History Videogame / WurmOnline

* MedievalEuropeanFantasy: Slightly more Mediterranean in feel than usual, but still qualifies.

The game is set in a fairly standard fantasy land called Wurm. There are no classes and no choices to be made at player generation save for gender. Additionally, there is currently only one model per gender. There are no named [[NonPlayerCharacter NPCs]] other than the deities, and no fixed questlines.

* BreakableWeapons: In fact, everything is breakable. Items accrue damage by use and will also decay over time. Fortunately all items can also be repaired, but with a proportionate reduction of QL.

* ItemCrafting: Taken UpToEleven; a lone player could potentially craft an entire village from the [[StarterEquipment starter tool set]] and access to raw materials. The game even touts it's focus on player-made items and environment. Furthermore, almost all crafted items can be improved, increasing their QL using the same tools and raw materials used to make them. Most non-bulk items above a certain QL will bear the maker's signature, which becomes more legible the higher the QL.

While a house built in a public area is normally considered the builder's property, the homeowner has little control over who can do what in the surrounding area (possibly leading to conflict). Settlement deeds can be purchased to cover an area wider than any house, and the deed owner can permit or forbid actions within this area. This can prevent outsiders from mining, chopping trees, or terraforming in a settlement. The settlement founder is the de facto mayor, and other players can join the settlement as citizens to form a functioning village or town.

Two important factors in Wurm Online are skill and QL (quality, or quality level). High skill combined with high QL raw materials and/or tools gives the best result. A high "extraction" skill such as Woodcutting or Mining also helps you to acquire high QL raw materials. This applies to basically everything: high QL meals are more nutritious, high QL weapons hit better, high QL tools increase your success rate, high QL wood or iron lets you create high QL tools.

This correlation between skill, QL, and results serves to motivate interactions between players. Grinding a single skill up to, let's say, 70, would take a long time and in practice would require more than that one skill. You would also need the means to get high QL tools and raw materials. If you did it all yourself it could literally take weeks or months of grinding skills that you don't even want. A weaponsmith with extra silver on hand may be sorely tempted to fork out some for a QL 90 anvil, as making anvils is a blacksmith skill. On the other hand if the weaponsmith lives in the same settlement as a blacksmith, the two can simply trade weapons and tools with each other. As they grind their skills, they will likely end up with spare items that they can give away without too heavy a heart. Such a settlement may also have a woodcutter to provide firewood, a chef to provide meals, a miner to acquire ore, and a mason to improve their forges/ovens. Otherwise all these roles would have to be filled by a single player.

Currently Wurm Online is played on four [[PlayerVersusEnvironment PVE]] servers and five [[PlayerVersusPlayer PVP]] servers, plus one tutorial server. The PVE servers are linked north-to-south in a linear fashion. Four of the five PVP servers are linked into a single "Epic Cluster". Three of the Epic servers are kingdoms (factions) at war with each other and the fourth server is the junction between the three, a contested battleground where player-made kingdoms can be founded. The fifth PVP server (Chaos, formerly Wild) is physically linked to the four PVE ones, and the five collectively form the Freedom servers. Technically, all of Freedom is a single kingdom but conflict occurs only between members and even then only on Chaos.

The game is set in a fairly standard fantasy land called Wurm. There are no classes and no choices to be made at player generation save for gender. Additionally, there is currently only one model per gender. There are no named [[NonPlayerCharacter NPCs]], and no fixed questlines.

The game is set in a fairly standard fantasy land called Wurm. There are no classes and no choices to be made at player generation save for gender. Additionally, there is currently only one model per gender. There are no named [[NonPlayerCharacter NPCs]], and no quests.

The game is set in a fairly standard fantasy land called Wurm. There are no classes and no choices to be made at player generation save for gender. Additionally, there is currently only one model per gender. There are no named NPCs, and no quests.

The game is set in a fairly standard fantasy land called Wurm. There are no classes and no choices to be made at player generation save for gender. All skills are developed by usage. Anything in the world can be made or crafted by player efforts. Trees can be cut down and turned into containers, buildings or firewood. Rocky terrain can be mined to access metal ores or for the rocks themselves, which can in turn be made into bricks for buildings and decorations. Even dirt can be dug and relocated to reduce and increase the height of terrain. Want grass on a dirt tile? Plant a tree, bush or flower on that dirt. Don't want grass? Dig it away, pack it, or pave over it. A series of written and unwritten rules prevent players from inconveniencing each other with rampant terraforming.

