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Official Game Website: http://www.wurmonline.com Official Game Wiki: http://www.wurmpedia.com/index.php/Main_Page Pre-release Challenge Server Map: http://www.wurmonline.com/images/mail141202/Challenge_WIP01.png Goon Village Steam Group http://steamcommunity.com/groups/occupyrolfstreet Wurm Online is an independent open world sandbox MMORPG in a low-fantasy Iron Age setting. It was officially released in 2006 by Swedish friends Rolf Jansson and Markus Persson, aka Notch, who left the team in 2007 to create Minecraft. It has many similarities to UnReal World, Minecraft, and Dwarf Fortress with a heavy emphasis on surival, crafting, and PvP. Wurm Online was originally a punishing grind-fest with an awful community that required hours of tedious bullshit before new players could become useful, but the new free-to-play Challenge Server was released on December 10th, 2014 with an updated ruleset that almost completely eliminates the grind and encourages fast and frequent PvP battles over resource spawns. What are the unique features and differences between the Wurm Online Challenge Server and typical commercial MMORPGs?
What are the differences between Challenge Server and the vanilla servers?
Do I need to buy a subscription to play this game? The Challenge Server is free-to-play and places no restrictions on free accounts. Founding a village requires players to buy in-game currency with real money, but we already have a goon village founded. The vanilla servers require you to buy a subscription (16 euros for 2 months) if you want to increase your skills and characteristics above 20, which is necessary to get anything substantial done, and is another good reason not to play on the vanilla servers. There are also some special consumable items available on the vanilla servers that must be purchased with in-game currency. Is there an active goon community for this game? Yes, goons have been playing Wurm Online ever since it was in beta, and there have been multiple goon villages spread over multiple game servers with a history of mostly getting trashed by pubbies. There have been a few wildly successful goon villages however, such as Bearback Mountain in 2007 that boasted over 100 unique players at its peak, or Occupy Rolfstreet which dominated an entire server for the first few months of the Epic Server release. Our current village of Chode Caliphate on Challenge Server was recently started by returning veterans from previous goon villages, and we several players active during American and European hours to provide advice and free equipment. How long does it take for a new player to be useful? With the increased skill gain on Challenge Server, a new player can reach 70 shortbow or longbow skill by the end of his first day. That's enough to compete in PvP against most players, and to defend our town against pubbie invaders. New players are also able to craft most items immediately on Challenge Server, and can start making PvP-quality tools, weapons, and armor within the first hour or two of play. How far can I get in this game alone? The Challenge Server is quite dangerous and only has about six small and underdeveloped public areas where players are safe from roving gankmobs. I highly recommend joining a village for protection, although the skill gain is high enough that you could try living as a lone bandit and just replace all your equipment yourself each time you get killed and looted. It's easier to play as a lone homesteader on the vanilla PvE servers, although the wilderness areas are still dangerous, and the grind is so bad that it'll take a month before you become self-sufficient. How do I join the village?
How do I shoot things with arrows and gain archery skill?
Screenshots Wurm has gone through a couple of graphical overhauls and looks really nice with the graphics settings maxed. Check out the new folliage models, building types, and interior furniture models: Here's some pictures of old goon villages from a few years ago. The terrain in Wurm can be raised or lowered on a tile-by-tile basis and the building layouts are all free-form without any pre-fab buildings. All the buildings you see here are single-story, but now the game engine supports multiple stories, archways, and interior walls: Actually lemme show you an example of the crazy poo poo you can build now with the multi-story buildings: Terraforming is normally time-consuming, but the new Challenge Server has reduced action timers and increased skillgain. Check out some of the insane terraforming feats you can pull off with the game engine: Bears Ziggy Starfucker fucked around with this message at 19:24 on Dec 17, 2014 |
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I enjoyed reading the old Wurm threads but could never bring myself to play much because of the grind. I'll be giving this another try when it starts. If the grind is truly gone this will be fun!
