Publish 123 to Origin

5/7/2026 Greetings, We are pleased to announce Publish 123 has been deployed to Origin!  We will also be publishing Baja & Izumo during their next regularly scheduled maintenance. Please be sure to checkout the Publish 123 notes for details on all the updates! This release also includes mandatory client patches for the Classic & Enhanced Clients, so be sure to patch fully before trying to access the game servers. Transfers will be unavailable on Origin, Baja, and Izumo until all shards are updated with Publish 123.  We expect world wide deployment of Publish 123 next week.  Thank you to everyone […]


Publish 123 TC1 Release 4

5/1/2026 Greetings, We are pleased to announce the next release of Publish 123 is available on Test Center 1!  This update includes our newest seasonal event, Moonveil, as well as some additional PvP balance changes.  You can read all the latest changes in the publish notes.  We look forward to your feedback!  Continue the conversation in the official Ultima Online Discord: https://discord.com/invite/ultimaonline See you in Britannia, UO Team


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Happening Now – Roadmap Roundtable!

4/28/2026 Greetings, Join us in the Official Ultima Online Discord to participate in our Roadmap Roundtable!  You can also catch the stream on our official Twitch & YouTube channels.  Spend some time with the Ultima Online Dev Team as we talk about Publish 123 & 124, New Legacy Season 2, and answer some of your questions. Ultima Online Discord:  https://discord.com/invite/ultimaonline Ultima Online Twitch:  https://www.twitch.tv/BroadswordUO Ultima Online YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/@ultimaonlineofficial You can also visit us on Test Center 1 at the Barnacle Tavern in Minoc! See you in Britannia, UO Team


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Roadmap Roundtable 4/28 @ 5pm ET – Join us!

4/23/2026 Greetings, We are pleased to announce our next developer Roadmap Roundtable!  Join us in the Official Ultima Online Discord at 5pm ET on Tuesday, April 28th.  You can also catch the stream on our official Twitch & YouTube channels.  Spend some time with the Ultima Online Dev Team as we talk about Publish 123 & 124, New Legacy Season 2, and answer some of your questions. Ultima Online Discord:  https://discord.com/invite/ultimaonline Ultima Online Twitch:  https://www.twitch.tv/BroadswordUO Ultima Online YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/@ultimaonlineofficial See you in Britannia, UO Team


Publish 123 TC1 Publish 3

4/21/2026 Greetings, We are pleased to announce the next TC1 Update of Publish 123 is now available for testing.  We want to thank the entire community for participating in the discussion and feedback around this release.  We understand how passionate our players are, and want to reassure everyone that our primary goal is to iterate on these changes in such a way that we can achieve success, respond to community feedback, and meet our long term development goals.  Check out the latest publish notes for full details.  We invite everyone to continue the conversation in the official Ultima Online discord […]


Publish 123 Comes to TC1

4/9/2026 Greetings, We are pleased to announce the first iteration of Publish 123 has been released to Test Center 1!  Updates in this release of Publish 123 include, A New Britannian Holiday – Spritelight New Wooden Weapons PvP Balance Changes Harrower Update, including the new Spoils of War Cleanup Britannia Update Ultima Store Items – Transmogrification Neck Slot Quality of Life & Bug Fixes For full details, check out the latest patch notes. Be sure to patch up your client to the latest version before testing any new content.  We are looking forward to the discussion on Publish 123 in […]


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Classic Client Patch 7.0.114.2

2/24/2026 Greetings, We’ve released Classic Client Patch 7.0.114.2 which addresses the following, Resolves issue with out of synch animations in the Paladin of Air armor set Resolves map issues related to New Legacy Shards See you in Britannia, UO Team


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UO.com Forum Sunset

2/23/2026 Greetings, As we outlined in our most recent Roadmap Update, the UO.com Forums will be sunset on Friday, February 27, 2026.  No other features of UO.com will be impacted.  We invite you to join us on the Official Ultima Online Discord to continue the conversation: https://discord.com/invite/ultimaonline See you in Britannia, UO Team


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Recent Server Performance Issues

2/20/2026 Greetings, Recently the UO team investigated reports of degraded server performance as it relates to our new global event, “Kindlehart”. We took steps to identify several areas where an inordinate amount of server resources were being allocated to elements of the encounter and corrected those.  We’ve read your feedback regarding some of these optimizations, especially world boss loot, and will be addressing those concerns.  Thank you to all those who submitted bug reports and feedback regarding that issue. Upon further investigation it became clear a small number of user accounts were in violation of the Terms of Service, and […]


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Kindlehart Tempest Optimizations

2/18/2026 Greetings, We want to thank everyone for their patience while we investigated and attempted to resolve performance issues related to the Kindlehart Tempest Encounter primarily affecting Atlantic.  This event has proven to be especially popular and as such we’ve made the following optimizations: Reduced corpse loot for World Bosses that have an alternative loot drop scheme Reduced visual effects on Kindlehart Infused monsters Optimized World Boss AIs We will continue to monitor performance and make adjustments accordingly.  Please feel free to visit the official UO Discord to share your feedback: https://discord.com/invite/ultimaonline See you in Britannia, UO Team