Written by: LoU Staff @ Sun, 25 Oct 2020 04:08:24 UTC

The server is experiencing an issue periodically causing a freeze in Southern Hills which eventually leads to a crash. The server is offline for the time being while we investigate further.

If you were/are in-game doing something in Southern Hills and immediately after you notice that things stop responding for some time please reach out to Gorgan in Discord so we can try to isolate the issue.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Sun, 25 Oct 2020 03:27:47 UTC

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.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Sun, 25 Oct 2020 00:30:42 UTC

We are investigating causes of a server crash that has happened more than once the past week, we have rolled back a change made recently to attempt to isolate the issue. The patch being rolled back is as follows:

• An issue with players not being able to defend against pets in PVP without triggering criminal action has been resolved

We will continue monitoring and review this change further, but in the meantime please be aware the original issue that was being addressed will remain until this is resolved again.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Wed, 21 Oct 2020 21:26:08 UTC

Users in Quebec should now be able to connect to LOU, we've been informed that the outage between the ISP there and Cloudflare has been resolved and users are now able to connect.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Thu, 15 Oct 2020 01:44:05 UTC

An issue has been identified with some users in Quebec that are experiencing timeouts when trying to connect to LOU. We are investigating the issue and hope to resolve it as quickly as possible. In the meantime, if you are affected and have access to a VPN or Mobile Hotspot it may be a possible workaround to connect through that until the issue is resolved. Thanks for your patience!

Written by: LoU Staff @ Mon, 12 Oct 2020 23:37:07 UTC

The server update has been deployed and is coming back online now. Please make sure you have the latest client version installed in order to play LOU. Thanks for your patience through the downtime today.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Mon, 12 Oct 2020 23:22:01 UTC

The server is now offline for approx 15-30 minutes while we deploy the latest update. Please make sure you have the latest client installed. We'll post again when the server is coming back online.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Mon, 12 Oct 2020 22:12:51 UTC

The server will be going offline at 6pm CDT/11pm UTC to deploy to the latest version. Please make sure you have the latest client installed. We'll post again once the server goes down and again when it is due to come back up. Thanks for your patience!

Written by: LoU Staff @ Mon, 12 Oct 2020 20:35:16 UTC

Service has been restored, however we've not yet had a chance to apply today's updates from LOA so please continue using the legacy client to connect to LOU in the meantime. Thanks for your patience.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Mon, 12 Oct 2020 20:03:29 UTC

The server is having difficulty connecting and we are investigating at this time. Updates that were released today from LOA have not been applied to LOU yet, but we will try to apply them before service is restored. We'll post again once we know more.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Fri, 09 Oct 2020 19:46:20 UTC

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

Written by: LoU Staff @ Fri, 09 Oct 2020 19:31:44 UTC

The server is coming back online and the Gravedigging patch has been applied. The Gravedigger merchant has not been added just yet but we will post again soon, once they are available.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Mon, 05 Oct 2020 08:59:18 UTC

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!

Written by: LoU Staff @ Thu, 17 Sep 2020 04:42:41 UTC

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!

Written by: LoU Staff @ Fri, 11 Sep 2020 02:08:26 UTC

The server has been updated to support client v1.2.0.0 and is now coming back online.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Fri, 11 Sep 2020 01:49:20 UTC

The server is now offline for scheduled updates. Please make sure to have the latest client version installed. We will post again when the server is coming back online. Expected downtime is 15-30 minutes.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Fri, 11 Sep 2020 01:10:26 UTC

The server will be going offline at 2am UTC/9pm CDT to apply updates.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Sat, 29 Aug 2020 15:37:48 UTC

Thanks for joining our stream today! Test Center is back online, and Wrong is available for testing. Head on up to the Britain Graveyard to find the portal to the entry.

To get back to Britain, you can of course Recall, or there is a portal south of the Wrong entry, down the road a little. Don't forget to give us some feedback over in #dungeon-wrong-feedback

Written by: LoU Staff @ Sat, 22 Aug 2020 15:01:58 UTC

It's been a while, however we're ready to get moving with our next stream! This will be scheduled for 10am EST/3pm UTC next Saturday 29th of August. If you can't make that time, don't worry, we'll be recording the stream and will make it available on YouTube after the fact, or you can watch the VOD on Twitch.

In the next day or two, we'll share a link that will let you ask questions in advance, in case you can't make it on the day. We plan to give you an update of where we are at overall, and look forward to sharing it with you.

