Tonight's maintenance will be extended for up to 1 hour. Thank you, as always, for your patience.

As promised, here is our transition plan. Please do read it in its entirety. There's a lot to take in, and hopefully we've provided enough detail for you to both plan the transition, and understand why we are going down the path that we are. We look forward to seeing you in the real Britannia!

https://web2.legendsofultima.online/lou-transition-plan.pdf

Thank you all so much for joining us on stream this evening. It was great to see over 70 of you turn out to listen to us tell jokes about Cove.

The launch is imminent! Mark June 20 in your diaries. We will also have the detailed transition plan in your hands within 24 hours, and Test Center will open to the public shortly after that.

Thanks again to all of our players, new and old. We couldn't have done it without you.

It's been a long time coming, but finally... we are ready for LoU TV Episode 3! There has been a colossal amount of work put in by the team over the last few months to prepare us for the transition to the Britannia map, and we are finally ready to pull back the covers and give you all a sneak peek.

So join us next weekend over at https://www.twitch.tv/legendsofultimaofficial/ - 10am EST/2pm UTC, Saturday 17th April.

See you there!

The Easter Bunny has hid his last egg for the season! Any remaining eggs may remain in the world until the end of the day, at the next scheduled restart. Thanks to everyone who participated and we hope you had some fun.

Happy Easter from the LOU Family! Easter Eggs are being spawned around the world for you to search for that may yield some special holiday goodies. Eggs are spawned in all regions except Frozen Tundra and dungeons. Happy hunting and may you have an eggcelent Easter weekend!

Apologies all, a critical maintenance task is taking longer than expected. Will advise as soon as we're back online. Current estimate is another 15-20 minutes. Thank you for your patience.

Maintenance has finished early and the server is available for login. Please note, as per the previous message, subsequent maintenance/restart periods from today onwards will take 15 minutes. The scheduled time is 9am UTC, and service will be restored by 9:15am UTC.

This evening's maintenance and restart window will extend up to one hour while additional tasks are performed to cater for back end infrastructure changes. Moving forward from today, nightly maintenance windows will be a fixed 15 minute period. That is to say, the server will go offline at 9am UTC as usual, and return to service at 9:15am UTC, unless otherwise noted here in the #news channel.

We are back. Please note that due to some back end infrastructure changes, if you previously used the shortcut to access our server, i.e.:

cluster1.shardsonline.com:5150

You should now change to use the following:

connect.uo4.life:5001

Thanks for your patience, and happy gaming!

Due to an issue with the US cluster, we are currently offline. There is no ETA to restoration at this time. There will be another update as soon as we know more.

Apologies for the inconvenience, and thank you for your patience.

The login server for US servers will be undergoing scheduled maintenance on March 30th at 4pm UTC and is expected to last 2 hours. The server will remain online but new connections may not be accepted during the outage window.

Today marks the last day of the Winter Events for 2020. Thanks to everyone that has participated! Due to this, the special winter drops will stop dropping after tonight. For those of you that enjoy ice fishing, don't worry! We've added some new items to obtain with ice fishing, as well as a few new additions to SOS loot.

Test Center will be offline for an indefinite period while we.. do things! We'll advise here when it's back online.

The server is back online and the following patch has been applied: https://legendsofultima.gamepedia.com/Fishing_Update_December_2020

Make sure to try out the new /macro command to help with repetitive tasks

Frozen Tundra has been populated with wildlife and some wandering healers throughout.

Due to some major backend changes with the Legends of Aria architecture, we need to temporarily retire the Covetous and Destard dungeons. This will allow us to proceed with the latest LoA upgrade, including moving to a new Unity platform, which in turn lets us push ahead with our plans for the Britannia map.

Rest assured they will return in the near future. If you have characters that are logged out inside Covetous or Destard, those characters will automatically be ejected if you try to log them in. Once the regions are removed entirely, you should be prompted for a town when you try to log them in.

Thanks as always for your patience while we work through these latest challenges. Keep an eye on #news for a notice around the upgrade, at which time you'll need to update your clients as well.

Frozen Tundra is now open! Throughout the rest of the month creatures spawned in the Frozen Tundra will have a chance to drop Winter Event collectibles. There will be new monsters, mini-champs and champs to contend with. New armour and weapons to collect as well as dozens of new collectible items.

The region will be open indefinitely and is housing-enabled allowing players to place houses. Soon we will be adding the new snowy house models provided by LOA!

