Benie's Games Blog

Ohh how the drama has gone this weekend. From moving out to risking being banned from Wurm for a few days(or longer).
Yesterday, as I explained I’ve been mining all freakin’ day. Finally reaching 20.50 ML I decided to take a well-deserved break. Everything was going good. No incidents…until I headed back home.
I pulled out Caol’s sickle that I need to give back to him, and went over to some flowers on the east side of the gate. Halfway from picking, a message popped up on the lower right side of my screen about “opponent”. Soon the Combat tag opened up about a “Young raging brown bear” coming to kill me.
I knew I was in deep shit. I ran as fast as I could on grass as the bear playfully put HUGE damaging hits on me. Getting to the road I quickly dumped everything weighing more than 1.00 kg, trying to outrun the bear.
Alas, inches before I got to the tower… well you know what happened. I was a lifeless heap on the highway. I tried to respawn in NewTown, only to be stuck on the road past Roadside.
I yell out “FUCKING BEAR!!!!!!”, not knowing I was in NT. Moments later I got a “friendly” warning I was about to be muted by Niobe.
I waited 5 minutes in silence, hoping the damn game would unfreeze me and get me back to NT. But I was forced to relog, and showed up inside the token of NT. As I headed back, I PMed Niobe and apologized to him/her. Made it back and got my shit out of my body and saw that damn bear was dead. And grabbed everything I dropped as I was trying to get away.
Went back to mining. Got my ML up to 20.57 and broke another mine wall to reveal not one but two iron ore veins.
I also noticed something else. How crowded the mine was with rock shards. I asked kchat if there was a way to destroy them with fire. But instead of telling me, they said things I already know. Such as to turn them into stone bricks and stuff.
The Roadside recruit who is…well was, our former neighbor was in my local. I asked him if he needed some rock shards. He agreed to help me move them out.

Moving on down (this has been been a long and eventful weekend), angry comes on after I told him that we could live what used to be Apple B’s, and he successfully planted a homestead deed down, naming it “Misterangry’s Piece Of Land”.
I frowned at the name, but he said it’s only temporary and we will get a village deed. Later on, he told me to get my mallet, hatchet, and saw only. (trying my best not to show all the drama that happened between then and heading to bed)…, I found out my saw is missing.
Frantically searching everywhere, the saw could not be found. I was forced to leave without my 78 CoC saw. Hopefully in the future I can afford a new one. Maybe a better one.

The next day (today), more drama hit the fan. Rather not say what but it got bad enough it made angry want to go to bed. I tried to make it up to him by building the houses. I couldn’t. He didn’t have the deed set that I can build things.
So I made it up another way; converting the Moss tiles into Dirt tiles behind the HS. It took nearly an hour, but I got it done. Didn’t get any ML for all of that cultivating though.
Later on that day I had an idea how I could still buy that sailboat. I would walk there, buy it and take it home in that cart, get ML up to 21.00, take it to Small Bears, and then use it. Or I would take my boat there, pay for the sailboat, have him drive my rowboat while I use my new boat and we both go to Small Bears. But I didn’t know if angry still had control of my rowboat from that, sorta failed trip around the home server.
After getting there and finding out I had control, I saw the sailboats. Wondering if I would still get the “your too dumb to drive this” message, I tried getting on 1 of the boats, and it worked!!
I quickly got off, shocked as hell I was able to even board it as the captain without 21.00 ML, and ran back home. I began to think that I only needed 20.50 ML.
I told a GM about this, but lied to them, saying that a friend tried to board a boat and yadda yadda yadda to hide my guilt… then I told kchat after not getting a response from the GM’s, hoping someone could confirm this thing if it was an exploit or not. But no one knew anything about it.
Knowing this HAD to be an exploit, I reported it to the Wurm Forum.

GREAT NEWS!! I JUST got a PM from Egal, saying this is not an exploit. And also, you can captain a sailboat at 20.10, NOT 21.00!!
Someone update the wiki! 😀

Why is mining…so……fucking…..BORING?!?! I’m starting to have second thoughts about that sailboat.
I have been mining ALL freakin’ day today. Currently, at the time of this post, my ML(Mind logic) is 20.42. I suspect to be it at or surpassing 20.50 before I head to bed tonight at this rate.

