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Wurm Online Tutorial

Welcome to the unofficial Wurm Online tutorial. This tutorial will teach you how to feed yourself and how crafting works in the world of the Wurm.

The Wiki

What you are reading in now is the official Wurm Online Wikipedia. Just like the original Wikipedia, the Wurm Wiki is a large, online encyclopaedia containing all sorts of information, in this case specifically about Wurm. The Wiki is written and updated by dedicated players who feel a need to help out other people in regards to information. In the Wiki you will find many different types of information, from guides like this one, over small bits of lore to information about the different player made cities and construction guides to almost any item ingame.

To find information in the Wiki, just type your request in the search bar to your left, for instance, if you want to know how to create and use a catapult, you can just type in “catapult” and it will take you to a page containing building instructions as well as small bits of info on using the catapult.

As the Wiki is made by the players, do not expect it to always be 100% correct. Much of the current Wiki was written during the beta test of Wurm Online, and thus, some pages can be a bit outdated. You might also find that the Wiki can be lacking any information whatsoever on a specific subject, in this unlikely case, it is a good idea to ask ingame or on the forums. Just make sure that you have checked the Wiki properly to see if the information you seek is not there somewhere before you start asking, as quite a lot of people will just tell you to check the Wiki if you ask too many questions.

If you at one point should feel like you have the ability to add to the Wiki, you can send a private message to a GM on the forums to request a Wiki account.

The interface

First of all I will explain the interface. In the upper left corner of the game window you will see some text and a few coloured bars, I will explain these one by one.

F1: Console

The Console

Hit F1 on your keyboard to access the game console. The console is not commonly used by the ordinary player, except for turning on the additional client statistics window where you can see your current speed, distance travelled and other nice statistics. To open the statistics window, open the console and type in “toggle stats” without the “”.
=== F2: Skills ===

A list of common skills

Hit F2 on your keyboard to show a list of your skills. There are 4 main categories in this window, characteristics, religion, and spell effects. The characteristic subskills are values representing the current state of your body, mind and soul, for instance, to be able to attack anything, your body characteristic must be at least 1.5, or you will be too weak. Each sub-characteristic is again divided into several under-under characteristics, which has their own functions. For instance, the maximum amount of weight you can carry is determined by your body strength.

Religion skills consist of 3 things, faith, favour and alignment. Alignment basically says whether you are good or evil, this is determined by the actions you do. Some gods won’t accept your prayers if you are evil for instance. Faith is a measure of how much your chosen gods like you, e.g. how much power they bestow in you. Faith is increased by praying at an altar dedicated to your chosen god, although it is capped at 30 for players who does not wish to become priests. Priests are dedicated to following the will of their gods, and as thus, a priest has the ability to cast his or her god’s at the cost of favour. Favor is the equivalent of mana in many other role playing games. Favor is only regained over time once used, so it should be used wisely.

The is by far the most interesting. It lists all the skills you have discovered, as well as a number representing your expertise within that skill. As your skills increase you will find that the various tasks in the game becomes easier, and you will make better and better items. Skills decay over time, as well as when you die, so take good care, your skills are the most valuable thing you have. Due to the skill decay, it is important to specialize if one wants to have high skills, as they will otherwise slowly decay.

Spell effects, or “buffs” as they are known in other games, are temporary magical effects that affect your character.

=== F3: Inventory ===

The Inventory window

The inventory menu contains 2 things, your body and your inventory. Your inventory is where you carry the items you start with, create and pick up. Your body is where your equipped items are placed, as well as where wounds will be located when you take damage. If you click the + next to your body you will see your various body parts, as well as what they contain of wounds or equipment. The “Active:” on the bottom shows which tool or item you are currently using. To activate an item, double left-click on it.

The bars

Underneath the white text are 3 coloured bars. The green one is your stamina bar and tells you how much energy you have left to do actions. When you perform an action, your stamina will go down and you will need to wait for it to recharge before you do another action, or the action will take much longer to finish. Tired people work slower. The speed with which your stamina bar recharges is determined by your food and water bars, the orange and blue ones underneath the stamina bar. You can refill your water bar by drinking water from a tile with water on it, or from a container in your inventory. The food bar is refilled by eating, how to get food is explained later in the tutorial.

All actions except for moving are done by right-clicking. Try right-clicking a few things to see what options are available. Once the right click menu has loaded, you will at the bottom of it see an option saying “What’s this?” Clicking this will open an ingame window with an explanation of the item you right clicked on.

The chatboxes

The Wurm Online interface also consists of 2 text boxes, one for talking with other players, the other for the game to deliver messages to you. The Local tab is for chatting to people that are near you, you can see which people can see your messages in the list in the right side of the first box. The Jenn-Kellon tab is a global chat for all players of the same kingdom on your server. If you wish to send a message that only one other player can see, you can type in “/t playername message” to open a tab where you and “playername” can chat together in private.

The Event chat is, as mentioned, where you receive information from the game. If you fail or succeed an action, get attacked or the server is shutting down, this is where you can find the information. The buttons underneath it are used for toggling your status. “Climbing” will enable you to go up steep slopes, but it will heavily reduce your stamina, and you can not regain stamina while climbing. Faithful allows you to do actions that your god frowns upon, although you will lose some faith from it. When Lawful is activated, it will prevent you from doing illegal things. If you go unlawful, you can steal items, but be warned, guards do not like thieves.

The text next to the Lawful button displays more of your current status. The first word is your current fighting style, the rest can be either a warning about low stamina, low or high food and low water levels.