Just a reminder, you can find us on Twitch at https://twitch.tv/legendsofultimaofficial

Written by: LoU Staff @ Mon, 17 Aug 2020 02:29:10 UTC

Test Center is back online for now, check the #test-center-patch-notes channel for recent changes

Written by: LoU Staff @ Fri, 07 Aug 2020 00:57:20 UTC

Hello everyone, recently the response times for help requests or emails have been a little slower than usual. We apologize if you've had to wait for a while to get a reply from us. We handle issues in the order they are received normally and sometimes it can take time to review, research and to reply back to everyone.

In some cases we have noticed that issues are resolved before we are able to help, which is great! So we want to thank all of you experienced players for your participation with helping others solve common issues, and also thank you for your patience when reaching out to staff.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Sat, 18 Jul 2020 23:15:34 UTC

We would like to remind all players of the Terms of Service that you agree to when connecting to any Legends of Aria-based product. Those Terms of Service can be found here:

https://www.legendsofaria.com/terms-and-conditions/

Please be advised that in all cases, we fully support immediate action taken on any violation of these terms of service, up to and including banning any accounts that participate in said violation. In addition, in order to protect the project and its affiliations, we will not enter into any further discussion on this topic, public or otherwise.

Thank you for your understanding on this important matter.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Thu, 09 Jul 2020 00:49:08 UTC

The update has been completed and the server is now on the latest version, please make sure you have the latest version intalled to connect to LOU.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Fri, 03 Jul 2020 20:21:50 UTC

Thanks to everyone that attended the stream and submitted questions. If you missed out, don't worry! The stream recording should be available soon, keep an eye out for it at https://youtube.com/c/stimwalt

Happy belated Canada Day & US Independence Day everyone! Make sure to log in sometime before 7/5 12:00am UTC to claim your fireworks wand to celebrate with. Stay safe!

Written by: LoU Staff @ Tue, 09 Jun 2020 19:43:59 UTC

We are aware that many players are looking forward to "June 21st" based upon the most recent YouTube video stating that we hoped to have some big news by Spring 2020. This was not intended as an actual deadline, and was never meant to be received as such, as it was more of a hopeful projection. Meanwhile, as many of you are keenly aware, the "human malware" that has impacted the world, has impacted us too, and things have slowed for everyone. We will be avoiding making such projections in the future unless we are absolutely certain of timelines. Apologies for any unintentional confusion, but we appreciate your passion and excitement for the project! Stay safe.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Mon, 01 Jun 2020 23:38:05 UTC

A new version of the client has been made available and the server is now up to date. Please make sure you have the latest client installed, thank you!

Written by: LoU Staff @ Sun, 03 May 2020 20:08:38 UTC

Welcome to May everyone!

Just want to drop by and give all of our dedicated supporters a big round of applause and thank you for continuing to support the project! In the past month we have been working on optimizing our infrastructure to prepare for the future, and we have also spent a lot of time cumulatively working towards the rest of our goals in the push to Britannia. Thanks to everyone that has helped with testing and participating in Test Center events. We'll keep working our hardest and hope to keep making you proud.

We know a lot of you are waiting to find out more about what to expect with the map change and many other changes coming with it, and we appreciate your patience while we continue to work all of that out. Thanks for being with us and remaining patient through our growth!

Written by: LoU Staff @ Tue, 14 Apr 2020 02:34:36 UTC

We should be all wrapped up with the maintenance reboots and the issue preventing ghost characters from logging in should be resolved. If you are still having an issue with login please let us know by emailing [email protected] or DM Gorgan. Thank you for your patience today!

Written by: LoU Staff @ Sun, 12 Apr 2020 20:51:14 UTC

Happy Easter everyone! Hope you have a safe holiday. Hop in game shortly for some festivities! :)

Written by: LoU Staff @ Fri, 10 Apr 2020 09:45:51 UTC

Thanks to various optimisations and improvements, we think we are finally in a good position to return to daily restarts. After the next server restart, subsequent restarts will be at 9am UTC daily. Yay!

Written by: LoU Staff @ Wed, 25 Mar 2020 05:12:34 UTC

www.legendsofultima.online will be offline/out of service for some time while some back end maintenance is done. Thanks for your patience.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Wed, 25 Mar 2020 02:35:14 UTC

We are back online. Thanks for your patience.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Tue, 24 Mar 2020 22:43:38 UTC

During the next reboot window, which is approximately 3 hours from the timestamp of this message, the live server will remain offline while we perform some back end maintenance. This will take up to one hour.

Thank you for your patience.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Sat, 21 Mar 2020 23:44:16 UTC

With the pandemic currently affecting the whole planet, we just want to remind everyone about the LOU housing policy.

If you are in any position where you cannot get to the game for an extended time, please reach out to us, and we can consider your request to put your house into a Vacation Hold to prevent it from decaying in the normal timeframe.

Stay safe!