Beel left my local once. Knowing there’s a good-sized casserole in the fountain and how I ate my last meal today, I snuck into SoTR and took it, barley making it back to the mine when he showed back up. I didn’t want to have to resort to stealing since it’s against my nature…but I’m desperate.
Later, Beel saw his precious Casserole was gone. But instead of asking me if I took it or know who did take it, he blamed it on decay…lmao.

About that wall I was getting those event messages… after I stopped getting rock shards and the wall wasn’t breaking, I called for a GM who told me I could not do what I’m trying to do.
I asked the GM that I just wanted the failed entrance sealed. The answer was that it would seal itself..but wasn’t told when it would.

I’ve also added stone walls around the entrance, and a gatehouse named “Dragonhead’s Private Mine”. I haven’t started working on the gatehouse yet as I’m waiting for angry to make me some nails…. if he gets on that is.
I may have to make my own nails if Beel or others decide to take things in here that don’t belong to them.

The highlights of the day where;
Beel locked me out of SoTR. Champ Scorp tamed by friendly person. Caol gave me advice on how to up Mind logic. Wurm’s first Red and Black Dragons used to live on NT’s southern mountain. Angry trying to find us a place to live. And the lag attack.

Logged in this afternoon. Noticed angry or someone has dug up all of the grass inside the wall, and the house for joedirt is gone.
I tried to get in SoTR through the gatehouse, and noticed I couldn’t get in the main door. I checked to see if I was lagging and I wasn’t… Beel has locked me out!! :O
The reason I feel are the words I said to him. How SoTR is his, and what’s outside of it isn’t. Apparently he took this the wrong way and made SURE that SoTR is his.
I quickly ran up the road to Roadside to complain about Beel, only to find 1 person was there. Kamatagurl. And she didn’t know anything about SoTR.

Beel has pretty much sealed off SoTR to everyone with fences…EXCEPT the back area where the stone walls have decayed and I was able to get in. The place looks like it’s in shambles with dead animal bodies here and there.
I don’t really think I can “press charges” on Beel for doing this. Since it is..in a way his property. Even though I gave him the money for the deed which he hasn’t yet planted.

Later on in the day, thinking if I should wait for angry to get on or make a cart and build my sailboat, A guy named Saidin showed up in my local and said hello. Though I didn’t see him. A few seconds later, a HUGE scorp popped up on the road who was Saidin’s pet. The guy asked if I had anything to kill.
Still frozen from the size of the scorp, I said a hesitant ‘no’.
Him and the scorp went on their way heading up the road. As I watched it go by, I was stunned that it was the width of Bearback Highway!
10 minutes later, Caol logs in and I talked to him about the mess I’m in, and he suggested I make my own mine. So I began terraforming.
Finally, I hit rock and made a Rock tile appear, only to screw up after opening the entrance, an Iron Ore deposit was in my fucking way!
Trying as hard as I could, I mined over 100 iron ores, but the deposit would not get out of the way. So I tried to bypass the ore and it worked, thanks to angry’s help.
After what seemed to be a 7 minute server freeze, I was booted off of it for 5 minutes. Fortunately it went back up as “fast” as it went down and I didn’t lose any of my terraforming/mining work.

Finally having a cave ceiling, I tried to get to where that ore was, only to get 2 very scary messages in my Event window…
“The cave walls sound hollow. A dangerous side shaft could emerge.”
followed by: “The cave shudders from some imbalance.”

Nervous, I asked kchat and they said the 2nd was a sign of a cave-in. But the fact I was mining it, the 1st just meant there’s another tunnel nearby.
It took some time to think about this but I think I know why it’s doing it.

Due to my screwed up cave entrance and trying to get to the ore from the other one I made 2 tiles over to the left, it’s making the screw up act like a “tunnel”, and maybe even threaten to cave it in if the wall breaks. In a way this is a good thing. I can just put dirt over my mistake once it’s filled back up and work from there.
Or, it’s a sign that Beel’s failed cave to water could be in the way. That might be possible as well. It’s a shame I don’t have access to the other cave and mark this and my cave in Mapper and see if they indeed overlap or not. But I find this somewhat impossible of a chance.
I still say it’s the screw up doing that.

