• Players can now investigate tiles with a trowel to find fragments of items.
• Investigating on old disbanded settlements has a chance to yield unique items.
• Unidentified fragments will need to be identified with the use of a chisel or metal brush.
• Each identify action will reduce the weight of the fragment.
• Once the fragment weight is equal to the weight of the fragmented item, the fragment will become a fragment of the item.
• Using the correct tool to identify will increase the amount of weight lost each action.
• Fragments can then be combined with fragments of the same item until the complete item is made.
• Resulting items have a chance to be created with multiple runes or random enchants.

• NOTE over 20 body strength will be necessary for this
• Permissions are required to do this on deed and in perimeters.
• You can also pave bridge parts when they are part of a highway, also can be repaved once paved.

• Placing a mine door will now level the upper border of the mine entrance to the lowest side.
• If the border is shared with a fence or house it will remain uneven.
• The top border will need to be flat in order to have opening animation
• If top border is uneven the new textures will show, but opening animation will not.
• Mine doors can now be removed with the use of a crowbar.
  • To remove a mine door you must be the owner, or have the manage item permission.

• Amount transferred is depending on your strength in relation to the weight of the item type you’re transferring. If you can carry 20, you’ll move 20 at a time. If you can carry (the weight of) 2000, you’ll transfer 2000 at a time.
• Take note that the carry weight respects how much you’re currently carrying in your inventory.
• The action ‘ticks’ once every second, so it’s not a long wait.
• Multiple actions of transferring can be queued.
• The action is triggered by dragging a bulk item from one bulk container to another, you will have the regular bulk item transfer options (default numbers up to 50), MAX, or entering a number in the text field at the top. If you have 500 iron lumps, but only want to transfer 430, enter the number in the text field.

• Level 1: 12h
• Level 2: 1 day
• Level 3: 2 days
• Level 4: 4.5 days
• Level 5: 8 days
• Level 6: 12.5 days
• Level 7+: 18 days
• If your Meditation skill is higher than current level x 15 the cooldown timer will be halved (e.g. If you have higher than 45 Meditation, the time between level 3 and 4 will be 2.25 days instead of 4.5 days.)

• Note: This can be managed via the feature management window with a GM account power 4+

• 2048 tile servers will be power / 100 x 64 = tile radius.
• 4096 servers will be power / 100 x 128  = tile radius.
• 8192 servers will be power / 100 x 256 = tile radius.

• Small bag is created with a needle on leather.
• Small bags are not containers, but are used in creation of saddlebags.

• Saddlebags are created with a leather belt on a small bag, and finished with an additional leather belt and small bag.
• Any weight in the saddlebag will count as half weight for speed calculations on the horse.
• Saddles are now considered containers, which can only take saddlebag items.
• Saddlebags are placed inside the saddle on the horse, and can be reached by the equipment menu
• A separate option to access saddlebags independently of the equipment menu is in the works, but not available at this time

• Brown > Cinder
• Gold > Envious
• Black > Shadow
• White > Pestilential
• Grey > Ash
• Ebony Black > Molten
• Piebald Pinto > Nightshade
• Blood bay > Incandescent

• INVESTIGATE - Used to find fragments on ground tiles (uses trowel or shovel after 20 skill).
• IDENTIFY - used to identify fragments (uses chisel or metal brush).
• COMBINE_FRAGMENTS - Used to combine fragments of the same type.
• PAVE - Pave the whole tile with the pavement type.
• PAVE_CORNER - Pave the nearest corner half of the tile with the pavement type.

• Once a furnace goes out, or after being lit for 30 minutes and snuffed, ash can be collected  with the 'clean' action by activating a shovel and right clicking the furnace
• This will provide firemaking skill
• Resulting quality is incluenced by firemaking skill and quality of furnace
• QL is based off your skill and the QL of the furnace (random QL based on both).

• Dye is removed from the wooden sections with a wire brush
• Dye is removed from the secondary (cloth) sections with lye equal to half the weight required to dye the item in the first place.
• Note: Items that are currently dyed will have both primary and secondary sections coloured.

• Orange
• Linden
• Oleander
• Fir
• Chestnut
• Walnut.