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# ? Dec 8, 2014 21:53 |
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Last thing I remember of the goon Wurm presence is that the massive road we built that went everywhere was used even after we all stopped logging in and was like one of the main ways of travels in the server until a reset
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Dr. VooDoo posted:Last thing I remember of the goon Wurm presence is that the massive road we built that went everywhere was used even after we all stopped logging in and was like one of the main ways of travels in the server until a reset That was the Curtains Memorial Highway, built about 6-7 years ago by the largest and greatest goon village, Bearback Mountain. It was the largest village on the server at the time with over 100 members and was mostly built within 2 weeks. At the same we built a massive 3-tile-wide leveled highway through the hills to the spawn point about 3-4 km away. Most of the work building the highway was credited to a player named Curtains who almost immediately burnt out and quit, but he's still considered one of our greatest terraformers. The highway got a huge amount of traffic from nearby pubbies and led to a proliferation of shanty towns spreading directly towards Bearback Mountain like a kudzu. The goons didn't receive proper credit for the highway from the pubbies, who assumed it was created by the GMs and took the liberty of modifying parts of our meticulously leveled landscaping. Sparr described our frustrations with this comic: Sadly, this was not a PvP server at the time. Testvan and a few other goons decided to block the highway with a giant ditch in retribution, and I believe they got banned for it, despite it being our highway. Eminent domain by the GMs, I guess. Around that same time a big group of goon regulars including myself gave a stern talking to some pubbies who messed up part of our highway to flatten out their own village. Fathertime, one of the worst GMs in the game's history, immediately appeared and banned all goons with 500 meters. We learned later that he had like 7 children and at least one of them played Wurm too - we suspect one of his daughters was in the village we lambasted. The GMs have a history of hassling the goons, but Fathertime went too far and Rolf overturned his bans, ordered an apology, and personally planted the sign shown in the first link. Speaking of Testvan, he was another of our greatest terraformers. He built this ramp up to the Bearback Castle: Ziggy Starfucker fucked around with this message at 22:29 on Dec 14, 2014 |
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Jesus, if the grind is gone from Wurm I will totally play again. I got burned out fast from grind. I hate grinding, which is why I can't play all those pretty Korean MMOs.
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# ? Dec 9, 2014 05:00 |
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Heh, I was in Bearback as 4 characters since I was multi-boxing everquest at the time but the grind killed me.
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# ? Dec 9, 2014 05:20 |
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Do the plants grow faster? This is very important.
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Regarding the grind,official Wurm Online "Public Relations Officer" RedBaron_Johan posted:Talking about recipes and such, I see some are talking about having to grind from 0 each restart. Sparr posted:Do the plants grow faster? This is very important. Also it looks like there's enough interest to get a goon village started on Challenge Server. Join the Occupy Rolfstreet Steam Group if you want to get in on ground floor with founding the village. An official pre-release map dump of the server is available now. It's small, only 8x8 km which is the size of Affliction for anyone who was involved in the successful Occupy Rolfstreet goon village. You'll be able to cross the entire server within an hour by boat. Ziggy Starfucker fucked around with this message at 05:26 on Dec 10, 2014 |
# ? Dec 9, 2014 06:45 |
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My second favorite part of Wurm was chopping down every tree in the forest first thing in the morning. My favorite part of Wurm was forgetting it existed. Whew! I'm glad you reminded me to never play this terrible game again!
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# ? Dec 10, 2014 00:52 |
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More details for Challenge Server have been released: http://forum.wurmonline.com/index.php?/topic/115181-challenge-build-the-battlefield-release-notes/ A few highlights:
It's not clear if priests will have faster faith gain, or if crops and plants will grow faster. Also not entirely sure if the skill gain rate is directly increased, or if there'll just be a massive skill curve like the one used on Epic Cluster. Also they're adding some new siege equipment, and also automated defense turrets
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# ? Dec 10, 2014 01:54 |
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Oh man, this poo poo brings me back to the early days of poo poo like Akhenaten and other terrible idea projects. I might participate but I might also pass out in a minute.
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# ? Dec 10, 2014 02:01 |
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Wait wait wait. "Resets after 30 days." I will play the poo poo out of Wurm again if I don't have to pay, but not if there's going to be no, you know, point. Terraforming and building and creating for what?
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# ? Dec 10, 2014 02:05 |
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This game is like one of those Japanese horror movies, once you play Wurm it haunts you forever. Do not play this game. Do not install this game. There is some strange Swedish curse on it which causes you to become a computer hermit wurm goblin.
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# ? Dec 10, 2014 02:10 |
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Waldorf Sixpence posted:Wait wait wait. "Resets after 30 days." I will play the poo poo out of Wurm again if I don't have to pay, but not if there's going to be no, you know, point. Terraforming and building and creating for what? My guess is that there are a lot of skeptics holding off to see if this will actually be fun. But if the server didn't reset after 30 days they wouldn't want to join anyway as they'd be disadvantaged. Looks like this is different from what they've done before but closer to some competitors in development (namely, "Life is Feudal," which, were it not in alpha, would be Wurm but actually fun.) With any luck if the initial 30 day trial is a smashing success, they will redo everything but on a longer scale, reinvigorating the game and putting the LiF developers out of business. I'll be there for the trial period, if only to chop down the trees of weeping pubbies.
