Publish 57 December 18, 2008 Champ Spawns Non-Felucca facets Champ Spawns will now give special rewards for working the spawns Killing the Champ Spawn boss on any facet has a 30% chance of dropping a special reward Working the Ilshenar spawns gives Transcendence scrolls but not 105 powerscrolls A black gate will no longer appear after killing the Champ Spawn boss unless you are in Felucca Rewards have a durability of 150/150 and cannot be enhanced or unraveled Each Champ Boss has a chance to drop a Unique, Decorative, or Shared reward drop – such as Animated Water Tiles with […]

Publish 56 UO Team 28 Oct 2008 17:46:55 EST All shards will be updated with Publish 56 at their next regular maintenance. New Content War of Shadows Factions cities will come under attack in Trammel by the forces of the Shadowlords Capturing a town sigil in Felucca allows the Trammel city to be invaded Sigil must be captured by Chaos (Shadowlords or Minax) Up to three towns can be invaded at a time Additional sigil captures will queue those cities for attack, but will not occur until another city’s invasion ends A city’s guard zones will disappear in Trammel when invaded, becoming a warzone All Felucca faction cities will have […]

Publish 55 UO Team 10 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST On September 10, 2008, Publish 55 was released to all shards Bug Fixes Arcane Circles will now give a bonus to arcane focus Arcane Focus will require a minimum of two people to cast Casting it in a pentagram or abbatoir will give you a Focus with a level equal to number of casters – 1 Casting in an Arcane Circle (such as in Heartwood or a crafted Circle in a player house) will give you a 1 level bonus. Casting in Prism of Light will give you the Arcane Circle bonus […]

Publish 54 UO Team 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST Publish 54 was released to all shards on July 10, 2008. Bug Fixes: Factions Non-factioners can now do beneficial actions to factioners in Trammel rulesets Faction Vendors no longer block Faction Guards or players Fixed an issue with Sigils getting stuck in the incorrect state and requiring a server restart before corruption could resume Faction abbreviations will show in the player’s onscreen name in Felucca (works with All Names) [Min] Minax [CoM] Council of Mages [TB] True Britannians [SL] Shadowlords Red faction members/enemy guild members now con orange to an opposing guild […]

Publish 53 UO Team 10 Jun  2008 00:00:00 EST Publish 53 was published to all shards on June 10, 2008: Bug Fixes: Added a 15 minute timer for a guild to accept an alliance invite. This means guilds will no longer get stuck in “invite pending” mode. (For guilds in this situation now, once the publish goes live, GMs will be able to resolve the issue.) Vanguards and their allies will now teleport if they are attacked while in unreachable locations Added the House Resizing command: Saying “I wish to resize my house” while standing under the house sign demolishes your […]

Publish 52 UO Team 05 May 2008 00:00:00 EST All shards were updated with Publish 52 on May 5, 2008: Factions In order to promote accessibility and invigorate Factions, we’ve made several changes and fixed some bugs. Additionally, Factions will play an important role in the Warriors of Destiny plot arc. Faction size limit and load balancer removed: individual factions can grow to any size. Previously capped at 200. Multiple characters from the same account may join the same faction An account cannot have characters in different factions on the same shard Removed 30 day character age requirement “Young” players cannot […]

Publish 48 UO Team 26 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST Added the Salvage Bag: The Salvage Bag is the core of the enhanced recycling system. Players store items in the bag like any other container, but when a recycle command occurs, they target the bag to handle all the items at once.  Layout: a blue leather bag labeled “A Salvage Bag” Available on Provisioners for a nominal (~1000gp) fee Details: Use the context menu on the bag to select “Salvage Ingots”, “Salvage Cloth”, or “Salvage All” All items of the appropriate type in the bag (metal for smelting, cloth for scissoring) are […]

Publish 44 UO Team 30 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EST On April 30, 2007, Publish 44 went live on all shards. Updated the shards to allow the Kingdom Reborn beta client to be able to connect to them Discontinued the 3D client “Add Party Member”, “Remove Party Member”, “Leave the Party”, “Disband the Party”, and “Party can loot me” and “Party cannot loot me” are now context menu options New players All new players, regardless of what they select, will now start in New Haven Previous directed experience template quests (Paladin, Ninja, Samurai, etc) are no longer offered to new players New […]

Publish 43 Incremental Update 7 UO Team 18 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST Fixed an issue that was causing Gingerbread houses to sometimes get destroyed after being axed or from customizing the in which house they were placed. NOTE: this does NOT fix currently placed Gingerbread houses. Characters 30 days or older will receive an extra holiday stocking with a deed for a Gingerbread house until Feb. 1st. The motherlode skill gain feature has been turned off. You can still get blackrock from mining in the motherlode regions, but the enhanced energy of the area has faded. Catskills downtime gifts will no […]

Publish 42 New Veteran Rewards UO Team 23 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EST In appreciation for our long-term players, Ultima Online currently offers a number of Veteran Reward gift items that you can’t get anywhere else in the game. The more months a UO game account remains active, the more gifts that account can claim. There are currently multiple vet reward sets for 1 through 5 year veterans of UO. We are in the process of adding a new choice for year 1 vets, as well as choices for year 6 through year 9 vets. All reward options are blessed. 1st Year Vet […]