Day 5 of Wurm Online. I was on my own. Eyywa was gone, as expected. So I prepared to make the mooring anchors. The ropes alone were a pain in the ass. 31 failures on the second one(Yes, I counted). And then when it came to getting the anchors, I realized I needed a Lead deposit. With none on the island, I knew only one way to solve this problem; hope someone can make me some. 😛
And that someone was a person named ‘Ede’. Lives around Harmony Lake, near the center of the server. Asked him if he could meet me at a nearby town called “Quincy Mines” and what he was offering for them.
He was going to make them for free, but charges a delivery fee of 20c each. So that’s 40c total. Thought I’ll just leave, and when going through the Darkenstone Canal, I’ll buy a silver and give it to him, hoping he has change for it.
So I set sail on the new sailboat. Felt good to be traversing the server again. Made it to the canal and bought the silver piece. Felt a bit worried when I saw how it went “in the bank” instead of my inventory.
As I was heading there, he asked me of why I just make some myself. So I told him that 1: There’s no lead deposits. And 2: The wiki says if you fail to make the mooring anchor, you will lose the rope. And from what hell I went through with a 6% chance of completion? FUCK THAT! D:<
However, he was actually nice by asking me if I would like some lead lumps and spare mooring rope, and I said yes. He offered it for free. So that’s nice of him.
Arrived at my destination (trip took me about 30-45 minutes) and hopped off the boat. No mobs anywhere, yet all accessways to the interior were locked tight. I told my contact, and he said to meet him at this fort to the north of it.
Hopped back in my boat and went back north. Stopped at the fort’s shipyard. Again, no access to the interior.
Five minutes passed, and he told me to meet him south again (and to look for his wagon). I did, and saw him. A wagon pulled by four bison. So they got bison in the game now. Cool.
He unloaded a box, and then opened a trade window. I opened my inventory…. I didn’t see money in it. Fuck me. :/
Told him how it’s been five years and I forgot a lot of stuff about the game. He said you’ll have to go to a token and take it out, and hoped the nearby fort that’s locked up tighter than Fort Knox would have an accessible one.
Went around the fort, and all access routes were locked tight. No way was I going in. Did find an ‘Old deer’, though. New animal added.
At this time I was hoping that he would feel sorry for me for what hell I’m going through. NOPE! So I told him I would check the nearby island, and sure enough it had an accessible token. And this is where I fucked up even more. I grabbed the coin, went back to him, gave him it and he’s all “this is too much”, and “we agreed on 40c, not 100c”. Told him this is all I had. And this is when I remembered that you can use the token to get specifically how much you want out. UGH! So I had to go BACK to that island, back to the token, put the coin back in (had to move my bank there to do so), and take out 40c from it. I also took out the remaining 60c.
On top of that, he’s telling me how he has an enchanted axe for “only 60c more”. Told him I wasn’t interested (I only came here for the anchors).
Back to the guy. Gave him the 40c. Finally got the anchors! Then he asks me if I can load the box onto my boat. Said I should be able to as my body strength is up there. So I hopped into my boat and attempted; “The small sailing boat does not have room for the small crate.”
I’m thinking “FFFUUUU… ok, let’s just try to clear out the hold and work from that”. I do it to even the point there’s nothing in it, and still the message comes up. Opening the crate, I realized why; it’s past the 100 item limit allowed for that type of boat. He was trying to ship me about 200 lead lumps, and 8 mooring ropes.
He said we’ll have to melt them down and combine them ’till they can fit. He started chopping a nearby tree down and made three campfires to cook the ore. Because when you need a forge, a campfire can even smelt them(thankfully, he was using high QL campfires).
After about 5-10 minutes, the 200 lumps were reduced to five. They were able to fit nicely in my boat, as long as all of my other stuff. He left as I thanked him. I then snuff’d the campfires to put them out. Noticed they didn’t leave ashes anymore. This is awesome. Was a real pain to clean up (especially when I had no need for ashes).
Then I finally went home. Tested out the new mooring anchor on it. Works just like it did before. Very happy. Also had to moor up and go to the store. Afterwards, I got back to the island and moored up. I also moored Tulsi’s boat, and transferred ownership to him. So if I get screwed now, I won’t have that rowboat to help me (unless Tulsi gets on and gives me perms to access it).
Tulsi came on an hour later (while watching a stream from a friend of his. I had to drag him in). I got him to help me dig the 501 clay needed for the Guard Tower. We talked about other things, and how a Caravel takes a lot of work. I also showed him how to combine items. I originally thought we were going to have to make three trips, but then realized we could just combine them to not do that.
About 3-4 hours passed and we had the 501 clay. Tulsi had to go eat while I took my load of 250 clay back to the house.
While I was preparing to get the 501 rock shards by myself, I remembered what I went through with the lead lumps; how it was past the 100 limit. And a small cart shares the same space as a sailboat.
Told Tulsi that when he got back, to load his clay into his boat. And I also put my clay in too(that almost sounded dirty.. 😛 ). Then grabbed my pick and went to the mine. But what I would find out later would really annoy the hell out of me.
