Vos premiers jours dans Wurm Online

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Cet article est en cours de traduction à partir de la version anglaise.

Questions fréquemment posées (Un guide rapide pour les nouveaux joueurs sur les serveurs JcE)

Je suis sorti du tutoriel - mais où suis-je maintenant ?

Vous avez été envoyé à la ville de départ de l'île que vous avez sélectionnée au portail. Cette ville est un environnement protégé, parfait pour vous habituer au jeu. Pour voir la carte de l'île sur laquelle vous vous trouvez, appuyez sur "M". Sur la carte, vous verrez une petite icône violette de maison, montrant la position de la ville de départ. Passser le pointeur de la souris sur le symbole vous montrera le nom de la ville.

Note : Quelques îles ont plusieurs villes de départ. Pour déterminer dans laquelle vous êtes, double-cliquer n'importe où par terre près de vous et vous verrez un message dans l'onglet "Event" disant quelque chose du genre "This is within the village of Glasshollow."

Comment regarder autour de vous ?

Dans le tutoriel, vous avez appris à vous déplacer en utilisant les touches directionnelles ou W, A, S, D. Vous pouvez également regarder autour de vous en tenant le bouton gauche de votre souris enfoncé.

Comment basculer vers la vue à la troisième personne ?

Appuyez sur la touche V pour entrer en mode vue à la troisième personne. Les touches Moins et Plus servent à approcher et à éloigner la caméra de votre personnage.

Appuyer sur la touche V une autre fois vous fera retourner en mode vue à la première personne.

Puis-je sauter ?

Non, il est impossible de sauter dans Wurm Online - et ce n'est habituellement pas nécessaire. Vous ne pouvez pas outrepasser des obstacles en sautant par-dessus. Cependant, il y a un risque de "tomber" par-dessus les clôtures quand vous tomber d'une pente abrupte - faites donc attention de ne pas être piégé dans une zone fermée.

Je marche très lentement. Comment je cours ?

Il n'y a pas de mode "course" dans Wurm Online. Votre vitesse de mouvement est déterminée par le poids que vous portez et par le terrain sur lequel vous marchez. Si votre personnage semble se déplacer extrêmement lentement, vous portez probablement trop de poids ou vous avez accidentellement activé le mode "grimper".

• Pour connaître votre poids actuel, ouvrez la fenêtre de personnage en appuyant sur la touche "C" et placer le curseur de votre souris sur le petit symbole de poids dans le coin supérieur gauche. Une info-bulle vous montrera votre poids total et vous informera des pénalités au mouvement.

• Pour savoir si vous grimpez à la place de marcher, utiliser la barre d'actions rapides située en bas à droite de votre écran. La première icône de la barre active ou désactive le mode "grimper". En jouant à Wurm Online, vos compétences et caractéristiques corporelles vont s'améliorer. Vous pourrez porter de plus and plus de poids sans subir un ralentissement de votre vitesse de déplacement !
  
  

Pourquoi mon endurance ne se régénère pas ?

Endurance (la barre verte de votre barre de santé) diminue pendant que vous marchez, nagez ou performez des actions. La barre d'endurance se met à se régénérer lentement dès que vous cessez vos activités. La vitesse à laquelle elle se régénère dépend de votre faim et de votre soif. Ces dernières sont représentées par vos barres de faim et de soif. Il existe quelques scénarios où votre barre d'endurance ne se régénérera pas : par exemple, si vous êtes en mode "grimper" (voir plus haut) ou si vous nagez en eau profonde.

Je vois des créatures autour de moi. Sont-elles dangereuses ?

Le monde de Wurm Online est plein de créatures ! Quelques-unes sont hostiles et vous attaqueront si vous vous en approchez trop. D'autres sont inoffensives et pacifiques. Pour vérifier, placez le pointeur de votre souris sur la créature. Si son contour est rouge, vous devez faire attention. Cela signifie que cette créature est hostile et qu'elle peut vous attaquer ! Les créatures inoffensives ont un contour bleu.