I’ve been thinking more and more about attempting to build a sailboat of my very own. Something better than a rowboat.
Something that’ll actually look like a ship! And be able to use the new wind system. However, I have to go prem to build/use. Which I already know.
Why I’ve been asking in the forum of how could I tackle a sailboat as a non-prem going prem. No I haven’t gone prem yet, but I’m strongly thinking about it.

I’m about tempted to just buy an unnamed sailboat, as someone suggested. Have the person deliver it to the Village of Small Bears(or I will come down and get it) and pay like 1-2s for it. Then name it like the… hmm.
USS DragonForce? 😀 … Nah. I gotta be sensible. Something like the USS Ocean Adventure would be good.

But there’s a small problem. No one is selling or buying boats in the Town Cryer of the Wurm Forum. I have a bad feeling I’ll still be building one myself, or maybe asking Beel to help me out.
Either way though, building or buying, I have to go prem. And it looks like I can just build it.

Having to re-read this log of me and angry’s latest fight just to explain it on a Blog, is quite painful, but here goes…
The fight started when I told angry I needed to get some water for the fountain or Beel will be pissed. And he didn’t care if he would be, but I did. So I went into the house, grabbed the barrels, tried to find my cart, only for it to be “missing” when it was just renamed. I asked him where is was and he wouldn’t tell me.
He continued to play mind games with me but I had a mission to do. I knew where there was a spare cart so I went for it.
As soon as I left, heading west towards Bearback Lake, he questioned where did the barrels go. As pissed as I was for him taking my cart, I told him that I ate them or anything else I could think of so I can just get down there and get water.
Then it started to get ugly when he PMs me and continues to ask, thinking I gave them to Beel. I said yes just to see him jump, but he didn’t like this joke so I told him the truth that I had them and I’m going down to the lake…. and, he exploded in anger. Anger never before seen.
The fighting pretty much stopped for awhile.

Meanwhile, after getting the barrels filled, I went back up the road, looked over at White Dragon Castle and saw 1 of the walls on the outside of the place was missing. Went up and left my cart in a safe spot, and went up the hill, only for angry to PM me again, saying that the heat made him pissed and how I shouldn’t mess with him.
Anyway, I saw the inside of White Dragon Castle…sorta. More like from a hill behind it. There isn’t much. Just a few decaying places, some trees, two pigs. No white dragon hatchling like I thought that would be in it. There’s a small decaying house called the “Sleeping Dragon Inn”.
Soon, grabbing my cart and getting back to SoTR, the fight got more ugly by the minute.

Especially a few lines of chat that are quite painful to post, but I’ll do it anyway;
“AND I CAME SO FUCKING CLOSE TO REMOVING YOU AS A FRIEND ON STEAM… SOOOOOO CLOSE!”
and… “I haven’t felt anger that strong” about a person that de-admined him.

The first one is still burned in the back of my head. When I first saw it, it didn’t really hit me until I got back to SoTR and my emotions took over.
This is “Strike 2” of nearly losing something due to the pure anger inside of him. Strike 3? … Lets hope it never gets here. This heat just, fuels his anger to the breaking point. And he pretty much snapped in this fight. What would happen in our last (and possibly final) fight? I don’t wanna find out.
I actually told him that maybe we shouldn’t see eachother for awhile. But he declined. He uses his music to control his anger. And as the old saying goes; “music soothes the savage beast”. In angry’s case, the “savage beast” is his anger.

Moving on to the ‘non-painful to type’ part… earlier that day I wanted to go on my boat and finally get to the Sunken Mausoleum. After I got back from dinner, angry wanted to make sure I was going to have this fun, by taking him and Goppend to see it. He kept this hush hush all the way to Small Bears, and still wouldn’t tell me what was going on until I asked. But to me, it felt like I was being forced to have fun and refused to go, where angry and Gop went by themselves.
Back in SoTR, I soon found out by angry that he was just trying to make up what he was trying to say, and there was no forcing about it. Soon he convinced me to run down to what is left of Deathgate Falls and meet them there, and I did as a passenger as angry drove my boat.