• New: Added the option to use the Place feature for larger items which you cannot take into inventory.
• New: White Cloth, leather and studded leather armour can now be dyed.
• New: Dragging an item from a container or inventory window to a world object will cause it to be moved to the object’s inventory, without the need to open it in a window manually.
• Change: You should do more damage when destroying off deed items if they are owned/created by you.
• Change:You will now get the option to spawn at your deed token even if the terrain is too steep.  The spawn location will have a Steep warning in the dropdown menu.
• Epic Mission Tweaks:
  • Avenger of light missions will no longer spawn.
  • Increased amount of mission creatures spawned (up to 50% extra of the required amount).
  • Spawned mission creatures will age faster and die after a few weeks.
  • Mission difficulty will not always go up on a successful mission completion.
  • Mission requirements will be a bit less across most missions.
  • Changed sacrifice creature missions so the action is only 12s long instead of 30s. Changed the chance of interruption during the action to be a lot less.

Metal items update

• New: Many metal items and tools can now be crafted with any metal.
• New: Metal items will now take on a hue depending on the metal used in creation
• Change: Ore is no longer capped at 50 Quality on Epic Home Servers.
• New: Metal lumps can now be combined to up to 64 of the item or 64kg, whichever is the higher.
  • Note: This allows lumps such as gold, silver and brass to be combined past the 64x count, allowing it to be used to create larger items.Metal items will now have special bonuses and penalties depending on metal type used::
  • As the list is too long for Steam, the full details can be found here: https://forum.wurmonline.com/index.php?/topic/161990-new-metal-type-properties/

Bug Fixes:

• When killed in PvP a player will gain a death count and a 3 hour timer will tick down.
• If killed while that timer is ticking down, another death count will be gained, and the timer will reset to the 3 hour mark and start again.
• After this timer has ticked down, a death is removed from their count and the timer will reset if any death counts remain.
• If a player’s death count increases over 3, then any PvP kills against them will count as overkilling until that death count is again below 3.

• Leather from 45% to 60%
• Studded from 50% to 62.5%
• Chain from 55% to 62.5%
• Cloth from 35% to 40%
• Drake, Scale and Plate no changes (65%, 70%, 65% respectively)

• Glimmersteel and Seryll from 10% to 5%
• Steel from 2% to 2.5%

• Plate armour should be slightly faster when worn now.
• Lowered the movement speed reduction from all helms.
• Glimmersteel and Seryll armours now have a 10% movement speed bonus.
• Adamantine armours now have a 5% movement speed bonus.

• Leather: 90% vs bite, pierce and acid; 110% vs slash and burn damage; 100% vs others.
• Studded: 90% vs slash and acid; 105% vs bite; 110% vs pierce and cold; 100% vs others.
• Chain: 92.5% vs pierce and cold; 107.5% vs bite, crush and burn; 100% vs others
• Plate: 95% vs crush and burn; 105% vs bite, slash and acid; 100% vs others.
• Cloth: 80% vs bite, slash and burn; 120% vs crush and cold; 100% vs others.
• Drake: 95% vs slash and acid; 105% vs crush and cold; 100% vs others.
• Scale: 95% vs crush and cold; 105% vs pierce and burn; 100% vs others.

• Bloodthirst damage bonus has now been reduced to 33% of weapon damage at 10,000 power
• Bloodthirst power gain no longer slows down after 5,000 against creatures.

• 1 guard 1 silver upkeep
• 2 guards 2.5 silver upkeep (1st guard 1 silver, 2nd guard 1.5 silver)
• 3 guards 4.5 silver upkeep (1st guard 1 silver, 2nd guard 1.5 silver, 3rd guard 2 silver)

• Oakshell now properly slows a mount based on power of cast
• A cast of under 70 power will give the creature a rare glow, a cast of over 70 will show a supreme glow.

• Body Strength, Body Stamina, Body Control, Mind Logic, Mind Speed, Soul Depth, and Soul Strength

• Destroy guard tower in enemy territory
• Sacrifice creatures
  • This will require lowering the creatures health and then using a sacrificial knife on the creature in the corresponding gods domain,
• Kill tower guards

• Missions involving creatures to be killed or sacrificed will now spawn those creatures specifically for the mission..
• Traitor mission creatures will be marked with a special effect and will also have oakshell.
• Trees marked for a mission will now have a special effect.

