Wurm Server Release Notes 2018

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181030 Patch Notes 30/OCT/18

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! To celebrate Halloween twenty eighteen (hah, it rhymes!) We’ve added the cool witches hat and skull mask to loot drops from mobs! The witches hat can be found on any hunter creature type, and the skull mask can be found on goblins and trolls. A list of hunter type creatures can be found on the Wurmpedia. Last years Halloween items are still possible to be gained.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed bug causing archaeology reports to be updated in the wrong order.
• Champions can now gain faith titles.
• New small deed tokens will no longer be clipped if too long.
• Cache lumps will now have the correct material type.
• Bugfix: Removed second rename option from archaeology reports.
• Bugfix: Statue fragments should now identify as statues instead of containers.
• Bugfix: You can no longer crush, pick seeds or plant processed vegetables.
• Bugfix: Branded, cared for, geared, hitched, bred animals should no longer die for overcrowding on server startup.
• Bugfix: Bury all with grave stones will now destroy all items on the corpse.
• Bugfix: Wagoner container removed from mission item list.
• Bugfix: More text and grammar fixes.
• Bugfix: KOS players on pve servers are no longer considered enemies.

181004 Patch Notes 04/OCT/18

Changes and Additions:

• New: Archaeology changes and additions.

• Wood types have been added to wooden items.
• New statues have been discovered.
• Fix for some moonmetal fragments.
• Tweaked base difficulty for investigating to be a bit easier overall.
• You can also now get an extra bonus in areas that are considered valuable according to Archaeology, making fragments a bit easier to gain at higher levels in those locations.
• New: Archaeology caches have been added
• Once a report is completed enough, the center tile of that deed can then be found via “Get direction” on the report.

• Using the “Get direction” function on the center tile of that deed will unearth an archaeology cache.
• Inside the cache will be an assortment of unidentified fragments including a larger percentage of statue fragments and a relic of the former deed.
• Amount of fragments is determined by archaeology skill and report ql with a minimum of 10.
• Once unearthed the report will be consumed.

• Change: Archaeology journal improvements

• Journals will now hold a number of reports up to the ql of the journal, with a minimum of 22.
• Placing a piece of paper or papyrus greater than 30ql inside the journal will automatically turn it into a blank report
• Reports can also now be moved in and out of journals via drag and drop.
• Tweaked the chances for location info to be recorded in a report to be a bit lower than previously to balance for caches.
• Some Archaeology statues with solid bases can now have items placed upon them.

• New: Shoulder pads are now dyeable.
• Change: Metallic shoulder pads are now able to spawn from rifts as any metal type at a low chance.
• Change: The Tin Rune of Jackal now correctly uses the spell version of Refresh and cannot be used while moving.

Bug fixes:

• Bugfix: Marble statue of Vynora can now be improved.
• Bugfix: Fixed a few more mission descriptions with items which were too generic.
• Bugfix: Recipe list now correctly list lunchbox, tin instead of lunchbox, lead.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue with the improper triggering of the Kill a wild sly creature achievement.
• Bugfix: Potion of butchery imbue now works properly when butchering a corpse.
• Bugfix: Fixed watcher text when someone unloads a creature from a cage.

180920 Patch Notes 20/SEP/18

Changes and Additions:

• New: Hell Horses and Unicorns will now give birth to foals, similar to horses.
• Change: You can no longer see your % chance to pick a door or fence gate if you’re greater than one tile away.
• Change: Dirt in inventory can now be discarded the same way as logs and shards.
• Change: You can now plant / secure the Puzzle King’s crystal ball.
• Change: Glimmersteel runes of Fo, Magranon, and Jackal as well as the Silver rune of Fo have been changed from 10%, 5%, 5%, and 5% increase to skill bonus respectively to 10% and 5% of the difference between your current skill and 100 as a direct bonuses to effective skill when determining action success.

• Note: This does not mean items and resources are created at a higher than your skill cap, but will improve success chances for that action.
• TL;DR : Glimmersteel Fo/Jackal runes will now increase skill calculations for success chances.

• Change: The quality reduction upon smelting has been scaled down and adjusted:

• Smelted lump is capped by pot ql.
• Items that cannot be improved and are not capped by the 20% of total skill when created will now receive a ql penalty when smelted
• -7.5% to -2.5% for common metals,
• -12.5% to -7.5% for moon metals and alloys.
• Items that can be improved will no longer receive the penalty when smelted.

Bug fixes:

• Bugfix: Rose seedlings have been removed from the mission item list.
• Bugfix: Various text, spelling and grammar fixes.
• Bugfix: The ‘Take Portion’ option should only display when a cooking utensil knife is activated.
• Bugfix: Worg statue can now be improved.
• Bugfix: Crafted lunchboxes will once again be tin instead of lead.
• Bugfix: Added second title to the /title command output.
• Bugfix: Lock type will be checked when replacing locks on vehicles and items.
• Bugfix: War Machines will no longer decrease village / player rep if the creature hit is the one firing.
• Bugfix: You can no longer use your body parts, inventory, or an inventory group to desecrate an altar.
• Bugfix: Creature cages can now be turned.
• Bugfix: Locate Soul no longer takes power off the item when located from outside the max distance.
• Bugfix: Runes when used on one’s self or another creature will now properly broadcast the action to other players.

180822 Client Update 22/AUG/18

• Addressed many memory leak issues and lowered the general memory usage
• Activate keybind will now work in opened inventory container windows
• Fixed clone characters and creatures
• Fixed certain items going invisible when placed on another item
• Fixed the image-in-image issue in caves
• Fixed emissive models showing through trees
• Fixed phantom tree collision after crossing a server
• Fixed invisible/flickering players and objects

180814 Patch Notes 14/AUG/18

• New: Skills at 99 or greater are protected from being lost upon death, excluding fighting and characteristics.
• Change: The number of animals branded to a deed will now be displayed in village info.
• Change: Freezing a surface tile with Path of Power now also freezes the cave tile.
• Change: Blood from legendary creatures now displays which legendary dropped the blood on examine and when mailed will display in mouseover.
• Change: A “Kingdom of” permissions category has been added to vehicles.
• Change: Added ability to plant flowers directly on grass tiles without requiring cultivating the tile first.
• Change: The new armour system previously on Epic now applies to all servers:
• Changes to base damage reduction rates for armours:

• Leather from 45% to 60%
• Studded from 50% to 62.5%
• Chain from 55% to 62.5%
• Cloth from 35% to 40%
• Drake, Scale and Plate no changes (65%, 70%, 65% respectively)

• Changes to movement speed modifiers from wearing armour:

• Plate armour should be slightly faster when worn now.
• Lowered the movement speed reduction from all helms.
• Glimmersteel and Seryll armours now have a 10% movement speed bonus.
• Adamantine armours now have a 5% movement speed bonus.

• Changes to damage type damage reduction modifiers on armours (lower % means less effective against that damage type, 100% = no modifier):

• Leather: 90% vs bite, pierce and acid; 110% vs slash and burn damage; 100% vs others.
• Studded: 90% vs slash and acid; 105% vs bite; 110% vs pierce and cold; 100% vs others.
• Chain: 92.5% vs pierce and cold; 107.5% vs bite, crush and burn; 100% vs others
• Plate: 95% vs crush and burn; 105% vs bite, slash and acid; 100% vs others.
• Cloth: 80% vs bite, slash and burn; 120% vs crush and cold; 100% vs others.
• Drake: 95% vs slash and acid; 105% vs crush and cold; 100% vs others.
• Scale: 95% vs crush and cold; 105% vs pierce and burn; 100% vs others.