The ride there, was not fun. Several times I had to relog due to the boat stopping and my chat freezing up. Or, leaving the boat and finding myself several fucking tiles infront of it.
But, we finally made it!
Finally. Something I’ve been waiting months to see! A…. stone house…ON A HILL?!?! WTF!!!
There is NOTHING “sunken” about it! After this insulting thing, we made our way to New Southport, which made up for that excuse of a PoI. The way there did though.
However, the locals there didn’t really like me. When I went over to where angry was going to dock the boat, one of them shouted in Local, like I just stole something. I knew we had to get out of there before they start searching us.
Anyway, soon it was time to go, and we boarded the boat. But we wheren’t heading back home. Angry wanted to go AROUND the entire Home server. To prove the server is nothing but a huge island.
Later on, Gop had to go so me and angry continued on his quest. After several more lag issues, I found out angry’s plan is to go to Ank. But this plan backfired on him when my own boat decided not to let him captain anymore. I had to captain my boat to Ank, where angry started to get the issues I was with lag.
Meanwhile, out in the middle of nowhere, in the night. Angry wondered if we would ever get there, then made a promise to never get on another boat for the rest of his life. But we finally made it to Ank, alive and well, thanks to my navigational skills.
But angry was a landlubber and headed back home by foot. After checking out a larger Ank, I headed Southeast across the bay to where that old Homestead was, to see if it still exists. And it didn’t.
As I was checking around, I saw a large anvil laying next to a forge. With no one around to stop me(we needed a large anvil), I took it and ran back to my boat and placed it in the cargo hold, and slowly made my way back to Small Bears, only to have to stop short in a bay near Mystery Glade to head to bed.
Angry will be taking over for me of taking the boat back to Small Bears. Only reason is to get that anvil so he can make another lantern. He said he lost his other one. Somehow.

Heading back to Small Bears in my opinion was more fun than going to Ank. I rather not say why though. 🙂

Yehosh told me once when he was still around, that I could end my food needs if I just fished from Bearback Lake. He also said I could make them fill my food bar more IF I turned them into casseroles, and the only way to do that is…meh. Forage.
Several months later, I still hate foraging, and again we have a food issue. But angry’s got it sorta taken care of. He got fish and said they can be turned into meals, but we need an iron frying pan.
He’s the smith, but he’s not online right now. I may be able to make one myself though. But it’ll probley come out unfinished, requiring a hammer.

Anyway, where was I with this? … Ohh yes. After some thinking while starving in the house, an idea popped into my head where I could still go on my boat, AND take care of any food needs at the same time.
All I need to do is make a fishing pole with a pretty good QL so the line won’t break. I feared the QL of the string of cloth that’s needed, would affect the probability that your line could snap by a fish pulling it, but that’s not true…thank goodness.
This will be a win win for me. 😀

However, I have more important things to do. Such as complete the anti-hostile wall around our house. And guess who I ran into in Kchat… SHADESLAYER!! 😀
He told me he now claims Oakvale, so I won’t be going there to live in it anytime soon.

Alot of shit has been happening lately in Wurm, too much to put down in several posts. Let me run you down through the main things that have happened these past two days…

For starters, angry is using his old account now, gave me Benie’s old stuff, including my old “super hatchet” with 93 CoC that Flinter gave me. He got rid of him and Ctrlaltdelete.
2nd, my boat was “stolen” yesterday afternoon from Small Bears. At first it was someone that thought I didn’t want the boat anymore after what I said, to not having permission to dock it there.
Fortunately it was found still inside the bay, on the eastern tip of Small Bears. I got to move it into their deed and it shouldn’t be stolen now.

Today, a warning message begin to spam in the Event chat, about that “Boats are bugged”. I believe I’m somewhat responsible for this with the boat theft. But I’m not the only one.
I believe when they made boats faster, they became targets for grievers so they won’t have to make their own boats. Also with the fact permissions do not work, grievers can use this as an exploit.