Written by: LoU Staff @ Fri, 21 Feb 2020 18:41:31 UTC

• Every Saturday is PVP Saturday on Legends of Ultima Test Center from 10AM - 12PM EST!
• Staff will not necessarily bring down Production during these events, unless we need a focused test!
• Bring It! Fight Saturdays from 10AM-12PM EST on LoU TC!

Written by: LoU Staff @ Fri, 21 Feb 2020 09:34:54 UTC

We're aware of an issue with these systems whereby it is saying the tree or rock is 'Too far'. We'll advise when it has been resolved.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Fri, 21 Feb 2020 07:11:58 UTC

Legends of Ultima is now running on server 0.9.3, you'll need to update your clients. If you are running the standalone client, run the launcher to update. Steam will of course update automatically (without even asking you!).

Written by: LoU Staff @ Sat, 15 Feb 2020 17:12:22 UTC

The main server is now offline for the Test Center scheduled event! Please join us on Test Center. The main server will remain offline until the conclusion of the event, roughly 3 hours.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Wed, 12 Feb 2020 18:29:09 UTC

• UO Map Test Center Brawl - Saturday 2/15 @ Noon EST
• Group fights found around Brit Bridge, or anywhere if you are Factioned up.
• 1v1 Duels are held in the new dueling zone area found via a Portal near Brit Bridge.
• Monster spawns will be at the Brit GY for PvE/Tamer system testing.
• Brand new UO2 Potion mechanic needs thorough testing, which is visible on your nameplate.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Fri, 07 Feb 2020 22:48:42 UTC

We are experiencing a technical issue with the server and are offline temporary while we work to resolve it. We appreciate your patience during the downtime. Test Center has been brought up a non-saving state so that you can log in there and mess around in the meantime. We'll let you know as soon as we've any updates.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Fri, 07 Feb 2020 17:51:25 UTC

• Production Coming Down Tomorrow at 8AM EST for the LoU Test Center Brawl Event (2/8)!
• Join The Battle! All Skills/Stats/Gear/Items are Free.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Fri, 07 Feb 2020 17:03:29 UTC

• Production Coming Down Tomorrow at 8AM EST for the LoU Test Center Brawl Event (2/7)!
• Join The Battle!

Written by: LoU Staff @ Fri, 07 Feb 2020 03:37:11 UTC

Sorry folks, we've received notice of a minor data corruption in the save during the last reboot cycle and we need to bring the server down and roll the save back prior to the previous reboot. It's about 3 hours ago, we're very sorry for the loss of time, but appreciate your understanding. We'll be back online shortly and will post another announcement at that time.

The server is back up after the unexpected downtime, thanks again for your patience!

Written by: LoU Staff @ Sat, 25 Jan 2020 14:40:53 UTC

Join us on Twitch to watch the final rounds of our PvP tournament unfold! Hosted by our ambassador, Scrubbo!!

Streaming now at: https://www.twitch.tv/scrubb0

Written by: LoU Staff @ Sat, 25 Jan 2020 02:30:59 UTC

We're excited to announce that an extensive combat overhaul is now available for testing on our test center. This is a large update which brings many of the combat systems in Legends of Ultima closer to our roots in Ultima Online's early eras.

An overview of these changes can be found on our wiki here.

https://legendsofultima.gamepedia.com/Combat_Overhaul_Test_Center_Notes

More in depth wiki pages will be coming as we progress with testing.

Please join us in Britannia to battle!

Written by: LoU Staff @ Tue, 21 Jan 2020 18:36:50 UTC

Server's back up! Thanks for your patience through the unexpected downtime.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Mon, 20 Jan 2020 06:16:54 UTC

Crafting and the economy are top priorities for us to address with our move to Britannia. Our aim is to recenter the economy around players and the goods they can produce. We want to move closer to our roots in UO and then build on top of that with our own additions. To do this we will be implementing several overhauls to crafting, items, and combat.

The first of these overhauls will be to Inscription. Below is a preview of what to expect from this. None of these items or perks are finalized and are subject to changes.

Return of UO style basic Runebook and Spellbook.

As we return to UO scaled loot tables in Britannia, we intend to revert the recipes for runebooks and spellbooks back to their respective UO requirements. Full spellbooks and runebooks are needed by a large portion of the population at very early stages of game play. This change will allow new players to be able to get these items at a much lower cost than they are now. With this overhaul basic runebooks and basic spellbooks will no longer be a scribes main source of income. Runebooks and full spellbooks also become consumables for their more powerful counterparts, so they will always be in high demand.

Runebook Crafting Charges

Introduces inscription skill based variable max charges for runebooks.

Mystic Spellbook

This spellbook performs the same role as the basic spellbook with a few small perks that veteran players will appreciate.