• PvP Change: Special moves will now display a multicolor line in the Combat tab when one of either combatant starts to use a special move. This will also display an on-screen message for both clients.
• PvP Change: The animal permissions window is now available via the body menu.

• This includes all animal permissions as per freedom, with appropriate enemy kingdom allowances (Enemy kingdom members are able to do anything).

• PvP Change: Improvements to the Kingdom window. See list below.

• Now shows land percent up to two decimals
• Has a % sign to denote it is a percentage.

• Capitalization for the headers in each column.

• Now shows appointed success rate as a full number percentage.
• In the event of a kingdom reset, the kingdom’s current land share will become their starting land share.

• PvP Bugfix: Zombies summoned through religious spells will no longer be hostile to same-kingdom players.
• PvP Bugfix: Leaving a PMK through the Change Kingdom feature will no longer incur a 14 day cooldown.
• PvP Bugfix: Valrei creatures with no kingdom will now be attacked by deed guards.
• PvP Bugfix: Deeds under siege with exactly 10 guards should now properly spawn the guards in waves instead of one at a time.
• PvP Bugfix: The lockpicking timer will no longer be reset by defenders locking or unlocking the door/gate.
• Bugfix: Improving placed metal mine doors more aligned to improving those not placed.
• Bugfix: You must be within a 1 tile range in order to bash a mine door.
• Bugfix: You can remove inventory groups/subgroups with or without an item activated.
• Bugfix: Reworded the profile toggling messages to be more clear when choosing to show or hide the pve death tab notices.
• Bugfix: All two handed weapons should now properly use the two handed fighting animation.
• Bugfix: PvE Death Tab will now report animal conditions as well as type. Ex. old raging Large rat, aged champion Black wolf instead of just old Large rat and aged Black wolf.
• Bugfix: Unequip All now ignores items in equipped containers.
• Bugfix: You must be on the same layer in order to repair house walls/fences.
• Bugfix: Combat should now break repair and continue building actions.
• Bugfix: Summer hats now have their previous defensive values as armour.
• Bugfix: Leather armour now has a +30% archery/casting bonus like it should.
• Bugfix: Leading a non-swimming creature into water will now allow you to lead it back out if it gets stuck and you automatically stop leading.
• Bugfix: Open and close actions on containers on the ground should now be able to be opened and closed when the right click menu gives the option.
• Bugfix: You can no longer build/continue a fence or attach a mine door from inside a cave.
• Bugfix: Rift jewelry will no longer take charges from items in the inventory if an identical one is equipped.
• Bugfix: Prayers no longer count towards the daily 5 cap if you don’t actually gain faith from it, this scenario occurs when praying as non premium.
• Bugfix: Prevent losing priesthood at exactly 30 faith when crossing servers.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue which prevented you from picking up your own corpse on a deed if you were carrying a creature corpse at the time of death.
• Bugfix: You can no longer sacrifice any creature unless there is a current mission to do so.
• Bugfix: Dropped corpses will now retain the last owner information so that they can be picked up again if dropped.

180811 Client Update 11/AUG/18

• Grass will now fade in instead of just appearing tile by tile.
• Normal mapping has been added to buildings and caves.
• Fixed modern renderer crashing on Intel video cards.

• Note: In order for the modern renderer to function on any graphics card, all options in compatibility must be set to core.

• Fixed a visual issue with Oakshell casts on players.
• Fixed fish appearing to be above water.
• Fixed oversized flame on certain hanging lamps.
• Fixed installer bugging out on high resolutions.

180730 Client Update 30/JUL/18

Modern renderer changes:

• Fixed no texture issue on AMD cards
• Fixed shiny materials appearing as matte
• Fixed “thin” tree textures
• Tweaks to improve FPS performance

180726 Patch Notes 26/JUL/18

• New: Added ability to display compound titles.

• In the titles menu players may choose to display two titles together.

• New: Village Name and Village Role will now show on player mouseover.
• New: Profile options added to customize these additions.
• Show Other Player Titles – Allows you to show/hide other players [Skill Titles, Meditation Titles and Sorcery Titles] text.
• Show Other Player Villages – Allows you to show/hide other players “Role of Village” text.
• Show Own Village Titles – Allows you to show/hide your own “Role of Village” text. This overrides the above option, and will not display even if the viewer wants to see it.
• New: A PvE death tab has been added and will record player deaths on your server.

• Deaths will be recorded for players with at least 1.5 body who are also premium players.
• You can opt-out of your name appearing in the death tab in your profile.
• You can opt-out of seeing the death tab in your profile.

• New: Unequip All has been added to right click body which will unequip all armour.
• New: You can now add Sub Groups inside Groups in your inventory.
• New: Get Price now displays a rough amount of favor from sacrificing.
• New: Unicorn offspring will now have names.
• New: More titles have been added.

Changes:

• Change: Amount of source salt required to create potions from bloods has been raised from 0.001 to 0.01.
• Change: You can no longer erupt a tile next to a cave entrance.
• Change: Disintegrate bonus now applies to all warrior gods instead of just Magranon.

• Warrior gods are: Magranon, Smeagain, Nathan.

• Change: Dragon sorcery drop chance has been increased and tomes that drop from dragons will now be a single charge.
• Change: Mine a star gem personal goal change listed below:

• The personal goal Mine an Exquisite gem has been replaced with a new goal Recreate a statue from fragments.
• If you already completed the Mine an exquisite gem, it will not change.
• If you happen to mine an exquisite gem before recreating a statue from fragments, you can log out and back in and your personal goal will show Mine an Exquisite gem as completed (green).

• Change: In order to ensure all unique bloods result in different potions black, red and blue dragon blood will now make new potion types.

• Existing bloods of these creatures will make the new types as well.

• Change: Market stalls will now take more damage when bashed.
• Change: Sea Serpents are no longer on the endangered species list and may be sighted more often.
• Change: Alcohol strength and drinking changes listed below:

• Alcohol now gives 100% to 150% effectiveness based on QL.
• Players can now drink alcohol regardless of thirst level, similar to source.
• Consuming less than the full 0.2kg will scale the effect of alcohol down to the amount you’ve consumed.

• Change: Oil of the Weaponsmith will now work for the Weaponsmithing skill instead of just the weaponsmithing sub-skills.
• Change: Merchants who pack up and leave due to no business transactions for a while will send items which do not fit in backpacks separately.
• Change: Height checks for accessing containers and objects will only occur inside buildings.

PvP work:

• PvP Change: Chaos server now has a maximum Locate Soul range of 500 tiles.
• PvP Bugfix: King regalia material type has been changed and will allow healing.
• PvP Bugfix: Change Kingdom option on right click body should work as intended.

• The feature is designed to allow a player to leave a PMK and join the default template kingdom.
• Note that on Chaos, white light PMKs will join Freedom Isles since template MR and JK were removed.
• The change kingdom option will not be shown if player is not in a PMK.

• PvP Bugfix: Kings can no longer expel champions from their player made kingdom.
• PvP Bugfix: PMKs should now be able to bash their template kingdom towers and vice versa.
• PvP Bugfix: Fixed an issue which prevented HotA statue material from changing based on number of wins.
• PvP Bugfix: Player god champions should now be able to bash and destroy pavement.
• PvP Bugfix: Mycelium now stops CCFP reduction for Libila followers.
• PvP Bugfix: Artifacts should no longer get lost in floors or roofs when dropped upon logout.
• PvP Bugfix: HotA statues will now have various colors beyond red for alliances with more than 30 wins.
• PvP Bugfix: Fix for Scale of Libila untaming when unequipped but not dropped.
• PvP Bugfix: Fungus Trap now correctly applies a poison wound instead of crush wound.

