Official posts from the Wurm Online Developer Team

Sacrificing for village faith The value of sacrificing items for village bonuses has received a boost in order to keep the number of items in the database as low as possible. The combat rating effect of village war bonus was increased and works at low levels as well. The creation bonus now may give larger rarity window. All effective bonuses are divided by number of player citizens. Hint: The bonuses go down with 15% per day so it’s usually a waste to sacrifice if you manage to max the bonuses out.

For the same reason, butchered items now have a lot higher decay rate.

You may now examine (and detect hidden) mine doors below the surface of the water

Shield bashing skillgain was increased

Crushing weapons now do more damage to shields