Une créature m'attaque. Puis-je survivre?

Pendant vos premiers jours, vous devriez essayer d'éviter n'importe quelle créature hostile en évitant de l'approcher. Par exemple, celles avec un contour rouge. Cependant, si vous approchez accidentellement d'un animal dangereux et qu'il commence à vous attaquer, essayez de vous enfuir ! Si vous avez été touché, vous serez ralenti pendant un bref moment, mais vous serez bientôt capable de vous déplacer à une vitesse normale. Prendre note que la plupart des créatures hostiles ne sont pas capables de nager (avec quelques exceptions, comme les ours bruns, les crocodiles, et bien sûr tous les animaux marins), c'est donc une bonne idée de rester près de la côte ou de la rive d'un lac et d'essayer de vous enfuir dans l'eau. Aussi : vous devriez porter l'armure en cuir que vous avez trouvée dans votre inventaire.

Je vois des tours et des gardes. Que sont-ils ?

Les tours de garde sont éparpillées un peu partout sur les îles ; elles sont là pour vous protéger ! Vous trouverez, autour de chacune d'elles, des PNJs spéciaux ("Personnages non-joueurs"), les gardes de la tour. Vous pouvez les appeler afin qu'ils vous protègent contre une créature hostile, mais seulement si la créature n'est pas trop loin de la tour de garde (techniquement, dans un périmètre de 20 tuiles) et que vous "ciblez" la créature. Par exemple, elle vous a attaqué et apparaît alors dans votre "fenêtre de cible". Pour appeler les gardes, utilisez l'onglet "Local" de votre fenêtre de clavardage et écrivez "help" ou "guards!" (sans les guillemets). Si la créature ciblée est dans le périmètre de la tour, chaque appel à l'aide amènera deux gardes à l'attaquer. Après un cooldown de 10 secondes, vous pourrez de nouveau appeler à l'aide et deux autres gardes attaqueront la créature. Une tour de garde peut avoir un maximum de 5 gardes. Quelques types de tours spéciales peuvent en avoir plus.

Comment puis-je trouver un endroit sécuritaire pour la nuit ?

L'endroit le plus sécuritaire pour vos premières heures est la ville de départ ! Explorez-la tout en vous habituant au jeu. Après avoir quitté ce havre sécuritaire, vous devriez toujours regarder autour de vous pour voir s'il n'y aurait pas des créatures hostiles afin de pouvoir les éviter. Quand il s'agit du comportement des créatures, il n'y a pas de différence entre le jour et la nuit. Cependant, vous pourriez avoir plus de difficulté à les repérer dans le noir. Alors, il serait peut-être judicieux de ne pas voyager de nuit tant que vous êtes débutant. Si vous traversez une zone développée avec des maisons, des champs et des clôtures, il y a des chances que vous soyez dans une colonie, un village ou une ville de joueur. Ces derniers ont souvent des gardes spéciaux : les templiers esprits. Ils ressemblent à des guerriers fantomatiques blancs transparents et ils attaqueront n'importe quelle créature hostile dans le périmètre de la ville. Il s'agit donc d'un endroit sécuritaire !

J'ai trouvé une tente en cotton dans mon inventaire. À quoi sert-elle ?

Vous pouvez déposer votre tente de départ quelque part dans les régions sauvages, en dehors d'une colonie, en effectuant un clic droit sur la tente dans votre inventaire et sélectionnant "Drop - On Ground". Elle vous servira d'endroit sécuritaire pour entreposer vos objets (les autres joueurs ne peuvent pas prendre les objets contenus dans votre tente) et de point de réapparition. Donc, si votre personnage meurt (voir plus bas), vous avez l'option de réapparaître à votre tente, en plus de pouvoir réapparaître au village de départ. Pour entreposer vos objets dans votre tente, effectuez un clic droit sur la tente et sélectionner "open", ensuite effectuer un glisser déposer des objets dans votre inventaire vers la fenêtre de la tente (ne pas déposer les objets par terre dans la tente !). Prendre note que la tente ne prendra pas de dégâts pendant qu'elle est dans votre inventaire, mais elle en prendra pendant qu'elle est déposée. Elle prend des dégâts plutôt rapidement, alors utilisez-la seulement comme entrepôt temporaire et remettez-la dans votre inventaire si vous n'en avez pas besoin.

