I said to expect a new post “tomorrow”, which turned into eight days.
I blame Minecraft. I was going to use the Thanksgiving Day Update as an excuse to play Wurm, but some of the tavern-goers wanted my server up. But I’m trying to re-focus on Wurm again.
I have, and my alt is also here. Before I got him to work on making lots of Stew, I went to check up on my horses. Sadly… my horses are gone. All of them. There’s two possible reasons why.
1. Someone took them. Both gates are unlocked, allowing anyone access in.
2. They escaped. One of my fence sections is missing. Either decayed or bashed by a catapult or a maul.
I could say they died, but that thought is impossible. And it’s also impossible for a hostile such as a Troll to bash my fences down and kill them. Only if the animal is an ally to me will they attack.
I am slightly saddened by their departure, but I’m also relieved. Sure, I needed them as work horses for heavy hauling of resources, but as payment they eat a shitload of my grass, faster than it can grow.
Plus.. five horses. Seriously? I can’t take care of that many by myself. At least they’re not dead. I took good care of them by giving them all the grass I could spare.
I blame myself, not the person(s) that took them, for not being more active and not putting locks on my gates.
I have no proof they were taken, so the GMs couldn’t do a thing about it.
I still have all of my boats (shock!) and my settlement. Losing one of the two or both would really make me cry.
Also, quite alot has happened. Such as Rolf releasing the Freedom server to the noobs.
Here’s the load down I got from kchat so far of what has happened in these eight days;
1. Samling is gone. It’s been replaced with “Historical Samling”.
2. The new spawn point is now just south of Freedom Market, in a settlement called “The Howl”. This is where the noobs are being trained and released into our world.
3. Impalong will happen south of it, next month. The time is still unknown to me. I’m hoping it doesn’t interfere with WoW: Cataclysm.
4. There’s a bug with boats. But it’s actually an awesome one. Your food/water bars will freeze when in a boat.
With my alt making Stew, I checked out the rest of the area. The ruins near us haven’t changed much. I also checked out the cave and nearly faced the pinchy, stingy wrath of an adol starving scorpion (who got owned by my tower guards).
At this time, fog decided to trolololololol us while night fell.
The fog lasted for seemed like a good five minutes before ever so slowly dissipating.
The rest of the day went to “trolling” kchat (wasn’t actually trolling them, but I got them to talk about Minecraft a few times).
One person talked about losing his horses, so I thought of taking this time of explaining my failure. After a few laughs, one of them suggested the next time I get horses, to plant Wemp seeds instead of Grass. Since planting seeds is slightly easier than planting grass. They also said to never put horses off-deed. Yeah, I’ve learned from that. But to use wemp plants instead of grass is something I need to try.
I’ll try to head over to Volcano Forest and see if I can ask for some wemp seeds. If not, I can get my alt to bot every grass tile around my settlement.
After the helpful conversation in kchat (which are rare), I tried to search for the map, and see if it has this new noob landing thingy the login news GUI was telling me about. Found it at its usual location on the forum and checked it out.
I noticed several new things. One was the canal I found several weeks ago NW of El Rancho Lago while exploring on horseback, and finding that bear. Apparently someone has re-done the length of the canal and it’s now on the map. It’s just up the ocean from me.
Another thing is, Samling is no longer marked on the map. Yet it still has the Trader and Mailbox icons, and is still marked as a settlement, but an unnamed settlement.
I notice on the top of the map, it has “NEWBIES: You spawn at 32x, 39y.” I followed the coords and it leads to a settlement called “The Howl”, on the road south of Freedom Market. I’m guessing this is also where the Impalong will be held next month.
If I wasn’t forced to wait for my alt to make at least enough Stew to fill one small barrel I would bring him and myself on my cog, to this “The Howl” to check it out. But I think I’ll go myself when my alt is done on my sailboat, so he can fill up the large barrel in the house.