Server Downtime
1/14/2025 Greetings, We are currently experiencing unexpected server downtime unrelated to the recently announced hardware migrations. We appreciate your patience while we work to resolve these issues. See you in Britannia, UO Team
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Happy Holidays & Happy New Year
12/20/2024 Greetings, We would like to wish everyone a very happy holidays & happy new year! This past year was a busy one for the UO Team! From the successful launch of Ultima Online: New Legacy to Echoes of the Blighted Realm we want to thank all of our players for being part of that success – we could not have done it without you! As the team embarks on a winter’s rest to recharge and rejuvenate, we could not be more excited for 2025! Our first publish of 2025 is scheduled for February – this production shard publish will […]
Shattered Sanctum Event Expansion World Wide
12/11/2024 Greetings, Beginning today, December 11, 2024 and with each shard’s regularly scheduled maintenance the previously described updates to the Shattered Sanctum event will be available World Wide. See you in Britannia, UO Team
New Legacy Publish 1
12/9/2024 Greetings, We are pleased to announce that New Legacy Publish 1 is now live on the New Legacy shard! You can read the full publish notes here. This is our first publish to New Legacy post launch and includes a host of quality of life upgrades, bug fixes, world loot drops, a legendary artifact trader and more! With this first release to New Legacy we want to outline how the deployment process will work for this and future publishes. Publishes to New Legacy will go live and there will then be a week long “evaluation” period. During this period […]
Shattered Sanctum Event Expansion
12/5/2024 Greetings, As we continue to monitor feedback related to the Shattered Sanctum event we are pleased to announce the following changes will be released to Origin, Izumo, and Baja during their next regularly scheduled maintenance, Investigations into the unknown origins of the Undead Invasion across Britannia have discovered the Solen Tunnels have been used by the armies of the Undead to gain access to Britannia’s cities. As such, the Solen Hive (Trammel only except Siege & Mugen) will be an active invasion area in addition to invaded cities. Resolved issue where Provocation would not work on invasion monsters Resolved […]
Shattered Sanctum Event Lag
11/20/2024 Greetings, We’ve received reports and have investigated instances of latency associated with the Treasures of the Shattered Sanctum event during peak population periods. In an effort to address this concern we will be pushing a hotfix beginning with North American shards during each shard’s regularly scheduled maintenance on November 21, 2024. As a result of this change non-paragon spawn will no longer leave corpses when killed during the event. This change will not impact your ability to earn points towards a minor artifact drop or your ability to qualify for that drop when killing monsters. This is not a […]
Publish 118.2 World Wide
11/18/2024 Greetings, We are pleased to announce that beginning November 19, 2024 (Eastern Time) Publish 118.2 will be deployed with each shard’s regularly scheduled maintenance. Deployment will begin with US shards, with all other shards to follow. Please be sure to check out the latest publish notes. This event brings the next phase of Echoes of the Blighted Realm – Shattered Sanctum. This treasures event will offer fortune and glory to all those brave enough to challenge the undead menace! Following each shard being updated with Publish 118.2 (Expected November 20th) we also invite you to check out the latest […]
Publish 118.2 to Origin
11/13/2024 Greetings, With each shard’s normally scheduled maintenance beginning November 14, 2024 Publish 118.2 will be deployed to Origin, Izumo, and Baja. Character transfers from these shards to other shards will be disabled until Publish 118.2 is deployed world wide. We expect Publish 118.2 to deploy world wide early next week. See you in Britannia, UO Team
Hotfix Deployment & Origin Server Migration
11/11/2024 Greetings, With each shard’s regularly scheduled maintenance beginning November 12, 2024 we will be deploying several hotfixes to Publish 118.1. Please be sure to check the publish notes here. Also, over the next several months we will be migrating all shards to newer hardware with our cloud service provider. The process will continue tomorrow, November 12, 2024, with Origin. We expect downtime to last at least 3 hours and will update this post once the migration is complete. Update 10:06 AM ET 11/12/2024 – The Origin migration is complete. See you in Britannia, UO Team
Publish 118.1 Hotfixes
11/7/2024 As of its regularly scheduled maintenance on November 7th, 2024 we have deployed the following hotfix to Origin only: Shadow’s Awakening The time to kill the manifestation of Evil will dynamically adjust based on how fast it is dying Treasure Hunters that help contribute to summoning the Manifestation of Evil will have a chance at a drop when they are present for the kill Shadow Hounds now have a chance to spawn from Cache, Hoard, and Trove maps in all facets Nightmares / Totem of Chromatic Fortune Players not in the same party or guild as the totem owner […]