Greetings Everyone,    It’s been a while since I sat down and wrote to everyone so bare with me.  In this letter I will be telling you about some issues that we are going to be addressing and what is in the next Publish.  But before I do that I want to address all the “extended maintenance” we have been going thru.  As I am sure some of you might have already noticed we are moving off the old servers onto the Cloud.  With a game as old as UO it has been challenging but we are working hard to […]

Update 10:30am EST: All shards but Atlantic are back up. We are currently having some unexpected difficulties with the Atlantic shard but should have it up soon. Thank you for your patience. Greetings! We will be bringing the following shards offline tomorrow, December 17th, starting at 5:00 am EST (10:00 GMT) for maintenance and a hardware upgrade: Atlantic Oceania Europa Drachenfels At this time we anticipate that the shards will be back online no later than 10:00 am EST (15:00 GMT). Please be sure to check back here for updates regarding this downtime.

Written by members of the community Issue 10 WORLD NEWS FROSTMAN We have just received a report from Castle Blackthorn, to be on a lookout for a LIVING snowman? It seems that Captain Julius has hired a team of old retired mages from the Mage Tower to make use of all of the snowmen that have been turned in from the Clean Up Britiannia campaign. We were not informed of what the mages were actualy working on, or for what purpose. The walking snowman was named “Snowy the Frostman” which later escaped the castle and was last seen heading into […]

Greetings! We will be bringing all the shards offline today, at 3:30 pm EST (20:30 GMT) to apply the following hot fixes: Buff/Debuff icons should properly be removed from hot bars now You can no longer retrieve a house trash can All vendors will now be replaced after customizing your house Reforging should work properly now Items will not be rejected from your house any longer when you customize At this time we anticipate that the shards will be back online no later than 5:30 pm EST (22:30 GMT). We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

Greetings! We will be bringing the following shards offline tomorrow, December 13th, starting at 5:00 am EST (10:00 GMT) for a hardware upgrade: Legends Siege Perilous Great Lakes Lake Superior At this time we anticipate that the shards will be back online no later than 11:00 am EST (16:00 GMT). Please be sure to check back here for updates regarding this downtime.

Greetings! We will be bringing the Chesapeake and Catskills shards offline tomorrow, December 11th, at 5:00 am EST (10:00 GMT) for a hardware upgrade. At this time we anticipate that the shards will be back online no later than 10:00 am EST (15:00 GMT). Please be sure to check back here for updates regarding this downtime.

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!

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 […]

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 […]

Greetings! We will be bringing the Atlantic shard offline, Tuesday December 4th, at 5:00 am EST (10:00 GMT) for essential maintenance. 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 the Herald for updates regarding this downtime.