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# ? Dec 10, 2014 02:13 |
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Do you guys remember when we dug up so much dirt to build a land-bridge to a nearby island that the game decided "hey, that sure is a huge area of bare rock! Must be a volcano" and started spawning lava? Good times.
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Waldorf Sixpence posted:Wait wait wait. "Resets after 30 days." I will play the poo poo out of Wurm again if I don't have to pay, but not if there's going to be no, you know, point. Terraforming and building and creating for what? Waldorf Sixpence posted:Do you guys remember when we dug up so much dirt to build a land-bridge to a nearby island that the game decided "hey, that sure is a huge area of bare rock! Must be a volcano" and started spawning lava? Good times. The bridge was built over the course of 3-4 weeks by a 50+ team of goons on the old JK-Home PvE Server on Gold2. Most of them quit before the bridge was finished because it was a monumental effort, we dug up a large coastal area until the rock was exposed and starting belching lava in retribution for the insult to Mother Earth. Then we hauled that dirt 40 units at a time on small hand-driven carts and dumped it in the ocean to form a bridge to a small island. We built the goon village of Bearcatraz on that island, and this screenshot was taken from one of the completed dirt spires we built as watchtowers: Ziggy Starfucker fucked around with this message at 05:36 on Dec 10, 2014 |
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Also post your player names in this thread, because you have to make a completely new account to join in the first 30-day scenario. Mine is Ratskull. Also here's instructions on how to join the village:
Also I'm taking suggestions for the village name if anybody comes up with something funny or offensive. Ziggy Starfucker fucked around with this message at 06:49 on Dec 10, 2014 |
# ? Dec 10, 2014 06:42 |
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Did they ever open up the game to private servers? I'd love to run a goon private server one day.
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# ? Dec 10, 2014 06:43 |
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I've always been interested in playing but I've never been able to move into a village. I usually just steal a cart and clean out the corpse heaps that accumulate. Ezmoney.
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# ? Dec 10, 2014 12:45 |
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I played this ages ago but never really got into it even though the building/terraforming sounded nice in theory. This challenge server sounds like it's pretty PvP centric so I have to ask, did they improve combat? I remember it just consistet of me and my enemy standing in frontof each other and having damage numbers run through the chat while the alter egos stared at each other motionless. Is combat now fun and engaging or is the challenge server more of a 30 day building/terraforming trial that gets reset on a regular basis cause the advertised focus, combat, is still weird and unfun.
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# ? Dec 10, 2014 12:56 |
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I burned out long before many of these establishments and villages. Not sure how I feel about a 30 day reset if I were to consider coming back. Behold Early Goondor! As things built up, Upper Goondor.
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# ? Dec 10, 2014 13:49 |
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This game is so magical and terrible at the same time that it should be the terrible MMO of the month. Giving it a whirl to see how it plays with 40x skill gain.
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# ? Dec 10, 2014 16:20 |
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Wasn't there supposed to be a new normal server opening?
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# ? Dec 10, 2014 16:34 |
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I've played Life is Fedual but how similar is building to that game or is it like a completely different setup? It looks like a voxel based kind of terrain thing.
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# ? Dec 10, 2014 16:41 |
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BERGfu posted:I've played Life is Fedual but how similar is building to that game or is it like a completely different setup? It looks like a voxel based kind of terrain thing. In LiF you can only build prefab structures. In Wurm you can design your own floorplan. I believe it's all height maps and not voxel.
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Feindfeuer posted:I played this ages ago but never really got into it even though the building/terraforming sounded nice in theory. This challenge server sounds like it's pretty PvP centric so I have to ask, did they improve combat? I remember it just consistet of me and my enemy standing in frontof each other and having damage numbers run through the chat while the alter egos stared at each other motionless. Individual combat is still largely a text-based staring contest, although they've finally added decent animations and sounds. Group combat tends to be more interesting as you coordinate the movements of several people over Teamspeak and try to break up the enemy formation before pouncing en-masse on an isolated straggler. I've done a modest amount of PvP and some ambush tactics work really well, like Mongol-style false retreats. The Occupy Rolfstreet village on the Epic Cluster had a lot of success with false retreats while raiding the Jenn-Kellon home server spawn. We'd hide about 8 goons on horseback behind some lovely half-finished walls or shacks and send two of our best fighters towards the spawn deed, and they'd stop halfway there before milling around a bit and running away. This would usually get a mob of about 10 pubbies to chase them in an uncoordinated conga line, and then we'd all jump out and slaughter most of them. Our greatest tactical victory though was on the Horde of the Summoned home server, when we wiped out an enemy force twice as strong through a well-placed coastal ambush. Two of our members were scamming local pubbies by advertising rare commodities at a remote meetup point and slaughtering anyone who showed up. When pubbies started whining at us over the global chat this escalating into a handful of goons raiding their village and digging up their crops and walling off their mine. Eventually the pubbies organized a big lynch mob and chased them halfway to our village, where the rest of us laid in wait in a forest on the far side of a bay. We pounced on them while they were still in the water with almost no stamina and it was a complete rout. We took a large amount of loot from the bodies and the entire server was too scared to mess with us for the next month or two.
