Publish – February 2, 1999 The following was released as the February 2nd Publish on February 2, 1999. Mining Eight new varieties of minerals can now be found. Each variety offers a unique color. The different colors can only be found by miners of specific skill levels–only Grandmasters or near Grandmasters can find the rarest mineral, valorite. Once a vein is located, it will always be at that location from then on. (It behooves miners to conceal this location!) We have seen the feedback from those concerned that these locations will become ambush points. If this develops into a problem, […]

Publish – January 19, 1999 The following was released as the January 19th Publish on January 19, 1999. Hiding Changes Simply tabbing out of combat will not make it possible to hide. Instead, it will be dependent on line-of-sight to your attackers, and distance from them. The lower your Hiding skill, the farther away you need to get. The delay in using hiding again was removed if you failed hiding because you were in combat. Treasure Maps A new type of quest will be added involving treasure maps found on certain monsters. Certain monsters will carry treasure maps. There are […]

Holiday Gifts! Dec 23 1998 9:37AM Holiday gifts — Happy Holidays from the UO Team! Using the holiday tickets In your backpack is a ticket that has instructions on using it. A serial number is also on the ticket. Someone on the shard will also have the ticket with the same serial number. Finding the person with the other half of the ticket with the matching serial number will allow access to the Christmas gifts. To activate the ticket, double clicking the ticket will bring up a targeting cursor. Simply target the other ticket with the matching serial number. This […]

Housing Update Phase 3 Dec 21 1998 1:48PM HOUSING Excess houses are deleted. All unclaimed houses are deleted when the server comes up. All houses with claim ties are deleted. Houses with ties that are both the same person are not deleted. The no build period ends. Vendors return to normal. You can place vendors again. They can only be placed in public houses. Vendors gain a new command, “replace,” which will dismiss the vendor and create a fresh vendor deed in your backpack. This command only works if the vendor has no inventory. Any vendors bugged during the deeding […]

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 11/23/1998 EXPLOITS Numerous loopholes used by third-party programs will be corrected. As we have stated before, we intend to continue moving aggressively to prevent these programs from having any utility. We don’t wish to describe all of the fixes we made, so that exploiters have as little warning as possible, but one change in particular merits notice. The “Fast last-target spellcasting” exploit will be corrected. This involved placing a small skill delay after completion of casting. SKILLS We fixed a cause of the overly rapid stat advancement. Skills that affect more than one stat will […]

Client updates November 19 1998 Second Age players have received a client patch which will make the automatic translation feature function using default values even if UO.CFG lines are not present. Players who have not upgraded to Second Age have received a client patch which merely changes their LOGIN.CFG file to point to the login servers introduced with the Second Age. You should not notice any difference in play from this change.

Ultima Online Patch Notes for 11/10/1998 Server Updates: Crop growth in the Lost Lands should be slowed. When a thief dies in town, items he stole within the last two minutes will be automatically placed in their owner’s backpack. If the owner is not around to receive them, they will fall to the ground. Pets and hirelings will move to attack when so ordered, and will move to attack when guarding something that is disturbed. They will no longer stand still all the time, but will loiter around the last place where they were given a command (unless they are […]

Ultima Online Patch Notes for 10/28/1998 None of the fixes indicated below will require the use or application of a client side patch or similar utility. Some more fixes to prevent the use of third-party program exploits. Some fixes were made to the obscenity filter. Note that the obscenity filter no longer filters your own language, only that of others. Chopped corpses should highlight the same color as the original corpse. When a player corpse decays into remains, the controller info is removed (in other words, it is OK to loot corpses after they have decayed). Guildstones will no longer […]

Publish – 24 October 1998 The Second Age expansion introduced many new gameplay features, creatures, monsters, and areas to Ultima Online. Lost Lands The Lost Lands are a continental landmass added to the playable area of the game that featured two cities, Papua and Delucia, and one dungeon, Terathan Keep. In Ultima lore, these lands were discovered or activated as the result of geological activity caused by the casting of the “Armageddon” spell by the Followers of Armageddon (or Zog Cabal). There are 11 entrances the Lost Lands, all of which can be accessed by either boat, foot/mount, or teleportation. […]