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Balron Bone Armor

Posted on October 16, 2025 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 […]

New Legacy Transfer Items

Posted on October 15, 2025 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 October 10, 2025 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 […]

Publish 121 Comes to Origin, Izumo & Baja

Posted on October 8, 2025 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 October 3, 2025 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 – http://discord.gg/ultimaonlineUltima Online Forum – https://forum.uo.comUltima Online Email- uo@broadsword.com See you in Britannia, UO Team

Login Server Issues

Posted on October 3, 2025October 3, 2025 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

Celebrating 28 Magnificent Years!

Posted on September 24, 2025 by UO Dev Team

9/24/2025 Greetings Britannians, It is with great honor and joy that we celebrate 28 incredible years of Ultima Online! Since 1997, Britannia has been home to countless adventurers spanning generations—and for your unwavering support through the decades, we say thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Starting today, veteran players can log in and claim this year’s anniversary rewards, featuring a collection of orchid-themed delights to commemorate the occasion! We invite you to join us later today for our Anniversary Celebration! For those unable to attend, the festivities will be streamed in full on our YouTube and Twitch channels—don’t […]

28th Anniversary Gifts Live Tomorrow!

Posted on September 23, 2025 by UO Dev Team

9/23/25 Greetings, We are pleased to announce that 28th Anniversary Gifts will be live on all shards beginning 9/24/2025! You can read about the 28th Anniversary Gifts in the Publish 120 notes and include, Orchid Corsage Potted Orchid Orchid Waterfall Enjoy! See you in Britannia, UO Team

Scheduled Database Maintenance

Posted on September 12, 2025September 17, 2025 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

28th Anniversary Celebration!

Posted on September 12, 2025September 11, 2025 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 […]