Server types

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Disclaimer: This article is not an official document. It attempts to accurately describe current policy and statements made by the developers, but should not be taken as binding or otherwise limiting. If an authoritative statement is required, it should be requested directly from from staff or the development team.

Introduction

Wurm currently has the following types of servers that players can access:

• Tutorial (Also known as Golden Valley)
• Freedom cluster 1 PvE (Independence, Deliverance, Exodus, and Celebration)
• Freedom cluster 2 PvE (Pristine and Release)
• Freedom cluster 1 PvP (Chaos, which used to be called Wild)
• Epic PvP (Elevation, Desertion, Affliction, and Serenity)

Other servers

There is a test server which allows testing of new game content.

Valrei, a moon of Wurm, has a special server on which battles between the gods take place. We mere-mortals can not visit the moon with our avatars, but we can follow these events remotely via a twitter feed and maps. Avatars on the Epic servers can assist their god by completing missions, and can potentially be rewarded for their efforts. See Scenarios for more information.

Finally there is a logon server which is part of the Wurm infrastructure used to manage accounts. If this server is down, no accounts can logon to any of the other servers.

Server travel map

You can sail across some server borders, depending on which cluster it belongs to. This will leave your skills and items intact. Animals cannot cross server borders.

You can use an Epic portal to travel between a Freedom cluster and the Epic cluster. Please read here what happens to your skills and items!

Notes:

• At this moment it is not possible to travel between Freedom cluster 1 and Freedom cluster 2. A character on Epic who has once chosen to travel to Freedom cluster 1 cannot use the Epic portal to go to Freedom cluster 2, and vice versa.
• Currently Pristine and Release are inaccessible by any other means than traveling to them from the tutorial.

For an overview see the Travel map.

Server type summary

The following table summaries the features of the player servers.

Server type	Freedom							Epic
Server name	Independence	Deliverance	Exodus	Celebration	Pristine	Release	Chaos	Elevation	Desertion	Affliction	Serenity
Server size in tiles	4096x4096	2048x2048	2048 x2048	2048x2048	2048x2048	2048x2048	4096x4096	2048x2048	2048 x2048	1024 x1024	2048 x2048
Starter town	The Howl	Greendog	Esert	Tap Dance	Blossom	Sloping Sands	Hunters Lodge The Landing Gold Coast The Shroud	?	?	?	Strongbox
Kingdoms	Freedom						Freedom and Player Made Kingdoms	JK,MR, HOTS and Player Made Kingdoms	MR [1]	HOTS [1]	JK [1]
PvP	Limited. Dueling and Sparring with other players if both parties consent.						Yes [2]	Yes	Yes. Enemy kingdoms receive a combat rating penalty.
Theft	No [3]							Yes
Guard towers	Optional							Needed to claim kingdom land.	Optional
Deeds	Yes. Can be planted anywhere as server is all one kingdom.							Yes. Can only be planted in land claimed by kingdom.	Yes. Can be planted anywhere as server is all one kingdom.
Artifacts	No							Yes	No
Priests	White Light gods only. Vynora, Fo, and Magranon							All gods. Vynora, Fo, Magranon, and Libila
Champions	No						Yes	Yes	No
Account Types	Premium and Basic							Premium only	Premium and Basic
GM activity	High							Minimal
Scenarios	No							Yes
The Curve	No							Yes
Double skillgain	No							Yes
Spy protection	No							Yes
50ql ore cap	No							No	Yes. Iron ore is not capped.

^[1] Enemy kingdoms can still be on this server, but they cannot create towers or deeds.

^[2] Possible to attack other players, but you will become an outlaw. In PvP zones however you can attack all players.

^[3] Theft is no longer possible on Freedom. However, taking anything that is not secured correctly (e.g. Unlocked boats) is not considered Theft.

Server type details

Tutorial server

The Tutorial server (Golden Valley) is where all new accounts are created. The aim of the tutorial is to introduce the player to the game mechanics. Players may then move on from the tutorial area to any of the player servers using portals. (Premium must be purchased to be able to move to the Elevation server.)

Premium time has no effect till the player leaves the server, as the Tutorial server only allows basic accounts. Thus skills are limited to a maximum of 20 and resource quality is also limited to 20. There are no gods or altars present on the Tutorial server.

The tutorial was built on the Golden Valley server. New players are spawned in the tutorial area and cannot leave other than through the portals to the Epic and Freedom servers. However accounts that were active before the tutorial was created are currently able to stay outside the tutorial area. These accounts are able to transfer to the other servers, but some have chosen to remain. PvP, theft, deeds, and guard towers are not allowed on the Tutorial server.

Freedom servers cluster 1

The entire area of each server is automatically claimed as Freedom kingdom territory, so guard towers are not required to plant deeds.

Grieving is frowned upon, and is a potentially bannable offense. GMs will police these servers as needed, but ideally the game rules should take care of things automatically. Moderators police the kingdom chat channels to ensure the chat rules are followed.

The original Freedom server was Independence. The second one was Deliverance, which is situated to the South border of Independence. This was followed by Exodus, to the South border of Deliverance.

The old Wild server became the fourth server to join Freedom. It is now known as the Chaos server and can be accessed by sailing across the west border of any of the three servers above. However, sailing back east across the border from Chaos will only take you to Deliverance.

Most recently, Celebration release note was added to the South border of Exodus. At this time, it is not connected to Chaos.

Freedom servers cluster 2

Follows Freedom servers rule set (see above). This is a new cluster starting with Pristine at the official release of Wurm Online 1.0 which won’t be connected to freedom cluster 1 for an undetermined amount of time in order to provide that total newbie feeling. The second one was Release, which is situated to the South border of Pristine.

Chaos server

The Chaos server is a pvp enabled freedom cluster server. It can be access by sailing west from any other freedom server. Upon arriving here you are automatically in the Freedom Isles kingdom and can join other Player Made Kingdoms. Sailing back to the other servers will put you back in the Freedom Isles kingdom and coming back will put you back to whatever kingdom you were in when you left. Full PvP is enabled here between the Freedom Isles and Player Made Kingdoms. You can fully raid deeds, pick locks and bash things on deed.

GMs generally avoid intervening in wild server affairs. However, excessive griefing and other violations of the game rules will be punished as appropriate.

Epic servers

Please refer to Epic Cluster for more information on these servers.

Test server

The test server exists to test large game updates before they are added to the main servers.

Server list

Name	Land Name	Type	Twitter	Status
Jenn001[4]	Login	Login	n/a	n/a
Jenn001[4]	Golden Valley	Tutorial	n/a	GV
Freedom001	Independence	Freedom	freeserv1	Indi
Freedom002	Deliverance	Freedom	freedom0002	Deli
Freedom003	Exodus	Freedom	freedom003	Exo
Freedom004	Celebration	Freedom	freedom0004	Cele
Freedom005	Pristine	Freedom	n/a	Pris
Freedom006	Release	Freedom	n/a	Rel
Wild001	Chaos	Freedom	wildserv1	Chaos
Epic001	Elevation	Epic Wild	epicserv1	Ele
Epic002	Affliction	Epic HOTS home server	epicserv2	Aff
Epic003	Desertion	Epic Mol-Rehan home server	epicserv3	Des
Epic004	Serenity	Epic Jenn-Kellon home server	epicserv4	Ser
Valrei	Valrei	Home of the gods	valreimoon	n/a

• ^[4] The Golden Valley entry server and the Login server are hosted on the same physical server.