Requires a full spellbook and a new consumable(s) to craft. This item is blessed and provides 1 to 2 small bonuses and perks from a pool of perks.

Potential Perks Include but not limited to:

Chance on spellcast to not consume reagents Small +% bonus to spell success chance Small +% bonus to mediation

Sacred Runebook

This runebook performs the same role as the basic runebook with a few small perks that veteran players will appreciate. Like the basic runebook, this runebook will have variable max charges. Unlike the basic runebook, the legendary runebook will require you recharge it by purchasing more charges with gold.

Requires a runebook and a new consumable(s) to craft.

Perks Include but not limited to:

Chance +% to success recall Consume X charges to gate travel

Volatile Spellbook

This spellbook performs the same role as the basic spellbook does but is intended for more advanced players. This spellbook is not blessed and provides small bonus to base spell damage at the expense of increased spell fizzle chance. The cost to produce this spellbook will be less than that of its legendary spellbook peers but not trivial either.

Requires a full spellbook and a new consumable(s) to craft.

Effects Include but not limited to:

Small +% bonus to base spell damage. Increased spell fizzle chance

New Inscription Books

In an effort to expand the scribe's potential customers, we're adding some new books for players to use. To start with we will be adding the tamer's veterinary manual and the bard's songbook.

Veterinary Manual

Perks Include but not limited to:

Small +% bonus to veterinary Small +% bonus to animal lore

Songbook

Perks Include but not limited to: (1-2)

Small +% bonus to provocation Small +% bonus to discordance Small +% bonus to peacemaking Small +% bonus to musicianship

Loot updates

Each of these high level inscription items will require new consumables for their recipes. Some or all of these will be available at vendors and for adventurers out in the world.

The Road Ahead

We're excited about these changes and our plans to transform the player economy. Expect to see more details and testing ahead. Again, this is just a preview of our inscription overhaul. Everything in this post is subject to change.

Keep your eyes on the news as we will be sharing more details on inscription and other changes. We will also be talking about our vision for armor, additional Britannia content, and an extensive combat overhaul.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Mon, 20 Jan 2020 05:49:10 UTC

Hi Folks,

TLDR? See the last few lines at the end of the article.

Firstly, thank you as always for your patronage and doing what you do to support us and our development efforts. We are a little unique in terms of our game and platform, in that we are in development (early access) while you all put in the time and effort to play. Because of that, we always do what we can to limit the impact to players with the changes we make to get us moving closer to our vision for the game.

This news article is to announce that we are disabling enchanting as we know it. We appreciate that this will strongly affect those that have invested large amounts of time and effort into it. We have thought long and hard about this particular change, and wanted to share some of the reasons on why it needs to be done.

• The two developers that wrote the system are no longer with us. The complexities of this system mean that it is quite difficult to simply pick up and support/balance ongoing. We've tried multiple times to make this happen, but the fact is it's just too much work. That's why for example you saw Five Star General disabled, but never brought back or otherwise addressed.

• Some of the enchants are wildly imbalancing, and result in trivializing encounters that we don't want trivialized. This means we need to redesign these encounters to suit the enchants, which simply isn't sustainable. (We should be designing enchants to match encounters, not the other way around.)

• Moving toward Britannia we are no longer using LoA monsters and PvE balancing will be scaled toward UO. Enchanting in its current form makes this very difficult to accomplish for us.

• Enchanting in its current state isn't lore friendly and doesn't meet the current team's ongoing vision for the game itself, especially with the impending move to the Britannia map later this year, and the rebasing of everything involved in that process.

• Enchanting in its current form has a fairly significant performance impact on the game. This was one of the primary reasons for disabling Five Star General, which was an extreme case of performance impact.

• Our other, more extreme, alternative to this was an item/gold wipe, which we really wanted to avoid. While the economy is definitely not in a great state due to multiple challenges over the last year or so (yes we are well aware!), we want to avoid any sort of wipe wherever possible.

• We are working very hard on creating new systems which will empower our crafters and player economy, enchanting conflicts with our long term vision for this in its current form.

However, your characters will continue to track what enchants they previously had from 'Enchanting v1.0', and as we move forward and potentially introduce an 'Enchanting v2.0', we will look to make sure that characters that previously put in the time, money and effort are rewarded appropriately. Plans aren't set in stone for this part yet, but we'll share more detail as soon as we can.

Hang on to your enchanting mats too - we will once again look at a way in which we can make these worth something to you.

TLDR?

