A Party Interface for Wurm Online — a WurmMaps.XYZ project.
WurmShare is a lightweight desktop overlay that reads your character's vital stats and broadcasts them to the rest of your party in real time. Wurm Online has no built-in party interface, so when you group up there's no easy way to see how your companions are holding up. WurmShare fills that gap: it shows your entire team's health, sustenance, and combat state at a glance, in a compact panel that mirrors the in-game layout you already know — so no comrade falls unseen.
- Free and open source, forever.
- End-to-end encrypted — your data is sealed with a password the server never sees.
- Whisper-light — under ~30 MB of RAM with minimal-to-no performance cost.
- Plug and play — set up in under a minute, no game files modified.
Current version: v1.0.0 · Platforms: Windows 7 / 10 / 11 (64-bit)
- What It Tracks
- How It Works
- Getting Started
- Features
- Self-Hosting
- Privacy & Security
- Disclaimer — A Word of Caution
- About
WurmShare reads your game logs and small parts of the screen to track the state of your character, then shares that state with your party. The following are displayed live for every connected member:
- Health / Damage | Live health to the last percent. Members who are currently or recently in combat, stunned, or encumbered are highlighted. |
- Stamina | The breath behind every sprint, dodge, and parry — know who has the wind to hold the line and who may straggle behind. |
- Food | The slow burn of every buffed meal, with forewarning when a special move depletes an ally's food and leaves them vulnerable. |
- Water | Thirst is the number-one killer of Wurmians. Monitor your whole team's hydration at a glance. |
- Favor | Track the favor burn of your priests in battle so you can time and coordinate spell casts and favor regeneration. |
- Shield Bash Cooldown | Time your bash sequences accurately so the enemy never gets a gap to recover. |
- Aim / Shelter Direction | See where party members are aiming or taking shelter. |
- Fighting Stance | Know each member's current stance at a glance. |
- In Combat | Characters who are recently in combat are highlighted Red. |
- Encumbered | Characters who are overencumbered are highlighted Green. |
The overlay reproduces the same status layout you're already familiar with from the game — just compacted and miniaturized so the whole party fits neatly on screen.
WurmShare never modifies the game. It observes only what your own client already produces, turns it into a handful of small values, encrypts them, and relays them to your party. A single update travels through five stages:
- Observe — WurmShare tails the log files the Wurm client writes to disk (for discrete events such as combat, stuns, shield bashes, spell casts, and stance changes) and samples a small region of your own screen that you position over the in-game status bars (for the continuous Health, Stamina, Food, Water, and Favor bars).
- Interpret — Log lines are matched into structured, timestamped events, and the captured bar regions are reduced to simple fill percentages. The result is a tidy snapshot describing one character at one moment.
- Seal — That snapshot is encrypted locally using a key derived from the group password you share with your party. The password itself is never transmitted or stored on the server.
- Relay — The encrypted data is sent to a communication server, which simply forwards it to the other members of your group. The server only ever handles ciphertext.
- Render — Each party member's WurmShare decrypts the update and draws it into the shared overlay — draggable, resizable, and arranged into the rows and columns you choose.
The full round trip is fast enough that the panel feels live, and the whole pipeline runs quietly in the background. Close WurmShare and it stops reading and broadcasting immediately.
Setup takes under a minute. There are no accounts to create and no servers of your own to run.
- Download WurmShare. Drop it anywhere and run it. Point it to your Wurm install directory, then enter your character name and your group's password.
- Adjust the capture box. Drag the capture region over your in-game health and sustenance bars, positioning it as accurately as you can.
- Join your party. Click Join to begin broadcasting your vitals to the rest of your team. Everyone using the same password sees one another live.
That's it — anyone in your group who is running WurmShare and connected will appear on the overlay.
- Multi-Monitor Support — full support for multi-monitor setups, with variable scaling and DPI settings.
- Persistent Memory — settings are saved when you close the settings panel, and window and capture-box positions are remembered for next start-up.
- Configurable Display — choose how many rows and columns are shown, drag the overlay anywhere, and resize it freely.
- Automatic Update Detection — checks GitHub for new releases and lets you know when an update is available.
- End-to-End Encrypted — all communication is encrypted with the password you choose, which is never shared with the server.
- Whisper-Light — under ~30 MB of RAM at rest on a single idle thread, for minimal-to-no performance cost.
- Fully Open Source — the complete source is available, including the communication server, so you can host your own. No trust required.
Because WurmShare is fully open source and all traffic through the relay is encrypted end-to-end, you don't have to rely on the public communication server. You can run your own instance instead — the server is intentionally simple, and since it only ever sees ciphertext, no trust in the operator is required either way.
Hosting your own private communication server can be done on almost any basic web host. The only requirements are PHP and MySQL support.
To host the communication server, simply upload the files from /server to the desired path on your web server. Enter the new path into WurmShare, and you're finished.
- Updates are encrypted on your machine with a key derived from your group password; that password is never sent to or stored on the server.
- The communication server only ever forwards encrypted data — it cannot read any value your party broadcasts.
- Only people who know the same password can decrypt your data. Choose a unique password, share it only with members you trust, and change it if someone should no longer have access.
WurmShare is a passive, read-only companion. It is built to respect the game, but you are responsible for how you use it. Please read this before using it.
- It never modifies the game. WurmShare does not read or write the Wurm client's memory, does not inject code, does not send keystrokes or mouse input, and does not alter any game file. It only observes log files the client itself produces and a region of your own screen, and it only ever displays information that is already visible to you.
- Rules and Terms of Service are your responsibility. What counts as a permitted third-party tool or overlay can change at the discretion of the developers and staff of Wurm Online. WurmShare does not automate play or make decisions for you, but WurmMaps.XYZ cannot and does not guarantee that its use is permitted under the current rules. If you are unsure, ask the game's staff before using it, and stop immediately if asked to. You alone accept any risk to your account.
- Readings are estimates, not gospel. Values derived from screen capture can occasionally misread due to UI scaling, custom themes, overlapping windows, particle effects, or unusual lighting. Treat displayed stats as a close approximation and never rely on a single reading for a critical decision.
- No warranty. WurmShare is provided "as is," without warranty of any kind, express or implied. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the authors accept no liability for any loss, damage, or account action arising from its use.
WurmShare and WurmMaps.XYZ are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Wurm Online, Code Club AB, Game Chest Group, Wurm Unlimited, or any related parent or subsidiary companies, products, or intellectual property. WurmMaps.XYZ is an unofficial, non-profit fan project run by players, for entertainment and educational purposes only.
WurmShare is a WurmMaps.XYZ project, developed by Jason Bloomer — made for players, by players.
It is free and open source. See the repository's LICENSE file for license
details, and feel free to open an issue or pull request to contribute.