Wurm Online

The game is controlled by players. When I say controlled and game, I mean… the game is controlled. You literally build the land you live on. With terraforming, you take your shovel and dig, move the dirt, and make land level so you can cut down trees, make planks, and build your house. You can even own your own village, a community of players! Also, if you are up to it… build a boat. Sail over the open oceans, with a large enough boat, you could even build an island by dumping a full cargo of dirt in the ocean. Real enough for you? I even forgot to mention the combat. While the combat is very low quality, it’s still an aspect of the game you may pursue…

Terraforming can involve numerous aspects, from building a hill to build a temple for others to marvel at, to mining the deepest mine in order to find those precious metals. Many reasons to terraform are to have a flawlessly flat land to live on, farm on, and live your life on. One of these reasons are also for your safety, while moving along roads, your speed and the slope you travel are large factors, the greater the angle, the faster you go. The greater the angle the more chance you have of taking damage from hitting the ground. While terraforming is something builders consider, would you believe that miners depend on it to? Miners need a high digging skill in order to reach their precious rock layer, if they cannot find the rock layer, they will not be able to even begin the mine. Terraforming is also used in finding ground minerals such as clay, a much needed supply for pottery and colossus construction. Terraforming may not be your cup of tea, that’s what villages are for XD, but it’s a key factor in the aspect of the real life feeling to the game. If this hasn’t persuaded you to take a crack at it then I suppose ill go on.

Construction is one of my favorite aspects to the game. From building the largest castle or the smallest farmhouse, construction is your skill. Homes may be a priority in your life, if it is then you will be happy to raise this skill. From felled tree, to log to plank to wall, such is the journey from the forest to you wall, the plank. The plank is the most important item you will ever have, without it, nothing can be done. It all starts with an axe, you cut down an old tree, use your axe to chop it up into smaller logs, to carry or load in a cart. Then take your saw, and make your planks. Use your hammer or mallet to plan the building, and build your wall. But I’m getting off topic here… construction is also used in conjunction with masonry when it comes to stone structures. Stone walls, the perfect defense. Whether you are on the wild server(a PK server) or 1 of the home servers, walls are useful for either monster defense, or defense from your fellow man. You need no skills to build a stone wall but you need a lot of bricks. On the contrary you need at least 5 construction, and 30 masonry to build a stone building, while it has an aesthetic value over a wooden building, it also has a bigger use. Buildings decay, as does food, but slowly and steadily, if left unrepaired, your walls will fall away. While on a wooden building this happens rather quickly, on a stone building it happens much slower. While you need buildings to store you things, so others don’t steal them, you also need them because you can sleep in the game for an experience gain boost. Beds only work indoors (obviously XD).

Fine carpentry, a subskill of carpentry. While a generally useless skill, for those “hardcore (lol)” Wurm players, fine carpentry can be if not useful, than fun. The skill is used to build tables, chairs, stools, just homey, yet useless things.

Ship building, yet another subskill of carpentry, lets you build boats. From a felled tree you take an axe upside its bark and make a keel section for a ship. You take your keel section with another keel section and… a baby boat is born. While it may take you a week to build a small rowboat if you go solo, I can take months… MONTHS to make larger ships if you do it solo. This is not a thing to do alone unless you feel like wasting MONTHS building a ship. Literally thousands of pieces of wood go into a ship, hundreds of hull planks, hundreds of pegs, hundreds of different ropes… buying a boat is easier but can run you a pretty penny…

Smithing is a very useful skill, that’s where you get the nails for your boat, house, and chairs. It’s where you get the tools to better your life, the needle, the hammer, the anchor, the sword, the lamp, the list is endless… with many different metals, it sometimes gets hard to know exactly what you should use for something. For instance, brass lamps burn more efficiently than any other lamp, using less fuel than the others.

And this brings me to another aspect of the game, Villages. It’s true, you can not only be a part of a village, you can own a village! With the game only having 2 types of npcs merchants (which players own) and guards, which defend villages from monsters, players are in total control of the game. Although having guards is mandatory, and you have to pay for them, villages can still be worth it. We can set laws, so others can’t intervene with your months of work building your village.

Well… I would say last but not least, but I believe this to be the least part of the game… combat. The game is java based, although, unlike runescape, this game is not loaded in sections and areas… meaning the server can be taxed by the simplest thing because it must support the entire world at once. So, there isn’t a lot of movement that goes on during combat, pretty much it’s just text based… “You try to stab troll”… Not very interesting, but still, a possibility in the game.

Well, I’m glad I could spread the word of Wurm today, remember, this game is a little too real for its own good… watch out or you will go insane from failures XD. Cya in Wurm =).