• Enchanting v1.0 is disabled for the short term.
• Enchanting materials will no longer drop off mobs.
• Enchanting may return with a v2.0 in the long term. It will be a ground-up redesign/rewrite
• Keep your mats, we will look to reward you for that investment and will advise on how we will do that later down the track.
• Your character will continue to track what enchants you had from v1.0, and we will also look to reward you for that investment as well.
• We have exciting overhauls to the player economy and crafting coming very soon!

Attention Tamers! ZooKeeper will remain active temporarily while we move through this transition.

Thank you once again for your continued participation in our project, and we sincerely hope you'll enjoy everything we have in store in 2020.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Sun, 19 Jan 2020 11:19:56 UTC

During the next scheduled restart in about 20 minutes, we'll be upgrading the server to the latest version. Be sure to grab the latest client as this solves a desync issue and possibly other things. Client upgrade is not required however, so you may still log in with the old client until you've downloaded the new one.

The previously reported Known Issue involving animations, effects, sounds not working in the latest client is now resolved in this newer version.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Fri, 17 Jan 2020 06:13:16 UTC

It's time!  Britannia (well, Britain and its surrounds) is up on test server!  A few things to be aware of:

This is still an early build, there will be things to fix.  Feel free to report those in #britannia-chat This is currently just Britain town itself, and only West Britain, along with the surrounding areas (Graveyard, farms, northwest forest) The spawning/merchants are placeholders for the most part.  There's a bunch of refinement still to be done Did we mention there will be issues?  There WILL be issues!  Constructive feedback is appreciated. Known issues:

This is what we are tracking so far.  No need to report these:

Current Known Issues (01/16/20):

    - Some textures missing, or temporary.     - Some Structures are missing or temporary (Ongoing effort, buildings, stairs, other)     - Some Structure Walls aren't 'pixel perfect' and may show tiny gaps.     - Cave Lighting needs tweaking     - Ocean Water is too dark (Fixed in next build)     - Some Britain Building Roofs have rogue pieces that won't disappear (Fixed in next build)     - Few buildings not finished (Placeholder) (Fixed in next build)     - Some Doors are darker than normal (Fixing)     - Slight performance hit at night (Lighting!) (Looking into optimizing this)     - World Spawns are not finalized, the current spawns are temporary and are being replaced with a permanent system

Written by: LoU Staff @ Tue, 07 Jan 2020 18:46:22 UTC

Wanna show off your PvP skills, earn bragging rights, and collect a unique prize? We are hosting a 1v1 PvP tournament! This tournament is slightly different than traditional tournament rules so please be sure to read the rules carefully, then sign up at the link below! Please forward any questions to Scout or Smokey Rust. Good luck, and GIT GUD Sign-up ends January 10th, 2020 at 8PM EST.
Rules and Sign-up: https://forms.gle/dSiaueJnXRRAPEie7

Written by: LoU Staff @ Tue, 07 Jan 2020 09:00:58 UTC

After being murdered, players should now, again, be given the option to punish or forgive a murder.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Sun, 05 Jan 2020 08:25:38 UTC

We just wanted to take a moment to remind everyone of our Natural Disasters policy with LOU Housing. If you or someone you know that plays LOU is affected by a Natural Disaster or other hardship in which they will be unable to access LOU for an extended time, please reach out and we will be happy to hold your accounts plots until you are able to reach them again. With every month revealing a new natural disaster on our planet, we cannot express our sympathy enough for those affected.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Sat, 04 Jan 2020 06:22:16 UTC

• an issue has been resolved with earth elementals not decaying properly
• an issue with poison not doing damage to hidden players in some cases has been resolved

Written by: LoU Staff @ Fri, 03 Jan 2020 00:49:31 UTC

Happy New Year everyone!

This is a quick note to say that we do read each and every bit of feedback we get, whether it's a bug, a suggestion, or a report of player misconduct. However, as we are a team of volunteers that do this for free in our spare time, who all have lives and families, it is simply not possible to respond to all of the reports that we get (and there are many!). Please do remember that this is not a commercial server, and no one is paid to do what we do.

In particular, please be assured that we investigate every report of player misconduct and take them very seriously. When required, we take the appropriate action against those players. While it may not always be visible to you, please be assured we do action each and every one of these.

Lastly, we'd like to remind everyone that if you have concerns with any actions of staff, then the correct escalation path is to email [email protected] - once again, we cannot guarantee a response to any emails sent to this address, however be assured they are read and actioned as required.

Thank you all once again for your support, and we look forward to sharing with you all the new features we have planned for 2020!

Written by: LoU Staff @ Tue, 31 Dec 2019 07:31:07 UTC

There appears to be an issue with some or all in-game feedback reports (bug reports) not being received. We're looking into the issue. In the meantime you can use the Discord Feedback Bot to submit bugs, as those are still being received.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Mon, 23 Dec 2019 03:23:35 UTC

We would like to remind all players that, as per the rules you agreed to when first logging into our server, exploiting bugs/glitches etc is not allowed. In some cases, after a thorough investigation, the effect of a particular exploit may be so game breaking that we have no choice but to react with severe consequences to those players involved.

