**10 Sleep Powder: 15 silver coins (instead of 20)
**20 Sleep powder: 25 silver coins (instead of 35)