• Tier 1 (1 winner): top 20% of contributors - random single use tome.
• Tier 2 (3 winners): Top 50% of contributors - 3 random tome fragments
• Tier 3 (5 winners): entire pool of contributors - Seryll lump or random tome fragment

• On average once every 2 hours, a character will open a 15s window of time where every successful skill check will have a chance to gain an affinity in that skill. (e.g if you are mining during this window, you could gain an affinity in mining, pickaxe, miscellaneous items, body stamina, body strength, soul strength, mind logic, mind, soul, or body)
• The chance to gain an affinity is 1/500 if you have no affinities in that skill, 1/1000 if you have one affinity, 1/1500 if you have two affinities, 1/2000 if you have 3 affinities and 1/2500 if you have 4 affinities.
• If an affinity is successfully gained during the 15s window, the window will reset and no more will be able to be gained until the next window on that character.
• This window will remain open and check every skill tick until an affinity is gained or the 15 seconds is up.
• We will be monitoring these chances and making changes as necessary.

• If the dead character only has one affinity total, they will not lose that affinity and the killer will not gain an affinity.
• If the dead character has more than one affinity, then a random one is lost and may go to the killer.
  • If the dead character has more affinities in that skill than the killer, then the killer will gain that affinity 100% of the time.
  • Otherwise, the chance for the killer to gain the affinity is dependant on the difference between the number of affinities in that skill each player has (before the dead character loses the affinity).
  • If the difference is 0, the chance is 50% for the killer to gain the affinity. Difference of 1 is 25%, difference of 2 is 12.5% and difference of 3 is 6.25%.
• If an affinity is lost by the dead character and none gained by the killer, then the killer will receive a timed affinity in that skill that will last for a week.

• The command can be used as #showhero or #showheros or #showheroes... really as long as it contains "#showhero".
• It will now retrieve an actual up to date list of people who have a certain power
• It will give you the result per server

• The mission ruler now has a new UI, and several new features:
• Mission triggers may now occur within a range of %.
• Mission triggers may have multiple trigger effects.
• Trigger effects may be caused by multiple mission triggers.
• The mission list page has been split to be able to filter by owned missions, GM spawned missions, and deity missions.

• NOTE: This does not mean that paved tiles inside buildings will no longer have the snow texture.

• WARNING:This affects all artifacts not in ground, dug up artifacts before this patch will need recharging before the older 4 month time and the charges on the artifact will be reduced to 30 if they have more than 30 charges remaining when they are picked up.

• Note: This fix does require a tax check to occur on deed prior to taking off deed to correctly update the period between taxings.

• Players can now investigate tiles with a trowel to find fragments of items.
• Investigating on old disbanded settlements has a chance to yield unique items.
• Unidentified fragments will need to be identified with the use of a chisel or metal brush.
• Each identify action will reduce the weight of the fragment.
• Once the fragment weight is equal to the weight of the fragmented item, the fragment will become a fragment of the item.
• Using the correct tool to identify will increase the amount of weight lost each action.
• Fragments can then be combined with fragments of the same item until the complete item is made.
• Resulting items have a chance to be created with multiple runes or random enchants.

• NOTE over 20 body strength will be necessary for this
• Permissions are required to do this on deed and in perimeters.
• You can also pave bridge parts when they are part of a highway, also can be repaved once paved.

• Placing a mine door will now level the upper border of the mine entrance to the lowest side.
• If the border is shared with a fence or house it will remain uneven.
• The top border will need to be flat in order to have opening animation
• If top border is uneven the new textures will show, but opening animation will not.
• Mine doors can now be removed with the use of a crowbar.
  • To remove a mine door you must be the owner, or have the manage item permission.

• Amount transferred is depending on your strength in relation to the weight of the item type youre transferring. If you can carry 20, youll move 20 at a time. If you can carry (the weight of) 2000, youll transfer 2000 at a time.
• Take note that the carry weight respects how much youre currently carrying in your inventory.
• The action ticks once every second, so its not a long wait.
• Multiple actions of transferring can be queued.
• The action is triggered by dragging a bulk item from one bulk container to another, you will have the regular bulk item transfer options (default numbers up to 50), MAX, or entering a number in the text field at the top. If you have 500 iron lumps, but only want to transfer 430, enter the number in the text field.

• Level 1: 12h
• Level 2: 1 day
• Level 3: 2 days
• Level 4: 4.5 days
• Level 5: 8 days
• Level 6: 12.5 days
• Level 7+: 18 days
• If your Meditation skill is higher than current level x 15 the cooldown timer will be halved (e.g. If you have higher than 45 Meditation, the time between level 3 and 4 will be 2.25 days instead of 4.5 days.)