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# ? Dec 10, 2014 19:05 |
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The Wurm beta/release was some of the most fun I had with other goons. I'm down to play again if there's enough interest
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Ziggy Starfucker posted:Individual combat is still largely a text-based staring contest, although they've finally added decent animations and sounds. Group combat tends to be more interesting as you coordinate the movements of several people over Teamspeak and try to break up the enemy formation before pouncing en-masse on an isolated straggler. I've done a modest amount of PvP and some ambush tactics work really well, like Mongol-style false retreats. The Occupy Rolfstreet village on the Epic Cluster had a lot of success with false retreats while raiding the Jenn-Kellon home server spawn. We'd hide about 8 goons on horseback behind some lovely half-finished walls or shacks and send two of our best fighters towards the spawn deed, and they'd stop halfway there before milling around a bit and running away. This would usually get a mob of about 10 pubbies to chase them in an uncoordinated conga line, and then we'd all jump out and slaughter most of them. Wurm, like Eve, is so much more fun when you read about it in stories afterwards
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# ? Dec 10, 2014 20:38 |
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Challenge Server has been launched now after about 2 hours of delays, make sure you join the Horde of the Summoned. Send a /pm to Ratskull if you want to coordinate with the village founding, otherwise I'll post once later once it's founded and give remote invites.
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# ? Dec 10, 2014 21:13 |
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Xibanya posted:In LiF you can only build prefab structures. In Wurm you can design your own floorplan. I believe it's all height maps and not voxel. oh nice. That's refreshing.
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# ? Dec 10, 2014 21:17 |
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Waldorf Sixpence posted:Wurm, like Eve, is so much more fun when you read about it in stories afterwards SOMETHING AWFUL DOT COM has a tendency for intense and ridiculous stories even with hyperbole
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# ? Dec 10, 2014 21:18 |
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Seems like registration is down right now?quote:Phase one registration failed:
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# ? Dec 10, 2014 21:36 |
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Oh god, not this lovely game again. Do animals and characters have animations now? Is leveling out an area still tedious? Does the injured sound still sound terrible? Can I come back and eat all your food? Where do I start?
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# ? Dec 10, 2014 21:40 |
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Looks like registration is back up now. I've confirmed that skills (including fighting) start at 20 and increase at an absurd rate now. There's already people with 50 skill titles. It looks like fighting skill does not have the super-fast skill gain rate though. Also the pubbies here are complete idiots, already got ganked by a mob of pubbies that didn't realize I was in the same kingdom as them.Solvency posted:Oh god, not this lovely game again. Do animals and characters have animations now? Is leveling out an area still tedious? Does the injured sound still sound terrible? Can I come back and eat all your food? Where do I start?
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# ? Dec 10, 2014 22:39 |
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Hmm looks like we have to build a guard tower before we can plant a village deed. Meet up at the big red X and we'll start up a temporary work camp there until the village is ready later tonight: If you go the route provided it should be safe and only take about 15 minutes Ziggy Starfucker fucked around with this message at 23:08 on Dec 10, 2014 |
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http://gfycat.com/HoarseSingleIchthyosaurs edit a third victim of wurm appears to assist http://gfycat.com/UnawareDeadlyHerring Delamore fucked around with this message at 23:51 on Dec 10, 2014 |
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I was waiting for this incredible graphical trainwreck of a game to come back. Of course this happens during college finals week. e: It looks like this crashes on launch for OSX buglord fucked around with this message at 23:56 on Dec 10, 2014 |
# ? Dec 10, 2014 23:47 |
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You can get skills past 20 as a nonprem on challenge it seems, and apparently there's no cap at all. That means you can pretty much do everything without paying
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# ? Dec 11, 2014 00:06 |
I'm way down for this
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# ? Dec 11, 2014 00:08 |
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Avocados posted:I was waiting for this incredible graphical trainwreck of a game to come back. Of course this happens during college finals week. Can you post the error you're getting? Might be an issue with Java
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