Forget Second Life, Twinity or even Facebook! If you want a proper online community, then you should be building a village on Wurm.

Wurm has always been about community. From the very earliest days Wurm Online has offered the functionality of creating and managing villages where a group of players could band together, deed some land, recruit citizens and work and have fun together. Land on Wurm has never been the ridiculous extravagance it is on other games. For a start, you don't actually need a deed to build your own place, but owning a deed means you get guards to help keep it secure, decay of buildings and walls is very much reduced, you get an exclusive village chat, and everyone else knows exactly what belongs to you.

And on the Wild server, players take their villages to extremes - building huge earth walls, employing lots of guards and making their home as impregnable as possible.

At Wurm Online, we know these communities are incredibly important to the game. Players organise them selves to make sure that between them they have all the skills needed for the village - blacksmith, carpenter, weapons smith, priest, boat builder (if they are coastal), forester, and so on. This is so much more than many of the social networks can come up with. On wurm you can chat, share ideas, talk about last night's soap, make new friends, and all while you are building your house, farming your fields, fighting a huge scorpion or, on Wild, building your defences and training your fighters.

A Brand New Deed System

To go along with all this, we have just launched a new and improved deed system. We have lowered the price of land so that you can build larger villages, we have made the system much more variable so that you are no longer fixed to just a few sizes, but customise to your own specs. And we have made the hiring and firing of guards more versatile so you can really just employ the guards you need depending on your situation.

It all goes towards making Wurm Online a more detailed and interesting place to spend your online time. And we will keep making developments, bring out new ideas, make things better or closer to reality, and offer more and more ways for people to interact with each other while they are playing their favourite game. At Wurm, we don't believe that gaming and networking are different things - and Wurm Online intends to prove it!