I died! What can I do now?

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 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 about 2 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 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. It is also possible to start over with nothing.

How do I find water and food?

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” 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.

How do I travel? Can I teleport?

Later on, when your skills have increased, you will be able to ride horses and drive carts. For now, you will probably just walk! (Technically, even as a new player you could ride a cow – but they are pretty slow. Donkeys are a good alternative.) There is no “magical” way of fast travelling in Wurm Online, so no teleporting. One exception: When you decide to join an existing village, you will have a one-time option to teleport to that place.

For travelling you can use your in-game map to see what the area looks like (press “M” to open it), but on the official Wurm forums you will find a “community map” of your server, which is a lot more detailed and offers a great deal of information.

I found an abandoned unlocked vehicle. Is it OK to use it?

Using abandoned vehicles, like carts, wagons, and boats may seem tempting, however, it is actually very risky. As you are not the owner and don't have permissions for that vehicle you may easily get into trouble. When you happen to disembark the vehicle inside another player's settlement you will usually be unable to embark again and the vehicle will become useless. In these situations you will also lose everything you loaded into the vehicle, as well as any animals you hitched to it - unless you can contact the owner of the settlement and ask him to help you. Therefore you are strongly advised against using abandoned vehicles!

Never use an abandoned cart, wagon, or boat. 

Can I see my current location on the map?

The world of Wurm Online is based on a medieval setting, so there is no such thing as a GPS! Thus, you cannot see your current location on an in-game map. The challenge of finding out where you currently are is an interesting part of the game experience. Use the community map and try to find a landmark or a settlement close to you, then try to identify it on the map. Or talk to other players around you and ask them where you are.

How do I find my way from … to …?

You can always use the map, as explained earlier, but if you are lucky you will find one of Wurm’s highways. The highway system consists of a network of player-built multi-lane roads having “cat’s eyes” (rows of green lights in the center of the highway) and “waystones” (road signs). If your destination is a settlement that is connected to the highway network, you can easily find it by right-clicking one of the waystones and search for the route. If you pick the settlement name from the list, every waystone will show you the direction and distance to your destination. Distances are given in “number of tiles”, where each tile has a size of 4 x 4 meters.

How do I talk to other players?

Characters that are close to you will appear in your local tab. You can chat with them by using the chat tab named “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, which is called "Freedom"). 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.

Can I join other players?

Of course you can! In fact, you are encouraged to do so. Joining a group of other players will make your new life in Wurm Online so much easier. Try to use the official forums or the “Freedom” chat to look for settlements recruiting new villagers, or just ask around.

I want to be on my own. How do I start my own place?

Of course you are also welcome to start out as a lonesome hermit! This may be harder, but on the other hand will provide an interesting challenge. Begin by finding a suitable place with some trees (for wood) and some rocky slopes (for your first iron mine), preferably not too far from water. (Also read the answer to the next question regarding rules and code of conduct.) Then start by chopping some wood, make planks and shafts, and mine some iron. You can also use the “Rummage” option on rock tiles to look for low-quality iron rocks. To open a mine, you need to find a rock tile. Activate your pickaxe, right-click the rock tile and select “Tunnel”. Repeat until a tunnel entrance opens – then continue mining until you find an iron vein. This can take some time! Once you have enough planks and nails you can start building your first little wooden shack! (Yes, in this game you can build your own house, a structure persisting in the world and seen by every passer-by!)

Can I settle anywhere? Are there rules for placing my first shack?