Bug fixes:

• Bugfix: Fix for soul stealer necklace not having an effect.
• Bugfix: Examine message for spears has been changed to remove the mention of it being a steel spear and instead will examine as ‘A sturdy spear’.
• Bugfix: Had a chat with garden gnomes and they’ve agreed be more selective in their activities. (They will steal less items)
• Bugfix: Merchants no longer accept placed merchant contracts.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue which caused mission rituals to appear on a settlement token menu.
• Bugfix: You will now receive an error message when a Vynora priest tries to cast Wisdom of Vynora on a Nathan priest instead of just nothing happening.
• Bugfix: Planting of Banners, Kingdom Banners, Flags and Kingdom Flags is now limited to 4 per tile instead of 1.
• Bugfix: Fixed inconsistencies with combing items inside a container.
• Bugfix: Large anvils should now be enchantable again.
• Bugfix: Fix for some incorrect pluralization of text in missions.
• Bugfix: Fix for potential max height error with a meditation tile.
• Bugfix: Fixed a stamina drain issue with digging with an exact 5.0 sec timer.
• Bugfix: Converts from Nathan and Tosiek to Fo will now ignore alignment and convert properly.
• Bugfix: Fix passengers of vehicles not being checked for attacks from creatures if a Fo priest is commanding.
• Bugfix: Actions performed achievement should now trigger properly.
• Bugfix: Wooden benches now properly change last owner when loaded and unloaded.
• Bugfix: Another attempt to fix an issue where sometimes you cannot tame another pet once your tamed caged creature leaves the server.
• Bugfix: Uniques should no longer spawn on deed.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue with beds not giving a proper menu and error message for guests of a house with a wall down.
• Bugfix: Normalized stamina loss from gardening
• Bugfix: Logs of all woodtypes should now form a pile of logs instead of a toolbox model.
• Bugfix: Various text, grammar and spelling fixes.
• Bugfix: The ‘Be premium for 3 months’ personal goal should now trigger properly if you have met the requirements.
• Bugfix: Crafting window will no longer default to an item in the list. Exceptions listed below.

• If only one item can be made it will be in the crafting option by default
• If you have previously had the crafting window open during the same session with that item crafted, it will auto default to that item again

• Bugfix: Unfinished items must be repaired before being continued.
• Bugfix: Items placed on top of altars will not get sacrificed with items placed inside altars.
• Bugfix: Stealthed players are no longer hidden from village and alliance player lists.
• Bugfix: Daily faith reset is no longer offset by 5 minutes.
• Bugfix: Items on a destroyed bridge will now drop to the ground below the bridge.
• Bugfix: A bug with deity death item protection and death protection (skill) has been fixed for player gods. See notes below for deities affected.

• Prior to this fix, player gods with the “death protector” attribute would have both the item protection and skill protection chance on death, while player gods with “death item protector” obtained no benefit. These attributes now function as they should, and certain player gods may lose their item protection on death. Other player gods will “gain” the item protection on death from this change.
• Tosiek loses the ability to keep items on death.
• Nahjo loses the ability to keep items on death.
• Nathan gains the ability to keep items on death.
• Paaweelr has no change to abilities.
• Smeagain has no change to abilities.
• Gary gains the ability to keep items on death.
• Bugfix: Toned down the unicorn spawn from the last update a bit.
• Bugfix: Imbue on items now ignores “must be on ground” conditions. This allows Large Anvils and other ground objects to be imbued, which never worked before.

• Bugfix: Wagoner contracts can now cross server if they are not planted.
• Bugfix: Unfinished creature cages will now properly be named “[Empty]” when they are completed.
• Bugfix: Dirt will no longer be disposed of when dropping it above a mine entrance.
• Bugfix: Trader placement and citizenship mechanics have been adjusted to occur at the time of placement, rather than the next server restart.

• Traders will become a citizen of the deed where they are placed immediately, instead of after a server restart.
• Traders placed in the wild will have no deed associated with them and will not generate upkeep for the deed of the placer.
• If a deed is placed over a trader in the wild, the trader will immediately become a citizen of that deed.

• Bugfix: Archaeology statues can now be improved.
• Bugfix: Wooden left arch, right arch and arch T now display the correct parts quantities remaining in the crafting window and the examine window.
• Bugfix: When a transported creature dies, it will be removed from all servers so as not to remain on your manage animals list.

Client changes:

• The modern renderer is now an available option:
• To enable the modern renderer, in the launcher settings (not ingame) go to the graphics tab, and under renderer select Modern, Legacy will be the old renderer.
• The modern renderer contains a vast amount of changes and improvements, namely:

• It can display unlimited amount of lights on the screen (addresses light flickering).
• Trees and grass should no longer slow the client down on older machines.
• Performance is overall better than the Legacy renderer.
• Traditional antialiasing setting does not work with it, use the FXAA postprocess option.
• New (and future) graphics features and changes will often be only available using the new renderer.

180719 Patch Notes 19/JUL/18

• Bridge paving will now have correct season textures and normal maps.
• Fixed items disappearing behind gates
• Fixed invisible snow fall
• Fixed certain cases of flickering lighting

180710 Patch Notes 10/JUL/18

• An issue causing a crash with large amounts of items in the area has been addressed.
• Due to a potential exploitable situation, the quality boost on creation from imbued potions and oils has been removed for the time being.
• The 100 prospecting title has been added.

12/JUL/18

Graphics update

• Fixed equipped electrum chain coif
• Fixed electrum necklace for lower resolution settings
• Added additional terrain normal maps and tweaked specular values
• Fixed buff hover text for necklaces
• Pry action with crowbar no longer shows as a checkerboard on the select bar
• Stone bench now has an unfinished model
• Texture optimizations

180705 Patch Notes 05/JUL/18

Changes and Additions

• New: Rift bracelets can now be equipped.

• Bracelets go in the arm slots and require two of the same type to be worn for the bonus]
• For a reminder of rift jewelry and its functions, check https://www.wurmpedia.com/index.php/Rift_Jewelry

• New: You can now move archaeological reports from one journal to another.

• Activate report, right click the journal you want to move the page to, select ‘move report’.

• New: You can now use a knife cut a 2kg portion of larger weight prepared foods.
• New: Added a storage unit, the empty shelf.
• New: Items can now be placed on more surfaces and containers:

• NOTE: If the item is a container already, any items placed on it will be dropped on the ground when it is picked up, a message in event log will notify the player of this.

• Large anvil
• Large barrel
• Tub
• Empty shelf
• Small barrel
• Stone altar
• Wood altar
• Silver altar
• Gold altar
• Coffin
• Well
• Large magic chest
• Small magic chest
• Oil barrel
• Wine barrel
• Coffer
• Cupboard

• The following surfaces will also heat any item placed on them (so don’t place burnable items on them!):

• Oven
• Forge
• Hota statue
• Smelter
• Still

• New: Electrum has been discovered!
• Electrum is an alloy created with gold and silver, using the metallurgy skill.
• Material bonuses are:

• Armour
• .5% DR bonus
• +2% glance rate bonus
• -1% movement speed penalty
• Weapon
• -2.5% attack speed
• -1% damage dealt
• +5% bonus to damage dealt to hunter mobs
• General
• -10% damage taken
• 9x trader price
• -20% decay damage taken+2.5% bonus to repair speed
• +7.5% bonus to pendulum area of effect
• +10% bonus to bash damage

• Can be used to make statuettes

• Can be used to make unicorn shoes
• New: Electrum rune of Fo:
• Can be used to reduce age of a creature.
• Will reduce the age by a percentage of current age.
• Creatures cannot be pregnant when this rune is used
• The minimum age for creatures is Aged (12 months) (For reference, hell horses unhitch at Aged (29)

• Change: Removed old copper needle creation

• Before the all metal item changes, needles could be made from iron or copper, but copper could not be used to improve with., With the ability to create all items from all metals, this needle item is no longer valid, old versions may exist, so if you cannot improve a cloth item with a copper needle, it’s the old type.

