Publish 3 The following is a list of changes deployed as Publish 3 on February 23, 2000. Trade Window Changes Trade windows will become more secure. You will not be able to trade a trapped item. You will not be able to trade an item that was recently stolen. You will not be able to trade items to a player if that player cannot hold the items. If the items are too heavy for the player or if the items would exceed the number of items the player can carry, the trade will fail. All items in the trade window […]
Publish – February 24, 1999 The following was released as the February 24th Publish on February 24, 1999. Skills Stealth This new skill allows you to take steps while hidden. You have to be hiding when you start to use the skill. The more armor you are wearing, the harder it is to use Stealth. If you run, you become unhidden. Any of the actions which normally unhides you still will. The amount of steps you can take depends on how high your skill is. You use this skill off of the skills window. You cannot learn or use this […]
Publish – February 2, 1999 The following was released as the February 2nd Publish on February 2, 1999. Mining Eight new varieties of minerals can now be found. Each variety offers a unique color. The different colors can only be found by miners of specific skill levels–only Grandmasters or near Grandmasters can find the rarest mineral, valorite. Once a vein is located, it will always be at that location from then on. (It behooves miners to conceal this location!) We have seen the feedback from those concerned that these locations will become ambush points. If this develops into a problem, […]
Publish – January 19, 1999 The following was released as the January 19th Publish on January 19, 1999. Hiding Changes Simply tabbing out of combat will not make it possible to hide. Instead, it will be dependent on line-of-sight to your attackers, and distance from them. The lower your Hiding skill, the farther away you need to get. The delay in using hiding again was removed if you failed hiding because you were in combat. Treasure Maps A new type of quest will be added involving treasure maps found on certain monsters. Certain monsters will carry treasure maps. There are […]
Holiday Gifts! Dec 23 1998 9:37AM Holiday gifts — Happy Holidays from the UO Team! Using the holiday tickets In your backpack is a ticket that has instructions on using it. A serial number is also on the ticket. Someone on the shard will also have the ticket with the same serial number. Finding the person with the other half of the ticket with the matching serial number will allow access to the Christmas gifts. To activate the ticket, double clicking the ticket will bring up a targeting cursor. Simply target the other ticket with the matching serial number. This […]
Housing Update Phase 3 Dec 21 1998 1:48PM HOUSING Excess houses are deleted. All unclaimed houses are deleted when the server comes up. All houses with claim ties are deleted. Houses with ties that are both the same person are not deleted. The no build period ends. Vendors return to normal. You can place vendors again. They can only be placed in public houses. Vendors gain a new command, “replace,” which will dismiss the vendor and create a fresh vendor deed in your backpack. This command only works if the vendor has no inventory. Any vendors bugged during the deeding […]
Ultima Online Patch Notes for December 2nd & 8th 1998 (includes mini-updates 10th, 15th and 17th) Encryption change Dec 2 1998 2:32PM A client patch was done to upgrade the encryption scheme used for client-server communications. Housing Update Phase 2–Claim Process Begins Dec 8 1998 10:08AM MISCELLANEOUS A textual bug in the anatomy skill will be fixed. It will no longer give human references to animals. Reapers will be more aggressive. Hair dye will give you an extensive menu of hair color choices. Simply double-click the hairdye, and a menu will appear with choices for color categories going down the […]
Ultima Online Patch Notes for 11/10/1998 Server Updates: Crop growth in the Lost Lands should be slowed. When a thief dies in town, items he stole within the last two minutes will be automatically placed in their owner’s backpack. If the owner is not around to receive them, they will fall to the ground. Pets and hirelings will move to attack when so ordered, and will move to attack when guarding something that is disturbed. They will no longer stand still all the time, but will loiter around the last place where they were given a command (unless they are […]
Ultima Online Patch Notes for 10/13/98 The Big Window feature from The Second Age will be given to all players in token of our appreciation, and as part of the celebration of Ultima Online’s first year of existence. Using the Big Window When in windowed mode, you can simply grab the window edges and resize your UO window to any size you like. Note that video performance at the larger sizes will depend on your hardware. You can use the Big Window in full screen as well. Just add one of the following lines to your UO.CFG file: FullScreenRes=640×480 FullScreenRes=800×600 […]
Ultima Online Patch Notes for 10/01/1998 Client patch : these items will require a client patch to be visible to you. “Paperdoll lag” caused when sailing, hiding, and drinking potions should be resolved. You will no longer be able to walk uo onto furs or vegetables. Combat automove should be completely gone! Chopping up corpses will now result in a pile of remains, which is a container. Within the remains will be the contents of the original corpse. This container acts exactly the same as the original corpse–looting it can still result in criminal flagging. Special thanks to the regulars […]
