Due to an issue discovered this evening on  Atlantic,  we are forced to revert the shard back to 8:00pm EDT, April 15th to correct the problem.

Publish 81 will be going out world wide during normal maintenance tomorrow for April 16, 2013.  Please make sure you get your new client later this evening.   Publish 81.0.0 Player vendor change Any item that is identified as duped can not be placed on a vendor. If a duped item is on a vendor when we publish Pub 81 you can not purchase it. We highly suggest you go thru in- game vendors for all your UO needs. City Elections A new election system has been added to the loyalty towns. Players with a sufficient amount of loyalty will […]

Corrected issue related to special move usage in regards to the hatchet and skinning knife in the classic client only

Update 1:20 p.m. EST: All shards are back online. We are taking down all shards  tomorrow starting at 11:00 a.m. EDT (17:00 CEST).  During this time we will be patching new clients in preparation for Publish 81 for all the shards. In addition, published 81 will be published to Origin and Izumo. At the moment we anticipate the shards to be back online by 3:00 p.m. EDT (21:00 CEST).   Click on more to view a list of the changes. Publish 80 Changes Weapon Revamp All weapons have now been normalized based on weapon speed and handedness.   Mace: Gargish Tessen […]

Publish 81 has been updated on TC1. The updated patch notes are so large that they had to be put on a separate page. Please note:  Kyronix will be on TC1 to help test the city elections so please come join in to help us test this system.  There will be loyalty gates in each city by the elections stones located by the bank, these gates will either give you love or hate depending on the gate you choose.

Update 3:00pm EDT: In order to resolve this issue a new client has been released. If you were having issues logging in, please make sure to run the new patch. We are aware of the issues that some of our players are having with connecting to the game servers. We are currently working on the problem and hope to have a fix in place soon. Thank you for your patience.

Update 6:30pm EST: All shards will be down to finalize the migration of the databases for two hours and thirty minutes.  We expect to have all shards back up by 9 pm EST. On March 27th we are performing maintenance on the Housing warehouse, Vet Reward warehouse, promo codes and character transfer system.  To be able to do this smoothly we will be taking these systems down for approx five hours starting at 1:00 pm EST.  During this time the login servers will be down for several hours between 1pm and 5pm EST.  At the end of the migration we […]

UOForums.com recently posted an interview with Ultima Online’s lead artist James “Onifrk” Crawly.  There are many great questions about the art process for UO and insights into how he came to be a member of the Ultima Online team. Head over to UOForums.com and check it out.

We have received another list of questions for our developers from the fan sites and many of the questions this week are related to crafting. If you have any crafting questions or other UO related questions, be sure and submit them to your favorite fan site so our developers can answer them. UOCraft.com Regarding Powder of Fortification: would it be possible to add a menu option that asks how many PoF charges to apply to an item, instead of clicking over and over for each charge? (Coral) Kyronix: we have gotten this request several times on various items.  It will […]

Greetings everyone,      As I am sure most of you know we have been working on upgrading our outdated hardware and moving to the Cloud.  The next step in the process is to move the data base for Character Transfers.  This is an advanced notice that Character Transfers will be turned off Friday morning 3/22/2013 for an extended time.  We need to ensure all current transfers have been completed before we start this move so please do your transfers now or they will be in limbo till this move is completed.  When we are able to turn them back […]