While mining, and combining, I discovered I can only have 8 shards at a time. What was worse, I discovered the cart has a 1,000 Weight limit. And 5 combined 160.00 weight rock shards are the limit. What was really bad, I couldn’t get out of the mine due to “You need to catch your breath, and stop climbing”. I’ve always hated that damn thing.
Had to drop one of the heavy shards, just to get the cart out of the hole. Managed to… barely. Even that drained my stamina to 0. But I was able to keep going ’till I made it out. Grabbed the shard and went up. Fell down again. Tried again and made it where I could keep going even at 0 stamina again. Tried to access the cart and it wouldn’t let me.. fell down again. Really pissed here.
Then I tried it again, this time dropping the shard on the floor as I went up. That worked. But I couldn’t grab the shard while outside the cave. Seeing how my stamina was back to normal, I climbed again, got the shard, and got out.
This is just one of the times I have to do this. Took the shards back to the house and asked Tulsi to make them int bricks for me, while I went to get more.
He couldn’t pick them up. So now he can’t help me with the tower anymore. So he left and went back to the MRT.
I thought for awhile, also wondering how in the hell I was going to be able to assemble the tower at where I was planning to move to, with mobs everywhere. Then it hit me. I need to re-establish my old deed and use the spirit guards there to keep the baddies off the property.
Told Tulsi to please come back, that we’re (technically) moving out. Made my way to the boats. He’s sitting there telling me he has nothing on him. Said that’s good, incase you need to run away.
So I showed him the way to my old place. Got lost for a bit, but found it. No mobs in sight. Felt too easy. Told Tulsi to watch my back as we made it up the platform to where my deed was. Halfway up, I heard grass rustling. I stood there, Tulsi near me… listening and waiting for a mob to pop up. Sure enough, one did. A hellhound. Before I could even say “OSHI–!! RUN!!”, it had taken half my health. Ran as fast as I could to my boat(can’t move so fast when you have the ‘Hurting’ debuff), the hellhound in hot pursuit. I feel like I literally jumped on my boat and pulled the rudder as hard as I could to get the fuck out of there! Saw the hellhound was stuck on the shore… WHEW!! Hellhounds can’t swim! 😀
Tulsi was freaking out, didn’t know what to do. I told him to run back to his boat quickly. So he did. The hellhound never noticed him. He pulled in his mooring anchor and got out of there. I tried to think of what to do, while fearing of checking my wounds. Both of them were Medium, so I should be able to bandage them without needing a healing cover.
I then told Tulsi a daring move (which I should had done in the first place…), to go back to the island and be there incase I die and need to retrieve my corpse. Told him that no hellhound is going to keep me away from claiming.
He did, and I went around the clay deposit. Made it back up and to the top. Searched the area. No mobs in sight. Phew. All I had to worry about was that hellhound.
I tried to quickly think of where I had slapped down my initial deed. Was able to move around while using the “Survey Area” option. I tried my best to get the markers to where I had remembered them.
I set the number of guards (there’s no “Light/Medium/Heavy” option anymore. Only Heavy guards now) to 2 and tried to found it. It claimed I needed a total of 8s and 21c to found. What the fuck?!
It had claimed when doing the form, it would only cost me 6s and 21c. After talking to the new ‘GL-Freedom’ channel(the new Global kchat), they told me that now, they want you to pay your upkeep in two months in advance, “to keep people from disbanding in a week”. So I had to pay for two 6s orders. That’s $20 down the hole. :/
But after doing so, I was greeted with;
“It is 19:02:14 on the day of the Wurm in week for of the White shark starfall in the year of 1053.”
“The settlement of Oceanside Retreat has just been founded by Dragonhead.”
Yayness! Oceanside Retreat is mine once again! 😀 This time I didn’t have to negotiate with some random person in Wurm to give me back my land! I settled with two guards. And they showed up a few minutes later. Now the deed has security against mobs. But only that area. I can still be ambushed by mobs while hauling my stuff across the sea and/or going up the platform to the deed. But if I make it up to my deed, the guards will hopefully make quick work of them.
After placing the deed down, I carefully made my way back to my boat, not knowing where that hellhound was or even if it’s still around. I finally spotted it in the same spot as before as I snuck by it. Got back in my boat and hauled ass away from there. Tulsi was confused if this means we have to move. Told him to stay on the island, but he was already halfway there. Then he had to go to bed. So I hope he secured his boat before he left, because I never saw it.
Safely back on the island and in the house, I tended to my wounds. Managed to get them both bandaged. I hope cotton will heal them. One of them turned into a light, while the other was a medium. That other one is nearly 30 damage. I think I might need a healing cover for it.
Anyway, I still have so much else to focus on before I can even think of moving in. I still need to make fishing poles out of willow (to take care of hunger). I still got to get that guard tower up.
And I still need Ivan to get on to get me perms for that sailboat. Once I have them, I could get Benietwo back on. But I’ll have to sail south to Deliverance(one of the many new islands), find out where he is and pick him up, then get him back here. I can’t go there without perms to the boat. The boat has to be owned by me before I can travel to the other islands.
As for Tulsi… he can stay on Minecraft. He can’t really help me here.