We do not take these decisions lightly, and of course we would prefer to avoid these situations at all costs. If you do encounter a bug that results in being exploitable, please do report via /bug in game and we will do our best to address it ASAP. Thank you for your understanding.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Sun, 22 Dec 2019 10:28:10 UTC

Covetous and Destard have been fixed, and are available to play again.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Tue, 10 Dec 2019 07:05:25 UTC

We are aware some folks have lost some house contents following the deployment of the 12/8 patch. We sincerely apologize for any losses that this caused. We do not take lost progress lightly and you should know that we're sorry it happened. We do our best to heavily test each change and take measures to prevent losses as best as possible. Occasionally unforseen circumstances do occur, and we normally do our best to recover from them. In this case we were unable to intercept the issue in time to perform a rollback and address it. We thank you for your support and understanding.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Fri, 06 Dec 2019 01:41:00 UTC

The server is now using the latest version of the LOA client. Please make sure to download the latest client to play.

There are a few known issues from this update:

• Covetous and Destard dungeons are purple/pink in appearance and have been disabled until we have had a chance to resolve
• Some trees/rocks may report "Too far", if you find that there are more than 'a couple' of these please let us know, but for the most part should be correct
• Trees that were previously hidden on plots may re-appear, please use a Tree Removal Shovel from an Architect vendor to try and hide it

Written by: LoU Staff @ Wed, 20 Nov 2019 01:02:38 UTC

Thanks to everyone that has taken time to fill out the Player Survey. We appreciate your time and value your feedback!

Written by: LoU Staff @ Tue, 19 Nov 2019 09:57:00 UTC

Please take a few minutes to fill out our survey: https://forms.gle/H7gAujnCdVspLF996

Written by: LoU Staff @ Thu, 14 Nov 2019 21:32:04 UTC

The stablemasters have started to slowly restock their inventory.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Thu, 14 Nov 2019 02:14:55 UTC

Due to a union-related issue, Stable Masters are not able to sell any animals at this time. We hope the result of their strike is that they are remunerated fairly and equitably, and they can return to providing a service that we all appreciate very much in the near future.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Wed, 13 Nov 2019 10:50:23 UTC

Please be reminded that claiming to be a staff member of LoU or LOA when you are not is considered a violation of our rules under Communication and Player Conduct - Part 6 which is publicly visible at https://legendsofultima.gamepedia.com/Server_Rules -- if someone does not have the Staff role in Discord or does not appear in-game with a Yellow name and Counselor/Guild Master title then they are most likely not a staff member.

Also please be reminded that this is one of the reasons, for security, that we do not provide support via Discord. Please make sure to report suspected rule violations via an in-game page, or an email to [email protected] -- this is the only way to be sure you are speaking to a member of the LOU Team.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Wed, 13 Nov 2019 07:08:35 UTC

In order to evaluate a potential performance concern, World Chat will remain disabled for a few days while we collect further data. Thanks for your patience.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Mon, 11 Nov 2019 10:33:43 UTC

Claire the Pilgrim, found in Magincia, offers some of her festive wares for trade. Seek out festive turkeys in the Eastern Frontier for what she seeks. (Event runs until 01 Dec at 1200 EST)

Written by: LoU Staff @ Fri, 08 Nov 2019 10:36:01 UTC

The patch posted in #test-center-patch-notes has been delayed for some time. The changes will remain on our Test Center for further testing. Thanks for your patience and helping with testing. :)

Written by: LoU Staff @ Thu, 07 Nov 2019 12:59:56 UTC

Service has been restored.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Wed, 06 Nov 2019 04:04:36 UTC

A quick note regarding the skill bonus that we have enabled post rollback - it is a 10% bonus on the base gain, so you won't see it reflected in skillgaindebug. The increase is already applied to the first percentage shown.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Wed, 06 Nov 2019 04:04:24 UTC

Further to our previous announcement, we have found the root cause for the data loss issue and implemented a hotfix. We expect to restore service shortly after this announcement.

Unfortunately, in order to address the issue, we need to perform a rollback. This is necessary in order to ensure data integrity moving forward, as ideally we want to maintain our 'no wipe' stance at all costs. We have considered all other options available to us at this time.