That's not all! In the coming days we will also be adding Fishing Updates, Ice Fishing, and the in-game Macro System! See the full details at: https://legendsofultima.gamepedia.com/Fishing_Update_December_2020

But what about Britannia?! Well don't worry we haven't lost focus on the new map, as the team has been working steadily on that as well. While we don't have anything new to show you today, we may have some further updates coming soon. Keep your eyes peeled, and in the meantime please enjoy the Winter festivities!

We are pleased to announce that Legends of Ultima will be launching our 2020 Winter Event this Sunday 13th December at 11:00am EST

The event this year is different to previous years and we are proud to announce that we will be opening the Frozen Tundra for our players to enjoy.

There will be new monsters, mini-champs and champs to contend with. New armour and weapons to collect as well as dozens of new collectable items to aquire. There are a few more surprises and more details will follow in the next few days but there will certainly be lots to keep you busy during the holiday period.

We have enabled a higher verification setting for the Discord to prevent abuse. If you were affected by this please know we did not single you out, but you just need to either A) verify your phone number on your Discord account or B) send us an email requesting an exception at [email protected] if you cannot or choose not to verify a phone number. Thanks for your understanding.

Recently we have sometimes had issues trying to contact people back due to outdated/missing Contact Info setting in-game. Please make sure to keep your contact info up-to-date so that we can get back to you or ask questions about feedback to better understand issues being reported. You can access the Contact Info setting with the /contactinfo command. Make sure your Discord username matches what you see at the bottom left of your Discord screen, and you can left-click your username to copy it and easily paste it into the game. Thanks!

With the US presidential election underway, we would like to ask everyone to please refrain from discussing politics in LOU channels. We already deal with such serious issues in our everyday lives so let's keep it out of LOU and keep our community neutral. Thank you!

During today's regularly-scheduled restart, at 9am UTC, the server will remain offline for approximately 30 minutes to deploy the following patch: https://legendsofultima.gamepedia.com/Patch_10/27/2020

Earlier this week during regular maintenance we did some cleanup of the world and inadvertently most/part of the locked event area outside of Britain was removed. Sorry for that, it was not intended and we will be considering replacing it somehow.

The Gravedigger merchant has been added to an undisclosed location, happy hunting!

From now until 11/05 Paragon monsters will have a chance to drop a special Halloween item. We have introduced 4 new Halloween masks that can be blessed and dyed, as well as 2 new Halloween single-use dye bottles for dying your costumes. Happy hunting!

Please visit the LoU TV Wiki Page at https://legendsofultima.gamepedia.com/LoU-TV

We've uploaded the answers to the questions we weren't able to get to on stream, and this will be where future episodes are given the same treatment. Thanks again for all of your questions, and we look forward to sharing more with you on our next stream!

The Vorpal Easter Bunny that spawns when opening an easter egg nest was not intended to be tameable and they have been updated to reflect that, and any existing tames removed. Subsequently, if you had tamed and stored one on a pet broker, the pet broker should now be updated as well. Sorry for the confusion! We'll try to be more careful about things like this in the future. grimacing

An issue was resolved with using the Restock Reagents option with town vendors, if they are sold out of one or more of the items, causing players to be charged without receiving items. Please let us know if you encounter any other issues with the vendors.

• An issue with torches not behaving consistently has been resolved; torches have all been moved over to a new Torch slot, and a button for it added to the paperdoll
• Attempting to purchase items from player vendors will no longer only consume gold from the bank if the purchase is over 3000gp, instead all purchases will now check bank for gold or checks
• Speech prompts, like when setting prices with player vendors, will now automatically activate chat so you can begin typing without needing to press enter first
• An issue with players not being able to call Guards on players that have become hidden has been resolved
• Stealing chance bonus added for thieves with 100 Stealing, a spreadsheet with chance calculation added at https://kutt.it/ZvCqDQ
• An issue causing pack animals to become overfilled in some cases has been resolved
• An issue has been resolved that was allowing players to mount while hidden and continue moving while mounted & hidden
• An issue with fishing nets having duplicate tooltips should be resolved
• An issue with bankers spamming "Guards!" multiple times in a row when a criminal interacts with them has been resolved
• An issue with disguised name not appearing, instead showing the character's real name in several cases has be resolved
• The chef/cook vendors should now buy items that they sell, including apples
• An issue with getting stuck inside of campfires when using Camping skill has been resolved

