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:

• Login (Also known as Golden Valley)-Golden Valley was the former tutorial server
• Freedom cluster PvE (Independence, Deliverance, Exodus, Celebration, Pristine, Release and Xanadu)
• Freedom cluster PvP (Chaos, which used to be called Wild)
• Epic PvP (Elevation, Desertion, Affliction, and Serenity)
• Jackal PvE (Six month, resetting server with special goals for explorers)
• Northern Freedom Isles (Harmony PVE and Defiance PVP)

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 unless by the means of creature cages.

NOTE: If you are traveling across server borders, make sure all passengers are logged into the ship prior to crossing the border. Players logged off when a ship crosses the border may be left at their last log-in position on the previous server.

The ingame world map shows the standard connections between servers on the Freedom cluster:

In addition, there is a new option allowing you to directly determine which server you will be travelling to when crossing a server border. To select your destination choose "Plot course" from the boat's context menu. You will see a window like this:

You will arrive on the opposite side of the destination server, for example: if you leave the east coast of server A and sail eastward you will appear at the west coast of server B.

In order to travel between the Freedom cluster and the Epic cluster, you can use an Epic portal. Please read here what happens to your skills and items!

Northern Freedom Isles

You cannot sail or otherwise transport between the Northern Freedom Isles and the older servers. You may take a portal between Harmony and Defiance, but none of your items will transfer.

Server type summary

The following table summarizes the features of the player servers.

Cluster	Freedom								Epic				Jackal	Northern Freedom Isles
Server name	Independence	Deliverance	Exodus	Celebration	Pristine	Release	Xanadu	Chaos	Elevation	Desertion	Affliction	Serenity	Jackal	Harmony	Defiance
Genesis	June 17th 2009	September 7th 2011	September 15th 2011	May 31st 2012	Dec 12th 2012	Dec 18th 2012	June 3rd 2014	May 5th 2007	July 11th 2019	November 1st 2011	October 10th 2014	November 1st 2011	August 30th 2019	July 24th 2020	July 24th 2020
Server size in tiles	4096x4096	2048x2048	2048 x2048	2048x2048	2048x2048	2048x2048	8192x8192	4096x4096	2048x2048	2048x2048	2048x2048	2048x2048	4096x4096	4096x4096	Unknown
Starter town	The Howl	Green Dog	Esert	Tap Dance	Blossom	Sloping Sands	Glasshollow Vrock Landing Summerholt Greymead Whitefay Linton Lormere Newspring Esteron	Hunters Lodge The Landing Gold Coast The Shroud	New Hope (JK) Ignis (MR) Doomspine (HOTS)	Glittershore	Blackbone	Strongbox	Camp Freedom	Heartland Harmony Bay	Unknown
Kingdoms	Freedom							Freedom, Horde of the Summoned, and Player Made Kingdoms	JK,MR, HOTS, and Player Made Kingdoms	MR [1]	HOTS [1]	JK [1]	Freedom	Freedom	JK,MR, HOTS
PvP	Limited [3]							Yes [2]	Yes	Yes. Enemy kingdoms receive a combat rating penalty.			Limited [3]	No	Yes
Theft	No							Yes					No	No	?
Guard towers	Optional								Needed to claim kingdom land.	Optional				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.			Yes. Can be planted anywhere under Freedom influence.	Yes. Can be planted anywhere as server is all one kingdom.	Yes. Can only be planted in land claimed by kingdom.
Artifacts	No							Yes		No			No	?	?
Priests	All gods
Champions	No							Yes		No			No	No	?
Account Types	Premium and Basic								Premium	Premium and Basic
GM activity	High							Minimal					High
Scenarios	No								Yes				No	No	?
The Curve	No								Yes				No	No
Double skillgain	No								Yes				3x faster than Freedom	No
Spy protection	No							Yes					No	No	?

^[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]</sup]Dueling and Sparring with other players if both parties consent.

Server type details

Golden Valley server

Golden Valley is the log in server and was formerly the tutorial server. While a few player still maintain GV characters and deeds, players can no longer go to this server to play.

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.

Griefing 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 of Independence. This was followed by Exodus, to the south 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.

Later, Celebration release note was added to the south of Exodus.

All of the freedom clusters were connected when Xanadu was opened to the east of this cluster.

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 wasn't connected to freedom cluster 1 for one and a half years in order to provide that total newbie feeling. The second server in this cluster was Release, which is situated to the southern border of Pristine. Sailing west from either of these servers leads you to Xanadu.

Freedom servers cluster 3

The new Freedom server of Xanadu was isolated from the other servers for a few weeks. After that, it was connected to freedom cluster 1 to the west and freedom cluster 2 to the east. Sailing west from Xanadu leads you to Deliverance and sailing east from Xanadu leads you to Release.

Chaos server

The Chaos server is a PvP enabled Freedom cluster server. It can be access by sailing west from Independence, Deliverance, or Exodus. Upon arriving here you are automatically in the Freedom Isles kingdom and can join other Player Made Kingdoms. Sailing back east to Deliverance will put you back in the Freedom Isles kingdom, while returning to Chaos 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 PvP 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.

Jackal server

Please refer to Jackal for more information on this server.

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	Battles[7]
Jenn001[6]	Login / Golden Valley	Former tutorial	Golden Valley	GV	GV
Freedom001	Independence	Freedom	Independence	Indi	Indi
Freedom002	Deliverance	Freedom	Deliverance	Deli	Deli
Freedom003	Exodus	Freedom	Exodus	Exo	Exo
Freedom004	Celebration	Freedom	Celebration	Cele	Cele
Freedom005	Pristine	Freedom	Pristine	Pris	Pris
Freedom006	Release	Freedom	Release	Rel	Rel
Freedom007	Xanadu	Freedom	Xanadu	Xan	Xan
Wild001	Chaos	Freedom	Chaos	Chaos	Chaos
Epic001	Elevation	Epic Wild	Elevation	Ele	Ele
Epic002	Affliction	Epic HOTS home server	Affliction	Aff	Aff
Epic003	Desertion	Epic Mol-Rehan home server	Desertion	Des	Des
Epic004	Serenity	Epic Jenn-Kellon home server	Serenity	Ser	Ser
Jackal	Jackal	Jackal	Jackal	Jackal
Valrei	Valrei	Home of the gods	Valrei	n/a	n/a
Harmony	Harmony	Northern Freedom Isles
Defiance	Defiance	Northern Freedom Isles

• ^[6] The Golden Valley entry server and the Login server are hosted on the same physical server.