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Scheduled Database Maintenance

Posted on by UO Dev Team

9/12/2025

9/17/2025 – Update 12pm ET – All services are now back online.

9/17/2025 – Update

New logins, Veteran Rewards, In-Game Ultima Store, and Housing are now back online.  Character Transfers remain unavailable while we complete maintenance on that system.  Thank you for your patience.

Greetings,

Beginning on Wednesday, September 17th at 9 AM ET we will be performing database maintenance.  We expect the maintenance to last several hours.  During this period the following will be unavailable:

  • New logins
  • Veteran Rewards
  • Character Transfers
  • In-Game Ultima Store
  • Housing

See you in Britannia,

UO Team

UO Herald - Special Announcement

28th Anniversary Celebration!

Posted on by UO Dev Team

9/12/2025

Greetings!

Celebrate 28 Years of Ultima Online!
Join us on September 24th, 2025 as we mark this incredible milestone with an epic day of events across TC1, Discord, YouTube, and Twitch!
  • The festivities kick off at 10:00am ET at The Barnacle in Minoc on TC1 with a warm welcome and a nostalgic look back at 28 unforgettable years of Britannia.
  • Then it’s time for the Bagball Battle! Players will compete for a shard-bound trophy and the ultimate prize—a chance to take on the Dev Team themselves!
  • At 11:30am ET / 12:00pm ET, return to The Barnacle for UO History Trivia! Be the fastest to answer correctly, rack up the most points, and claim a personalized trophy on your home shard.
  • At 1:00pm ET, don’t miss our Developers Panel! Join the Dev Team live on TC1 as they share stories, answer questions, and reveal their visions for Ultima Online’s future. Bring your questions and be part of the conversation!
  • Finally, we’ll close the celebration at 2:00pm ET with heartfelt thanks to our incredible community.
But that’s not all, throughout the livestream, we’ll be giving away epic anniversary bundles to lucky participants!
 Make sure you’re a member of the official Ultima Online Discord so you don’t miss your chance.
UO Herald - Special Announcement

UO.com Upgrade

Posted on by UO Dev Team

8/21/2025

Greetings,

We are pleased to announce that UO.com will be getting an upgrade!  This upgrade will begin next week on August 25th, 2025.  We expect the upgrade & migration to last up to 1-2 weeks with intermittent downtime.  During that time please see our other social media outlets, linked below, for game updates:

Ultima Online Twitter/X – https://twitter.com/UOTownCryer
Ultima Online Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/uotowncryer/
Ultima Online Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/UltimaOnline/
Ultima Online YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@ultimaonlineofficial
Ultima Online Twitch – https://www.twitch.tv/BroadswordUO
Ultima Online Discord – http://discord.gg/ultimaonline
Ultima Online Forum – https://forum.uo.com

See you in Britannia,

UO Team

UO Herald - Special Announcement

New Legacy Publish 3

Posted on by UO Dev Team

8/20/2025

Greetings,

We anticipate New Legacy Publish 3 will be going live next week.  New Legacy Publish 3 will include the The Shattering and so we want to share with you some important updates related to this publish,

New Legacy Publish 3 – Important Dates

August 26th, 2025

  • New Legacy Publish 3 goes live.
  • Prologue quest for the Fractured Veil event can be completed.

September 2nd, 2025

  • The world begins to shatter.
  • The Fractured Veil event begins.
  • Creation of NEW CHARACTERS will be DISABLED.
  • Any pre-existing characters will still be playable.

IF YOU INTEND TO EXPERIENCE THE NEW LEGACY SHARD DURING THE SHATTERING, MAKE SURE YOU CREATE YOUR CHARACTERS PRIOR TO THIS DATE.

October 14th, 2025

  • The Fractured Veil event ends.
  • The Shattering concludes.
  • Character Transfers to Production Shards are ENABLED.
  • New Legacy Shards will enter “Lite-Mode”.
  • Housing will be DISABLED and all existing houses will begin to COLLAPSE (IDOC).
  • Character Transfer maintenance will happen prior to this date – this will result in the Character Transfer process being down game wide for a period of time.  We will update when this process begins before the Oct. 14 start.

Lite-Mode (October 14th, 2025 until Season 2)

  • This mode will persist at the conclusion of The Shattering until New Legacy Season 2 begins.
  • Creation of NEW CHARACTERS will be ENABLED.
  • While in Lite-Mode, the following restrictions apply:
    • Character progression and travel will be limited to base narratives only (Warrior, Mage, Ranger, Crafter).
    • All Advanced Skill Trainers and Advanced Narrative Quest Givers will be DISABLED.
    • Players may transfer any pre-existing character or new character to production servers.
      • Note: Characters must complete their base narrative in order to be eligible for transfer.
      • For combat-based narratives: the slaying of the Orc Champion spawn is not required during this time.

Season 2 Start

  • All characters that have not transferred by the start of Season 2 will be deleted
UO Herald - Hotfix

Vendor Search Maintenance

Posted on by UO Dev Team

7/22/2025

Greetings,

We will be performing maintenance on Vendor Search on July 23rd, 2025 at 10 ET.

We expect this downtime to last approximately 1 hour.

Update 7/23/2025 @ 11 AM ET – Maintenance is now complete.

See you in Britannia,

UO Team

UO Herald - Hotfix

Publish 120 Hotfixes

Posted on by UO Dev Team

7/7/2025

Greetings,

With each shard’s regularly scheduled maintenance beginning July 8, 2025 the following hotfixes will be deployed to Publish 120:

  • Resolved an issue that could cause the Mistas entry barriers to not properly clear after a reset.
  • Resolved an issue that could cause players to become permanently frozen while using siege catapults.
  • All Dreadguard Skull items can now be turned with an interior decorator tool.
  • The recipe scrolls purchased from the event vendor should now properly identify as shard bound.
  • Resolved an issue that was causing an excessive amount of Riftborne artifacts to sometimes drop from the phase 2 mini-bosses.
  • Healers that spawn in the event area should no longer spawn as paragons and attack players.
  • The Clydesdale “Last Stand” ability will no longer trigger from a PvP attack.
  • The Mawling adds from the Riftborn Monstrosity will now spawn with fewer hit points and resists, and spawn less often.

See you in Britannia,

UO Team

Publish 120 Worldwide

Posted on by UO Dev Team

6/17/2025

Greetings,

We are pleased to announce that Publish 120 has been deployed World Wide beginning with North American shards on June 17th, 2025.  All shards will be published following their normally scheduled maintenance.  This includes a mandatory client patch, so please patch up your game client before accessing the server.

We also want to extend an invitation to the UO community to join the newly launched OFFICIAL ULTIMA ONLINE DISCORD!  Please feel free to share the join link with your friends across the world: https://discord.gg/ultimaonline

We look forward to building new ways to interact with our amazing UO community.

See you in Britannia,

UO Team