9/9/2025 Greetings, We are pleased to announce the backend upgrade of UO.com is now complete. Thank you for your patience during this process. Please report any issues to the Official UO Discord. Thank you for your patience. See you in Britannia! UO Team
8/21/2025 Greetings, We are pleased to announce that UO.com will be getting an upgrade! This upgrade will begin next week on August 25th, 2025. We expect the upgrade & migration to last up to 1-2 weeks with intermittent downtime. During that time please see our other social media outlets, linked below, for game updates: Ultima Online Twitter/X – https://twitter.com/UOTownCryer Ultima Online Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/uotowncryer/ Ultima Online Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/UltimaOnline/ Ultima Online YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@ultimaonlineofficial Ultima Online Twitch – https://www.twitch.tv/BroadswordUO Ultima Online Discord – http://discord.gg/ultimaonline Ultima Online Forum – https://forum.uo.com See you in Britannia, UO Team
A dark shadow now hangs over Britannia, as King Blackthorn has mysteriously vanished, leaving the Royal Court in disarray. With no word from the King and no sign of his whereabouts, the Royal Guard remain on high alert as they attempt to dissuade citizens from starting to panic. However, a strange and deadly sickness has begun to spread across the land, affecting towns and villages where it was least expected. The origins of this sickness remain unknown, and whispers of a darker force behind it stir fear in every corner of the kingdom. Could this sickness be linked to the […]
The Manifestation of Evil has been vanquished and the undead driven from the cities, but the fight against evil forces continues and the need to push back Veylara and the Shadow Reavers continues in Ter Mur. Demonic forces have taken over an island, access to it has been created through a portal south of the west gate of Royal City. In place of the usual altar, a corrupted Oak tree is surrounded by Runestones. The 16 runestones represent the usual 16 red candles which surround the altar. As the spawn progresses the runestones will activate, beginning to glow. Flames will […]
1/21/2025 Greetings, We hope everyone’s new year is off to a great start! We’d like to give you an update on what you can look forward to in Publish 119 and beyond! Publish 119 is currently slated for World Wide Release on February 25, 2025 (barring major issues) – we hope to bring the first batch of Publish 119 to Test Center 1 soon as it makes its way through QA. Some of the highlights include, Veteran Rewards – new decorative & utility items as a thank you for your continued support throughout the years! Paladin Armor Sets – Available […]
Greetings, As part of our ongoing efforts to enhance server performance and reliability, we will be migrating shards to new hardware with our cloud service provider. Please find the schedule for this week below: Migration Details: Start Time: 8:00 AM EST Expected Downtime: At least 4 hours Tuesday, January 14th, 2025: Update 10:25 AM ET 01/14/2025 – Completed. Baja Lake Austin Napa Valley Wednesday, January 15th, 2025: Update 12:36 PM ET 01/15/2025 – Completed. Pacific Sonoma Siege Perilous Atlantic Catskills Chesapeake Thursday, January 16th, 2025: Update 10:38 AM ET 01/16/2025 – Completed. Great Lakes Lake Superior Legends We will provide updates […]
9/12/2025 Greetings, Beginning on Wednesday, September 17th at 9 AM ET we will be performing database maintenance. We expect the maintenance to last several hours. During this period the following will be unavailable: New logins Veteran Rewards Character Transfers In-Game Ultima Store Housing See you in Britannia, UO Team
9/12/2025 Greetings! Celebrate 28 Years of Ultima Online! Join us on September 24th, 2025 as we mark this incredible milestone with an epic day of events across TC1, Discord, YouTube, and Twitch! The festivities kick off at 10:00am ET at The Barnacle in Minoc on TC1 with a warm welcome and a nostalgic look back at 28 unforgettable years of Britannia. Then it’s time for the Bagball Battle! Players will compete for a shard-bound trophy and the ultimate prize—a chance to take on the Dev Team themselves! At 11:30am ET / 12:00pm ET, return to The Barnacle for UO History Trivia! Be the fastest to answer correctly, rack up the most points, and […]
New Legacy Publish 3 Posted on August 20, 2025 by UO Dev Team 8/20/2025 Greetings, We anticipate New Legacy Publish 3 will be going live next week. New Legacy Publish 3 will include the The Shattering and so we want to share with you some important updates related to this publish, New Legacy Publish 3 – Important Dates August 26th, 2025 New Legacy Publish 3 goes live. Prologue quest for the Fractured Veil event can be completed. September 2nd, 2025 The world begins to shatter. The Fractured Veil event begins. Creation of NEW CHARACTERS will be DISABLED. Any pre-existing characters […]
From the shattered veil they return… Victor Blackthorn’s armies rise again, clawing through the void to reclaim the dungeon below. Their numbers swell. Britannia must not falter. Gather your allies The Forsaken Bloodline stirs once more. Our faithful town criers warn of invasions in our towns. Once you have completed the Fractured Veil Quest. travel to far East Moonglow, where you will find four characters. Take the quest from Cleisha . Cleisha is accompanied by Sherwin the trader, Slovin and Uwe, these last two will not speak to you, yet. Head to the towns and defeat them, defeat their leader, […]
