Publish 99

First TC1 Release – 2/27/2018

Second TC1 Release – 3/14/2018

Third TC1 Release & Origin, Izumo, Baja Release – 3/28/2018

2nd Origin, Izumo, Baja Release – 4/3/2018

World Wide Release – 4/5/2018

Please note that the latest client patch is mandatory, so please be sure to patch your client before accessing any production server.

Latest Changes

  • Fixed issue with Global Chat where unicode text did not support all languages.

Global Chat

See the Global Chat page here.

Endless Journey Restrictions

Veteran

Endless Journey

Features

Access Requirements Monthly Subscription New accounts or 120 days after a veteran account becomes inactive. No subscription required.
Skill Cap 720 720
Ultima Store Yes Yes
Veteran Rewards Can claim rewards in game and gain new rewards Cannot claim rewards in game or gain new rewards
Use Veteran Reward Items Yes Yes
Holiday Gifts Yes No

Housing

Placement Yes No
Co-Owner or Traded/Friend Yes Cannot co-own or be traded a house. Can be friend to house only for wall safe security.
Access Normal Public Houses Only
Place Vendors Yes No
Rental Vendors Yes No
Wall Safe Yes Yes
Lockdown/Secure Containers Yes No
Access Mailboxes Yes No
Interact with Player Vendors Yes Yes
Drop logs/ingots (and other stackable items) on a locked down pile Yes No
Safe logout in houses Yes Inns & Taverns Only
Auction Safe Placement Yes No

Dungeons

Felucca Dungeons & Felucca T2A Yes Yes

Chat

General Chat Yes Yes
Help Yes Yes
Global Direct Messaging Yes Yes

Character

Character Transfer Tokens Yes, with purchase of token Yes, with purchase of token
Character Creation All All shards, limited to 2 characters on new Endless Journey accounts
Character Copy & TC1 Access Yes No/Yes

Expansions, Boosters, and Theme Packs

Up to Mondain’s Legacy Yes, included Yes, included
Stygian Abyss Yes, included Yes, included (not active yet)
High Seas If purchased If purchased
Gothic/Rustic If purchased If purchased
King’s Collection If purchased If purchased
Time of Legends If purchased If purchased

Miscellaneous

Bank Box Yes Yes, limited to 20 items ( storage expansions can increase the max item count to 28).  Any account over the max limit will be able to view their full banks but will not be able to remove any items at this time.
Guilds Yes Cannot create new guilds but can join existing ones
Resource Harvesting Restrictions None Yes

-No 2x Felucca Bonus

-Only basic ore & wood

-No sand or stone

Vice vs Virtue Yes Can participate in VvV but do not gain occupation points in active towns
Do Repeatable Quests Yes Yes
Use the Bag of Sending & Chest of Sending Yes No
Use the Bracelet of Binding Yes Yes
Use Pet Summoning Balls Yes Yes
Do Community Collections Yes Yes
Use Commodity Deeds Yes No
Use Scrolls of Alacrity, Power, Stat, and Transcendence Yes Yes
Protect or be Protected by Another Player via the Justice
Virtue
Yes No
Use the Justice Virtue Yes No
Gain Justice Points Yes No
Use Valor, Compassion, Honesty, Honor, Humility, Sacrifice,
and Spirituality Virtues
Yes Yes
Receive Scrolls from Champ Spawns Yes No
Use Power Scrolls Yes Yes
Receive Rewards, Monster Kill Points, or Virtue Points from
Champ Spawns
Yes No
Receive Mondain’s Legacy Resource Rewards Yes Yes
EM Event Items Yes No
Attack EM Event Creatures All None
Board Ships All All, High Seas ships if purchased
City Loyalty Yes Yes
City Elections & Governorships Yes No
Treasures of Tokuno Style Events Yes Yes
Bulk Order Deeds Yes Yes, cannot bribe up.  May only receive one BOD per day.
Use Pack Animals Yes Yes, but may not mount pack animals with items in their pack.
Cleanup Britannia Yes Yes
Zoo Donations Yes Yes
Covetous Void Pool Yes Yes

Town Crier Updates

  • Existing NPC Towncriers have been removed and respawned at all banks, starting inn locations, and the Eodon moongate.
  • Using the “news” speech command or double clicking a town crier NPC will now bring up the Town Cryer newspaper.
  • Town crier NPCs are updated in real time with the latest information. Non-NPC town criers (Sherry the Mouse & Coral the Owl) are updated once on server up if those objects are locked down or secure.

Town Cryer News & Quests

  • The “News” section of the Town Cryer offers a variety of quests designed to introduce players to new and existing content.
  • Quests can be accepted via the “Quest” button in each Town Cryer article.
  • Quests are non-repeatable.
  • Where appropriate, news articles have a “Learn More” button that will open a webpage to pertinent wiki-entries on UO.com.
  • Town Cryer quests are available for the following content areas,
    • Animal Training updates
    • The Wreck of the Ararat
    • The Huntmaster’s Challenge
    • Dungeon Shame
    • Dungeon Wrong
    • Castle Blackthorn Dungeon
    • Treasure Hunting
    • Dungeon Covetous
    • Dungeon Despise

Town Cryer EM, City & Guild Events

  • EM event information, City Governor posts, and Guild Events are available in their respective sections of the Town Cryer.
  • Updates to the Town Cryer are done through a context menu accessed on NPC Town Criers.
  • Only the updates options the user has permissions for are displayed.
  • Governor Entries
    • May be accessed by the Governor.
    • Must have a headline, at least one paragraph entry, and an expiry between 1-14 days.
    • May have up to 5 active articles at any time.
    • Entries are cleaned up at the time of expiry.
  • Guild Events
    • Guilds with 20 or more members may have 1 active event notice in the Town Cryer guild section.
    • Guild Leaders & Warlords have permission to input, update, and delete event notices.
    • A total of 150 guild event notices may be active at any given time.
    • Events are sorted by date and cleaned up when the event date has passed.
    • Guild event notices require a headline, event month, event day, event time, event timezone, event meeting place, and event description.
    • Events may be posted for the current month and the following month.
    • Inappropriate entries into the Town Cryer will result in guilds losing permission to input further events.

