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After the Great Santa Factory Mishap of 2023, yet another disaster has fallen on Santa’s complex on the North Pole!

Polar trolls have bashed into the stables, and almost all of Santa’s reindeers have escaped! He needs help tracking them down to make sure all of this year’s gifts get delivered!

This year’s Christmas event runs from December 21st, 12:00 CET (noon) until January 11th, 12:00.

You can now find tiny bells through foraging, botanizing, chopping down trees, digging and mining.
A tiny bell can be combined with any vegetable to create reindeer food - you need to feed it to one of reindeers found all over the world of Wurm to help Santa find and recover it.
Tiny bells can also be hung from walls as decorations.

You can track your progress through missions, divided into three stages:

• Recover 2 reindeer - Santa will reward you with a star lamp, a new decorative item that can be hung from a ceiling
  
• Recover 5 more reindeer - get a figurine of Santa
  
• Repeating missions that require you to recover an increasing amount of reindeer, granting you one of the new or old Christmas gifts
  

You can also find four new wooden snowflake decorations through archaeology. The snowflakes can be hung from ceilings.


Gears, valves and pipes that were part of last year’s event, have also been added to archaeology.

Like last year, we’ll be running a 10% skillgain and affinity bonus through the entire event.

Happy Holidays from the Wurm Online team!

[h2] Server Changelog [/h2]

• New: New title has been added for 100 skill in Medium Maul. Congrats Emoo!
• Change: Squared wood ceilings will now take their material from the last shingle added instead of the last beam.
• Bugfix: Ceiling placed chandeliers should now properly show their metal material colour.
• Bugfix: Fixed ceiling rotation on stairs not always matching.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue with ceiling related actions not showing under roofs at certain locations.
• Bugfix: Cornucopia should now properly spawn items when placed on other items (tables, etc).

[h2] Server Changelog [/h2]

• New: Ceilings have been added to the game and can be attached to built roofs and floors using a hammer or trowel. There are 5 ceiling types:
  • Wood
  • Rendered wood
  • Squared wood
  • Rustic wood
  • Pottery brick
• New: Chandelier item has been added. It can be hanged from ceilings and can be crafted using the Blacksmithing skill.
• New: Title has been added for 100 skill in Nature. Congrats Sgtscum!
• New: Added monthly skin for November 2024 – Hell Horse Rider Statuette.
• Change: Lights that use candles will now act like other street lamps in regards to fuel usage, refueling from villages, and auto-snuffing/lighting. They still need candles to light up first.
• Bugfix: Fixed a misspelling in the wagoner management window.
• Bugfix: Fixed a case where portals via Chaos to other server could set your Chaos kingdom incorrectly.
• Bugfix: You are no longer able to plant reed seeds on a tile that already has reeds planted
• Bugfix: Fixed a problem where vehicles and mounted creatures would frequently stop when moving on flat tiles at their exact minimum or maximum water depth. This frequently occurred with horses being ridden on flat tiles at the maximum depth a player can dig with a shovel. Vehicles and mounts should now move more smoothly under these circumstances.
• Bugfix: Fixed cave ceilings to open the correct Wurmpedia page
• Bugfix: Fixed wagoners loading a second, conflicting hair model under certain circumstances.

[h2] Client Changelog [/h2]

• Change: Shadow rendering on modern renderer has been optimized to use less GPU power and memory
• Change: Volumetric fog rendering has also been optimized to not use as many resources
• Change: Shadows are now softer but have more detail in distance
• Change: Shadow map quality setting now has fewer options, as the optimizations have made some of them redundant
• Bugfix: Fixed fence gates not casting shadows

We are running a Black Friday sale this year again!

From November 28th 23:59 CET until December 2nd 18:00 CET, all premium time and silver coin offers on our web shop and Steam shop are 30% off!

Like last year, this time we’ve also worked to add some attractive offers to the in-game silver shop.

From November 28th 23:59 CET until December 9th 6:00 CET, the following is available in the silver shop:

• A rerun of 15 most popular skins, available for 5 silver coins each
  
• Multiple permanent new skin offers will be available, at a discounted price during the sale - including a chandelier skin
  
• Various discounts on many other items, including sleep powder
  
• Cornucopia - a new item redeemable for free for any player with an active premium account (claimable until December 16th 6:00 CET)
  
  • The Cornucopia will randomly generate small food items that you can take out of it
    

The sale start-off post on Thursday will contain more details as well as pictures of the new skins.

In case you missed it, we also posted a new development update post here: https://forum.wurmonline.com/index.php?/topic/204786-wurm-development-update-fall-2024/

[h2]Client Changelog[/h2]

• Bugfix: Fixed brightness setting not always affecting the entire screen when using legacy renderer.
• Bugfix: Fixed a rare issue where many of the UI windows containing check boxes would have their layout broken.
• Bugfix: Player list and action queue will no longer be removed from the Event tab on server transfers or reconnecting.
• Bugfix: Quick bar slots will now save correctly, fixing the issue where slots with items reverted back to buttons.

[h2]Server Changelog[/h2]

• New: Added mine door permissions to role management settings on deeds.
• Change: Improvements to messages
  • Drop/Take messages that involve multiple items are now always condensed to single lines in most cases.
  • Cooked foods now use their actual names, fixing problems such as pancakes being called "omelettes" under certain circumstances.
  • Many drop/take messages have been made more clear and now list the items they refer to. For example, dropping dirt or sand to raise the ground now produces a different message than if you drop it to a pile.
  • When placing an item puts it in your inventory first, the standard "You get" message from taking the item is now sent, to make it clear you have picked up the item.
  • Formatting of these messages has had its grammar improved slightly, and has been made much more consistent in general.
• Bugfix: The "2g" and "5g" volume options for measuring jugs and measuring flasks are now available again.
• Bugfix: Fixed various issues when making floats from moss. Some messages have been corrected for grammar, the action now aborts if you have no space in your inventory or the moss is too light, and it will now use the correct amount of moss in all cases.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue with some items popping out of their containers when leaving Guidance.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue causing newly created torch lamps to be called "medium torch lamps" and renamed any offending items.
• Bugfix: Fixed meditation sometimes considering a position "too wet" when at the exact minimum height required.
• Bugfix: Fixed being unable to build a wooden parapet under an arched wall.
• Bugfix: Fixed issues with Halloween 2024 items
  • The new 2024 Halloween items (figurine of Grimbleat, arachnid necklace, and goat head necklace) can now be improved using Jewelry Smithing skill.
  • References to silver have been removed from the descriptions of the figurine of Grimbleat and goat head necklace, since they are sometimes made of other metals.
• Bugfix: Fixed issues with lockable containers
  • Pavilions no longer show "Open" and "Close" in the right-click menu, since they are not containers.
  • Crude canoes now show lock-related actions in the right-click menu properly.
• Bugfix: Fixed a rare issue with some characters loading wrong data and getting stuck on portal usage.