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2025 Roadmap Winter Update

1/21/2025 Greetings, We hope everyone’s new year is off to a great start!  We’d like to give you an update on what you can look forward to in Publish 119 and beyond! Publish 119 is currently slated for World Wide Release on February 25, 2025 (barring major issues) – we hope to bring the first batch of Publish 119 to Test Center 1 soon as it makes its way through QA.  Some of the highlights include, Veteran Rewards – new decorative & utility items as a thank you for your continued support throughout the years! Paladin Armor Sets – Available […]


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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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Server Migration for the Week of January 13th, 2025

Greetings, As part of our ongoing efforts to enhance server performance and reliability, we will be migrating shards to new hardware with our cloud service provider. Please find the schedule for this week below: Migration Details: Start Time: 8:00 AM EST Expected Downtime: At least 4 hours Tuesday, January 14th, 2025: Update 10:25 AM ET 01/14/2025 – Completed. Baja Lake Austin Napa Valley Wednesday, January 15th, 2025: Update 12:36 PM ET 01/15/2025 – Completed. Pacific Sonoma Siege Perilous Atlantic Catskills Chesapeake Thursday, January 16th, 2025: Update 10:38 AM ET 01/16/2025 – Completed. Great Lakes Lake Superior Legends   We will provide updates […]


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Izumo Server Migration

01/09/2025 Greetings, Over the next several months we will be migrating all shards to newer hardware with our cloud service provider. The process will continue today, January 9, 2025, with Izumo during maintenance. We expect downtime to last at least 3 hours and will update this post once the migration is complete. Update 07:50 PM ET 01/09/2025 – The Izumo migration is complete. See you in Britannia, UO Team


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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 […]


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Test Center 1 Server Migration

11/5/2024 Greetings, Over the next several months we will be migrating all shards to newer hardware with our cloud service provider. The process will start tomorrow, November 6, 2024, with Test Center 1.  We expect downtime to last at least 3 hours and will update this post once the migration is complete. Update 11/6/2024 @ 12:57 PM ET: The migration is now complete. See you in Britannia, UO Team


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ClassicUO Web Client Veteran Preview Weekend

10/11/2024 Greetings, With the upcoming release of Ultima Online: New Legacy and the launch of the ClassicUO web client sanctioned for use on official UO shards, we would like to invite our veteran players to preview the client this weekend! You can access the client here: https://retail.classicuo.org You may use this client on any OS that supports a chrome-like browser. ClassicUO web client support for Endless Journey accounts will come online following the release of Ultima Online: New Legacy Any feedback and/or bug reports related to the ClassicUO web client can be directed here. See you in Britannia, UO Team


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Updated FAQs

10/10/2024 Greetings, In anticipation of the upcoming release of Ultima Online: New Legacy we have updated the New Legacy FAQ.  We will continue to update the FAQ with new questions and answers as we come across them from the community. The release of New Legacy will also include the launch of the ClassicUO Web Client sanctioned for use on official shards.  We have put together an FAQ for using that client, and will also update it with any additional questions from the community. See you in Britannia, UO Team