Technically, the game will allow you to settle almost anywhere – unless you are on someone’s property. You will not be able to chop trees, open a mine or build your first shack on land that has been claimed (“deeded”) by another player. To check if the land you are on is already claimed you double-click the ground near you. If you see messages like “This is within the village of xxx” or “This is within the perimeter of xxx” you cannot (or should not) build your place there. It is also not allowed to build a house on a highway.

Apart from that, there are some unwritten and self-evident guidelines of politeness and courtesy. For example, it usually is frowned upon if you settle too close to other players’ structures or property without asking. Generally, if you see houses and structures around, try to talk to the locals and make sure it is ok for you to settle. You don’t want to annoy your future neighbours, do you? As a general rule: try to be as polite and considerate as you would be in real life. If you are unsure, always ask.

How do I build my shack?

Every house in Wurm Online must be built on flat ground. If you cannot find a suitable flat spot, please read the section about ground flattening below, or read the Wurmpedia article on Flattening. Making a house requires two steps: planning and Building. You need a mallet to plan your house. With the mallet activated right-click a flat tile and select "Plan building". A structure plan (which looks like a wooden framework) will appear on that tile. You can repeat the process on adjacent tiles to enlarge your house plan, until you are satisfied.

Start small (1x2 tiles or 2x2 tiles) - you will be able to expand your house later. When you are ready, right-click one of the planned tiles (with your mallet still activated) and select "Finalize build plan". Now, all you have to do is to actually build the doors and walls and finally a floor and a roof. Refer to the Wurmpedia article about wooden houses to learn more.

What is a “deed”?

Technically, a deed is a document of land ownership. In Wurm Online you can purchase an area of land for in-game silver, usually for the sake of founding a settlement. This specially protected area is therefore called a “settlement” or a “village”, but most commonly referred to as a “deed”. So, while technically the “deed” is only the document you own, you will usually hear Wurm players talk about the land they own as their “deed” or about things happening “on deed” or “off deed”.

Having a deed gives you a number of benefits: control over actions other players may perform, the ability to hire “spirit templars” as guards, easy access to your in-game bank account, no decay on structures, fences, lamps and decoration, a safe place to respawn, the ability to brand and protect animals, and many others. Founding a deed is simple: just use the “deed stake” you found in your inventory and fill in the various forms. Placing a minimum sized deed requires you to have at least 4.21 silver coins on your bank account. This money will be used for deed foundation, and it includes the upkeep for 3 months (1 silver per month).

How can I chop trees?

You activate your hatchet by double-clicking the hatchet in your inventory, right-click a tree and select “Cut down”. Repeat this until the tree falls and you see a “felled tree” on the ground before you. In order to use its wood (for the creation of wooden planks, for example) you must then chop the felled tree and produce wooden logs by using your hatchet on the felled tree. Please note: “Activating” a tool is not the same as “equipping”. Tools to be used in crafting must always be “activated” (by double-clicking), whereas weapons, clothing, pieces of armour, or jewelry are “equipped” (using the right-click menu).

How do I craft items?

Usually, crafting items is done by combining various parts and components, sometimes using a tool. (For example: to make a hammer you would first use a small anvil and a glowing iron lump to make a hammer head, then combine that with a wooden shaft.) You can open a “crafting window” (press “B”) and a window with “crafting recipes” (press “N”) to help you with the process of crafting.

My actions seem to fail very often. Why does making things take forever?

When trying to craft items you will notice that you fail very often and have to repeat the same action again and again, until it finally succeeds. This can be annoying, but it is normal for a beginning player. The reason is that your crafting skills are still very low! If you open the “skill window” (press “F2”) you can see a complex list of skills. These skills determine how well you can perform certain actions, how long they will take and how successful your actions are. The higher the skill the better you perform! While you are using your skills they will gradually increase, and you will become more and more successful until you become an expert.

How can I change the shape of the landscape?

