I ‘briefly’ came back to Wurm to fund my deed. It’s night, and it’s Spring. There has been a change to the launcher. There’s a new ‘Time and Wind’ button that will show the current server time and the direction of the wind (and how strong it is). Nice addition.
So I haven’t been coming on regularly as I said I was going to last year, and how I said I was going to help out with the Impalong (which is still many months away).
Everything is still intact from what it was a few months ago. My fountain is gone, and 1/4 of the stone fence around the main ramp is also gone. The guard tower is shockingly still standing.
There are a few things I did notice are different. B2’s boat is gone — possibly has decayed. That’s not good. And Tulsi has removed himself from my friends list.
As annoying as he was, I can’t help but feel that I was an ass to him. It was my fault for wanting to drag him into Wurm to ‘relive my glory days’. I just wish he would had understanded me better. Then maybe we could had been long-time friends (like angry and I when we were). But he was just a kid, who had no real business being in a game like this.
I still remember when I had this idea to do an “Oceanside Retreat Docks” settlement to keep the boats from decaying. Either that or extended the deed border to cover the dock area.
Anyway, I went down to the shoreline to secure it from any mobs that have obviously spawned in from months of no player activity. Was attacked by a..aged fog spider?! Holy hell, fog spiders are finally a thing, and it isn’t even foggy! And battling them is like battling a mini-boss. The two tower guards, and myself, it took about 15 minutes to take this single fucker down. Somehow it’s able to protect itself from being attacked by a cloud of fog. Go figure. Plus, it randomly teleports around.
It killed one of my guards. Wow. And to top it off, a troll shows up to play with me. I’m all “NOPE!!” as I run up the side ramp and make it to the fence gate, thinking that will stop him (as it did in the past).
The troll goes past the fucking fence gate! OSHI–!! I run into my house, and the fucker enters my house! I am FUCKED! I was forced to do an emergency logout due to the troll being in my deed. This is not good. Bet when I log back in, I will be seeing red (or a club beating my face in).
And I saw red, thankfully not the troll when I spawned back in via my deed token. Was able to easily re-equip my crap. I searched around to see if I could find the troll, and I found it dead in my horse pen. Nice! My guards took care of the fucker.
Went back to the fog spider corpse. It was a glowing, smoky lump of white left over. Aka, it’s supposed to represent visible water vapor.
It actually contains a bit of water, too(which can be used as a temp water source). Probably as a reference that fog is low-hanging clouds, and clouds are made out of water vapor.
That battle does worry me a bit. For one thing, I did not expect to see a ‘fog’ spider without it being foggy. I thought they only come out when it’s foggy. This..is proving otherwise. My only guess is they despawn a day after it gets foggy.
Asked Freedom chat, and they said it’s because “it was foggy earlier and it wasn’t exposed to the sun”, and how “it really wanted to meet you”. Yeah, I’m sure it did.
So if that’s the case, if I’m out on the water and fog rolls in, to not get on the shore until the sun comes up fully.
These are the only mobs I’ve encountered. Of course, I still need to clear the mine of things that want to eat me.
But this ‘adventure’ has definitely alerted to the importance of locking my gates, is of VERY high priority. Apparently Goblins and Trolls are the only ones that can open unlocked gates. I just wish the lesson wasn’t literally beaten into me with a club. 😛
The second thing is to make another fountain(though I might just consider buying a reasonably high QL one to prevent it from decaying as fast), and repair those fences. Then I’ll need to get B2 another sailboat. Though I wonder if the sailboat is even needed. The only times he needed a boat was when I was acquiring boats (and the Impalong, which is again way too far away to worry about ATM).
So I think I’ll put it as a low priority.
Anyway, I threw in 3s into the deed’s upkeep. It had 46 days left, and now it has 183 days left. From my calculations, it should be good ’till possibly October.