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Holiday Season Contest Update

There have been some very creative Holiday Contest entries submitted to our friends at UO Stratics. Though the deadline to submit entries has passed, you can now choose the winners by casting votes for your favorite UO Holiday House. Just go to the Holiday Season Contest Voting Page and select your favorite!


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Publish 80.0 Comes to TC1

Publish 80.0.0 has been patched to TC1. Click on more to see the publish notes in all their bug slaying glory! Publish 80.0.0 Bug Fixes The Ossian Grimoire can now be dyed using Tokuno Dyes Vanilla plants will now display with a light gray color in the plant reproduction and resource gumps Various creatures that were not previously providing spined leather when skinned now provide the correct leather type The Redeemer can now be used to skin animals Jewelers will now purchase all manner of silver rings and bracelets Plain metal chests can now be unlocked using the magic unlock […]


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Extended Maintenance for Atlantic – 12/04

Update: Due to some unforeseen technical issues, the upgrade for the Atlantic Shard has been delayed until tomorrow, December 5th at 5:00 am EST (10:00 GMT). At this time we anticipate that the shard will be back online no later than 8:00 am EST (13:00 GMT). This is a reminder that we will be bringing the Atlantic shard offline tomorrow, December 4th, at 5:00 am EST (10:00 GMT) for a hardware upgrade. At this time we anticipate that the shard will be back online no later than 10:00 am EST (15:00 GMT). Please be sure to check back here for updates […]


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Christmas Gifts

Update 8:00pm EST: We have resolved the issue with the Christmas Gifts and they will be turned back on tomorrow after maintenance. There is currently an issue with Christmas gifts. We will be disabling them temporarily while we work on a solution. Thank you for your patience. Please keep an eye here for further updates.


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Developer Interview

As many of you already know, one of our Event Moderators joined the development team as an Associate Designer. EM Dudley, aka Kyronix, was recently interviewed by UO Forums. The interview is full of some great information regarding his transition from EM to Associate Designer and what it’s like joining the Dev team. Head over to UO Forums to check it out.


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Ask & Answer No. 12

As we move into the twelfth month of the year we bring you Ask and Answer number 12. It is a season for giving and your questions have the developers making plans to bring all sorts of changes to the game. Enjoy! UO Auctions Can anything be done about the freezing screen when you use house customising and or the packing create with EC? (Rupert Avery) We actually discussed this over lunch for approx 20 minutes to try to figure out the best way to do this, bottom line is yes it can be redone but it is not Just […]


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Essential Maintenance for All Shards – 11/29

Update 3:15 pm EST: The shards are back online Greetings! We will be bringing the shards offline tomorrow, Thursday November 29th, at 2:00 pm EST (19:00 GMT) for essential maintenance. At this time we anticipate that the shards will be back online no later than 4:00 pm EST (21:00 GMT). Please be sure to check the Herald for updates regarding this downtime.


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THE YEW TIMES – A Newspaper for Sosaria

Written by members of the community Issue 10 WORLD NEWS GRAVESITE PLUNDERED The town guard is looking for information regarding the recent disinternment of a local man’s body from the Yew cemetary. Jethro Mctavish had been buried three days prior, and there is no indication that the corpse had been defiled in any way. However, locals are convinced that the responsible party was looking for McTavish’s coveted fried turkey recipe which he swore that he’d take to the grave with him. No additional leads have been pursued so far in the case. BOWYER CRAFTS LEDENDARY CROSSBOW Fervent bowyer, Yohan Yorguson […]