Publish 37 Additions, Changes, and Fixes
UO Team 27 Oct 2005 00:00:00 EST
Publish 37, as with most game publishes, contains a number of game updates and bug fixes. This article contains an updated summary of the game improvements that will come about with Publish 37.
General:
- Reverted the hunger system back to the way it worked prior to Mondain’s Legacy
- Party looting will now be off by default
- Elves no longer lose their 20 points of mana gained from their racial ability when they cross a server line
- Players who have not upgraded to Mondain’s Legacy now have the correct menu options when using a hairstylist.
- Fixed an issue that occasionally caused Elves with certain types of hairstyles to lose their hair
- Sea serpent scales are no longer mislabeled as dragon scales in certain situations
- You can now rename ship keys again. To do this, double-click the key and then target it
- All characters on the account that placed a vendor can now fully customize it
- Fixed an issue that limited the number of kegs that could be put on a vendor
- Players can no longer trade items directly from a vendor’s pack
- Plant security settings now work properly
- Fixed a few issues that caused the Rose of Trinsic to not always produce a petal every 4 hours in certain situations
- Hearth of the Home Fire now displays its name correctly
- Objects with the same hue as frostwood will no longer display the item property “frostwood”
- Re-deeded spinning wheels now display their orientation correctly
- Talisman of Fey can no longer be bonded to players
- Spellweaving spellbooks no longer use lockdown slots for each spell they contain
- Elementals spawned by Gargoyle Pickaxes are now hued
- Players can no longer give a Lucky Necklace to an NPC jeweler
- Fixed an issue that caused the small urn to act like a container when items were placed on it
- Thrasher’s Tail no longer acts as a flax bundle
- Runebooks now display the correct sextant coordinates
- Replaced the “”W”” was missing from the longitude coordinate in runebooks in the 2D client
- Players can now see their paperdoll title when in animal or monster form
- The Wild Staff can no longer be used to cut up animal corpses
- Fixed a misspelling with Sculptor NPCs
- The chat window no longer closes when you cross a server line
- The chat window now minimizes instead of closing when you die
- Throwing an Arcane Focus in the trash now removes the Arcane Focus script from your character. Characters that had this script permanently attached to them before are now fixed.
- The Cu’Sidhe can no longer be tamed by Necromancers unless they have the appropriate taming ability
- Players are no longer able to recall to a boat placed in T2A Felucca, unless the player is already in T2A
- Bandages from the Fountain of Life now work with the Veterinary skill
- Various server stability and other back-end fixes
Quests:
- Escort NPCs can now follow players through gates to different facets
- Fixed an issue with doing escorts to Ocllo
- Object timers now update correctly when you log out
- A timer has been added to the quests Message in a Bottle and Waiting to be Filled so that players cannot retake these quests repeatedly
- The Broken Shaft quest now asks for arrows instead of fukiya darts
- New characters who start as ninjas are now correctly told to equip their tekagi instead of their shuko during the Mongbat Quest
Crafting / Craftables:
- Wooden clubs are now craftable and enhancable
- Commodity deeds now display what type of wood they contain
- All versions of the Radiant Scimitar can now be repaired and enhanced
- Crafting boards out of rare wood with “”do not color”” toggled will no longer result in plain boards
- Ring mail Gloves can now be smelted
- Smelting ore when your backpack is overweight no longer causes the produced ingots to drop to the ground
- Fixed an issue that caused certain craftable artifact weapons to occasionally receive properties with 0 intensity
- Egg bombs can now be made with bags of flour
- Boards crafted from Frostwood no longer have a chance of receiving spell channeling on them
- Elven Reading Chairs now display their name properly when they have been turned
- Clothing bless deeds now work on male and female kimonos
Combat:
- Fixed an issue that caused tamers to not always highlight properly when flagged as an aggressor
- Riding Swipe now properly damages mounts
- Riding Swipe now works properly on Hiryus
- Disarm now works properly on Ornate Axes, War Cleavers and Crooks
- Corrected older Ornate Axes to do about the same amount of damage as new ones
- The hit lower defense property on Mace and Shield reading glasses now works as intended
- The 10% damage bonus on the Quiver of Infinity now works as intended
- Recovered arrows no longer go into a player’s backpack when the Quiver of Infinity is equipped
- Using the Quiver of Elements and Consecrate Weapon at the same time now applies the correct amount of damage
- You can now place arrows into a quiver that already has arrows in it
- Quivers now display the number of arrows remaining in them on their tool-tip
- Faction traps now show what faction they belong to
- Faction trap removal kits now show how many uses they have left
- Fixed an issue that could cause players to get stuck in Vampiric Embrace
- Players can no longer use incognito or body paint while in vampire form
- Ninja mirror images will now appear as the correct color
- Blue mirror images now flag grey when their owner flags grey to a murderer
- Players now do 1 point of damage to Golems with every hit of a 100% poison weapon
Pets:
- Players lacking the required amount of real skill (skill level before jewelry bonuses) to bond with their pet will now receive a message informing them of this
- Fixed an issue that would cause certain types of pets to lose hitpoints when they crossed a server line
- Pack animals that go wild now drop their owner’s items they were holding into special bag on the ground.