Being able to change the landscape is one of the outstanding features of this game! The land around you is not a static environment – you can use your shovel to raise or lower the ground! This process is called “terraforming”. In a nutshell, terraforming works like this: the terrain consists of dirt “tiles” (the outlined squares you see on the ground when moving your mouse pointer over them). A tile, which can also have grass, a tree or a bush growing on it, has four corners, and each of those corners can be raised or lowered. To lower a tile corner use your shovel (stand next to the corner, activate the shovel, right-click the ground and select “dig”). You will notice that each digging action will lower the corner you are standing on by a little amount and you will find 1 piece of dirt in your inventory. Therefore the amount that corner is lowered by one digging action is called “1 dirt”. So, for example, if you repeat the digging action 4 times, you will find 4 pieces of dirt in your inventory, and the tile corner will be lower than before by “4 dirts”. You created a little slope! To raise the corner again, you can just drop the dirts from your inventory: right-click the dirt and select “drop on ground”. Please note: A corner does not belong to a single tile! Actually, there are always 4 tiles sharing a corner, so when you dig or drop dirt on a tile corner you will always affect all 4 tiles!

I still don’t understand digging. How do I make a tile flat?

To make a flat tile you have to know what its current slope is. Move your mouse pointer over a ground tile, and you will notice that the tile has 4 “borders” around it. Stand on one of the tile corners, look at the slope and right-click a border. Selecting “Examine” you will see a message like “The border is 16 slope up”, meaning you would need to drop 16 dirts on that corner to make the border flat. If it says “The border is 10 slope down” you will instead have to dig 10 times to flatten the border. Keep in mind, that the “other border” (the one connected to the corner you are standing on) will also be raised or lowered by your action, so you may have to stand on the other three borders and repeat the process several times, until all four borders say “The border is level”. All this sounds too complicated? Well, there fortunately is an easier way! Just activate your shovel, stand on a tile, right-click the tile and select “Flatten”. The game will automatically try to remove and add dirt to the tile corners in order to make the tile flat for you!

How do I get iron?

Finding iron during your first days is important, because you will need it for many items you want to craft. There are several ways to get iron: you can either forage on grass tiles or rummage on rock tiles with a chance of finding “iron rocks”, which can then be smelted into iron lumps. Or you can use an underground mine to find an iron vein, which will give you iron ore when you mine it using your pickaxe. Most of the starter towns have public iron mines in their neighbourhood – just walk around and explore the surroundings until you find an open mine entrance with a sign saying “Public mine”. Walk inside and carefully study the tunnel walls until you find a wall segment that looks different. Right-click the wall, and if it says “Iron vein” you can use your pickaxe to mine pieces of iron ore. Then use a campfire or a forge to smelt them into iron lumps.

Should I become a premium player?

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 7.99 Euros (less with purchase of more months at once) if purchased with actual money.

If you access Wurm through the original launcher, you purchase time from the Wurm shop.

If you access Wurm through Steam, while in game press Escape and then Shop from the menu to access the Steam shop.

You can also buy 15 or 30 days of premium time for in game silver coins at any settlement token in-game, no matter which launcher you use. 5 silver coins for 15 days and 10 silver coins for 30 days.

How do I change the way my character looks?

In your inventory you will find a brightly glowing golden hand mirror. Use it to change the look and/or gender of your avatar, but please be aware that this item can only be used once - so use it wisely. Further changes would require buying another mirror from a trader and this costs silver coins!

Where can I find more information?

The information in this short overview is brief and probably far from sufficient to answer all of your questions. Therefore, you are encouraged to use this Wurmpedia, an extensive and informative Wiki about Wurm Online. Please use Wurmpedia frequently!

Questions about the game and its rules and mechanics can also be asked in the “CA HELP” chat tab. Usually community assistants and other players will be present to answer your questions! Questions and discussion in this tab stick to game mechanics and questions-no trolling or casual conversation is allowed here. Once you feel more comfortable in the game, you may want to help other newbies here yourself!

There is also the "Book of Wisdom" which contains useful information about the game. Press escape, select Tools, and then More to access the Book of Wisdom.

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