Changes

First of all I will explain the interface. In the upper left corner of the game window you will see some text and a few coloured bars, I will explain these one by one.

Hit F2 on your keyboard to show a list of your skills. There are 4 main categories in this window, characteristics, religion, skills and spell effects. The characteristic subskills are values representing the current state of your body, mind and soul, for instance, to be able to attack anything, your body characteristic must be at least 1.5, or you will be too weak. Each sub-characteristic is again divided into several under-under characteristics, which has their own functions. For instance, the maximum amount of weight you can carry is determined by your body strength.

Spell effects, or “buffs” as they are known in other games, are temporary magical effects that affect your character.

== The bars ==

All actions except for moving are done by right-clicking. Try right-clicking a few things to see what options are available. Once the right click menu has loaded, you will at the bottom of it see an option saying “What’s this?” Clicking this will open an ingame window with an explanation of the item you right clicked on.

== The chatboxes ==

The Event chat is, as mentioned, where you receive information from the game. If you fail or succeed an action, get attacked or the server is shutting down, this is where you can find the information. The buttons underneath it are used for toggling your status. “Climbing” will enable you to go up steep slopes, but it will heavily reduce your stamina, and you can not regain stamina while climbing. Faithful allows you to do actions that your god frowns upon, although you will lose some faith from it. When Lawful is activated, it will prevent you from doing illegal things. If you go unlawful, you can steal items, but be warned, guards do not like thieves.

== The first steps == <br>

You move using the WSAD keys, and turn around by holding the left mouse button and moving the mouse. Pretty simple there. When you first start out in Wurm, you will be in Newtown. Newtown is a town owned by the game developers, and is a safe haven for new players, but as soon as you leave Newtown you must be wary of the many creatures that inhibit the lands of Wurm. The most fearsome beast you are likely to encounter is the huge spider, a threat that will tear you apart in a matter of seconds. If you get attacked by a bear, flee, either to (and into) the nearest water, or back to Newtown where the guards can help you defeat the attacker.

The first 24 hours of your Wurm playing time (real life time spent ingame) you can get free food at the bistro in Newtown, but after that you are on your own, so it is a good idea to spend some of these hours learning to feed yourself. To feed yourself properly you will need a few things:

All of these items can be gathered and made with the starter kit, I will show you how.

Once you find a clay tile, stand on it and dig with your shovel. To do this, activate your shovel, right click the clay tile and select dig. This will take about 11 seconds if you have full stamina.

Once you have a piece of clay in your inventory, you must activate your right hand (sounds silly, I know). Activate it and right click on the clay. Select create -> containers -> clay bowl. If you fail at first, try again until you succeed. If you make an unfinished clay bowl, keep trying until you make a finished one, but save the unfinished for when you have the tools to finish it. Make a few clay bowls and a jar this way, and continue to the next step.

To make the clay bowls into pottery you will need to heat them in a fire, which leads us to the final item for making food; the campfire. Find a tree, they look like this:

Once you find a batch of trees, go around examining them until you find one that says either “old” or “very old”. These trees give the most wood, and as thus, are the best to chop down. Activate your small axe and chop the tree. It will take a few chop actions, you can see how much damage the tree has by examining.

Note: I do not recommend cutting down fruit trees, if you can find a pine, cedar, maple or birch tree, chop down that one instead, as you will need more wood for fuel. Fruit trees give very little wood.

Once it reaches 100 damage, it will disappear and a felled tree or a log will be in front of you. If it is a felled tree, right click it and select “chop up” to make a log. Once you have a log in front of you, right-click it and select “take”. You will now have the log in your inventory. With your small axe activated, right-click the log and select create -> miscellaneous -> kindling.

Once you have a kindling, you can make a campfire. To do this, activate your steel and flint and right-click the kindling. Select create -> containers -> campfire.

If you succeed, you will make a campfire in front of you:

Note: The campfire needs fuel to burn. If have more log, activate it and right-click the fire and select burn. You will need to fuel the fire with about 20 kg of wood every hour or so, you can see its status by examining. If it does not say “The fire burns steadily and will burn for a long time.” You need to put on fuel.

Once the clay bowl have turned into a pottery bowl, this will happen once the clay bowl has been glowing from heat for a while, take it out of the fire as well as the spices and berries. Now drag one berry and one spice onto the pottery bowl in your inventory so they are located inside the bowl and examine it. If it says something about casserole, put the pottery bowl inside the fire again (with the stuff in it), and click the + next to it. If you can still see the ingredients, they have not been warm enough, and you should continue feeding the fire until they disappear and a casserole appears instead. If you see the word “casserole” when you click the +, you have successfully made your first food. Take the pottery bowl out of the fire and eat the casserole if you are hungry. If not, save it for a rainy day by taking it out of the bowl and putting it in your backpack.

Now know, the food you make here at first is very bad, and will not fill you up very much, but it will fill you enough to make you able to work and have decent stamina regeneration, which is key for everything in Wurm. When you cook more food, your cooking skill will increase and you will make better and better food. Once you gain access to meat, fish and vegetables and have a frying pan, you can start making meals much the same way as the casserole, just with other ingredients. Meals are special since they can fill you 100%.