A quick timeline on both the downtime and the rollback are as follows:

-- An issue with data integrity was identified at approx. 10:30pm UTC/5:30pm EST -- LoU was taken offline to further investigate -- In order to address the issue, we have rolled back to approx 10:00am UTC/5:00am EST

We appreciate this is a significant loss of progress. Unfortunately these things can occur when a game is under heavy development such as we are. Investigations into the issue are still ongoing in order to track down and eliminate this type of issue moving forward.

We have enabled a skill gain increase on the server as a method of compensation. This will remain active until we determine that it is no longer necessary. Thank you once again for your patience.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Wed, 06 Nov 2019 02:00:43 UTC

We have identified the data loss issue and expect to restore service shortly. Unfortunately, in order to address the issue, we need to perform a rollback. This is necessary in order to ensure data integrity moving forward, as ideally we want to maintain our 'no wipe' stance at all costs. We have considered all other options available to us at this time.

A quick timeline on both the downtime and the rollback are as follows:

-- An issue with data integrity was identified at approx. 10:30pm UTC/5:30pm EST -- LoU was taken offline to further investigate -- In order to address the issue, we have rolled back to approx 10:00am UTC/5:00am EST

We appreciate this is a significant loss of progress. Unfortunately these things can occur when a game is under heavy development such as we are. Investigations into the issue are still ongoing in order to track down and eliminate this type of issue moving forward.

We will also be considering options for compensation for the rollback and will advise on those once we have had an opportunity to discuss fully. Thank you once again for your patience.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Tue, 05 Nov 2019 22:33:26 UTC

Due to a potential data loss situation, the server is being taken offline. There is no ETA for restoration of services at this time. Thank you for your patience.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Fri, 01 Nov 2019 14:53:51 UTC

Next Friday, Nov 8th, at a time to be determined, we will be applying a patch that will prevent players from moving/rotating locked down objects outside the bounds of their plot. At that time, an autofix will be applied detecting any pre-existing objects that are out of the plot bounds and moving them back inside the plot to a valid position. Please note that this may not neatly move objects and you may end up with breaks in fence lines if that occurs. Please take this time to analyze any decorations you may have extending past your plot bounds/lines and please move them back so that they are not overlapping.

Additionally, with the changes to lockdown location validation, we will also be adding the Ban List and Auto-Eject for plots. This will now properly track targets banned from a plot and prevent them from re-entering. A new tab to manage the bans has also been added to the plot menu. When a target is ejected from a plot, they are put near the mailbox, which is why it is important that we no longer have interconnected plots and over-extended decorations.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Sat, 26 Oct 2019 19:12:18 UTC

After the defeat of Mr. Vorhees, The Mad Scientist has vowed to destroy all! They await in Wyvern's rest (once every few hours). Good luck

Written by: LoU Staff @ Wed, 23 Oct 2019 18:53:50 UTC

Halloween coffins now spawn near Juka Isle and Scorched Print Halloween spawns. Inside you will find increased Candy corn drop chances, rare monsters and the chance for a rare Halloween item.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Fri, 18 Oct 2019 21:09:24 UTC

As part of LoU's Halloween events Danyc the Candy Goblin has arrived in Nujel'm. Check out areas around Gazer Isle, The Dunes, Scorched Print and Wyvern's Rest to acquired his much needed Halloween Candy! Danyc has various Halloween items to trade, but will only be in town until 1 Nov. Stay tuned for more Halloween announcements on Discord.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Fri, 11 Oct 2019 10:29:50 UTC

We are actively looking to bring several Discord moderators on board to help the rest of the team with the Discord server. If you think you'd fit that bill, please drop in an application via:

https://www.legendsofultima.online/jointheteam

We look forward to hearing from you!

Written by: LoU Staff @ Tue, 08 Oct 2019 06:16:40 UTC

The House Design contest for the Britannia map has officially kicked off! If your design is successful, it could be immortalised in Legends of Ultima for everyone to use.

See #submissions-house-design-contest for details. Good luck!

Written by: Gorgan @ Tue, 27 Aug 2019 23:25:08 UTC

Since we are about to enter a new month, and with seeing the news of even more extreme weather and natural disasters happening around the globe every week, I wanted to remind everyone of our Vacation Hold policy.

If you are in any position where you cannot get to the game for an extended time, whether it be military deployment, natural disasters, or something else please reach out to us, and we can consider your request to put your house into a Vacation Hold to prevent it from decaying in the normal timeframe.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Mon, 26 Aug 2019 15:35:51 UTC

Hi all,

Just a friendly reminder to please link your discord account to your in-game account when you /page. It really helps our Counselors and GM staff get in touch with you faster and get things to a resolution as quickly as possible.

Thanks!