== The first steps ==
You move using the WSAD keys, and turn around by holding the left mouse button and moving the mouse. Pretty simple there. When you first start out in Wurm, you will be in Newtown. Newtown is a town owned by the game developers, and is a safe haven for new players, but as soon as you leave Newtown you must be wary of the many creatures that inhibit the lands of Wurm. The most fearsome beast you are likely to encounter is the huge spider, a threat that will tear you apart in a matter of seconds. If you get attacked by an animal, flee across flat land or up/down/across a not very steep slope (using the W key and/or a combination of W+A or W+D keys). Caution: Some animals such as rats and bears can swim! Most other types of animals will stop chasing you once you have entered the water for a few tiles (this depends somewhat upon how deep the water is). By the way, don't worry about drowning because your character will auto-swim if the water is too deep for you to walk. Village guards will attack and kill most aggressive creatures that enter deeded land so if you can make it into a deeded area (such as New Town) you should be safe.

Newtown's Bistro

The first 24 hours of your Wurm playing time (real life time spent ingame) you can get free food at the bistro in Newtown, but after that you are on your own, so it is a good idea to spend some of these hours learning to feed yourself. To feed yourself properly you will need a few things:

• A pottery bowl
• Some ingredients for food
• Fire

All of these items can be gathered and made with the starter kit, I will show you how.

We will get some food ingredients first. To get these, you will need to find a bunch of grass tiles and forage and botanize them.

The menu looks like this.

The foraging step can also be done at a later point, which is probably better as the area around Newtown is pretty heavily foraged by other people in the same situation as you. Template:Smiley

Once you have found a few berries, nuts and spices it is time to go for the next items, a pottery bowl and some fire. First of all you will need to find a clay tile. Clay is always found near water, so following the coast for a bit would be a good start. The following pictures will be taken by a clay pit West-southwest of Newtown, quite a swim there. When you are travelling, try to steer clear of animals you meet, staying 5 tiles away should be enough for all animals you will see.

Digging for Clay.

Once you find a clay tile, stand on it and dig with your shovel. To do this, activate your shovel, right click the clay tile and select dig. This will take about 11 seconds if you have full stamina.
Once you have a piece of clay in your inventory, you must activate your right hand (sounds silly, I know). Activate it and right click on the clay. Select create -> containers -> clay bowl. If you fail at first, try again until you succeed. If you make an unfinished clay bowl, keep trying until you make a finished one, but save the unfinished for when you have the tools to finish it. Make a few clay bowls and a jar this way, and continue to the next step.

To make the clay bowls into pottery you will need to heat them in a fire, which leads us to the final item for making food; the campfire. Find a tree, they look like this:

Once you find a batch of trees, go around examining them until you find one that says either “old” or “very old”. These trees give the most wood, and as thus, are the best to chop down. Activate your small axe and chop the tree. It will take a few chop actions, you can see how much damage the tree has by examining it.

Note: I do not recommend cutting down fruit trees, if you can find a pine, cedar, maple or birch tree, chop down that one instead, as you will need more wood for fuel. Fruit trees give very little wood.

Once it reaches 100 damage, it will disappear and a felled tree or a log will be in front of you. If it is a felled tree, right click it and select “chop up” to make a log. Once you have a log in front of you, right-click it and select “take”. You will now have the log in your inventory. With your small axe activated, right-click the log and select create -> miscellaneous -> kindling.

Once you have a kindling, you can make a campfire. To do this, activate your steel and flint and right-click the kindling. Select create -> containers -> campfire.

If you succeed, you will make a campfire in front of you:

Note: The campfire needs fuel to burn. If have more log, activate it and right-click the fire and select burn. You will need to fuel the fire with about 20 kg of wood every hour or so, you can see its status by examining. If it does not say “The fire burns steadily and will burn for a long time.” You need to put on fuel.

Now you need to put your clay bowls and jar into the fire and wait for them to turn into pottery. To do this, open the campfire and drag the items from your inventory window to the campfire window. The items will take quite a while to heat up, while they do this, you can try making some different items from your log, botanize and forage more, or do something completely different, just make sure to examine the fire from time to time to see if it needs fuel. Scrap wood can be burned too or made into more kindling. It is a good idea to put all your berries, nuts and spices into the fire as well (not inside the bowls), so they can heat up.

Once the clay bowl have turned into a pottery bowl, this will happen once the clay bowl has been glowing from heat for a while, take it out of the fire as well as the spices and berries. Now drag one berry and one spice onto the pottery bowl in your inventory so they are located inside the bowl and examine it. If it says something about casserole, put the pottery bowl inside the fire again (with the stuff in it), and click the + next to it. If you can still see the ingredients, they have not been warm enough, and you should continue feeding the fire until they disappear and a casserole appears instead. If you see the word “casserole” when you click the +, you have successfully made your first food. Take the pottery bowl out of the fire and eat the casserole if you are hungry. If not, save it for a rainy day by taking it out of the bowl and putting it in your backpack.

Now know, the food you make here at first is very bad, and will not fill you up very much, but it will fill you enough to make you able to work and have decent stamina regeneration, which is key for everything in Wurm. When you cook more food, your cooking skill will increase and you will make better and better food. Once you gain access to meat, fish and vegetables and have a frying pan, you can start making meals much the same way as the casserole, just with other ingredients. Meals are special since they can fill you 100%.

Congratulations! You have now finished the unofficial Wurm Online tutorial!

What to do next? - A few suggestions.

You could chop down a few trees to make wooden spindles, and later sell them to the trader where you started. From the money you earn, you could buy food, tools and weapons at the various traders.

You can also borrow a forge to smelt iron ore and create your first weapon; a Short Sword. The Short Sword has to be equipped in your right hand for most efficency, you can later use this sword to kill attacking, weak, animals such as Large Rats.

You should also create a Butchering Knife so you can get pelts and food from your killed creatures.

If you are lucky and ask around, you might be introduced to a nice village or neighborhood to live.

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