• Change: The resource you obtain from digging is now dependent on the tile type on which you are standing. You no longer need to dig in the NW corner.
• Change: Imbues used on tools for creation of items now improve the quality of the result beyond the material’s limits. Also, minor bugs regarding creation with imbues have been resolved.
• Change: Various text changes have been made to emoting on body parts.
• Change: You will now be able to build on pavement outside of settlements without having to remove the pavement first as long as it’s not an official highway

(catseyed)

• Change: Halter ropes can now be used to haul items up/down ladders.
• Change: Players can now deny and/or remove kingdom office titles.
• Change: Spawn rates have been increased upwards for unicorns and lava fiends.

• Unicorns will spawn on grass, steppe and mycelium. Lava Fiends will spawn a bit more in caves and a small chance on rock.

• Change: Achievement changes, additions and fixes.
• Personal goals should now update properly when switching servers.
• Mine an exquisite gemstone has been changed from a 99 quality gem to a star gem.
• Perform 100000 actions goal now has a visible counter under Achievements entitled Actions Performed.
• Pick five door locks text has been changed to Pick five locks to correctly reflect the achievement requirements.
• Weight requirement for ‘Giant Fish” has been reduced from 190 kgs to 175 kgs
• In an effort to address concerns of players running multiple alts through personal goals, we’ve added a common personal goal “Survived” which is be premium for 3 months. We’ve chosen 3 months as it limits the rush of alts rolled for easy missions to achieve quickly without penalising legitimate existing and new players, while still being within a complete-able time frame before the new system. We will continue to monitor and adjust if necessary.

Bug Fixes:

• Bugfix: Various spelling and text issues fixed.
• Bugfix: Creatures will no longer retain their Kingdom ID on server crossings.
• Bugfix: Anchors and mooring anchors can now correctly be made of any metal type.
• Bugfix: You can no longer use meditation teleports from within the HoTA zone.
• Bugfix: Saddlebag window will now auto-close when you move out of range.
• Bugfix: The bulk container unit now correctly says volume instead of weight.
• Bugfix: Fix for logging in on a bridge which is no longer there.
• Bugfix: Veins created with a Rod of Transmutation will now return the correct quality information when prospecting and the ore resulting from using a granite wand will be the correct quality.
• Bugfix: Creatures will no longer transfer loyalty on server crossings which caused an intermittent issue with taming another animal.
• Bugfix: Valrei quest items were removed from the ritual mission item list.
• Bugfix: Fix for creating flour inside a container and the results getting deleted when the container is out of room.

• Excess items will now go into inventory instead of being deleted.

• Bugfix: Fix for not being able to drink from containers on deed. If you have open permission, you can now also right click – drink.
• Bugfix: Fixed a misleading mining warning text when trying to open a double wide tunnel if the slopes were too steep.

• Confusing message used to be: Another tunnel is too close. It would collapse.
• Improved message: The mountainside would risk crumbling. You cannot tunnel here.
• Solution: Surface mine down to reduce the slopes.

• Bugfix: The title for 100 Faith will now be properly added.
• Bugfix: Fixed a bug where a religion convert would fail if one of the players was mounted.
• Bugfix: Multiplayer puppeteering is now working again.
• Bugfix: Fixed the issue causing the error message ‘The water is too deep the creature would drown in the cage.’ where there was no deep water.
• Bugfix: Needles were removed from the mission item list.
• Bugfix: Rift necklace spell effect icon will now refer to necklace instead of bracelet when worn.
• Bugfix: Attempting to enchant a lingonberry bush now gives an error message and does not use up your enchant ability for the day.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue which caused some items to drop to the ground when burying a player corpse in inventory.
• Bugfix: Fixed crocodile and scorpion vehicle positioning so they don’t appear sunken into the ground and can now navigate the transitions between bridges/land and house floors.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue which allowed discardable items to be sold to the token using keybind sell.
• Bugfix: Fixed fencing options appearing in the crafting window when creating them was not permitted and would result in an error.
• Bugfix: Possible fix for the unexplained extra wooden items or bricks being created randomly via the crafting window.
• Bugfix: Equipped containers now drop their contents to the ground if destroyed.
• Bugfix: Repairable items will now show the ‘crumbles to dust’ message even outside containers (such as your inventory).
• Bugfix: Burning now ignores the ‘must be on ground’ requirements for disposing of wooden items.
• Bugfix: Armour penalty/bonus icons, timers and effects are now properly reset when changing armour types and upon logging into the game.
• Bugfix: Action on items will now consider height distance when determining if object is too far away.

• This will mean you can no longer access storage on higher floors and may require renovation of storage solutions

• Bugfix: You will no longer go kos on a deed by accidentally targeting a spirit templar while in combat with a creature.
• Bugfix: Necromancer summoned skeletons will no longer spam attack each other and spam the combat log on pve or kill each other on pvp.
• Bugfix: You can access vehicle inventories from any seat if embarked on that vehicle. The range of accessing containers inside vehicles when not embarked has been improved.
• Bugfix: Fix for “You are too busy” bug when using multiple combat options.

Client changes:

• New: Added texture normal maps option to Adv. Graphics settings

• NOTE: To avoid crashes on incompatible computers, It is DISABLED by default, you will need to enable it in the launcher as it cannot be changed ingame.

• Bugfix: Corrected terrain glitch with diagonal gravel
• Bugfix: Fixed issue where items placed on surfaces disappeared until relogging

180614 Patch Notes 14/JUN/18

Changes and Additions:

• New: Added current titles for occultist and meditation levels on the /titles menu and fixed an issue to have them show/hide immediately upon sending.
• New: Ability to switch dirt to sand and sand to dirt without having to drop the sand/dirt to turn one tile.
• New: You can now remove deleted players from your ignore list by issuing the /ignore command to see if you have unknown? on your list then issuing /ignore again to verify they have been removed.
• Change: Updated the Lord of War achievement description to better indicate the quantity of items needed for the achievement.

Bug Fixes:

• Bugfix: Spear tips and weapons heads (blades) will now also transfer rarity, runes and enchants to their completed item.
• Bugfix: Creature cage will no longer change ownership when another person on the permissions list loads it into a vehicle.
• Bugfix: Artifacts can no longer spawn in a HoTA Zone.
• Bugfix: Fixed more text and spelling errors.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue where wine barrels would overflow when you attempted to seal them while having max carry weight in your inventory even when the barrel was in a rack or on the ground.
• Bugfix: Liquids with a metal type can no longer be smelted.
• Bugfix: Enchanted turrets will no longer decay on deed on pve servers.
• Bugfix: Fixed the blank personal goal window and goal not completing when a server transfer was involved.
• Bugfix: Those who completed their goals but they did not register because of the epic/freedom transfer bug will receive the winning of the game stuff upon login.
• Bugfix: Changed achievement text for digging up brilliant gem to refer to it being dug up not mined.
• Bugfix: Fix for some champion mission creatures being tiny.
• Bugfix: Fix for not being able to drag your archaeology journal back into your inventory from another container.
• Bugfix: Fix for archaeological reports with deed names which contain apostrophes.
• Bugfix: The Troll King will not drown his followers if he leads them to water.
• Bugfix: Paper/papyrus/reports inside books and archaeological journals will now cost 1i each (similar to the almanac).
• Bugfix: Anchors can now properly be made from all metal types.
• Client :Bugfix: Items won’t hide under terrain in certain places.

180605 Patch Notes 5/JUN/18

Happy Anniverary!