The Britain Commons

  • A new area has been added to Trammel Britain in the area southeast of the First Bank of Britain.
  • This open space makes for the perfect meeting place and offers nearby access to essential city services such as a pub, stable master, and crafting stations.

Ultima Store Items

The following items will be available in the Ultima Store.  Keep an eye on UO.com and in-game for release dates!

  • Virtue Shield
    • This shield grants a bonus to virtue points gained while equipped! The shield provides 8% to all resists, penalty free spell channeling, and 10% defense chance increase. Can be used by Humans, Elves, and Gargoyles and dyed with metallic, plant, and specialty pigments.
  • Deluxe Starter Pack
    • This starter pack is a perfect way to jumpstart your journey in Britannia!
    • This starter pack includes,
    • A Runic Atlas (a high capacity runebook) that comes pre-loaded with recall runes to Britannia’s Vaults, Banks, and Points of Interest
    • A Runic Hunter’s Atlas that allows recalling to a variety of hunting grounds friendly to the training adventurer, complete with location descriptions and tips
    • A full complement of full spellbooks for all magic schools including Bushido, Chivalry, Magery, Mysticism, Necromancy, and Ninjitsu
    • A Token of Skill Alacrity that allows you and your party members to experience an increased rate of skill gain for an entire week
    • A Deluxe Journeyman’s Armor token that outfits the adventurer in a starter set of human/elf or gargish leather armor providing 70% in all resists, +15 Hit Points, +17 Mana, +17 Stamina, +30 Lower Mana Cost, +6 Hit Point Regeneration, +6 Mana Regeneration, +10 Stamina Regeneration, +5 Strength, +5 Dexterity, +5 Intelligence, and 100% Lower Reagent Cost
    • A Community Collection Point Award token that can be redeemed at the Moonglow Zoo, Vesper Museum, or Britain Library for 500,000 points
    • A Dungeon Point Award Point Token that can be redeemed for 100 Blackthorn Dungeon points, 1000 Dungeon Crystal Points of Despise, and 1000 Covetous Points
    • A direct deposit of 100,000 gold into your currency account
    • All items are account and shard bound.

Miscellaneous Updates

  • Existing city bulletin boards have been removed and new freestanding boards have been placed in each loyalty city.  Only city citizens may interact with a city’s bulletin board.
  • Invisibility & Teleport Items
    • Special moves can no longer be toggled while these items are casting
    • These items can no longer be used while casting spells
    • Invisibility items now have a 2 second casting delay
    • Teleportation items now have a 1 second casting delay
  • Instanced Corpse Update
    • Only 250 items will be re-consolidated back to a public corpse from all instances.
  • Added hitching post to Shadowguard lobby

Bug Fixes

  • All pets which have been exploited  by releasing or death will have the following stats reset and incur a penalty to their advanced pet training. Strength, intelligence, dexterity, hit points, stamina, mana, base damage, and all resists will be reset to defaults. 
    • This change has been removed pending further development.
    • Pets tamed before Publish 97 (Pre-Patch Pets) with pet slots lower than their true pet slots will no longer be able to start new advanced pet training.  This is a temporary restriction to prevent further pets from entering a broken state prior to the resolution of the above referenced issue which will be resolved in Publish 100.
  • Fixed issue where quest text would get truncated in quest gumps.
  • Fixed issue where the New Haven Dark Knight quest could no longer be reached via rune.
  • Chicken coops are now shard bound and pets that have undergone animal training can no longer be placed in the coop.

Classic Client

  • Updated login screen
  • Cliloc changes
  • Art changes
  • Resolved issue where trading platinum & crimson drakes would result in classic client crashes.
  • Known Issue: The client crashes while trying to access the game credits.

Enhanced Client

  • Updated login screen
  • Cliloc changes
  • Art changes
  • Disabled the new player tutorial

 


Latest Changes

  • Fixed issue where monks in the Chamber of Virtue would not properly display a gump when doubled clicked.
  • Fixed issue with Animal Trainer quest where accepting the quest from the Town Cryer and continuing the quest with a female animal trainer vs a male animal trainer could break the quest.
  • Fixed issue where players could not use rune books or runic atlases if they were not in a player’s backpack.
  • Fixed issue where using the switch clothes command on a mannequin would be placed at the mannequin’s feet.
  • Pets tamed before Publish 97 (Pre-Patch Pets) with pet slots lower than their true pet slots will no longer be able to start new advanced pet training.
  • Improved Global Chat performance.

Issues resolved since Release 1

  • Fixed issue where the word “Origin” could not be used in the Town Cryer
  • Monks at the Chamber of Virtue will now provide an informative gump when double clicked to link with the Town Cryer article on the Virtues.
  • Fixes issue with the Blackthorn Castle quest where clues could be erroneously discovered in bad locations.
  • Maps received from the Treasure Hunting Town Cryer Quest will no longer get deleted when retrieved from a Davies’ Locker.
  • Fixed issue where the protective effects of the potion received in the Covetous Quest would not function properly.
  • Allowed EJ access to TC1 & Siege
  • Updated character creation on new Endless Journey accounts
  • Adjusted gold available in the Deluxe Starter pack token