• An issue with some players getting stuck inside of the ice fishing huts has been resolved
• An issue has been solved with adding a large amount of potions to a keg resulting in improper amount of empty bottles being returned
• Empty bottles have been moved out of potion recipes and instead will consume an empty bottle only upon successful crafting of a potion; this is to help solve edge cases of empty bottles not being refunded sometimes during crafting
• An issue with mana being overly consumed when using quick-travel spells has been resolved
• An issue with being unable to cut fish into fillets has been resolved
• An issue with the pet broker window not re-opening after setting a price has been resolved
• An issue with some objects not being unequipped on death has been resolved
• An issue with some effects not ending and cleaning up properly if logging out and back in after the duration has expired has been resolved, most notably Incognito
• An issue that would sometimes cause mobs to spawn or leash to locations on house plots has been resolved

• An issue with the winter hair dye not working for female characters has been resolved

• An issue has been resolved sometimes causing Fishing related actions to report "You are already Fishing"

• An issue with fishing nets not working when using one from a stack has been resolved
• An issue with the Macro Creator overriding floating hotbar icons has been resolved
• The Blacksmith model houses have been retired due to a bug which only affects newly placed houses. If you already have a blacksmith model house and it still works fine then you may keep it. They are no longer utilized or supported by LOA so the blueprints have been removed from architects, but they can be sold back to the vendors for a full refund.

• Agressive rats should now ignore mobile collision/shove mechanics, if there are other small critters that do not ignore please send bug reports
• An issue with group messages sometimes referring to payers as "nil" has been resolved
• Group members should no longer trigger "... has logged in/out" alerts when switching regions
• Equipment circle buttons will now appear on player vendor paperdolls to allow owners to more easily manage the vendor's worn equipment
• An issue that sometimes causes vendors/pet brokers to be ejected from the house plot immediately when being hired should be resolved
• For privacy reasons, whispers are now restricted to friends only, meaning that you will need to have a player on your friends list in order to /tell them or whisper them
• Known Issue: Some secured objects on plots may not show the "Security" option in the right-click menu, we are investigating. As a workaround, we've added a "Manage Object Security" option to the plot menu to allow you to target a secured object and change it's security level.
• Known Issue: Some house blueprints are not displaying their dimensions in their tooltips. As a workaround, it will now display the dimensions required in a system message when trying to place a house and it does not fit.
• To aid with house placements, you can now target the mailbox directly when trying to place a house to attempt placing directly on the center of the plot.

• An issue causing players to be unable to purchase pets from pet brokers has been resolved

• An issue causing some vendor interactions not to work, most notably with the stablemasters, has been resolved

• An issue that sometimes causes mobs to decay while fighting them should be resolved
• An issue with Peacemaking not playing music sounds when succeeding has been resolved
• You are no longer able to initiate a transfer for a pet that the target would unable to control
• Player vendor interact window will now close properly when clicking "Goodbye" or "I change my mind" when deciding not to buy something
• A skinning knife/blade is now required to cut heads off of corpses
• Ghost players should no longer be able to shove or be shoved
• Small creatures like rats, turkeys, etc should no longer trigger shove mechanics

• An issue has been resolved with casting spells and then pressing escape to clear the target cursor not properly clearing the spell-loaded flag

• The missing messages for bard abilities has been added by popular demand

• Another issue with Discordance not working sometimes has been resolved
• An issue that sometimes causes another player's name to be used for Maker's Mark while crafting items should be resolved. If you encounter this further please let us know.
• An issue with the price tooltip not being applied to items newly added to player vendor has been resolved -- you can remove/re-add the item or just do "Change Price" to correct any items that don't have a price tooltip showing.

• Characters will now have a "Player Settings" right-click option to access the character's settings
• A new option has been added to the Settings window, Other tab, "Show Target Previews" which will be disabled by default, when enabled will show object preview when unpacking deeds on a house plot
• As a workaround for the known issue "Item Stuck To Cursor After Unpacking House Deeds," we've made the preview disabled by default, but if you wish to still use it you can re-enable it in the settings as described above

• An issue with mob AI causing mobs to sometimes freeze indefinitely after spawning should now be resolved

• An issue with Discordance being prevented from applying to some mobs erroneously has been resolved
• Bard effect break range has been increased moderately to extend the distance allowed from mobs before the effects will break
• An issue with monsters attacking the bard after being provoked should be completely resolved now, once monsters have been provoked they should no longer attack the bard at all, unless the effect breaks, let us know if this continues to be an issue
• Patch Note Correction: The prior patch notes state that Provo/Peace will fall off if the bard dies, that was a typo and monsters should remain peaced/provo'd even if the bard dies, as long as they stay within range.
• Clarification: Discordance does not have range check or hiding check, it only falls off after the timer ends.