• Premium character can investigate on a tile during the week of the anniversary to get a “special fragment”.
• Find 3 and identify them all before combining to get one of a few different gifts for Wurm’s Anniversary.
• Chance to get a special fragment is 1/15 upon finding any other fragment.
• Once combined, players won’t be able to combine another, or find any more special fragments.
• Finding and combining these special fragments is available only during Wurm’s Anniversary week which will start on the 6th of June and end on the 13th.

Changes and Additions:

Archaeology changes:

• Archaeology items can now be found in all metal types:

• If you investigate and find a metal fragment that is NOT ore or a lump, it’ll get the “metal” material.
• If the fragment you found would have had the steel material (instead of iron), it’ll get the “alloy” material instead.
• Any existing iron fragments can be combined with metal fragments (they will be converted to “metal” material when you start the combine action.
• Same deal with steel and alloy fragments.
• When you complete an item from fragments of the metal material, the final item will have a chance to become any base metal type (iron, tin, lead, gold, silver, copper, zinc) depending on how well identified the fragments were – heavily weighted towards iron.
• When you complete an item from fragments of the alloy material, the final item will have a chance to become any alloy metal type (steel, brass, bronze) depending on how well identified the fragments were – heavily weighted towards steel.
• If alloy fragments are extremely well identified, upon combining they will have a small chance to come out as a moonmetal (seryll, glimmersteel, adamantine) – though steel is more likely again.
• “metal” material fragments can only be combined with other “metal” fragments, and “alloy” material fragments can only be combined with other “alloy” fragments.

• New: You can now create an archaeological journal to help record your investigations.

• Add report pages to the journal by activating paper or papyrus sheets and right clicking on the journal – Add report.
• 22 reports will fit into the journal.
• Data will be added to your reports as you investigate and gather information.
• New information will be added to the report as you continue to investigate.
• Once you’ve found enough information for a single report, you will be able to use that report to help find that deed again whenever you want.

• Changes:

• New statues have been added.
• Rarities and enchants/runes from combined weapons and tool heads will now be transferred to the final item .

• Fixes:

• Fixed a bug which allowed investigating to bypass max inventory weight.
• Paved tiles should properly reset the investigate flag.

Item Placement:

• Items can now be placed on tables and certain objects
• To place an item, simply right click it from your inventory and select drop > place. You may then move the outlined object onto the table, clicking will place it at that location.
• The following surfaces can have items placed on them:

• square table
• round table
• dining table
• bed
• bench (stone)
• bedside table
• open fireplace
• canopy bed
• tripod table
• high bookshelf
• low bookshelf
• round marble table
• rectangular marble table

• New Decorational Items that items can be placed on have been added too:

• Empty High Bookshelf
• Empty Low Bookshelf
• Bar Table

Creature Cages:

• New Item: Creature Cage – Requires 60 carpentry skill to create and continue.
• New Item: Creature Transporter – 25 Fine Carpentry to create.
• Must have 23 body strength to load cage onto vehicle.
• You cannot load pregnant animals.
• You cannot load hurt animals.
• You cannot load a creature with items on it.
• There are specific models for the following stored creatures: bison, sheep, ram, cow, bull, horse, foal, hell horse. All other stored creatures have an enclosed cage graphic.
• Max of 4 creature cages per tile.
• A caged animal will move around and cause damage to the cage.
• When a cage hits 80 damage, the animal will escape.
• If an animal escapes a cage while in a boat in water, the animal will end up in the water and begin taking damage if they are not a swimming animal. If agro and not tamed, you will not be able to tame them while swimming.
• You cannot repair or improve a cage if it is storing an animal.
• The number of cages that can be carried by a vehicle is as follows:

• Caravel – 8
• Cog – 6
• Corbita – 5
• Knarr – 4
• Sailing boat – 0
• Rowing boat – 0
• Creature transporter – 4
• Wagon – 2
• Large cart – 0

Personal goal changes:

• Changes

• Spars on PVE servers will now trigger the ‘defeat another player xxx’ goals.
• Some of the more difficult personal goals have been rerolled if not completed. (ex. goals involving tomes or pvp only creatures and/or mechanics)

• Bugfixes

• The description for ‘Sysyphos Says Hello’ goal has been changed to correctly reflect the number of repairs needed to 6250 instead of 6000 for repair fences, walls or floors.
• The ‘pilot a xxx boat’ achievements should trigger properly now, even if you had them bugged before. Try again with this patch update.
• Destroy a structure by catapulting it goal has been fixed.
• Lockpick five boats goal has been fixed.
• Goals/achievements involving fermenting wine will now properly trigger even if the player is offline.
• Fixed achievement triggers for mining gems.
• Fixed a number of grammar and capitalization issues with personal goals and achievements.
• Epic Finalizer (Be the person to complete an Epic mission) now triggers properly.
• Operation Cleanup (putting items in a trash heap) will now trigger properly even if the destruction happens while you are offline.

• New: You can now directly open equipped saddlebags/saddlesacks by using keybind OPEN or right clicking the equipped horse or unicorn.
• New: The creation of books has been added.
• Change: The recipe for creating an almanac has changed because of the introduction of books.
• New: Kings robes will show as scale armour with specific colors for now.

Client Changes:

• Windows position and status is now also saved for backpacks, quivers and inventory groups. (previously only for out of inventory containers)
• Bugfix: Fix for items blocking placement.
• Bugfix: Lock status is now saved on all windows that remember their positions, both in current session and between sessions.
• Added keybind for Toggle Backpack and Toggle Quiver.

Bug Fixes:

• PvP Mission Bugfix: More checks to prevent erroneous structure building missions.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue which allowed non-intended items/armor to be equipped on non-intended creatures.
• Bugfix: Another check to be sure new missions spawn correctly after the completion or fail of a previous one.
• Bugfix: Ritual missions should now end at the 3.5 day mark if under 33% complete.
• Bugfix: Messaging added to items that cannot be dragged into containers, mailboxes, etc so that you are aware that it’s intended behavior.

180426 Patch Notes 26/APR/18

PvP Affinities and rank rework:

PvP Rank:

• Rank is now more evenly split between attackers. Rank gained/lost depends on the total average rank of all attackers versus the killed player.
• If there is more than double the number of attackers worth of rank to be split, half will be spread evenly and the other half will be spread based on the rank of each attacker (lower ranked attackers will gain more than a higher ranked attacker).
• If there is only enough rank to be split evenly, then no bonuses will be given based on attacker rank.
• If there isn’t enough to be split evenly, then it will be split based on attacker rank only.
• Killed player will lose 75% of the rank gained among attackers, instead of 100%.

• (e.g. 20 rank split across 5 attackers: Each of the 5 will gain a base of 2 rank each. The other 10 rank will be split between attackers based on their relative rank – lowest rank attacker might gain 3 bonus (total 5), next 3 might gain 2 (total 4), and highest rank might only gain 1 (total 3). Killed player will only lose 15 rank instead of 20.

PvP Affinities:

• Affinity will now go to a random attacker instead of the “max” attacker.
• Changed the chance for the affinity to be lost without transfer: If the chosen attacker already has at least 2 more affinities in the chosen skill than the killed player (before the affinity is lost), they will only have a 50% chance to gain the affinity. If the do not gain the affinity, another random attacker will get the chance instead.If no permanent affinity is gained, a week long timed affinity will be given to a random attacker instead. Killed player will still lose the affinity.
• All other attackers will gain a timed affinity of between 1 and 2 days in the skill of the lost affinity.
• Champions will now lose an affinity on death even if it is their only affinity.
• If a killed player doesn’t drop an affinity (due to only having one, or none as a Champion), a random timed affinity between 3 and 6 hours will be given to all attackers.

