Guides:Starting with Nothing

Note: this guide is a bit outdated. Some changes are to be considered for an update.

Wurm is designed so that a player can start with nothing, and create every essential and craftable item. No starter gear, no weapons, no tools, just a shirt and pants, not even shoes! Noobs start with a starter kit, a set of starter items. These item differ a bit from the similar craftable, in peticular cant be improved. The set includes tools, steel and flint, bowl, compass, tent, backpack, belt, armor and weapon.

These can be lost, or thrown out. Wurm allows that. 'It isn't easy', starting over in Wurm, 'but it is possible'. If you:

• died and lost an essential item
• lost everything to raiders on a PVP server
• dropped your starter gear and lost it
• or you just want a challenge, aka Wurm Hard Mode

then this is for you. This is not for the faint of heart, even more so than Wurm normally is. But if you like a challenge, you may find it rewarding.

Objective

Your objective shall be to make the starter kit without starving neither being killed by a creature.

As you dont have neither weapon nor armor, avoid fight. Finding water place is a good idea to escape if attacked. But the crabs. Sand let you run fast enough to escape them. Water place is also good idea to drink. Food is easy to find foraging at grassland (or forest). Forest also need for wood (branches). Last is rock tiles to start crude tools

Foraging

Forage for food, branch, cotton and wemp fiber Tips for foraging:

• crush all pumpkin into seeds (for planting when you can start your farm; seeds are lighter)
• crush wemp into fiber for a rope (you will need to make a rope tool, but wemp fiber is light and easy to carry, keep enough for two ropes, pick seed to keep for later)
• save sprouts for fuel
• keep all cotton (healing)
• keep branches.
• drop acorns

Make crude knife

Your first order of business is to make a crude knife, required to make the other crude tools. First find iron rock. Once you find a rock face, you need to rummage over it. Rummaging is like foraging but for rock instead of grass, trees, or steppe. You will likely only turn up two types of items: rock shards (in smaller amounts than you would mine) and iron rock. You will need both to make your first tool, a crude knife.

• find a large area of exposed rock, like a cliff or mountain, now rummage on a rock tile until you have
  • at least 1 iron rock
  • 1 rock shards

Also keep any flint you find.

• Use the iron rock on the rock shards to make a crude knife

Make crude tools

To avoid foraging and rummage you will need tools to cut trees and mine rock. Crude tools includes shovel to dig clay required to make bowl.

• crude axe
• crude pickaxe
• crude shovel

If you dont still have materials with former forage and rummage, go back in forest and rock tiles,

• rummage on a rock tile for stone shard
• forage in a forest until you have **branch
• Use the crude knife on the branches to make crude shafts, keep the woodscrap
• Use the crude knife on the rock shards to make a crude axe blade
• Use the crude knife on the rock shards to make a crude pickaxe blade
• Use the crude knife on the rock shards to make a crude shovel blade
• Use the shaft on the crude axe blade to make a crude axe
• Use the shaft on the crude pickaxe blade to make a crude pickaxe
• Use the shaft on the crude shovel blade to make a crude shovel

Smelting iron

• mallet
• iron lumps

Rummage again until you have:

• 12 iron rock

(When you smelt the iron rocks in a campfire you get .2kg for every 3kg.)

Use your crude shovel to cut down a "mature tree", an "old and shriveled tree", or a "fruit tree".

Use your crude knife on the log and make a shortbow. This will give you 2kg woodscrap.

Use your crude knife on the log and make a kindling.

Use the kindling on the woodscrap to make a campfire (you don't have to have steel and flint to start a campfire)

Put the iron rocks in the fire.

While the iron rocks are heating up, you need to forage 2 more branches and cut them into shafts. make a mallet and a handle

Steel and flint

If you don't have a steel and flint you can create a campfire using a wood scrap and kindling, Place a wood scrap inside the lit campfire. When the scrap is hot, remove it from the campfire, and right-click on your forge, oven, or other fire container to light it.

making one is going to be a real tough proposition. Steel and flint requires steel lumps. To make steel, you need charcoal. The easiest way to get charcoal is to build a charcoal pile.

There are at least two other sources of charcoal. Lava spiders and lava fiends sometimes drop charcoal when killed. Other than that, you may have to buy or (dare we say) steal it. Until you have this valuable tool, you are going to be hampered by only being able to make poor little campfires. Unfortunately, campfires will limit the quality of items you make with them. Hope you have decent fight skill!

Make iron carving knife and small anvil

• small anvil
• carving knife

• Combine all of the *hot* lumps into one big lump.
• Use the mallet on the lump to make a small anvil
• use the remaining lump on the small anvil to make a carving knife blade
• use the knife on the shaft to make a handle
• attach the handle to the carving knife blade

Your Choice

Cooking

It is recommended that you search for clay, and take 2 crude shovels, and 2 crude pickaxes (because they break, and cannot be repaired).

• Make 2 or 3 jars to carry water, and a clay bowl to cook in. Clay normally appears along shorelines, but deposits can be some distance apart.

Eventually you are going to need to cook casseroles, and carry water around with you. Jars are a lot lighter than small barrels full of water, and are also good for mixing liquids such as lye and dyes. Once you find clay, they are also much easier to make.

more iron tools

Put that small anvil to use and make more tools, nails, and locks. A pickaxe is a good tool to have. A stone chisel is another good tool to have handy, especially if you have steel and flint. With that and some clay, you can build a forge. With that, you will be pretty much even with any other beginning Wurmian.

Have Fun

This should be enough to get you going. You will need to get more iron rock for a pickaxe, hatchet, large anvil and a shovel, but now you can use the carving knife to make shafts, and the shovel to cut down trees (tip: only cut down mature trees, or fruit trees, you need a hatchet to chop up felled trees)

Good luck in the lands of Wurm!