Publish 43 Further Updates

Publish 43 Incremental Update 7

UO Team 18 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

• Fixed an issue that was causing Gingerbread houses to sometimes get destroyed after being axed or from customizing the in which house they were placed. NOTE: this does NOT fix currently placed Gingerbread houses.
• Characters 30 days or older will receive an extra holiday stocking with a deed for a Gingerbread house until Feb. 1st.
• The motherlode skill gain feature has been turned off. You can still get blackrock from mining in the motherlode regions, but the enhanced energy of the area has faded.
• Catskills downtime gifts will no longer be given out
• Trial of Ricardo no longer stops running part way through
• Fixed incorrect skill use text used by Lady Melisande
• Added four new quest giver npcs in the Lycaeum for this week’s event

Publish 43 Incremental Update 8

UO Team 02 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST

• Winter Reapers will no longer spawn
• Valentine’s Day content:
  • Characters more than 30 days old will receive a Red Velvet Box containing the following:
    • Rose in a Vase – the flower is dyeable with a furniture dye tub (blessed)
    • 10 Valentine’s Day Cards (blessed)
      • Come in 5 different sayings
      • Players double-click card and target a player of their choice to fill in the appropriate names
      • Each card can only be used once
  • If there isn’t room in the bank or backpack for the gift container, the player will receive a message to make room and log in again.

Publish 43 Incremental Update 9

UO Team 14 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST

• Books of Truth will no longer drop
• Dark Wisps have been discovered near the Lycaeum on TC1
  • This is an ideal time to discover their weaknesses for yourselves, while there’s still time

Publish 43 Incremental Update 10

UO Team 22 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST

• Fixed issue that caused Candle of Love spawns to get stuck
• Candle of Love spawns will now reset after server maintenance
• Fixed guard zone around the Shrine of Justice on Siege/Mugen
• Shrine respawn timer shortened from 6 hours to 4 hours
• Soulstones can no longer be used when a player is under the effect of a Scroll of Alacrity
• Fixed issue with the reward Candle not getting assigned an appropriate player name
• Increased Scroll of Alacrity drop rate
• Sudiva and the Large Ogre Lord will no longer become blackrock infected.

22 Mar 2007 18:43:27 EST

Candle of Love event fixes:
– Increased invasion replenish counts
– Invasion creatures will now teleport to their target if they are stuck, unless the target is in a house or a boat
– Increased the speed with which the invasion will return to a cleansed shrine
– Fixed an issue with the shrine sparkles when the quest was on
– Reward candle no longer gets equipped when a player double-clicks on it while it is locked down in a house

– The dungeon Wrong has been retaken by evil mages, lizardmen, ogres, trolls, and other ferocious monsters.
26 Mar 2007 16:43:56 EST

At 2:30PM PDT on Monday, Mar 26 (Mar 26 10:30PM GMT) the following will be published to Origin and Pacific:

– A bug that caused the maintenance cycle to interfere with the Candle of Love event has been fixed<

– An issue that created a large guard zone around the Shrine of Justice has been resolved and the guard zone will be removed.

Publish 43 Incremental Update 11

UO Team 19 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EST

• Mysterious traders have appeared in Haven:
  • Traders in dark robes will walk around Haven and give rewards for blackrock
    • Players can trade blackrock by dragging it on the traders to get a random reward
    • Each type of blackrock gives a different chance at a reward
      • The more rare types will tend to give better rewards
  • Traders do not stay in one location for long
• Blackrock mining at the “Motherlode” locations is turned off
• The difficulty of mining blackrock in normal locations have been increased
• Necromancy may now be used instead of Magery when trying to cast Armageddon

(This event will be in Ocllo on Siege Perilous)