Ore to Ingots | Colored Ore | Mining for Stone and Sand Mining is a basic, and fairly essential skill for an aspiring blacksmith or, to a slightly lesser degree, tinker. To begin mining you will need tools, these can be either picks or shovels and can be used from the backpack, they do not need to be equipped: A shovel or pickaxe bought from a tinker npc has 50 uses before it breaks. An exceptional shovel or pickaxe made by a player using tinkering skill has 100 uses. High quality mining tools, such as the sturdy pickaxe and sturdy […]

Discordance | Peacemaking | Provocation Before being able to use these abilities the bard must undertake the relevant Spellsong Quest. Once players have chosen a mastery, the abilities are freely usable at any time and only have as requirements the skill and mana costs. Party must remain within range of the Bard to remain under the spellsong effects. Bards may be interrupted when they receive damage while using their abilities, causing the effect to end. A bard may only have one ability in effect at a time. Abilities do not stack with themselves. All abilities require upkeep dependent on how […]

Instruments | Musicianship | Discordance | Peacemaking | Provocation | Bard Mastery | Spellsong Quests Whether your inclination lies in soothing the savage beast, plucking the strings of discord or the rousing bugle call of battle you must first learn to play a tune. For that you will obviously need an instrument. First rule of barding, always insure your instrument, a tuneless bard is a helpless bard. Selecting your ‘tune’ Instruments currently in game consist of tambourines (plain and tasselled), drums, bamboo flutes, lutes, lap harps, standing harps and aud char plus the special instrument, the fire horn. Used as […]

Introduction Playing a tamer character in UO is a unique experience, being a partnership between player and pixels. Many otherwise level-headed players will admit that, while their head tells them it makes no sense, their heart harbours a totally illogical affection for the bunch of pixels that constitutes their favourite pet. Skill Details Animal Taming is the skill used for taming animals and tameable monsters. In conjunction with the skill ‘animal lore’ it also determines your level of control over a particular pet. The formula for calculating this control can be found on the animal lore page. Not all animals […]

Tools & Equipment | Making Potions| Bulk Orders | Alchemy Recipes | Training the Skill | Enhance Pots Property Further Reading: Glassblowing | Staining | Cannons Alchemy – What is it good for? Well, not turning lead to gold. You can learn to make potions of all kinds (except love potions), dyes from plant clippings, black powder and a variety of other useful items. An alphabetical list of items that can be made with the skill can be found here. The Alchemy menu lists items under the following headings: Healing and Curative Enhancement Toxic Explosive Strange Brew Ingredients Tools and […]

With Hammer and Nails You’d like to be a carpenter? It’s a hard task you’ve set yourself, for not only do you need to be a master of your own trade, you’ll need to be adept in several others. The first thing to think about are your attributes. You’ll need strength, logs and boards are heavy, you’ll need a little dexterity for stamina too; finally a little intelligence. Suggested starting stats: Strength 45 Dexterity 25 Intelligence 10 Skills: You’ll need carpentry, obviously. There are several other skills you’ll need. I recommend that the first of these you add are tinkering, […]