• Note: This can be managed via the feature management window with a GM account power 4+

• 2048 tile servers will be power / 100 x 64 = tile radius.
• 4096 servers will be power / 100 x 128 = tile radius.
• 8192 servers will be power / 100 x 256 = tile radius.

• Small bag is created with a needle on leather.
• Small bags are not containers, but are used in creation of saddlebags.

• Saddlebags are created with a leather belt on a small bag, and finished with an additional leather belt and small bag.
• Any weight in the saddlebag will count as half weight for speed calculations on the horse.
• Saddles are now considered containers, which can only take saddlebag items.
• Saddlebags are placed inside the saddle on the horse, and can be reached by the equipment menu
• A separate option to access saddlebags independently of the equipment menu is in the works, but not available at this time

• Brown >Cinder
• Gold >Envious
• Black >Shadow
• White >Pestilential
• Grey >Ash
• Ebony Black >Molten
• Piebald Pinto >Nightshade
• Blood bay >Incandescent

• INVESTIGATE - Used to find fragments on ground tiles (uses trowel or shovel after 20 skill).
• IDENTIFY - used to identify fragments (uses chisel or metal brush).
• COMBINE_FRAGMENTS - Used to combine fragments of the same type.
• PAVE - Pave the whole tile with the pavement type.
• PAVE_CORNER - Pave the nearest corner half of the tile with the pavement type.

• Once a furnace goes out, or after being lit for 30 minutes and snuffed, ash can be collected with the 'clean' action by activating a shovel and right clicking the furnace
• This will provide firemaking skill
• Resulting quality is incluenced byfiremaking skill and quality of furnace
• QL is based off your skill and the QL of the furnace (random QL based on both).

• Dye is removed from the wooden sections with a wire brush
• Dye is removed from the secondary (cloth) sections with lye equal to half the weight required to dye the item in the first place.
• Note: Items that are currently dyed will have both primary and secondary sections coloured.

• Orange
• Linden
• Oleander
• Fir
• Chestnut
• Walnut.

• New: Added the option to use the Place feature for larger items which you cannot take into inventory.
• New: White Cloth, leather and studded leather armour can now be dyed.
• New: Dragging an item from a container or inventory window to a world object will cause it to be moved to the objects inventory, without the need to open it in a window manually.
• Change: You should do more damage when destroying off deed items if they are owned/created by you.
• Change:You will now get the option to spawn at your deed token even if the terrain is too steep. The spawn location will have a Steep warning in the dropdown menu.
• Epic Mission Tweaks:
  • Avenger of light missions will no longer spawn.
  • Increased amount of mission creatures spawned (up to 50% extra of the required amount).
  • Spawned mission creatures will age faster and die after a few weeks.
  • Mission difficulty will not always go up on a successful mission completion.
  • Mission requirements will be a bit less across most missions.
  • Changed sacrifice creature missions so the action is only 12s long instead of 30s. Changed the chance of interruption during the action to be a lot less.

Metal items update

• New: Many metal items and tools can now be crafted with any metal.
• New: Metal items will now take on a hue depending on the metal used in creation
• Change: Ore is no longer capped at 50 Quality on Epic Home Servers.
• New: Metal lumps can now be combined to up to 64 of the item or 64kg, whichever is the higher.
  • Note: This allows lumps such as gold, silver and brass to be combined past the 64x count, allowing it to be used to create larger items.Metal items will now have special bonuses and penalties depending on metal type used::
  • As the list is too long for Steam, the full details can be found here:https://forum.wurmonline.com/index.php?/topic/161990-new-metal-type-properties/

Bug Fixes:

• When killed in PvP a player will gain a death count and a 3 hour timer will tick down.
• If killed while that timer is ticking down, another death count will be gained, and the timer will reset to the 3 hour mark and start again.
• After this timer has ticked down, a death is removed from their count and the timer will reset if any death counts remain.
• If a players death count increases over 3, then any PvP kills against them will count as overkilling until that death count is again below 3.

• Leather from 45% to 60%
• Studded from 50% to 62.5%
• Chain from 55% to 62.5%
• Cloth from 35% to 40%
• Drake, Scale and Plate no changes (65%, 70%, 65% respectively)

• Glimmersteel and Seryll from 10% to 5%
• Steel from 2% to 2.5%

• Plate armour should be slightly faster when worn now.
• Lowered the movement speed reduction from all helms.
• Glimmersteel and Seryll armours now have a 10% movement speed bonus.
• Adamantine armours now have a 5% movement speed bonus.

