Publish 50

UO Team 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

Changed all Blacksmithing and Tailoring runic intensities. Runics will now better match up to higher end loot. Maximum intensities are now 100% for all tailoring and blacksmithy runics, minimums are as follows:

• Blacksmithing:
  • Dull Copper: was 10, now 40
  • Shadow: was 20, now 45
  • Copper: was 25, now 50
  • Bronze: was 30, now 55
  • Gold: was 35, now 60
  • Agapite: was 40, now 65
  • Verite: was 45, now 70
  • Valorite: was 50, now 85
• Tailoring:
  • Spined: was 20, now 40
  • Horned: was 30, now 45
  • Barbed: was 40, now 50
• Increased chance for GM smiths to get a hued BOD: +20% at 110 skill, +40% at 120 skill
• Increased chance of receiving a Valorite BOD
• Large footwear BODs should now be available in hues
• BODs now have a 10 second wait time between turnins
• NPCs now vocally acknowledge a BOD turnin
• Creatures now give double meat resources in Felucca (except Siege and Mugen)
• Frenzied Whirlwind now does more damage: 20 – 50 per strike
• Certain Dragons have been buffed; they are now more powerful than Cu-Sidhe, Reptalons, or Hiryus but take 5 control slots
• Ancient Wyrms now even more dangerous and powerful
• Harrower resists and weapon skills slightly lowered
• Bag of Sending fixed to handle items’ weight ranges properly:
  • 1 – 10 stones cost one charge
  • 11 – 20 costs two, etc.
• Broken quest chains can now be resigned from properly
• Fixed bug where NPCs at the New Haven dock could block escort
• quests
• Fixed bug where player can become stuck when trying to leave the Dark Knight challenge
• Salvage bag: No longer creates overweight situations
• Salvage bag: Recycles cloth without problems when multiple items exist in the bag
• Salvage bag: Recovered resources will now stack appropriately
• Removed monster firecrackers and particle effects on death
• Blackrock elementals will not be a factor in your Valentine’s Day mining activities
• Disabled Halloween trick or treating
• Disabled pumpkins from spawning
• Magincia: Travel spells reenabled
• Magincia: Permanent teleporters set up between Trinsic and Magincia (near the docks on each), both on solid ground
• The New Haven moongate (southwest of the city) received worldbuilding updates, and a guard zone
• Fixed an exploit where Champ Spawns can be guardwhacked
• Fixed an issue where the Damage Increase property on runic-crafted weapons was occasionally being dropped

Valentine’s Day Content:

• Gift box spawns on characters older than 30 days
• Added three new books of poetry
• Added new NPC to sell books of poetry, called “Francis the Chapman” inside the Britain Conservatory
• Rare pink bunnies will now spawn in a few hues throughout the land. Extremely rare purple bunny may make an appearance
• Added four new “Stuffy Animals” that can be snuggled with at home
• Added new Valentine’s Day cards, in softer pastel pinks and whites. Several new messages
• Added dark, milk, and white chocolates
• New park area built around the Yew Waterfalls
• Added a new Chocolatiering branch to the Cooking skill (Known Issue: the new chocolates only appear on the Cooking menu in 2D)
• Added new chocolate ingredients that spawn on paragon monsters
• Live event content

Publish 50 Incremental Update

UO Team 20 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

• The Salvage Bag should now return the correct amount of leather when salvaging multiple leather items at once.
• Fixed an exploit