Looking into the horizon of Wurm Online is soon going to be a gameplay mechanic, as the sandbox MMORPG is looking to introduce exploration mechanics into the game. This upcoming update will be broken up into two parts: a journal rework that will tweak the journal tiers for more flexibility and add new journal tiers for new players, and a treasure hunting mechanic that has players finding treasure maps via mining, fishing, and digging, then following clues to goodies.
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