Written by the EM Team      Buzzards circled high in the sky above the inland roads that led away from the ferries of Skara Brae, their lazy paths taking them in loops above whatever carcass lay beneath. Artemia took notice of them as she crept silently through the forest, hot on the heels of the hart she’d spied an hour earlier. The old stag was a crafty one and had kept out of any clean shots so far, but she knew that ahead lay a clearing before the land gave way to the road. If she was going to get […]

We have re-activated Housing Decay on Tuesday. If your account has been inactive for more than 90 days, you have 2 days left before your house is gone. After your have reactivated your account, it can take up to 24 hours for your house to be refreshed and display the correct status. If you have reactivated your account and your house status hasn’t updated after these 24 hour, please contact us.

Update 4:40pm EST: Origin is back online with the fix. Greetings, Due to an issue with players dropping their robes discovered on Origin, we are forced to do a revert of the shard back to this morning. At this moment you are no longer able to log in to the shard; we’ll take it down later this afternoon to fix the issue. Keep an eye on the Herald for updates. Thank you for your understanding.

We would like to acknowledge the hard work of UOGuide and all the support they have given UO in the past and the future.  Due to their hard work and dedication we were able to speed up the implementation of Item property classifier system by using the UOGuide site as a reference.  Special thanks to the UOGuide team for doing such a great job! And our apologizes to them for not calling this out weeks ago. The UO Team

Greetings, Publish 74.0 comes to Origin tonight. The Publish 74.0 Notes remain unchanged with one exception: Runic Re-Forging – This is being removed for this publish to Origin due to a few issues we encountered on TC; we will be re-publishing it to TC and Origin later before we go World Wide. See you in-game!

The UO team is proud to announce that all shards will soon have their own Casino located on Fire Island in Trammel.              “Let me in, I wanna play!”   We are also very excited to be able to announce to you the new upcoming race.  We hope you are going to enjoy them as much as we do.                “No more pandering!”   Keep an eye on the Herald for more information about our plans for Pub 76 and beyond.  

     Attention to all beings across the Shards! The 5th match of the Cross Shard Treasure Hunting Competition is upon us!      The year ended on an exciting note, as the Purple Llamas of the Great Lakes shard defeated the two-time champion Blue Beetles of Catskills. But while the new year brings a new champion, it also has seen it’s first challenger – Legends! Please continue reading for their written challenge, as well as Champion’s response.     When: Friday, January 20th Time: 9pm EST, 8pm Central Location: Nujel’m Chessboard, Trammel Shard: Test Center Come cheer on your favorite team! […]

We will turn on housing decay today. Please take the necessary steps to secure your house before its turned back on. Please note that even if your account has been inactive for more than 90 days, you still have 5 days after housing decay is back, before your house is gone. After your have reactivated your account, it can take up to 24 hours for your house to be refreshed and display the correct status. If want to log in but you haven’t had the chance to link your account in the Account Center yet, please check the Account Center […]

Written by members of the UO community Issue 3 WORLD NEWS Golem Experiment Falls Flat A year’s worth of dedication in perfecting the mechanical shepherd has been rife with numerous failures, says controversial tinker and inventor, Harvey Croblink. “Mind you, the mechanical golem though a modern marvel, is pretty much simple-minded in it’s tasks. It lacks the gentler touch,” says Harvey. Improvements in the golem’s intelligence and problem-solving capabilities seem to have made matters worse, despite the machine’s ability to understand more complex commands. An order to herd sheep to another corral, might result in the golem hurling the poor […]

Greetings, We will bring down the Account Center for a short maintenance tomorrow, Wednesday January 18th, at 10am EST (16:00 CET). During the maintenance you will not be able to change subscription, redeem game codes or transfer characters. At the moment we anticipate the Account Center to be back online at 11:30am EST (17:30 CET). Thank you for your understanding.