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You may have noticed that your water and food bar are slowly decreasing while you play Wurm Online. Don’t be worried too much: you cannot die from hunger or thirst! However, having full bars is always a good thing, because the lower they are the slower you will regain stamina. Drinking water regularly is more important than keeping your food level up, because your body is able to “fast” several times if you become too hungry. “[[Fasting]]” will restore your food bar (while lowering your nutrition value; but you don’t have to worry about that for the time being). Getting water is easy: just find a well or fountain, or go to the sea coast or any lake shore and drink! (Yes, you can even drink sea water!) Getting food is a bit more difficult. You can either [[forage]] at [[Resource nodes]] for vegetables or berries (which are not very nutritious), go [[fishing]], or try to cook a simple meal from fresh meat (look for animal corpses) and vegetables, using a campfire.<br><br>

Later on, when your skills have increased, you will be able to ride horses and drive carts. For now, you will probably just walk! (Technically, even as a new player you could ride a cow – but they are pretty slow. Donkeys are a good alternative.) There is no “magical” way of fast travelling in Wurm Online, so no teleporting. One exception: When you decide to join an existing village, you will have a one-time option to teleport to that place.

Every house in Wurm Online must be built on flat ground. If you cannot find a suitable flat spot, please read the section about ground flattening below, or read the Wurmpedia article on [[Flattening]]. Making a house requires two steps: planning and [[House_(general)House#Creation|Building]]. You need a mallet to plan your house. With the mallet activated right-click a flat tile and select "Plan building". A structure plan (which looks like a wooden framework) will appear on that tile. You can repeat the process on adjacent tiles to enlarge your house plan, until you are satisfied.

Being able to change the landscape is one of the outstanding features of this game! The land around you is not a static environment – you can use your shovel to raise or lower the ground! This process is called “[[terraforming]]”. In a nutshell, terraforming works like this: the terrain consists of dirt “tiles” (the outlined squares you see on the ground when moving your mouse pointer over them). A tile, which can also have grass, a tree or a bush growing on it, has four corners, and each of those corners can be raised or lowered. To lower a tile corner use your shovel (stand next to the corner, activate the shovel, right-click the ground and select “dig”). You will notice that each digging action will lower the corner you are standing on by a little amount and you will find 1 piece of dirt in your inventoryor on the ground. Therefore the amount that corner is lowered by one digging action is called “1 dirt”. So, for example, if you repeat the digging action 4 times, you will find 4 pieces of dirt in your inventoryor on the ground, and the tile corner will be lower than before by “4 dirts”. You created a little slope! To raise the corner again, you can just drop the dirts from your inventory: right-click the dirt and select “drop on ground”. Please note: A corner does not belong to a single tile! Actually, there are always 4 tiles sharing a corner, so ''when you dig or drop dirt on a tile corner you will always affect all 4 tiles''!<br><br>

:Finding [[iron]] during your first days is important, because you will need it for many items you want to craft. There are several ways to get iron: you You can either [[forage]] on grass tiles "[[Mineral debris]]", "[[Rubble]]" or "[[Lichen]]" [[rummageResource nodes]] on rock tiles with that have a chance of finding providing “iron rocks”, which can then be smelted into iron lumps. Or you You can use an underground [[mine]] to find an iron vein, which will give you iron ore when you mine it using your pickaxe. Most of the starter towns have public iron mines in their neighbourhood – just walk around and explore the surroundings until you find an open mine entrance with a sign saying “Public mine”. Walk inside and carefully study the tunnel walls until you find a wall segment that looks different. Right-click the wall, and if it says “Iron vein” you can use your pickaxe to mine pieces of iron ore. Then use a [[campfire]] or a [[forge]] to smelt them into iron lumps.<br><br>

You can play Wurm Online for free as a non-premium player as long as you wish. However, becoming a [[premium]] player will grant you a lot of benefits: you can raise your skills above 20 (meaning you will be able to perform many tasks that you wouldn’t be able to as a non-premium player, like building stone houses, riding horses, using sailing boats and driving carts, becoming a priest, and many other things), and you can invite citizens to your village, and your account will never be deleted even after a long period of inactivity. So, in a nutshell: If you want to enjoy all of Wurm’s features and “really play the game” you should become a premium player!

'''If''' you access Wurm through Steam, while in game press Escape and then "Shop " from the menu to access the Steam shop.

You can also buy 15 or 30 days of premium time for in game silver coins at any settlement token in-game, no matter which launcher you use. The price is 5 silver coins for 15 days and 10 silver coins for 30 days.