• An issue has been solved preventing the Carpentry window Tools option from working.

• Player vendors will now keep track of the most recent 30 items sold on the vendor, allowing you to view when/what/how much items sold for; to view recent sales choose Interact --> Collect Gold
• You can now set a filled contained as Not For Sale (price 0), after which you will be prompted to select the price to be set to each item individually inside the container, allowing for mass-price setting
• When choosing "Change Price" on containers marked as Not For Sale, you will now be able to select a price to change the price of all items inside the container

• An issue with "Freeze Title" not working in the Titles window, which was causing titles to change frequently while gaining skills, has been resolved

https://legendsofultima.gamepedia.com/Patch_10/27/2020

Bard abilities have had an optimization pass:

• An issue causing monsters that have been provoked to continue attacking the bard instead has been resolved, mostly
• You can now Provoke beings against players or pets although it may be a criminal action
• You can now directly pacify players and pets with Peacemaking although it may be a criminal action
• Pacifying a player will simply remove them from war-mode state; pacified pets will be treated similarly to monsters causing them to freeze for a short time
• You can now perform an Area Peacemaking by activating the skill and targeting yourself to pacify to all nearby enemies (skips targets that would cause a criminal action)
• Peacemaking and Provocation effects will now break on mobs if the bard dies, goes out of range or becomes hidden (see next line) or unavailable
• Bards with 75 points or more of Hiding will be able to hide without breaking the effects
• Monsters that have been influenced by a bard's song will be more inclined to aggro against the bard when the effect(s) break
• Equippable instruments will no longer default to Equip when double-clicking it in some cases
• Equippable instruments now act as a weapon using Wrestling skill
• Instruments context option "Play" replaced with "Use" to play the instrument to practice Musicianship skill
• Bard/instrument cooldowns will now appear as an icon at the top to help indicate when you can play another song

Mobile collision/shoving:

• Walking directly over/through a mob will cause a moment of movement slowness for 'shoving' them out of the way
• Mobs that have been shoved will play an animation to indicate that they have been shoved, but otherwise are unaffected
• When walking through an invisible player/pet will alert you to shoving "something invisible"
• Icon appears at top after you shove someone to indicate movement slowness

• Player vendors have been converted over to a new Speech Prompt to set prices for items being added to sale from chat versus a window
• As requested, we will be working soon to add mass price-setting for items in a container
• An issue with skeletal mounts decaying after taming them has been resolved
• An earlier attempt was made to fix this but did not get applied correctly, the hotfix is now live and freshly spawned mounts will be have the fix

• Books will now have the words "a book titled: " added to the front of their name when being renamed, and any existing books, that have been renamed, have also have their names changed
• An issue with the war-torn warg ethereal not mounting when using it has been resolved; stuck ethereal statues will become unstuck when successfully using the statue following the update
• An issue with summons not decaying automatically after being summoned has been resolved

• An issue that would cause items to sometimes get stuck to the cursor due to picking up/dropping items rapidly has been resolved

• An issue with not being able to mill some items has been resolved

• Nightsight has been optimized and should provide the brightest daylight while using it, and it should persist through logouts and region transfers
• Nightsight will now end and prevent stormy weather while under the effect
• Nightsight duration has been reduced from 60+ minutes to 20 minutes max
• Note: Dungeons are still not equipped with Suns and thus Nightsight still does not help inside Dungeons

• Scissors auto-salvaging contents of a container will now skip cutting cloth to bandages
• Wooden club and black staff can now be salvaged for wood
• Target closest enemy command (/targ enemy) will now avoid selecting same group/guild players and their pets
• An issue with Runebooks sometimes causing runes to be duplicated has been resolved
• An issue with town vendors guard-whacking themselves has been resolved
• An issue with Magic Lock state not being removed from containers that have been unlocked/picked has been resolved, pre-existing containers will have this cleared the next time it is unlocked/picked
• An issue with players not being able to defend against pets in PVP without triggering criminal action has been resolved
• An issue with Recall sometimes fizzling repeatedly after cancelling a scroll-cast has been resolved

General fixes and changes:

• An issue with gravedigging monsters sometimes becoming frozen and defenseless has been optimized, let us know if it continues
• Mounts will now have invisibility broken when being mounted
• You can no longer use the mount command to mount an invisible pet
• You can no longer use objects inside of locked containers, including attempting to equip objects or use/count/stack resources from locked containers
• Lockboxes are now lockpickable
• Locked containers can now be locked down, previously would say "cannot lockdown locked containers"
• Town vendors will now properly round their inventory numbers while restocking to prevent decimals, and rounding has been added to the "Set" input in the Sell window

