2/9/2026 Greetings, We are pleased to announce that Publish 122 will be deployed World Wide to North American shards during their regularly scheduled maintenance cycle beginning February 10, 2026.  All other shards will be updated during their regularly scheduled maintenance cycle following North America. Please be sure to check out the Publish Notes for all the updates, including: New Veteran Rewards New Champ Spawn New Draconic Awakening Turn-In Rewards via Caldur’s Watch Kindlehart and much more! Vendor Search will be coming down for maintenance until all servers are published.  Character transfer will be disable until all shards are updated to […]

2/5/2026 Greetings, We are pleased to announce Publish 122 has been deployed to Origin!  We will also be publishing Baja & Izumo during their next regularly scheduled maintenance. Please be sure to checkout the Publish 122 notes for details on all the updates. This release also includes mandatory client patches for the Classic & Enhanced Clients, so be sure to patch fully before trying to access the game servers. Transfers will be unavailable on Origin, Baja, and Izumo.  We will update this post when transfers are re-enabled between those shards. See you in Britannia, UO Team

1/29/2026 Greetings, We are pleased to announce Publish 122 Update 2 is ready for testing on TC1.  Please be sure to check out the publish notes for the latest changes.  We thank everyone who has taken time to provide feedback, and don’t forget to join the official discord to take part in the conversation: https://discord.com/invite/ultimaonline See you in Britannia, UO Team

1/21/2026 Greetings, We are pleased to announce that Publish 122 has been deployed to Test Center 1!  Check out the full publish notes here.  This publish is packed full of updates including, Post-IDOC House Placement Updates Updates to the Draconic Awakening via Caldur’s Watch A New Orc Champion Spawn A New Seasonal Event – Kindlehart New Veteran Rewards New items in the Ultima Store Quality of Life Changes & Bug Fixes We hope you’ll take some time to join us on TC1 and preview some of these updates.  As always, we look forward to your feedback!  Join the conversation on […]

10/10/2025 Greetings, Barring major issues, the world wide deployment of Publish 121 will begin on Tuesday, October 14th, 2025 beginning with North American shards and continuing on with each shard’s normally scheduled maintenance. Following all shards being updated to Publish 121 (earliest October 15th) we will also, Be releasing new mandatory versions of the Classic & Enhanced Client.  You will need to patch up your client at this time to access game servers. Bringing the Vendor Search database down for maintenance Enabling the character transfer process from New Legacy shards We appreciate all the feedback everyone has provided and look […]

10/8/2025 Greetings, We are pleased to announce that Publish 121 will be deployed to Origin, Izumo, and Baja beginning with those shard’s regularly scheduled maintenance on October 9, 2025.  Please note that character transfer between these shards will be disabled until all shards are published.  We have also updated TC1 with balance and feedback changes.  Please read the full publish notes for full details. See you in Britannia, UO Team

10/3/2025 Greetings, We are pleased to announce that Publish 121 is now available on Test Center 1.  Please read the publish notes here and be sure to patch up your client to the latest version.  We look forward to your feedback – feel free to engage all of our social media platforms to share your thoughts! Ultima Online Twitter/X – https://twitter.com/UOTownCryerUltima Online Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/uotowncryer/Ultima Online Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/UltimaOnline/Ultima Online YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@ultimaonlineofficialUltima Online Twitch – https://www.twitch.tv/BroadswordUOUltima Online Discord – https://discord.com/invite/ultimaonlineUltima Online Forum – https://forum.uo.comUltima Online Email- uo@broadsword.com See you in Britannia, UO Team

6/17/2025 Greetings, We are pleased to announce that Publish 120 has been deployed World Wide beginning with North American shards on June 17th, 2025.  All shards will be published following their normally scheduled maintenance.  This includes a mandatory client patch, so please patch up your game client before accessing the server. We also want to extend an invitation to the UO community to join the newly launched OFFICIAL ULTIMA ONLINE DISCORD!  Please feel free to share the join link with your friends across the world: https://discord.gg/ultimaonline We look forward to building new ways to interact with our amazing UO community. […]

6/12/2025 Greetings, We are pleased to announce that Publish 120 has been deployed to Origin & Baja.  Izumo will be published following that shard’s normally scheduled maintenance. See you in Britannia, UO Team

6/10/2025 Greetings, We are pleased to announce an update to Publish 120 has been deployed to TC1.  Please review the publish notes, we look forward to your feedback! See you in Britannia, UO Team