• Leather: 90% vs bite, pierce and acid; 110% vs slash and burn damage; 100% vs others.
• Studded: 90% vs slash and acid; 105% vs bite; 110% vs pierce and cold; 100% vs others.
• Chain: 92.5% vs pierce and cold; 107.5% vs bite, crush and burn; 100% vs others
• Plate: 95% vs crush and burn; 105% vs bite, slash and acid; 100% vs others.
• Cloth: 80% vs bite, slash and burn; 120% vs crush and cold; 100% vs others.
• Drake: 95% vs slash and acid; 105% vs crush and cold; 100% vs others.
• Scale: 95% vs crush and cold; 105% vs pierce and burn; 100% vs others.

• Bloodthirst damage bonus has now been reduced to 33% of weapon damage at 10,000 power
• Bloodthirst power gain no longer slows down after 5,000 against creatures.

• 1 guard 1 silver upkeep
• 2 guards 2.5 silver upkeep (1st guard 1 silver, 2nd guard 1.5 silver)
• 3 guards 4.5 silver upkeep (1st guard 1 silver, 2nd guard 1.5 silver, 3rd guard 2 silver)

• Oakshell now properly slows a mount based on power of cast
• A cast of under 70 power will give the creature a rare glow, a cast of over 70 will show a supreme glow.

• Body Strength, Body Stamina, Body Control, Mind Logic, Mind Speed, Soul Depth, and Soul Strength

• Destroy guard tower in enemy territory
• Sacrifice creatures
  • This will require lowering the creatures health and then using a sacrificial knife on the creature in the corresponding gods domain,
• Kill tower guards

• Missions involving creatures to be killed or sacrificed will now spawn those creatures specifically for the mission..
• Traitor mission creatures will be marked with a special effect and will also have oakshell.
• Trees marked for a mission will now have a special effect.

• Tier 1 (1 winner): top 20% of contributors - random single use tome.
• Tier 2 (3 winners): Top 50% of contributors - 3 random tome fragments
• Tier 3 (5 winners): entire pool of contributors - Seryll lump or random tome fragment

• On average once every 2 hours, a character will open a 15s window of time where every successful skill check will have a chance to gain an affinity in that skill. (e.g if you are mining during this window, you could gain an affinity in mining, pickaxe, miscellaneous items, body stamina, body strength, soul strength, mind logic, mind, soul, or body)
• The chance to gain an affinity is 1/500 if you have no affinities in that skill, 1/1000 if you have one affinity, 1/1500 if you have two affinities, 1/2000 if you have 3 affinities and 1/2500 if you have 4 affinities.
• If an affinity is successfully gained during the 15s window, the window will reset and no more will be able to be gained until the next window on that character.
• This window will remain open and check every skill tick until an affinity is gained or the 15 seconds is up.
• We will be monitoring these chances and making changes as necessary.

• If the dead character only has one affinity total, they will not lose that affinity and the killer will not gain an affinity.
• If the dead character has more than one affinity, then a random one is lost and may go to the killer.
  • If the dead character has more affinities in that skill than the killer, then the killer will gain that affinity 100% of the time.
  • Otherwise, the chance for the killer to gain the affinity is dependant on the difference between the number of affinities in that skill each player has (before the dead character loses the affinity).
  • If the difference is 0, the chance is 50% for the killer to gain the affinity. Difference of 1 is 25%, difference of 2 is 12.5% and difference of 3 is 6.25%.
• If an affinity is lost by the dead character and none gained by the killer, then the killer will receive a timed affinity in that skill that will last for a week.

• The command can be used as #showhero or #showheros or #showheroes... really as long as it contains "#showhero".
• It will now retrieve an actual up to date list of people who have a certain power
• It will give you the result per server

• The mission ruler now has a new UI, and several new features:
• Mission triggers may now occur within a range of %.
• Mission triggers may have multiple trigger effects.
• Trigger effects may be caused by multiple mission triggers.
• The mission list page has been split to be able to filter by owned missions, GM spawned missions, and deity missions.

• NOTE: This does not mean that paved tiles inside buildings will no longer have the snow texture.

• WARNING:This affects all artifacts not in ground, dug up artifacts before this patch will need recharging before the older 4 month time and the charges on the artifact will be reduced to 30 if they have more than 30 charges remaining when they are picked up.

• Note: This fix does require a taxcheck to occur on deed prior to taking off deed to correctly update the period between taxings.