Door Improvements:

• An issue with monsters being thrown outside the dungeon walls when a door closes has been resolved, mobs should now be moved appropriately in front of the door if they manage to get stuck in the doorway
• Doors will no longer close while a live being is obstructing the doorway, up to a limit, if the door has auto-close it will force-close after 2 minutes
• Door obstruction checks are currently only setup for dungeon doors, as this is where we have the most problem, this functionality will eventually be normal behavior for every door in LOU

• An issue causing Gravedigging to sometimes produce nothing while consuming a charge has been resolved
• Gravedigging now has a chance to produce pumpkins that can be carved into jack o lanterns

We are aware of an issue with buff/debuff icons not showing consistently, or disappearing prematurely. No more reports of this issue are needed at this time, thank you.

We are aware that the Green Checkered Stall House Addon is appearing as just a wooden frame without any canopy. We are looking into it.

We are aware that the Player Settings option "Restock Amount" is not working with the latest update to the vendors system. Please use the "Restock Reagents" button in the Vendor Buy window, or Set and Set All, as a workaround.

We are aware of an issue with items not decaying consistently when they are dropped on a plot.

    Some deco objects have larger bounds than necessary causing a buffer between the object and the end of the plot bounds -- please send bug reports with link to screenshot or description of items affected, we'll do our best to optimize

    Skinning for mobs occasionally gives logs or skulls

    Housing cannot be placed when the deed is not in your main backpack. Make sure blueprints are in your main backpack when trying to place them for now

    Trees/Rocks - May occasionally be 'too far' to chop/mine (mostly resolved)

    Decoration - the decorate window is sometimes prevented from coming up, or working properly after locking down an object on a plot

    Treasure maps - Some treasure maps can't be deciphered, or chests may spawn inside a player's plot. The system is being overhauled and later this should no longer occur.  If you don't want to run the risk of maps not working or chests not being accessible, please hold off on using maps until such time as this work is complete. https://discordapp.com/channels/369023244038045697/369027320360599552/565333890676293646

    Lag issues in Upper Plains (and to a lesser degree Southern Hills) are known issues.  There is no short term resolution on this.  We expect a lot of this to improve significantly once we move to the new map.

    If you get stuck on any in game landscape (eg mountain/rock faces etc), use /stuck, recall, or failing those options, page a GM.  These are not bugs we can resolve on the current map.

    Craft All is interrupted frequently especially in busier regions such as Upper Plains (Moonglow, Cove) and Southern Hills (Britain). Britannia map will fix this.

    Power Hour gain issues can't be replicated; use the /skillgaindebug command to see what your Base Chance is (chance prior to any buffs/debuffs), plus if you are receiving a bonus/debuff for any reason, as well as the Final Chance (after buffs/debuffs) 

    Engraving doesn't always work on some books

    Dyetubs have several objects which cannot be dyed as expected with the new Dye-tubs, please send bug reports with specific information about items you'd expect to be able to dye

    Unequipping items on paperdolls may not work.  Double click a replacement item in your backpack to equip gear in the meantime, or right click & unequip

    Robes Of The Vampire sometimes do not properly display its visual effects

    Guards sometimes whack players when using some utility spells like Mark

    Containers sometimes don't show their contents, this is a client-related issue and we anticipate that an upcoming Client Patch will resolve this

    Maker's Mark: Crafted items may not receive the Maker's Mark when they're supposed to, or some objects may receive a Maker's Mark when they shouldn't

    Disguise Kit shows a player's real name in chat, as well as on the player's corpse

    Mobs and NPCs may walk through walls and see through walls. CS has been made aware of this and we will be in more control of these kinds of issues when we switch to the Britannia map.

    Items taken from crates in town may get stuck in your backpack.  Page for a fix (or die and leave them on your corpse).

    Part of the UI may not load including healthbar(s), hotbar(s), weapon abilities, etc. -- A known solution is to switch server regions, for example if you are in Upper Plains (Moonglow) then travel to Southern Hills (Britain).

    Marking a rune may cause the sound of the spell to persist perpetually.  The only resolution is a relog at this time.

    Sometimes the game says that's too far away in error.

    Mounts other than Horse may not work in some or all of the regions.

    The 5 Star General Enchantment has caused server crashes and we will be disabling this enchantment permanently.

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