Also, Beel is making his own Sailboat that he will be taking to the Roadside Harbor when it’s just about complete. I have really nothing to say about it but… fuck you? That your a prem and enjoy working your ass off for high skills while I’m stuck with this rowboat?

And that brings me to the final thing I have to say. Boat riding is alot of fun. But there’s a problem. And that problem is having no meals to eat.
As in, we only have 1 meal left. And no one is going to give us anymore. And this 1 meal wouldn’t fill a sagging Food bar.
Why don’t someone just cook some more? No one can. I’m too damn lazy to learn to cook (again). Why? I fucking…HATE…foraging!! Not to mention I hate all forms of work.
Then why in the fuck am I playing Wurm again? This is 1 of the reasons why I quit. At least this time I’m not rambling about how houses suck and shit.
Just, rambling on about how my Wurm life sucks because I can’t just take, I have to contribute by making/fixing/doing things I don’t want to.
Seriously, if I wanted to do that, real life would be where I would need to.
Wurm has not changed these past 4 months. It’s still “if you want it, work for it!” instead of just buying what you need.

Here I bought myself a new compass where I could use to sail on my rowboat…but now I can’t because I HAVE NO FUCKING MEALS!! >:(

The title is the main things that happened today in Wurm.
Came into Wurm, thirsty after talking about how my life is a mess. Seeing how there was little water in the fountain, I ran to Bearback Lake, and noticed something. My stamina bar wasn’t going down!
I made it all the way there. Drank up, and got back to SoTR without my stam bar going down. I soon found out this was an bug in the latest client update, used as an exploit.
Later on, the server went down to fix said exploit for a half an hour, which actually went back up 10 minutes sooner.

Next thing, Beel told me that boats are now faster, as in the speed that you can swim with no weight with just 1 person in the boat. What made me stop running to the lake and see, was the fact he said “24 QL boats”, and the one on the lake is 15 QL.

3rd and final thing, angry found out our old accounts are still active, and was able to log into his account, and mine. However this opened up old wounds seeing the names. More of those bad memories.
Angry sent the 2 back to SoTR, but needed my help to get Benie back and I boarded my boat in Bearback Lake…and first thing I saw… WOW! They ARE faster! 😀
This means I can finally ENJOY that trip I took yesterday. However, lag was still an issue with me a boatlength ahead of my boat, floating over the water.

I soon picked up myself and we got to SoTR, and.. well the rest is happening right now. I’m coming back to SoTR with 3 barrels full of water for the fountain.

Yesterday’s “voyage” was a bust. I got to see 3 of the 4 stops I had planned, only to be told to head back by angry.
The boat was another reason it wasn’t fun. Crappy Speed+Lag=UGH
What’s worse? I found out you can’t even BUILD anything higher than a rowboat without going prem. I guess due to the sails. Having prem gives you knowledge on how to use and work with them.

Me and angry went south so he could see that farm area I saw on my 3rd stop. And it’s just like I told him. Well-maintained, and deedless. It couldn’t be deeded anyway though.
We went home and met up with Beel, Goppend, and Caol. Caol’s a former resident of SoTR that was helping Beel with his latest project.

Lets say going back home was a mistake as I told them about my land, how I’m never going to get it back because Ruffle’s an alt of a goon, blah blah blah… it was not enjoyable

After a raging bear encounter that nearly killed angry, he left to go do a few things as I helped watch the forge in our house. During this I began to think of an option where I could still have a place to live, just without a deed.
There’s a cosy, little house near Roadside, that’s undeeded. Looks like a farm. Why can’t I just live like that?
I’ll tell you why. There’s a few reasons;
1. Who’s going to keep decay low? ~Probley me.
2. Who’s going to be our cook? ~Angry. If Goppend helps him with ingredients.
3. What’s going to keep the hostiles away from us? ~ A fence.
We did this when it came to our camp where me, angry, and MattyK used to live in. But this time.. me, angry, and goppend will be living in 1 place. Trouble is, I don’t have a plan in my head this time of what the place will look like, or where we could go.

I decided to go to bed early due to staying up nearly to 4am yesterday, trying to imp that piece of shit called a boat to 30 QL, after Beel telling me that the QL affects the speed.