Other than the ability to literally reshape the world, players can also engage in combat like most other MMORPGs. Combat in Wurm is text-based, with skill level and other factors calculated to give the combatants' hit probabilities and damage.

Other than the ability to literally reshape the world, players can also engage in combat. Even on the PVE servers, wild animals spawn at inopportune moments to attack unwary players. Players can build fences and houses to shelter themselves from such beasts, band together and equip themselves to fight, or establish settlements with hired NPC guards.

* ItemCrafting: Taken UpToEleven; a lone player could potentially craft an entire village from the [[StarterEquipment starter tool set]] and access to raw materials. The game even touts it's focus on player-made items and environment. Furthermore, almost all crafted items can be improved, increasing their QL using the same tools and raw materials used to make them. Most non-bulk items will bear the maker's signature, which becomes more legible the higher the QL.

* ItemCrafting: Taken UpToEleven; a lone player could potentially craft an entire village from the [[StarterEquipment starter tool set]] and access to raw materials. The game even touts it's focus on player-made items and environment. Furthermore, almost all crafted items can be improved, increasing their QL using the same tools and raw materials used to make them. Non-bulk items will often have the maker's signature on it, which becomes more legible the higher the QL.

* ItemCrafting: Taken UpToEleven; a lone player could potentially craft an entire village from the [[StarterEquipment starter tool set]] and access to raw materials. The game even touts it's focus on player-made items and environment. Furthermore, almost all crafted items can be improved, increasing their QL using the same tools and raw materials used to make them.

Currently Wurm Online is played on four [[PlayerVersusEnvironment PVE]] servers and five [[PlayerVersusPlayer PVP]] servers, plus one tutorial server. The PVE servers are linked north-to-south in a linear fashion. Four of the five PVP servers are linked into a single "Epic Cluster". Three of the Epic servers are kingdoms at war with each other and the fourth server is the junction between the three, a contested battleground. The fifth PVP server (Chaos, formerly Wild) is physically linked to the four PVE ones, and the five collectively form the Freedom servers.

Wurm Online is a {{Freemium}} {{MMORPG}} created by Code Club AB, based in Sweden.

The game is set in a fairly standard fantasy land called Wurm. There are no classes and no choices to be made at player generation save for gender. All skills are developed by usage. Anything in the world can be made or crafted by player efforts. Trees can be cut down and turned into containers, buildings or firewood. Rocky terrain can be mined to access metal ores or for the rocks themselves, which can in turn be made into bricks for buildings and decorations. Even dirt can be dug and relocated to reduce and increase the height of terrain. Want grass on a dirt tile? Plant a tree, bush or flower on that dirt. Don't want grass? Dig it away, pack it, or pave over it.

* CripplingOverspecialization: Possible due to the sheer quantity of grinding needed to increase a single skill.

* ItemCrafting: Taken UpToEleven; a lone player could potentially craft an entire village from the starter tool set and access to raw materials. The game even touts it's focus on player-made items and environment.

* SubsystemDamage: Each body location can be hit, with each wound being tracked separately. However, CriticalExistenceFailure occurs when the total damage suffered exceeds your health.

Two important factors in Wurm Online are skill and QL (quality, or quality level). High skill combined with high QL raw materials or tools gives the best result. High skill also helps you to acquire high QL raw materials. This applies to basically everything: high QL meals are more nutritious, high QL weapons hit better, high QL tools increase your success rate, high QL wood or iron lets you create high QL tools.

This interaction between skill, QL, and results serves to motivate Wurm Online's inter-player interactions. Grinding a single skill up to, let's say, 70, would take a long time and in practice would require more than that one skill. You would also need the means to get high QL tools and raw materials. If you did it all yourself it could literally take weeks or months of grinding skills that you don't even want. A weaponsmith with extra silver on hand may be sorely tempted to fork out some for a QL 90 anvil, as making anvils is a blacksmith skill. On the other hand if the weaponsmith lives in the same settlement as a blacksmith, the two can simply trade weapons and tools with each other. As they grind their skills, they will likely end up with spare items that they can give away without too heavy a heart.