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 51 UO Team 26 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST Publish 51 went live on all shards on March 26, 2008: Fixed a NPC Grammar Error Greater Dragons now drop scales and leather when skinned Properties on the ML recipe bows should now stack correctly with runic, exceptional and material bonuses Fixed an additional bug that caused properties to be dropped on some ML weapons Body sculptors and hairdressers should no longer wander too far away Recipe bows that previously had a 0% exceptional chance now have a 5% exceptional chance (In order to allow for an exceptional chance greater than 0 […]

Publish 50 UO Team 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST Changed all Blacksmithing and Tailoring runic intensities. Runics will now better match up to higher end loot. Maximum intensities are now 100% for all tailoring and blacksmithy runics, minimums are as follows: Blacksmithing: Dull Copper: was 10, now 40 Shadow: was 20, now 45 Copper: was 25, now 50 Bronze: was 30, now 55 Gold: was 35, now 60 Agapite: was 40, now 65 Verite: was 45, now 70 Valorite: was 50, now 85 Tailoring: Spined: was 20, now 40 Horned: was 30, now 45 Barbed: was 40, now 50 Increased chance […]

Publish 49 UO Team 23 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST Made changes to the character database to allow for larger backup sizes. This will not have any visible impact on players.