Improving Guide

General

Improving is the ability to increase an items Quality on success.On failure you add damage to your item which you then must repair and your item will lose quality. Improving is sort of like a tug-of-war game.You always go up little by little,and you always go down little by little. As the higher the quality of the item gets,the more you will fail and less you will succeed depending on your skill.

Basic Tools

Well usually your basic tools for starting out in Wurm Online would be some of these:

• Plank
• Mallet
• Log
• Carving Knife
• Iron File*
• Rock Shards*
• Stone Chisel*
• Lump*

* Are items that may take some time after starting to acquire!

Hints and tips

• Always use tools or items when improving an item that are around the same quality.

• If you start to fail a lot,and are losing a good bunch of quality,its usually a good idea to stop and maybe do it later.

• try to go past 4-6 quality on the skill that item uses.For Example when improving a mallet only go 4-6 higher on quality on my carpentry skill.

• Make some time,usually about an hour depending on what your Improving or to what quality.More then enough times you lose the times since you get caught up in improving.

How to improve

To improve an items all you have to do is this:

1. Examine the item and it should say what is needed like a log or a chisel.
2. Activate the needed item
3. Repair you item if needed.
4. Right click, Improvements->Improve

Improving Bonuses

Usually when improving something,your skill will go up more and faster then just creating items. Not to mention if you constantly repair and improve stuff such as a wooden fence could really help your carpentry skill and your repairing skill.