Publish 29 28th January

Publish 29 28th January

<h1>Publish 29 Updates and Bug Fixes</h1> UO Team 28 Jan 2005 00:00:00 EST Publish 29, as with most game publishes, contains a number of game updates and bug fixes. This article contains a summary of the game improvements that came about with Publish 29 <b>Publish 29</b> contains the following changes, fixes, and additions: <b>General Fixes/Tweaks/Enhancements</b> <ul> <ul> <ul> <li>Moved Britain starting location from The Sweet Dream’s Inn to the Wayfarer’s Inn in east Britain</li> <li>Damage numbers are now shown for you and any pets or controlled NPCs that are in your range</li> <li>NPC job titles, "(Paragon)", and "(General)" now appear in "allnames"</li> <li>Fixed an issue when a member of a faction guild quit made most guild members removed from the faction</li> <li>Holiday gifts will no longer be distributed</li> <li>Passive detect hidden no longer reveals group mates and allied faction members in Felucca / Siege</li> <li>Pet ghosts no longer stay around for days. Pet ghosts will now only exist for 24 hours, after which they will vanish, even if their owner is online</li> <li>Pets with high Magery were casting invisible on themselves too often. Pets will now cast heal or greater heal instead of invisibility.</li> <li>Added the ability to unfriend pets via the context menu</li> <li>Pet hit points will no longer refill when crossing server lines</li> <li>Fixed an issue with crossing a server-line having a value of 0 in a stat would refill that stat</li> <li>Can no longer create a blank alliance name</li> <li>Weight will no longer remain if gold is in 2 piles when tithed</li> <li>New characters will now default to having show guild invites turned off</li> <li>Fixed the misspelled sign at the Bank of Trinsic</li> <li>Also fixed Britannia Provisions misspelled sign</li> <li>Setting a blank InvokeVirtue macro will no longer cause the client to crash</li> <li>Fixed a crash bug in 3D client involving the name macro field</li> <li>Fixed a crash bug in 3D client related to trying to delete 2 skill groups at once</li> <li>Fixed a crash bug related to renaming a book’s title</li> <li>A warning message was added to the guild invite gump informing players that they are attackable if they accept</li> <li>Attempts to recall into west Britain will be redirected to a safe location</li> <li>Attempts to open gates into west Britain from outside the area will be redirected to a safe location, Gates opened from inside west Britain can be used normally</li> </ul> </ul> </ul> <b>Item Fixes/Changes</b> <ul> <li>Reuse delay for wands is now the equivalent of casting a like spell. Fast-casting will apply to wands.</li> <li>Clothing Bless Deeds now work on SE clothes</li> <li>Fukiya Darts and Shurikens can no longer be thrown at yellow NPCs</li> <li>Dread Pirate Hat has been improved</li> <li>Spirit Speak is now a possible skill bonus on magic jewelry</li> <li>Gold Bricks can no longer be fed to pet White Wyrms</li> <li>Soulstone: Skill absorption animation will no longer play when skill points are flushed</li> <li>Hearth of the Homefire no longer turns after exiting house custimization mode</li> <li>Bolts now have a chance to spawn in dungeon chests</li> <li>Corrected typo when trying to re-deed mistletoe with a non-house owner</li> <li>Add-on type items will no longer disappear when a house is demolished</li> <li>Players can now uninsure items that were blessed after already being insured</li> <li>Big Fish should provide more fish steaks when cut up (now its weight / 5 will determine number of fish steaks (minimum of 4))</li> <li>Fixed two issues with Event JP Finnigan Prize Giveout</li> <li>Stackable loot is now distributed proportionally between instanced corpses involving two or more party members in the top attackers list</li> </ul> <b>Combat Fixes/Tweaks</b> <ul> <li>Fixed an issue that could allow archers to fire while on the move</li> <li>Players can no longer throw bolas while in Animal Form</li> <li>Bola throwing now correctly prevents re-mounting of Hiryu and Lesser Hiryu</li> <li>Fixed an issue causing the No-Dachi Riding Swipe, when used to dismount a murderer or criminal, to make the player become a criminal.</li> <li>Provoked and controlled creatures should no longer heal aggressors</li> <li>Fixed an issue that allowed a player to activate Moving Shot, then before the arrow hit, activate Armor Ignore</li> <li>Fixed an issue that allowed special moves to automatically hit when a spell landed</li> <li>Fixed an issued allowing Lightning strike to allow a player to ignore disarm timer</li> </ul> <b>Spell Casting Adjustments</b> <ul> <li>Summoned daemons will now take 4 control slots instead of 5.</li> <li>Improved AI and damage for Air and Water Elementals</li> <li>Ninja Mirror Images are now affected by multi-target spells</li> <li>Fixed an issue causing criminal’s Mirror Images to appear blue</li> <li>Fixed an issue with Mana Drain not restoring the target’s mana after 4 seconds in rare cases</li> <li>Mage field spells cast on ships no longer cause the ship to stop moving</li> </ul> <b>Creature and Spawning Fixes/Adjustments</b> <ul> <li>Male Ronin will now give as much loot as female Ronin</li> <li>Reduced amount of loot dropped by Fan Dancers</li> <li>Lesser Hiryu no longer give quite as good loot</li> <li>Doom Guardians will now spawn treasure map of random level (1-3) instead of spawning level 3-4 maps</li> <li>Can no longer use Animate Dead to turn Dark Father corpse into bones</li> </ul> <b>Slayer Changes</b> <ul> <li>Blood Elemental Slayer weapons / instruments will now spawn as common slayer weapons / instruments</li> <li>Snow Elemental Slayer effect has been improved to now include Ice Elementals</li> <li>Added Sand Vortex and Efreet to Elemental super slayer group</li> <li>Repond, Wolf, Reptile, and Daemon Slayer groups have been updated</li> <li>Yomotsu and Fan Dancers have been removed from the Repond group</li> <li>Fan Dancer has been added to the Demon Slayer group</li> <li>All Daemon Slayers will become demon slayers</li> <li>Daemon Slayers will no longer spawn</li> </ul> <b>Changes not announced until all shards were published</b> <ul> <li>House Placement: Locked down items will no longer vanish from house when boat is backed under corner of house</li> <li>Can no longer ban a pet while riding it</li> <li>Hiryu dismount special move can no longer be used to separate a Chaos Dragoon Elite from his mount</li> <li>When attempting to make yourself a friend while in the middle of transferring your pet to another player, you will receive the following message: You cannot friend a pet with a trade pending</li> <li>Necromancer familiars and animates can no longer be stabled</li> <li>Murderers can no longer use Virtues via a macro</li> <li>Fixed an issue with pet slots after logging out while on a Hiryu</li> <li>Fukiya Darts and Shurikens no longer give gains in Ninjitsu for non-entitled Samurai Empire accounts</li> <li>Fixed an issued allowing Lightning strike to allow a player to ignore disarm timer</li> <li>Fixed an issue that allowed special moves to automatically hit when a spell landed</li> <li>Can no longer use a Soulstone if character is located on a different sub-server</li> <li>Locked-down rune books can no longer be dyed by other players</li> <li>Player characters are now able to equip a sword and torch at the same time</li> </ul>