PvP Mission changes:

• Properly check the correct region when building mission structures on pvp.
• Lowered the number of players required for x player missions on pvp.
• Fixed rewards string for build missions.
• Changed create/sacrifice missions to take into account more number of items properly (bell tower is more than 2 items, for example).
• PvP servers should get less “requires x players” missions at higher difficulties.

General changes

• Change: Ongoing creature movement tweaks to help get them off high mountains and away from fences and walls if on deed. Creatures will now prefer to move across flatter paths than up or down steep slopes.
• Change: Icons for pegs, masts and tenons added.
• Change: You can now level and flatten from a boat and the dirt/sand will go into the boat as long as there is enough room.
• Change: You can now do the following while mounted/embarked – yoyo, prune, pick sprout and harvest.
• Change: Copies of keys made from copper are now called key copy, copper in order to differentiate them from copper keys made with copper locks.
• Change: A message in the event window will now appear when you gain an affinity via skill usage.

Bug Fixes:

• Bugfix: Kilns should now properly have the bash/destroy option.
• Bugfix: Various spelling and text errors.
• Bugfix: Small bells will now take on the metal type of the resonator instead of always becoming brass.
• Bugfix: Material types on lockpicks will now properly use and display the bonus for lockpicking.
• Bugfix: The adamantine rune of jackal will correctly change the secondary color of drake/scale armour instead of the primary colour.
• Bugfix: Fixed a depth check for flattening/leveling in shallow water.
• Bugfix: Action queue is now cleared when continuing a fence if you are standing in the way of completing the fence.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue which failed to check for reinforced floors in some cases when mining tile corners.
• Bugfix: Grape seedling removed from mission item list.
• Bugfix: Fixed a dredge leveling action which in rare cases caused a slope to lower by 1 dirt even with a full dredge.
• Bugfix: Fixed branded and bred creatures on deed not losing agro when you back away and click no target.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue that allowed dragging items from a branded/tamed horse onto an unbranded/untamed horse.
• Bugfix: Fixed issues with taking and opening distances with piles and containers.
• Bugfix: Fixed potential issue with uniques dying early.
• Bugfix: Brass oil lamps can now be crafted and improved correctly.

Client updates:

• Change: Added animal condition colors back
• Change: Distant terrain textures will look more fitting to the close ones
• Change: Added a Very High setting to Terrain/Shadow Detail
• Change: Fixed glitchy background when distant terrain was disabled.
• Bugfix: Reduced light flickering
• Bugfix: New stone fences will properly export to Deed Planner 2.8+.
• Bugfix: Slate and marble brick pavement will properly export to Deed Planner 2.8+
• Bugfix: Texture size settings will now work for all objects properly

180406 Patch Notes 6/APR/18

Epic structure changes:

• All epic structures are now able to be improved.
• All epic structures can be moved and rotated by their owners.
• All epic structures cannot be moved and block deeds if they are involved in an active mission
• Epic structures will not block deeds and will be removed from the pool of possible targets if on deed on all servers.

Bug Fixes Bug fix: Tile item count will be checked for items dropping on creation and being unloaded in order to prevent piles of more than 100 items.

180405 Patch Notes 5/APR/18

Changes and additions:

• Heal spell will now heal a minimum of 30% and scale up to 100% depending on cast power.
• Sacrifice creature success for missions will now take player FS and creature CR into account:

• Weaker creatures will be able to be sacrificed at more health.
• The existing requirements of 50% health or less will remain the cap.

• Mission descriptions will now display the movement timer reduction upon completion of the mission

Bug Fixes

• Bug fix: Artifacts can no longer be placed inside saddlebags/saddlesacks.
• Bug fix: You can no longer remove the string from a bow unless the bow is in your inventory.
• Bug fix: You can now mine out of a cliff tile without getting an error message.
• Bug fix: Fixed various spelling and text errors.
• Bug fix: When opening a gift inside a container, the contents will go into the player’s main inventory.
• Bug fix: Smelters and kilns should no longer take damage when on deed and upkeep is greater than 30 days.
• Bug fix: Tree stumps should once again match the tree woodtype.
• Bug fix: Creation of Sandstone parapets should now use the proper quantity of sandstone bricks.
• Bug fix: The action cycle for completing a fence will now cancel if the player is in the way of completion.
• Bug fix: Global spells cast by player gods will now correctly announce the deity name of the casters.
• Bug fix: Missions will now display there correct karma per item when requiring multi part items.
• Bug fix: Guard tower ritual missions will now spawn correctly and display tower name as well as kingdom affiliation.

180315 Patch Notes 15/MAR/18

Changes and additions:

• Chain, plate, drake and scale armour can now be dyed

Bug Fixes:

• Bugfix: Staves and crowbars can now be crafted from all metal types.
• Bugfix: Fixed timer scaling issue for pickaxes with WoA when mining.
• Bugfix: Removed double copper needle from recipe list.
• Bugfix: You should no longer be able to bash a tent that does not belong to you on pve.
• Bugfix: Addressed issues with timer and success when sacrificing animals.
• Epic Bugfix: Player gods should no longer show up on the commune list or be referenced by name when deciding not to guide.
• Epic Bugfix: Drake/Scale should no longer drop when logging out.

Client changes

• Change: Dyes will now show on helmets and held items
• Due to some unforseen issues with a live build, the preview compatibility for mac changes have been delayed to an update coming shortly.
• Preview: Fixed issues with keyboard input on Linux

180308 Patch Notes 08/MAR/18

Changes and additions

• New: Added the option to use the Place feature for larger items which you cannot take into inventory.
• New: White Cloth, leather and studded leather armour can now be dyed.
• New: Dragging an item from a container or inventory window to a world object will cause it to be moved to the object’s inventory, without the need to open it in a window manually.
• Change: You should do more damage when destroying off deed items if they are owned/created by you.
• Change:You will now get the option to spawn at your deed token even if the terrain is too steep. The spawn location will have a Steep warning in the dropdown menu.

Epic Mission Tweaks:

• Avenger of light missions will no longer spawn.
• Increased amount of mission creatures spawned (up to 50% extra of the required amount).
• Spawned mission creatures will age faster and die after a few weeks.
• Mission difficulty will not always go up on a successful mission completion.
• Mission requirements will be a bit less across most missions.
• Changed sacrifice creature missions so the action is only 12s long instead of 30s. Changed the chance of interruption during the action to be a lot less.

• Epic Change: Characteristic skillgain has been increased by 30%.

Metal items update

• New: Many metal items and tools can now be crafted with any metal.
• New: Metal items will now take on a hue depending on the metal used in creation
• Change: Ore is no longer capped at 50 Quality on Epic Home Servers.
• New: Metal lumps can now be combined to up to 64 of the item or 64kg, whichever is the higher.

• Note: This allows lumps such as gold, silver and brass to be combined past the 64x count, allowing it to be used to create larger items.

• Metal items will now have special bonuses and penalties depending on metal type used:
• Note: All values are compared to iron.