- Players can now stable the Imprisoned Dog
- The Imprisoned Dog no longer imitates invisible players
- Fixed an issue that could cause a pets hit points to be reset if their strength was at its cap and the pet got blessed.
- Pets that have been polymorphed now correctly use the player’s veterinary skill to heal the pet, instead of the player’s healing skill
- Fire Beetles are no longer colored to dead players in the 2D client
- Pet parrot perches now automatically lock down when placed inside of houses
Dungeon / Map:
- Fixed an issue that caused a spiked trap to continually spawn in one location in the Citadel dungeon
- Ilshenar minor artifacts no longer drop from ML monsters
- Reduced the chances of receiving a minor artifact from Mondain’s Legacy Mini-bosses.
- Young players are now warned in the hallway leading into the Doom dungeon that they are not safe, rather than once they drop into the hole.
- Paragon Golems no longer spawn in the dungeon of Wrong
- Paragon Golems now spawn less frequently in Ilshenar
- Marble Stairs no longer drop from Paragon Golems
- Changelings in Twisted Weald no longer go to inappropriate areas
- Changelings will now return to their changeling body type as appropriate
- Jukan Warriors no longer say strange things when using paralyzing blow
- The Prism of Light ticket is now destroyed when it is placed on the ground
- Fixed an issue that caused some Orc Brutes to not carry loot
- Fixed an issue that sometimes allowed Paroxysmus to teleport players to a location where they could get stuck
- Fixed a stuck location in the Palace of Paroxysmus
- Fixed the “”No dest Object Variable found bark when crossing a teleporter in Wind
- Removed a treasure chest spawn that could block narrow passage ways in Hythloth
- Fixed a rubber banding issue at a Delucia cave entrance
- Fixed a few lava tiles in the lava river in the Fire Dungeon
- Added a teleport tile onto a roof in the Fire dungeon that previously would cause a player to be stuck up there
- Fixed a Dungeon of Destard stuck location
- Fixed a Trammel / Felucca stuck location near a cliff
- Added the missing half of an island in Trammel / Felucca
- Fixed various missing water tiles in Trammel / Felucca
- Repaired the upper section of the city walls near the Warrior’s guild in Serpent’s Hold
- Adjusted the doors in Serpent’s Hold Stables so they are no longer hang off center
- Removed a section of plaster wall near the Assassin’s Guild in Buc’s Den that shouldn’t have been there
- Bowyers will now spawn in the bowyer shop in Yew
Client:
- Improved the way object handles display names
- Tracking arrow now lines up better with target in 2D client
- The sounds slider bar in the options menu now works correctly
- Ambient jungle sounds no longer persist when you leave the jungle
- Players and creatures will no longer disappear when a frame of animation cannot be found. This change addresses several issues such as:
- Players horse disappears when they are net fishing while mounted
- Parrot disappears when it squawks
- Player disappears while lumberjacking in Horrific Beast form (2D client)
- Fixed a few spots in Ilshenar that were too dark
- Fixed a trailing issue for players riding beetles while wearing a wizard’s hat
- Revenants will now correctly display the equipment they are wearing
- Fixed an issue where the party looting rights toggle did not always display the correct information
- The Abattoir house add-on no longer disappears when the OmitBlood option is enabled.
