Publish 60 08 Sep 2009 10:55:58 EST The Ultima Online team would like to dedicate this, the sixtieth Cycle of Knowledge, containing the Stygian Abyss and all its related mysteries, to our loyal friends and fellow citizens of Britannia. New Skill: Imbuing Skill Title: Artificer The Imbuing skill allows players to imbue items with magical item properties. The amount of skill determines how much of an item’s potential is “fillable” by that craftsman. Imbuing is performed at a soul forge. The soul forge in the Gargoyle City gives a slight bonus, and the Queen’s soul forge gives the highest bonus. […]

Publish 59 14 Jul 2009 10:00:59 EST All shards will be brought down in approximately 2 hours for Pub 59. Once the shards are back up you must patch your client or you may not have access to the game. Bug Fixes Players will receive an error message when trying to create multiple gates at one location Exceptional crafted food will now display the maker’s mark Camp fires will no longer block house placement Fixed an issue with the Crystalline Ring removing 20 modified skill points Criminals are unable to stable their pets Criminals will now get an error message […]

Publish 58 Trial Accounts Removed the 15 day character age requirement for house placement Players are not allowed to place a house while on a trial account Players are not allowed to co-own or be traded a house while on a trial account Trial accounts have travel restrictions – Cannot visit Felucca dungeons or Felucca T2A Trial Accounts have the following resource restrictions – Will only receive basic ores and logs (iron, plain logs) even if they’d otherwise qualify for better types Will not receive sand or stone when mining Trial Account Misc. restrictions – Will not receive ML rewards […]

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 […]