• Adamantine:

• Armour

• 5% DR
• 5% Movement Speed

• Weapons

• 10% Damage Dealt

• General

• -60% Damage Taken
• 8x Trader Price
• 15% shatter resistance
• -60% decay reduction
• 5% lockpicking bonus
• 15% Pendulum Area of Effect bonus
• 7.5% bash damage bonus
• 10% ql bonus to items created

• Brass

• Armour

• 1% DR bonus

• Weapon

• -1% damage dealt
• 5% bonus to damage dealt to armour

• General

• -5% damage taken
• 2.5% ql gain per improvement action
• 6x trader price
• -5% decay damage
• 10% bonus to quality upon creation
• 2.5% bonus to repairing
• 2.5% bonus to pendulum area of effect
• 5% bonus to bash damage

• Bronze

• Armour

• 1% DR bonus

• Weapons

• -1.5% damage dealt
• 7.5% bonus damage dealt to armour

• General

• -10% damage taken
• 5x trader price
• -15% decay damage
• 5% bonus to quality upon creation
• 5% bonus to pendulum area of effect
• 2.5% bonus to bash damage

• Copper’

• Armour

• -1% DR
• 1% movement speed bonus
• -2% glance rate

• Weapon

• Deals 35% less damage
• Deals extra poison wound at 30% of damage after 35% reduction

• General

• 5x trader price
• 15% extra damage taken
• -5% decay damage taken
• 5% bonus to quality gain per improvement action
• 2.5% bonus to repairing
• -5% lockpicking penalty
• -5% to pendulum area of effect
• -10% to bash damage

• Glimmersteel

• Armour

• 5% DR Bonus
• 10% movement speed bonus

• Weapons

• 10% attack speed

• General

• -40% damage taken
• 25% shatter resistance
• 10x Trader prices
• -40% decay taken
• 5% bonus to repairing
• 5% lockpicking bonus
• 20% bonus to pendulum area of effect
• 10% ql bonus to items created

• Gold

• Armour

• -1% DR
• -5% movement speed
• 2.5% bonus to glance rate

• Weapons

• -5% attack speed
• -2.5% damage dealt
• 5% bonus to armour damage

• General

• 10x trader prices
• 20% extra damage taken
• -60% decay damage taken
• 20% resistance to shatter
• -5% penalty to repairing
• -2.5 penalty to lockpicking
• Can be used to make holy items (altars, statuettes)
• 10% bonus to pendulum area of effect
• 15% bonus to bash damage
• Can be used to make unicorn shoes

• Lead

• Armour

• -2.5% DR
• -2.5% movement speed

• Weapons

• -50% damage dealt
• Deals extra poison wound at 75%% of damage after 50% reduction

• General

• .75x trader prices
• 30% extra damage taken
• -20% decay damage taken
• 10% bonus to quality gain per improvement action
• 5% bonus to quality upon creation
• -10% repair speed
• -5% penalty to lockpicking
• -10% penalty to pendulum area of effect
• 20% bonus to bash damage

• Seryll

• Armour

• 5% DR
• 10% bonus to movement speed

• Weapons

• 5% attack speed
• 5% damage dealt

• General

• 12x trader prices
• -50% damage taken
• -50% decay damage taken
• 100% shatter resistance
• 5% bonus to repair speed
• 5% bonus to lockpicking
• Can be used to make holy items
• 25% bonus to pendulum area of effect
• 7.5% bonus to bash damage

• Silver

• Armour

• -.75% DR
• -2% movement speed
• 1% glance rate bonus

• Weapons

• 10% damage to hunter mobs (most aggressive)
• -2.5% parry rate

• General

• 8x Trader prices
• 2.5% extra damage taken
• -30% decay damage taken
• 10% resistance to shatter
• 2.5% bonus to lockpicking
• Can be used to make holy items
• Can be used to make unicorn shoes
• 5% bonus to pendulum area of effect
• 10% bonus to bash damage

• Steel

• Armour

• 2.5% DR
• Weapons
• 2.5% extra damage to armour

• General

• 2.5x trader prices
• -20% damage taken
• -30% decay damage taken
• 2.5% bonus to repair speed
• 5% lockpicking bonus
• 2.5% bonus to pendulum area of effect
• 5% bonus to bash damage

• Tin

• Armour

• -1.75% DR
• 2% bonus to movement speed

• Weapons

• 4% bonus to attack speed
• -7.5% damage dealt
• -5% parry rate

• General

• 20% bonus damage taken
• -7.5% decay penalty
• 2.5% bonus to quality gain per improvement action
• 5% bonus to quality upon creation
• -2.5% penalty to repair speed
• -2.5% lockpicking penalty
• -5% penalty to pendulum area of effect
• -10% bash damage

• Zinc

• Armour

• -2% DR
• 2.5% bonus to movement speed

• Weapons

• 5% attack speed
• -10% damage dealt

• General

• .9x trader prices
• 25% extra damage taken
• 20% extra decay damage taken
• 7.5% bonus to quality gain per improvement action
• -5% repair speed
• -2.5% lockpicking bonus
• -5% penalty to pendulum area of effect
• -15% bash damage

Bug Fixes:

• Bugfix: Fixed the issue where all names on the UI friend list went blank instead of just the specified removed friend.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue which allowed you to plan a structure greater than your skill with no option to finalize or destroy the plan.
• Bugfix: Bridge pavement is now removed when a bridge section is destroyed and reverted to a plan.
• Bugfix: Recipe Cherries Jubilee should now be in everyone’s recipe book and can actually be made now.
• Bugfix: Building door history is properly recorded whether or not you have an item activated during the lock/unlock process.
• Bugfix: You should now be able to tar a floor board underwater to the same depth you can lay them.
• Bugfix: Prying catseyes and waystones on deed should do more damage than off deed.
• Bugfix: Fixed the double pray in the context menu for Nahjo on a water tile inside a cave.
• Bugfix: Fixed a bug which caused damage to water instead of a reduction of weight to the water during a failed tailoring advanced creation attempt. (Ex. Using water on a cloth shirt to make a black vested shirt).
• Bugfix: Fixed a bug which caused items with glow runes attached to never cool down.
• Bugfix: Fennel seed should no longer show as being made with a mortar and pestle on any spice in recipes.
• Bugfix: Freedom Isle missions should properly reset after 3.5 days if the mission is less than 33% complete. Note that this only applies to missions that gradually tick up (not tree, traitor, build etc missions).
• Bugfix: Followup fix to the January 2018 change to further address the lag on Elevation.
• Bugfix: Items should properly decay and cool off while inside saddle bags and saddle sacks equipped on horses.
• Bugfix: Additional fix to check that the 5% tax is not taken from crates stored in racks as soon as they are moved off deed.
• Note: This fix does require a tax check to occur on deed prior to taking off deed to correctly update the period between taxings.
• Please allow a few weeks for everything to get a tick before reporting issues.
• In the meantime, continue to move items from crates in racks to new crates in order to prevent the immediate tax deduction off deed.
• Bugfix: Special wounds of same type and position will now stack, similar to normal wounds.

Example of this is a FA weapon causing multiple burn wounds to the same position on the body if hit there multiple times. The normal weapon wounds would mostly stack (with some randomly causing a new wound), but fire wouldn’t stack. That fire wound will now stack with any existing fire wound at that position.

• Bugfix: Creatures should once again lose aggression if you walk a distance away and choose No Target.

180215 Patch Notes 15/FEB/18

• Fix to address crashing issue on Elevation.
• Digging to pile will now correctly take rarity and 10% ql rune into account.
• Fixed issue with cleaning furnaces allowing for large quantities of ash.
• Leather can now be made again.

180207 Patch Notes 07/FEB/18

Additions & Changes

• New: You can now add notes to your friends list.
• New: You can now clean your furnaces after use and collect the ash which can be used in the creation of other products.

• Once a furnace goes out, or after being lit for 30 minutes and snuffed, ash can be collected with the ‘clean’ action by activating a shovel and right clicking the furnace
• This will provide firemaking skill
• Resulting quality is incluenced by firemaking skill and quality of furnace
• QL is based off your skill and the QL of the furnace (random QL based on both).

• New: Attempting to dye an item with not enough dye will tell you how much you need
• New: You can now paint/dye certain items with one color for the wood and another for the cloth portion.

• Dye is removed from the wooden sections with a wire brush
• Dye is removed from the secondary (cloth) sections with lye equal to half the weight required to dye the item in the first place.
• Note: Items that are currently dyed will have both primary and secondary sections coloured.

