So, I’ve been Wurm again a little the last few weeks. Some things have changed. Greatly. First off, the old piece of land that was once called home to DragonHead, MattyK, and I has been deeded. The worst part? It’s walled. So, I can’t even go looking around. Anyway, aside from that, Sanctuary of the Rose has disbanded. After passing by on a walk from Greenside to Newtown. Well, I peeked over at SotR as I passed it, and decided to get one good last look at it. So, I walked down, and looked around. The gatehouse for the tree farm had a missing wall, and at the angle I saw it at, it looked weird. So, I walked over to it, and saw another rotting wall. On Vixeyrose’s house. I walked into her house, and took anything of value. Anyway, stuff is changin’.
I also decided to map out my hand-drawn plans for Neveron. Oh, you all probably don’t know what Neveron is. Well, Neveron… It’s a nice little story.
So, here DragonHead (Y’know what, his nick is Benie. So, I’ma call him that. When I say Benie, I mean DragonHead.) and I are, sitting at our camp just down the road from SotR. We want to put a sign up next to the road, but didn’t know what exacly to put on it. Well, the name Neveron sounded catchy to me. (I’ll explain the source of it specifically, below.) I tell Ben (I call Benie just Ben for short.) my idea, and he doesn’t like it. ( D: ) So, I just (tried to) forget it.
An un-named amount of days later, I’m begging Ben to buy me a village deed. (By this time, MattyK was no longer a friend of Benie, Benie had gotten his own homestead, and I had abandoned the old camp in search for a village to make my Wurm-life simpler. My attempts to find a village I would be accepted by, (I only found three out of the, uhm, thirty or so villages on the Home server.) and actually be happy there had failed.) He gives in to my begging, and in a few days I have a deed. An un-named amount of attempts, and fails to found it somewhere ensue. Until I see that the BBM Crossroads disbanded. I rejoice, run down into the sand, and suprise Ben with a village founding. Bad idea. I end up having to disband it, due to the lack of desire on behalf of Benie to actually live there. In the scoprion infested sands. With me. And two spirit guards who would run away at the sight of a rat. Anyway, the village’s name? I’ll let you guess. Neveron.
And, so, that’s the (Somewhat long, actually.) story of Neveron. Now, the name’s roots, you ask?
Well… On the day that we were deciding on what to put on said sign mentioned above, I started a chat with a friend of mine on Steam. Well, my friend’s little brother, anyway. I asked for my friend, and he said he was busy doing something. (IIRC, it was something like, making dinner.) So, I replied back with this:
Well, when is Mr. Neveron going to be able to talk to me?
(The reason I called him Mr. Neveron is because he truly is, never on.)
So, that’s where it came from. Neveron sounded catchy to me, and, well, it just slapped its self into my memory. (By the way, if you’re pronouncing it as ‘Neeveraun’ then you’re doing it wrong. It’s pronounced ‘Nevehraun’)
Anyway, back to what started the whole thing on Neveron. Err, what was it? *Scrolls up in the editor to check*
Oh, right. Anyway, so Ben and I went back to sqare one on the whole village founding thing. We actually thought of where we would put the deed. Also, since we had no idea how we would make the houses/mines/etc, once we’d got it founded, I wrote up some plans on a piece of graphing paper in Algebra one day. I came home with ‘em, and showed them to Ben on Yahoo. Benie disappointed me with a ‘It won’t work.’ statement. That’s where the whole idea of founding our own village ended. In the weeks soon following, Ben quit Wurm, came back, then permanently quit. A day or so after that, I quit to, giving all my possesions to the citizens of Garden of Destiny.
Anyway, the reason I mapped out the plans is because I was cleaning off the top of my case the other day. It was cluttered with all sorts of papers, and a few CDs. Also, I had a C++, HTML, PHP, and Linux book up there. One of the papers was the plans for Neveron. I also moved a few files into My Documents that day (The plans were sitting on my webcam at the time.) and I saw my Mapper folder. (Mapper is a terrain mapping tool for Wurm.) I peeked down at the plans, and figured I’d copy ‘em over. Then the sudden idea of making a blogpost on it popped in my head. Then my desire to play Wurm came back. :P Anyway, here’s a picture of what I drew. (I also added in a few details, such as the settlement token, beds, forges, etc. God, I love Mapper. :E)
And, there it is. I’ll explain everything in it.
- 1. The house with the forge, stove, and loom in it is the village’s workshop.
- 2. The house with the settlement token in the middle of it, is the village hall.
- 3. The three houses fenced off from the rest of the village is the recruit hosing (Can be extra storage when not in use)
- 4. The farm at the bottom of the village is for the recruits (Can also be used for extra farming in times of need.)
- 5. The one at the top is the village farm. All citizens will have access to this.
- 6. The un-paved squares with odd-looking-blue-thingies in them are treespots. (Just a place to grow trees to make the village look nice, and provide wood for repairing the massive amounts of wood that will probably be used.)
- 7. The pair of 2×2 houses are for a co-founder, and I to live in.
- 8. The two pairs of 1×2 houses are for village elders.
- 9. The two pairs of 1×1 houses are for not-so-elder villagers.
- 10. The grey sqaure is a hoped-for cave entrance. It will be fenced, of course. I just forgot to do that. :P
And, that’s it. Once I had done that, I decided I’d make the old camp as well. Well, here it is.
So, yeah. There it is. This is it in its homestead form. When it was a camp, though, the building on the left was Ben’s house. The one in the middle was mine. The one on the right was Matty’s. I bet you’re wondering why he had a stone floor, while we had crappy gravel. The reason? He stole some stone slabs from the BBM Crossroads, which was just up the highway from us. :P
Well, that’s kind of a brief highlight of everything Ben and I have done in Wurm. Our adventures in Wurm are ones that I know I will remember. Wurm truly is an amazing game, but playing it with a friend like Benie makes it ten times better. If you have no clue as to what it is, then I strongly reccomend you look into it. You can find everything about it here.
And, I think that concludes this blogpost. This was a monster to write, it’s taken me nearly two hours. (Including the traditional fucking around in GMod while thinking of what to write. :P) Oh, and, school got out on the 13th. I was going to make a post on it, but never really had anything much more to write about other than that.