Day 3 of Wurm Online. I logged in around 6:30 after working on my videos. A villager named ‘Eyywa” was on. Asked them for some healing mats to heal my med, and went back to the village to get some cotton. Apparently cotton can be used as Rags now (or maybe it always has).
He asked if I needed anymore cotton after I managed to bandage the med, and I said yes. Then he told me about living near a guard tower. I told him I already am and left.
So as I was waiting for my wounds to heal up, Eyywa was saying if what I picked was a good place. I told them that Ivan helped to pick it. Little did I know, that they were also going to plan a house there after Ivan took them in.
So we talked awhile. Eyywa asked me where I was planning to go once I felt we were ready. I told them that hopefully, I’ll be able to re-claim my old village (said how it’s close here on the mainland). I also talked about the three encounters we had.
Eyywa told me to get the walls up on the house ASAP, and so I did. I had to chop down another tree to get the remaining planks. I also told them (after telling me to make a rowboat), how Ivan promises me a sailboat. They told me that once I get prem again, my skills should shoot up to what they were five years ago. I asked them if there was finally a way to have a monthly cost, and they said no… yeah. Still no automatic prem payment. You still have to “pay if you need it”.
Also I asked them what time does Ivan come on. Mentions usually this time, but the fact it’s a Friday, “he’s probably with his daughter”. So Ivan’s a family man. Not bad.
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Teaching TulsiSo Tulsi came on later in the day, after I got the walls done. I’m still surprised you got to build the roof now. Eyywa told me that you got to make shingles, and then place them using two large nails per roof.
Anyway, I needed to make barrels. So I told him to make planks for it while I went to make nails. He didn’t know how to, even though I had already taught him. This greatly worries me. His short-term memory I feel, is going to keep us on this island forever. I want Tulsi to be READY before we leave. And I wish he would had fucking used the tutorials!
Anyway, as I said I needed to make barrels. After Tulsi got finished with the planks, I asked him to check on the crops that I had planted next to the road that leads to a small path (and also to forage). He’s getting foraging down. This is good. He knows how to trade. This is also good. And he now knows how to make planks(told him to literally write it down).
But what he doesn’t know… is how slopes work in this game. He..literally killed himself. I was coming back to the house after making some nails, and I hear a “URGH!!” sound somewhere. Check Local, and he’s not there. I’m about to bust out laughing. Especially when he told me he had fallen. But I held it in as much as I could.
Discovered his corpse near the house. He fell off the cliff. LOL!! Can’t hold it anymore! Though he was actually smart enough to drop everything he had in the house before he ventured, like he knew it would happen. Glad he did.
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A real snag in my plans
So I took Tulsi down to the shoreline and attempted to teach him how to fish. Didn’t even had to instruct him, but he’s all “what do I do” instead of waiting, but he figured it out on his own.
This brings me back to the days when I would have Benietwo be fishing and cooking Stew for me, because I didn’t have that high of a fishing skill.
Me however? I only caught one fish. He caught four. I also caught the curse of Rolf; an “unstrung” Fine fishing pole. Think of it like a broken boat in Minecraft, instead it takes 10 minutes to craft the parts (where in Minecraft it takes only a few seconds).
So yeah, my lifeline is broken, and I’m panicking(and cursing at Rolf)! D: I’ve never had that happen to me to my knowledge. Maybe I’ve just been lucky in the past. Maybe I always had spares. All I knew at the time it was broken, was “FUCK!! I can’t make Stew now!!”
This means I’m going to have to depend on Ivan to give us meals. I’ve also shifted my priorities to getting a forge in the house. So not only would I be able to make spare fishing poles, but I could teach Tulsi how to work with metal. Oh yeah, we’re also going to need a Loom for string.
I’ve also been debating if we should have a second floor for the house, for storage. The fact it’s a temp house, I just feel it’ll be a waste of time and materials. I want to be able to leave as less of a footprint as I can here. Though when we move out and find a place to live, I’ll likely do a second floor. Maybe even a third one. The first would be for storage, the second for Tulsi, and the 3rd for myself.
Making a forge (and a stove) alone, is going to leave a footprint. But we’re in desperate need of them (even though there’s a forge in the mine, I’m getting tired of accessing it).
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One more thing to note, the server(not the MRT) went down yesterday for no reason. It was down for like, 20 minutes or so. But it came right back up and we had no problems. At a time, I was really getting worried. I had thought that the devs felt like just closing the server for no reason.
Maybe they needed to do a restart. Who knows? I’m just glad it’s back up.