Three days until the Indy Impalong and I’ve completed nearly everything I need to do to restore the deed back the way I had it. The house is done, the paths have all been paved, the pine sprouts have all been planted. And the main road is fixed (and the ground next to it has also been fixed).
The only things remaining are the fence gates, and doing the lamps and getting them to the Impalong. But back to the fences. I’m debating if I should make them out of iron or wood.
Iron is more demanding (as it requires fence bars), but looks really pretty as a fence. And wood is easy to work with, but looks n00bish. Stone is in the middle. Sadly there’s no ‘Stone fence gate’ option.
Due to an update I was never around for, there are more options for fences.. but very few for fence gates.
But when I eventually pick something I would like, and build it(and also get the lamps done as I mentioned earlier), that’s it. That’s all there is to do on the deed. It would be completed.
Knowing this… I am starting to get bored already. Yet it’s mainly because I can’t take my horses cross-server.
I mean, sure. It’s fun to explore the servers by boat. But the real heart of what the community has built, is inside the server. Yet… so are all the mobs. I’ve been told (in the past) that if you pack light, you can outrun any mob. That was before hellhounds were introduced… who can outrun you.
My only option is to relax, and train to be as good of a fighter as MD was. This way, the mobs will fear me (instead of the other way around). But the path of a Wurm Dragon Warrior is long, and also a bit confusing.
-I’ve been told to whack trees with my sword to get my Longsword skill to 20, yet my sword can fell several trees before I even get a 0.000001 in that skill.
-The second thing is to practice with a training dummy, using a shaft. Yet I’ve been told that it takes a very, very long time. Plus I have to repair the damned thing and also improve it constantly.
-The 3rd thing, is fighting “low level” mobs on a horse. Since I played Wurm, I wanted a list of mob levels and never got one. I know I can take on wolves and wildcats. But bears, scorps, and spiders? No. They make me hurt hard before they start hurting.
One of these three(or all three), has to get my skill up. My other option (which won’t always work) is to get into archery, and take potshots at mobs from a distance. The thing is, you may not always see them before they see you.
I also made a thread about this. The responses so far have varied from “get your FS up with a 2H sword -or- 2H axe” to “screw the horses and pack as light as possible. Don’t even bring cotton”. Though most of them also agree to “bring a tent as it will act like a spawn point for you”.
I still have the military tent that Ghost gave me, so that’s good. Plus it has a lock, so no one but myself can take it.
All I can do is practice with a target dummy with a shaft (use my remaining Sleep Bonus), then repair and imp when required. Maybe that’s how MD got his fight skill up from when he started. He also PvP’d, though. I bet he’s somewhere on the Epic Cluster.
Haven’t seen him (or even Drago) since I came back to Wurm, and he won’t be helping at Impalong this year (according to the list on the forum thread).
There’s also another reason I’m bored. For years, a certain unique creature has eluded me. Unfortunately… that creature passed away from starvation last week. That creature was the White Dragon.
I never figured out how to get up the mountain to get to it. But after careful looking of the map dump, I think I found a way up there. But now it’s dead… what’s the point?
I’ve also been told that uniques do respawn. Yet, no one told me if they spawn in the same place. I remember Reaping asking everyone “have you seen the white dragon yet?”. For what I know, they seem to spawn miles away from any settlement (why I never ran into one near my deed).