• New: Wood-type shaders have been added, so many items will once again show different hues for the different wood-types. This includes wood-types for the newly added trees which never had a different hue:

• Orange
• Linden
• Oleander
• Fir
• Chestnut
• Walnut.

• Change: With the addition of adding a second dye color to some items, all dye amount requirements have been reviewed and adjusted.
• Change: Adjusted affinity gain chances to favour skills more than characteristics. This change is aimed at avoiding the majority of affinities being characteristics and to result in skill affinities being more common. We will continue to monitor and adjust affinity chances in further updates if necessary.
• Change: Meditation abilities that only affect yourself are no longer affected by deed permissions.
• Change: Increased post grace period decay rate for offdeed red catseyes and waystones with only one valid link.

Client:

• The ability to accurately place items with the use of the mouse cursor has been added:

• To place an item, it must be possible to be in your inventory (not heavy objects or vehicles).
• Right click the item, and select drop > place.
• Default move is free move with the mouse.
• Holding CTRL will align to an 8×8 grid within a tile(64 squares within the tile).
• Holding ALT will align to a 4×4 grid within a tile (16 squares within the tile).
• Mouse scroll will rotate the object.
• Holding shift while mouse scrolling will rotate slowly for better precision.

• Improved loading times of settings window.
• Wood type will now show on equipped wooden things such as mallets, bows, and shields

Bug Fixes

• Bugfix: Fixed various spelling and text issues.
• Bugfix: Rare fishing spots will now correctly move when the season (and thus fish type) changes.
• Bugfix: PvP – Disabling lawful now lets you bypass anti-archery permissions and gives penalty for doing so
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue with mining or digging a tile corner from too far a distance.
• Bugfix: Horse and Hell Horse corpses should match the color of the live horse/hell horse.
• Bugfix: Fix for bulk bins taking the 5% tax tick immediately when moving them from deed to off deed.
• Bugfix: You should no longer lose total fillet weight when adding them to a bulk container. Fillets will still be reduced to .30 wt, but the quantity will be increased to reflect the total weight of the fillets before putting them into a bulk container.
• Bugfix: Tree stumps for centered trees will now also be centered.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue which caused herbs planted while in inventory falling to the ground with the message that they will not fit in the planter rack.
• Bugfix: Fixed a bug which allowed a mine entrance to be opened onto a bridge.
• Bugfix: Wagoners have been instructed to keep their wagons repaired.

180128 Hotfix 2018-01-28: Fix for a crash bug

Applying a fix to prevent a crash and bring Independence back online. Also swapped out a few hamsters and cleaned their cages.

180119 Hotfix 19/01/18

Affinity system adjustments: We’ve made some adjustments to the affinity system to improve how affinities are gained. we’ll continue to log affinities gained and adjust accordingly.

180118 Patch Notes 18/JAN/18

Changes and additions:

• We have adjusted some creatures spawn tile requirements to prevent the over abundance of seal colonies on rocky shores. Rats can now spawn on rock near water and seals may spawn on beaches. We’ll continue to monitor locations of large seal colonies.
• The ability to dig dirt or resources directly into a pile has been added. The keybind dig_to_pile will allow you to dig dirt and other resources and have them go into a pile at your feet. Once the pile is full, the resources will go into inventory. This is only available via the keybind which can be set in the console or in the keybind tab on the settings page.
• Hell horses now have new colour names to differentiate them from regular horses.

• Brown > Cinder
• Gold > Envious
• Black > Shadow
• White > Pestilential
• Grey > Ash
• Ebony Black > Molten
• Piebald Pinto > Nightshade
• Blood bay > Incandescent

• Examining a live horse or hell horse will now give it’s colour in the examine message.
• Title for masonry 100 added – Another Brick In The Wall
• Sealed containers can now be placed on merchants.
• Sealed dye containers will now show the RGB in the title.

Affinity System Adjustments:

Overkilling Changes: (Note: Overkilling is the mechanic that stops any skillgain, affinity gain, rank bonuses etc from killing a player too often)

• The time limit of 3 hours between kills to trigger overkilling of another player (after having killed them at least 3 times already per player) has been increased to 6 hours.

Overall kills on a single player are now tracked, and will count as overkilling if killed more than 3 times by any other player in a short time.

• When killed in PvP a player will gain a death count and a 3 hour timer will tick down.
• If killed while that timer is ticking down, another death count will be gained, and the timer will reset to the 3 hour mark and start again.
• After this timer has ticked down, a death is removed from their count and the timer will reset if any death counts remain.
• If a player’s death count increases over 3, then any PvP kills against them will count as overkilling until that death count is again below 3.

Affinity Changes:

• When using a skill premium characters will now have a small chance to gain an affinity in that skill upon a successful skill check.
• On average once every 2 hours, a character will open a 15s window of time where every successful skill check will have a chance to gain an affinity in that skill. (e.g if you are mining during this window, you could gain an affinity in mining, pickaxe, miscellaneous items, body stamina, body strength, soul strength, mind logic, mind, soul, or body)
• The chance to gain an affinity is 1/500 if you have no affinities in that skill, 1/1000 if you have one affinity, 1/1500 if you have two affinities, 1/2000 if you have 3 affinities and 1/2500 if you have 4 affinities.
• If an affinity is successfully gained during the 15s window, the window will reset and no more will be able to be gained until the next window on that character.

• This window will remain open and check every skill tick until an affinity is gained or the 15 seconds is up.
• We will be monitoring these chances and making changes as necessary.
• Stealing affinities upon killing a character in PvP has changed:

• If the dead character only has one affinity total, they will not lose that affinity and the killer will not gain an affinity.

If the dead character has more than one affinity, then a random one is lost and may go to the killer. If the dead character has more affinities in that skill than the killer, then the killer will gain that affinity 100% of the time. Otherwise, the chance for the killer to gain the affinity is dependant on the difference between the number of affinities in that skill each player has (before the dead character loses the affinity). If the difference is 0, the chance is 50% for the killer to gain the affinity. Difference of 1 is 25%, difference of 2 is 12.5% and difference of 3 is 6.25%.

• If an affinity is lost by the dead character and none gained by the killer, then the killer will receive a timed affinity in that skill that will last for a week.

Client Changes:

• Bugfix: Various objects should not re-appear in wrong places after traveling
• Bugfix: Keybinds set for GRAVE key will now save correctly
• Bug Fixes:

• Bugfix: An issue causing continued lag on Elevation since the release of 1.6 has been identified and addressed. We will continue to monitor the server for any instances of extended lag
• Bugfix: You should no longer be able to drag more than 100 items into the saddlebags or saddle sacks.
• Bugfix: The 2017 Saddle Sack gifts should no longer decay.
• Bugfix: A roof on a south or east building border tile should no longer block wall plans.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue with keybind for combine fragment not working properly.
• Bugfix: Fillets of fish and meat should no longer change to generic fish/meat fillets when dragging from one bulk container to another.
• Bugfix: Weight reduction runes on tool and weapon heads will be ignored so that the items can be used for creation and not return a too little material message.
• Bugfix: Corrected various text messages.
• Bugfix: Fixed Valrei scenario mission rewards being awarded incorrectly.
• Bugfix: You should no longer be able to resize a deed with enemy presence.
• Bugfix: Removed double taste and drink option on sealed containers with something activated in inventory.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue with control-click and dragging containers inside containers.
• Bugfix: You can now drag items directly into containers inside equipped saddle sacks/bags.
• Bugfix: Disallowed PvP opportunity attacks on other players on PvE servers, except in spars/duels.
• Bugfix: Removed double application of bloodthirst for archery on Epic.*