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Since I started playing Wurm (I make it November 2003 or 2004 (but thats that's probably wrong) right after the New Dawn beta of EverQuest), I have heard this question asked more times than any other.

Wurm is far too complex for anyone to give any easy answer to the new player wanting to know exactly what the game is about and how to get into it but maybe this page will gve give you some ideas.

The purpose of this guide is to help you get through your first 24 hours of ingame in-game time by providing you with a base in the game, your own place. What you find here is pretty much what most experienced players would tell you bit by bit.

The first thing to do is to bookmark this wiki. Really I cannot emphasise emphasize enough how important this is. The wiki is the only game manual and its completely and utterly essential.

Now get ready for at least an hour or two of exploration. Yep thats that's a ''real'' hour or two.

'''Note: Completing everything in this guide will take at least 16 hours of playing time and, more likely, 18 to 20 hours. Dont Don't waste too much of your first 24 hours of free food by sitting around idle.'''

If you are attacked, just keep running. You are travelling traveling light and can outrun most creatures unless they get a lucky hit on you as you go by.

As you travel, say hello to the people you pass and ask advice about any areas where you may be able to stay. Remember that these people may become your future neighbours neighbors and that they may be knowledgeable enough and nice enough to point you to a great place to set up.

If you do not find a good spot after 40 to 60 minutes travelling traveling in one direction then ''/suicide'' and start over again heading in a different direction. Remember you are just starting the game and its worth while just relaxing at this point and enjoying the scenery.

If there is not a slope flat enough for you to dig on right now, thats that's not necessarily a huge problem. You can always practice somewhere not too far off or near the world spawn point.

I hope you were observant while you were travelling traveling and noticed any open mines that you passed because you will need a list of things to set up home on your little patch of turf.

*25 mins. This will take a while and is strenuous so make sure you top up on food first. Head to the nearest open mine, preferrably preferably one with a forge built in. Mine 20 [[iron ore]].

One of your earliest priorites priorities after you can feed yourself is a set of tools ..

In Wurm, you are not measured by anything simple like a character level. A good character is a good smith or carpenter or tailor or etc. Someone who can make quality goods for their friends, neighbours neighbors and villagers is more liely likely to be welcome in a village and can make ingame in-game money with their handiwork.

This guide has told you more or less what every Wurm player ''must'' do at the start but you dont don't actually have to. You can just grab your newbie toolkit and run out into the world to explore.

For myself I have mostly found that a fairly natural process though. You build your house and you realise realize that you need or want some tool, weapon, bit of furniture or more space to farm in .. and there you have your goal. Terraform a large space for fields. Make your house bigger so that you have more storage space. Make a better weapon so that you can kill better or some armour so that you dont don't die quite so quickly again.

Money is a great luxury in Wurm just like it is in the real world. With money you can buy much better equipment, or save yourself the time and difficulty of building a boat. You can buy the land you live on and safeguard yourself against wild animals and 'destructive' players. Most players are destructive by accident rather than by intention but its nice to know that someone cannot accidently accidentally cause you extra work by digging or building where you would prefer they should not. If you own the land then you can say that other people cannot do certain things there.

To be very honest, praying is a very laborious way to make money. But you can, if you have lots of time to spare, make a very small amount of ingame in-game cash by praying at an [[altar]].

Or you can look at [[The Reward Tool]] which is accessible, [[http://shop.wurmonline.com/WurmWeb/index.jsp here]], and earn yourself some ingame in-game pocket money.

At the end of the day though, the advantages of premium are huge. You can raise your skills much higher and so achieve a lot more and a lot faster, set more interesting and extensive goals. Become a reknowned renowned crafter or explorer in ways that a basic account player simply cannot.

I hope this guide has helped get you started with a lot less confusion than can be the case. As I said, Wurm is a game of limitless possibilities where you really need to set you own goals, but I hope it has helped you get an idea of what you can do by having a structured walkthrough walk-through of how to get going.

Ask yourself what you have most enjoyed so far. Be it smithing or carpentry, housebuilding or terraforming, thats that's always a good place to focus on developing your skills and getting more fun out of leaving your mark on the face of Wurm.

The first type you will have come across in real life. They sit staring out the window saying they are bored and doing nothing about it. They want everyone else to do everything for them and, left to their own devices, they do nothing and bore themselves to tears. If thats that's you, byeee!

The second type is more mature but makes the forgiveable forgivable mistake of getting so into the game that they burn themselves out. They grind for hours to get the next point of skill and forget that Wurm is a game. I have done this myself, set myself some enormous goal and focussed focused entirely on that one thing till I was so sick of doing the same thing for hour after hour of game time that I had to quit the game for a month or three just to recharge my batteries.

* Dont Don't steal stuff (its a right click menu option). Doing this usually means you will be attacked by guards in or near the area.* Dont Don't attack guards. You will almost certainly die.