- The skills list now closes correctly when you hit the back button during character creation
- Fixed an art issue on the Elven Wash Basin (south)
- Tall Elven Beds no longer clip second floor tiles
- Flowered hairstyle now has a flower in 3D client
- Carpets now show up correctly on the 2nd floor of the Britain Library
- Characters who equip a repeating crossbow no longer have a black dot show up on their forehead in their paperdoll
- Fixed a clipping issue with Leaf Tonlets in 3D client
- Gold no longer falls through certain floor tiles
- Spiked hair no longer clips through certain helmets
- Mounted player no longer sits to the side of a Cu Sidhe
- String of Shells is no longer visible through upper floors when placed on a lower floor
- Fixed windowed wall tiles that weren’t aligned correctly
- Gauntlets of Valor no longer disappear while wearing a robe in 3D client
- Elven Pants and Leaf Leggings now fit better with older clothing such as thigh boots in 2D client
- Trimmed down the Elven Pauldrons – made them more slim fitting so that they conceal better under jackets in 2D client
- Help menu text is now less bright is 3D client
- Fixed an issue with the Bed of Nails that caused clipping to occur if it was placed too close to other items
- Adjusted the height of the bark roof x intersection
- The Wizard’s Hat no longer leaves a trail when worn by a player riding a beetle
- The Flowered Hairstyle now displays a flower in the 3D client
- Added legs to Ornate Elven Tables
Pub37 Exploits / Other Issues:
- Making cloth from a loom can no longer overload a player with a full backpack
- Chopping house add-on deeds can no longer overload a player with a full backpack
- Players can no longer be in animal form before they change races
- Non-Faction characters can steal a city faction sigil by summoning a horde minion familiar
- Using a DoT on a player that changes into the serpent animal form will no longer keep poisoning the victim.
- Stacked items are no longer able to be split while on a vendor
- Players can no longer teleport onto stools
- The Shimmering Effusion waiting room is now considered a boss fight region
- The area around the teleporter in the Travesty room is now a boss fight region
- Interred Grizzles will no longer continually spawn indefinitely in the Bedlam Dungeon.
- Gauntlet Bosses will now attack “”Young”” players
- Fixed an exploit that caused pets only take up 1 control slot
- Players can no longer store large quantities of resources cheaply on player ran vendors
- Barrels and over-loaded containers no longer allow players to use vendor as storage space
- Containers weight no longer overflows if the container exceeds 65535 stones
- You are no longer able to use items that are on a stabled pack animal
- Dyed ninja belts can no longer be cut for rare colors and spined, horned, and barbed leather
- Logging out of the client no longer resets the timer for planting green thorns
- Area of Effect magery spells no longer damage targets that should be out of sight
- Removed the ability for players to get underneath a pond in Felucca
- Ninja mirror images will now appear as the correct color
- Blue mirror images now flag grey when their owner flags grey to a murderer
- Familiars will no longer attack old targets causing the owner to become criminal
- Players are no longer able to dye secured bags in someone else’s house
- Players can no longer dye reward statues that are locked down
- Ethereal mount statues now work properly if a player dies while summoning it
- Faction traps are no longer stackable in one tile
- Fixed an exploit that allowed players to obtain golden skulls easily
- Fixed a few areas in the new dungeons that allowed players to attack creatures with ranged weapons and spells without being attacked
- Elves that use savage tribal paint no longer appear as humans and display helms they are wearing as normal human instead of modified elven helmets
- Players can no longer teleport under the lake in Destard
ERT Fixes:
- Fixed an issue that allowed players to place items on other players
- Peerless boss teleport items now display which facet they can be used in if they are for dungeons in Trammel or Felucca