UO Herald - Hotfix

Scheduled Database Maintenance

9/12/2025 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!

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 […]


UO Herald - Special Announcement

UO.com Upgrade Complete

9/9/2025 Greetings, We are pleased to announce the backend upgrade of UO.com is now complete.  Thank you for your patience during this process.  Please report any issues to the Official UO Discord.  Thank you for your patience. See you in Britannia! UO Team


UO Herald - Special Announcement

UO.com Upgrade

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

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 […]


UO Herald - Special Announcement

Happening Now – Roadmap Roundtable!

7/29/2025 Greetings, Happening now!  Join the UO Devs from 6:30pm ET to 8:30pm ET in the Official Ultima Online Discord to talk about what’s next for Ultima Online!  We’ll also be doing some giveaways for awesome UO Store items, so don’t miss out! http://discord.gg/ultimaonline -UO Team


UO Herald - Hotfix

Vendor Search Maintenance

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

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 […]


Publish 120 Worldwide

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. […]