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This section will be updated by the Wurmpedia team as and when information is released from Public Relations or prior to a popular community event. Also check out the [[Wurm_Server_Release_Notes_2015|recent updates]] for detailed changes to the client and server.

 Hey all! * Work has continued on a number of things this week, including the almost-ready first batch of updates to the Permissions system, and more work on Unlimited. Once again dependent on final bugfixing, we'd like to release said permissions update next week. * We also have a new map API for Wurm Unlimited to announce this week, that ought to be released early next week in its first version. Once complete, it will help WU players to create their own maps. More below! Also, if you're still unsure about anything to do with Unlimited and how it will (but mostly won't) affect Online, then we released an FAQ last week that includes some helpful information. --[[User:Zachariah|Zachariah]] ([[User talk:Zachariah|talk]]) 07:06, 3 October 2015 (CEST)

 Hey all! * This week, devs have continued work on a range of things. We don't have so much to show but do have some updates, including FAQ questions about Wurm Unlimited answered by Rolf, and a date for when Tich's new permissions work will start going live. --[[User:Zachariah|Zachariah]] ([[User talk:Zachariah|talk]]) 21:28, 25 September 2015 (CEST)

 Hey all! * As you may have already heard this week, we dropped some very big news about the future of Wurm. On October 21st, we'll be releasing Wurm Unlimited, a standalone version of the game that will allow you to play in a singleplayer world and host your own servers. The objective with Unlimited is to bring Wurm to a wider audience. By releasing it on Steam and with the help of a professional publisher, it'll bring Wurm to lots of of new people, who will be able to enjoy Wurm in a new and more accessible way. The Adventure mode, for instance, will allow players to explore a single-player sandbox world as a totally new experience - that we hope to be more accessible to more people. Scripted game worlds are fantastic ways to introduce complicated games more gradually, allowing Unlimited to help reduce the steepness of Wurm's learning curve. As for the future of the existing Online servers, they're very much here to stay! The function of the servers will change, from being the game to simply being officially hosted Wurm servers - complementing the many servers we expect Unlimited users to host themselves. We will not shut down any Online servers unless unless they're virtually dead for a long period of time, so there's nothing for existing players to worry about; especially since the increased revenue from Unlimited will hopefully allow us to put more towards developing the game on a whole (we'll roll out updates to both Unlimited and Online,) and as new players complete the single-player Unlimited experience and look for a multiplayer experience so they can keep playing Wurm, the Online servers will be incentivised as something to progress towards. We'd be very surprised if Unlimited doesn't benefit the Online servers in a variety of ways. Lastly, all of us here on the staff team - be we volunteers or paid devs - want to emphasise that we're here for you, the players. We know that this is a huge new thing for Wurm that has divided community opinion; but we feel that the strong business case of Unlimited will greatly benefit the game in the long run, and will allow us to further expand the Wurm franchise to new and exciting things. I'd compare it to when the game went 'gold' back in 2006, going from being free to having a paid premium service. Without those first steps, we'd never have been able to hire paid developers and Wurm would never be remotely close to where it is today. Almost a decade after Gold, Wurm is going Unlimited. We hope you join us for the ride! --[[User:Zachariah|Zachariah]] ([[User talk:Zachariah|talk]]) 23:16, 18 September 2015 (CEST)

''By Doctorchese - [http://forum.wurmonline.com/index.php?/topic/130305-news-76-dragon-armour-preview/#entry1338294/ Forum Link] Hey all!  It's news time once more! But before we begin... I have to tell you about a little investigation I conducted.  Every week, developers are sent an e-mail asking the if they've got anything to share with players for the week. ''Normally'', almost all devs e-mail back with a week's hard work and things to show off... but for over a month now, certain devs haven't said anything at all! I'm a volunteer not based in the Motala office, so I can't walk over to their computer and look over their shoulder to figure out what they're up to. Are they wasting time with confused verbs and playing Wurm at work instead of developing Wurm at work, or is there something secret going on? I had to talk to a contact on the inside.  The contact couldn't say much, but apparently* Apparently, a few devs have been working on "something big" for a few weeks now already. We don't know what it is, or why they're working on it... will Code Club AB soon become a political party in Sweden? Or, back in-game, is Wurm finally going to get the rainbow colored unicorns it has needed so desperately for years? All we knew is that they're busy, and might have some information to share within the next few weeks! * A while ago, we mentioned that we'd focus on bigger features come fall. Well, the leaves are falling; we're now in a bit of a transition phase between a summer of little things and the coming months which will focus on bigger stuff. Keep an eye out for new posts, we'll be elaborating on or next big plans for the game! But don't forgot that bugfixing never really ends too, and things like client engine upgrades that we're currently working on (and haven't discussed much) ought to help improve things further.  --[[User:Zachariah|Zachariah]] ([[User talk:Zachariah|talk]]) 00:35, 12 September 2015 (CEST)

 Hey all* More work has gone towards the new village planning view this week, and barely an hour ago at the time of posting, Warlander successfully exported a deed to the 3rd party DeedPlanner program - which now includes details like buildings and fences! This week we've got * In addition, more encouraging progress updates on work has gone into the in-game Village Plan Viewer toolviewer from Tich, like an overlay to show which will allow you tiles are underwater and a tooltip on mouseover to both view a plan show what each type of your deed from in-game and export a plan tile is.* Tich also continued to work on the 3rd party DeedPlanner programnew permissions system this week. Other than that, most Below are examples of this week's other work was either behind the scenes again or or stuff proposed new building and deed permissions screens, and you've already seen, like can click here to give feedback on her proposed improvements to the deed permissions system.* Lastly for dev news is a small change to the new dragons way that went live on Mondaywounds will be displayed. RawrBandaged wounds will be shown last! --[[User:Zachariah|Zachariah]] ([[User talk:Zachariah|talk]]) 18:31, 5 September 2015 (CEST)Which ought to help in stressful situations when you have to heal after you get attacked by that pesky aged troll.

* In light of the success of semi-recent changes to unique spawning (meaning that new uniques spawn on all servers at regular intervals, with reduced drops) we've decided to expand the functionality of dragons and drakes. There will be a red, black, white, green and a new blue version of both drakes and dragons, each with their own drake or scale type of armour material drop.Hey Everyone! * This week, devs the art team have continued also been working on giving steel items and armour their own look. The darker tint in the screenshot below shows what we're going for, and will eventually end up on most steel items ranging from horse armour to plate armour, differentiating the stronger metal from its iron counterpart.* Last week we told you about the new village plan export system that we're working on, that will allow you to export a variety plan of thingsa deed to a 3rd party planning program like Warlander's Deed Planner 2. ThereIt's less to show this week as most looking good, and below is a picture of it a Wurmian hillside that was behind successfully exported from the scenes, including some code cleanup and management improvements game to the server codeprogram, with 3D terrain and we hence didn't roll out any clients patches this week.  Before you read this week's first articletrees! Eventually, we also have to warn you that this weeks' news may spontaneously combustion it will even export all floors and/or be quite warmdesign features of buildings.  --[[User:Zachariah|Zachariah]] ([[User talk:Zachariah|talk]]) 01:49, 29 August 2015 (CEST)