The Herald

UO Herald - Special Announcement

Season’s Greetings

Posted on by UO Dev Team

Greetings,

With the year drawing to a close, we wanted to take a moment to share a few words before the team steps away for a brief end-of-year break.

2025 has been a year shaped by adventure, creativity, and collaboration throughout Britannia. Whether you joined us for live events, hunted rare rewards, tested your skill in battle, or simply spent time with friends old and new, you helped keep Ultima Online vibrant and alive. For that, we say thank you!

Ultima Online endures because of its community. The stories you tell, the feedback you share, and the passion you bring to the world continue to shape Britannia.

Looking Back

This past year brought meaningful progress across many areas of the game, from quality-of-life improvements and continued bug fixes to important foundational work behind the scenes. Each publish introduced new adventures across Britannia — whether thwarting a draconic invasion, taming a formidable reptilian beast, or discovering fresh reasons to explore familiar lands.

We have been continually inspired by the creativity of the community, from player-run events and roleplay to the countless homes, shops, and gathering places that make Sosaria feel truly alive.

Looking Ahead

As we turn our focus toward 2026, the team remains hard at work shaping what comes next. Our goals continue to honor the legacy of Ultima Online while delivering experiences that feel engaging, rewarding, and worthy of the world you’ve invested so much in. We remain committed to preserving the integrity of the game world and the vision that is Ultima Online.

Work is ongoing across several key areas, including combat, housing, and the continued evolution of New Legacy, alongside new adventures, new rewards, and new moments for the community to share together. Just beyond the horizon, an incredible milestone awaits — 30 years of Ultima Online. This monumental anniversary is already on our minds as we chart Britannia’s course for the future.

Season’s Greetings

Wherever you find yourself this season — gathered around a hearth, traveling the roads of Britannia, or taking a well-earned rest — we hope the holidays bring you peace, joy, and time well spent with those who matter most, both in-game and beyond.

Thank you for another remarkable year in Britannia.

We’ll see you in the new year.

See you in Britannia,
UO Team

UO Herald - Hotfix

Forum Maintenance

Posted on by UO Dev Team

10/29/2025

Greetings,

The UO Forums will be going through maintenance beginning 10/30/2025 at 9 AM ET.  We expect intermittent downtime throughout the day.

Edit 10/30 @ 4pm ET – Maintenance is now complete.

See you in Britannia,

UO Team

UO Herald - Hotfix

Publish 121 Hotfixes

Posted on by UO Dev Team

10/27/2025

Greetings,

Beginning with each shard’s regularly scheduled maintenance on October 28th we will be deploying the following hotfixes:

  • Dragon Robes & Dress can now be blessed with clothing bless deeds & dyed via dye tubs and natural dyes
  • Resolved issue where hidden chests could spontaneously relock themselves after being unlocked
  • The Choral Crucible Instrument should now replenish charges correctly
  • Yacht Club titles from New Legacy should now be available to those that earned them
  • Treasures of the Umbrascale event mob corpses will now quick decay

 

See you in Britannia,

UO Team

UO Herald - Hotfix

Client Patch X.X.113.0

Posted on by UO Dev Team

10/21/2025

Greetings,

We will be releasing a mandatory client patch to address client stability issues related to Windows updates.  Please patch up your client before accessing the game servers.

Classic Client 7.0.113.0

Enhanced 4.0.113.0

See you in Britannia,

UO Team

UO Herald - Hotfix

Balron Bone Armor

Posted on by UO Dev Team

10/16/2025

Greetings,

Regrettably a small portion of players have been impacted where the unintentional removal of Balron Bone Armor may have occurred on a select number of shards.

We deeply apologize for this inconvenience and will be taking the following steps to address this issue:

  • Players who had Balron Bone Armor Equipped may page into CS to have the issue resolved.  The cutoff for paging in to CS to address this issue is October 30th, 2025 at 11:59pm ET
  • Players who had Balron Bone Armor stored in a house or on a vendor will find a container with the requisite number of items removed from that location beginning on October 17th, 2025 at 12:00pm ET
  • Replaced Balron Bone Armor will be eligible for enhancement free of the need for using the Forged Metal Tool
  • Replaced Balron Bone Armor will be account bound to the first character that equips the item

Again, we apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience while we address the issue.

See you in Britannia,

UO Team

UO Herald - Special Announcement

New Legacy Transfer Items

Posted on by UO Dev Team

10/15/2025

Greetings,

We have identified an issue where a small number of items were able to be transferred off New Legacy that should not have.  We have identified a fix and will be removing these items from production shards.

See you in Britannia,

UO Team

Publish 121 WW Deployment Plan

Posted on by UO Dev Team

10/10/2025

Greetings,

Barring major issues, the world wide deployment of Publish 121 will begin on Tuesday, October 14th, 2025 beginning with North American shards and continuing on with each shard’s normally scheduled maintenance.

Following all shards being updated to Publish 121 (earliest October 15th) we will also,

  • Be releasing new mandatory versions of the Classic & Enhanced Client.  You will need to patch up your client at this time to access game servers.
  • Bringing the Vendor Search database down for maintenance
  • Enabling the character transfer process from New Legacy shards

We appreciate all the feedback everyone has provided and look forward to seeing the amazing adventures to be had!  See the full publish notes for details.

See you in Britannia,

UO Team

 

Publish 121 Comes to Origin, Izumo & Baja

Posted on by UO Dev Team

10/8/2025

Greetings,

We are pleased to announce that Publish 121 will be deployed to Origin, Izumo, and Baja beginning with those shard’s regularly scheduled maintenance on October 9, 2025.  Please note that character transfer between these shards will be disabled until all shards are published.  We have also updated TC1 with balance and feedback changes.  Please read the full publish notes for full details.

See you in Britannia,

UO Team

Publish 121 Comes to TC1

Posted on by UO Dev Team

10/3/2025

Greetings,

We are pleased to announce that Publish 121 is now available on Test Center 1.  Please read the publish notes here and be sure to patch up your client to the latest version.  We look forward to your feedback – feel free to engage all of our social media platforms to share your thoughts!

Ultima Online Twitter/X – https://twitter.com/UOTownCryerUltima Online Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/uotowncryer/Ultima Online Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/UltimaOnline/Ultima Online YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@ultimaonlineofficialUltima Online Twitch – https://www.twitch.tv/BroadswordUOUltima Online Discord – https://discord.com/invite/ultimaonlineUltima Online Forum – https://forum.uo.comUltima Online Email- uo@broadsword.com

See you in Britannia,

UO Team

UO Herald - Hotfix

Login Server Issues

Posted on by UO Dev Team

10/3/2025

Greetings,

Update: Login servers are back online.   We’ve identified additional login server issues and are investigating.

We are currently investigating an issue with the login server.  We appreciate your patience while we address these issues.  We will update this post accordingly.

See you in Britannia,

UO Team