Publish 5 The following is a list of changes deployed as Publish 5 on April 27, 2000. This publish was known as the Renaissance Publish. Cure Potions Cure potions will now cure poison based on the relative strength of the cure potion and the poison afflicting the character. A lesser cure will have virtually no chance of curing a deadly poisoned character, while a greater cure will cure greater poison much more often than not. All other cure and poison levels will scale accordingly. Monster Looting and Fame/Karma Looting rights for monsters will be based on a point system. The […]

Publish 1 The following is a list of changes deployed as Publish 1 on November 23, 1999. Co-owners Co-ownership will allow you to select trusted friends and allies to control some of the important functions of a house. This will allow more flexibility for house owners and provide a method for additional storage for those players who share houses. Selecting Co-owners Other characters on the same account as the house owner will be treated as co-owners unless: They are already an owner or co-owner of another house. You may select up to eight characters to be co-owners: A co-owner may […]

UO Live Access Patch The following was released as the UO Live Access Patch on August 25, 1999. Interface Changes and Options Client Arrow There is now an arrow that can be used to point players to a specific location. General Interface changes Current target highlighting – All targeted players/creatures are now highlighted with a graphic that represents: Current Damage The target’s reputation (by hue) The Status Bar is hued by reputation Double-clicking a status bar now behaves as if the player had double-clicked the target. Targeting a status bar behaves as if the character had been targeted. “Always show […]

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 04/13/1998 This update listing includes the contents of the mini-patch that went in on 4/20/98. You can no longer teleport with a teleporting object and stay invisible. An “unused” tile will no longer appear before a player recalls to a location (it required a slow connection to see this tile). Guild abbreviation and name changes should update properly on players. Speaking while invisible or hidden now reveals the player. “Spellbook crashes” will be fixed. Characters with invalid names will no longer be creatable with third-party programs. The trick for getting vendors to make items not-for-sale […]

Ultima Online Patch Notes for 02/12/1998 Note that some items from the Test Center were not published with this update. The use of the TAB key in combat has become configurable. The UO.CFG option HoldTabForCombat=(yes|on|no|off) lets you choose which way it will operate. If the option is set to yes or on, then holding down the TAB key will keep you in combat mode, and releasing the key will return you to peace mode. If the option is off, then the TAB key will work exactly like a combat mode macro toggle: hit it once to enter combat mode, hit […]

An accidental bug in 2009, unfixed by request of players, resulted in some plants previously only available as non-pollinating peculiar plants to become possible in colored and cross-pollinating choices. Where to Start Initial seeds in plain, red, blue, and yellow are obtainable from Boglings and Bogthings. In the past these seeds were campions, ferns, and tri-barrel cactus; the first generation seeds for cross pollination. The 2009 bug replaced the tri-barrel cactus seed with a random seed, most of these random seeds, when identified through a seed box or by use of poppy dust will prove to be normal plant crossing types […]

Ultima Store allows the purchase of game items in exchange for Sovereigns, which in turn are purchased from Origin Store. Full details of how to purchase and spend sovereigns can be found here. This page is simply an inventory of what can be bought. Items are added and removed over time.   Store Content Limited Edition These items will be available for the duration of the event Eclipsed Dawn Champion Spawn and have the hue id 2769, matching the hue of the preceding Shattered Sanctum event armor drops Item Cost in Sovereigns Coconut Crab Statuette (vanity pet) 1000 Lasher (vanity […]