Written by: LoU Staff @ Tue, 20 Oct 2020 20:37:10 UTC

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

Written by: LoU Staff @ Mon, 19 Oct 2020 18:20:36 UTC

• 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

Written by: LoU Staff @ Mon, 19 Oct 2020 13:28:09 UTC

• 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

Written by: LoU Staff @ Fri, 16 Oct 2020 08:49:49 UTC

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

Written by: LoU Staff @ Wed, 14 Oct 2020 12:21:46 UTC

• 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

Written by: LoU Staff @ Fri, 09 Oct 2020 16:19:45 UTC

• In the spirit of Halloween, Gravedigging has been introduced & Forensic Evaluation re-written. A time will be scheduled and announced sometime today/this weekend to publish this to the live server.

Gravedigging:

• Requires 80 Mining and 80 Forensic Evaluation to begin using

• Must purchase a Gravediggers Pickaxe or Shovel from the Gravedigger merchant

• Use gravediggers shovel or pickaxe at a gravesite, look for headstones being used to mark individual graves

• Gravediggers tools have a limited number of charges, 50 to start, and a charge will be consumed with each successful dig

• Gravediggers tools are both equippable for max fun, and a "Use RH" button appears with both of them equipped to easily press Q to start digging

• Chances to obtain new rewards introduced in the form of titles, pet mounts and collectibles (what could they be?!?)

• A few Halloween rares also have a chance to be obtained from now until 11/05, these are different than the Halloween Paragon drops

• Forensic Evaluation changes:

  • Can be trained to 50 by the Gravedigger merchant
  • The skill can now be used to evaluate containers, live beings, and corpses
  • Already-picked containers can be inspected to reveal who has tampered with the lock
  • Player corpses can be inspected to see who murdered them, as well as if or who has disturbed the corpse, and lastly also revealing who/if someone else already inspected the corpse
  • Players can be inspected to reveal what NPC guild they are a member of, most importantly the Thieves Guild

• Related general changes:

  • Q & E buttons will now be hidden if they do not have an ability assigned, as opposed to always showing a blank hotbar button(s)
  • The Q button will now show "Use RH" when you equip an object that doesn't have an ability, use this to double-click the object equipped in your right hand
  • Merchants that train skills will now have a context menu option (right-click menu) for each skill they train to simplify the skill training process

Written by: LoU Staff @ Wed, 07 Oct 2020 03:59:48 UTC

That old annoying bug that causes your weight to be doubled sometimes when moving items around has been resolved.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Mon, 17 Aug 2020 01:40:05 UTC

• You can no longer use the Incognito spell while Polymorphed

Written by: LoU Staff @ Sat, 15 Aug 2020 15:56:29 UTC

• An issue has been resolved allowing players to add more weight than a pack animal can hold
• An issue has been resolved with being able to lock a container with a matching key nested inside of itself
• An issue has been resolved with not being able to use auto-stacking with locked down containers
• You can no longer open a locked container even if you have the key to open it, you must unlock the container first
• You can no longer open a locked container using Telekinesis
• Container windows will now automatically close when you lock the container
• You can no longer perform auto-stacking or resource stacking to containers that are inside of a locked container
• All containers inside of a container that is being locked will now automatically have their resource stacking options cleared

Written by: LoU Staff @ Sun, 09 Aug 2020 08:14:32 UTC

• An issue has been resolved that causes banned player vendors to automatically be moved back to the plot and decay removed on server restart
• Player vendor state 'On Strike' renamed to 'Decaying'

Written by: LoU Staff @ Tue, 21 Jul 2020 14:37:43 UTC

Live has been updated to include a change from Britannia which causes mount stamina to not drain during a PvP timer.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Thu, 09 Jul 2020 02:17:29 UTC

An issue preventing guildmasters from seeing the Guildmaster Title option from the Guild Menu has been resolved

Written by: LoU Staff @ Mon, 15 Jun 2020 18:03:23 UTC

• Water Pitcher has been moved under Tools for the Tinkering skill.
• Fixed a known durability bug with Water Pitcher.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Wed, 10 Jun 2020 19:40:46 UTC

• An issue has been resolved with being unable to beg the town vendors
• An issue has been resolved with double-clicking a forge and targeting a container not starting the auto-salvage process
• Only items inside of the container at the time that auto-salvage was initiated will be processed, avoiding any items added to the container after starting auto-salvage; This should resolve issues related to items being created in/moved into the container during salvaging causing some items to be salvaged even though they are not salvageable.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Sun, 07 Jun 2020 19:36:25 UTC

An issue has been resolved that was causing players to become frozen after changing the shape of their body using Polymorph spell and disguise kits and the spell and disguise kits have been re-enabled now.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Sun, 07 Jun 2020 17:31:51 UTC

An issue has been resolved with plot lockdowns causing items being released from a plot to not be removed from the Lockdown List. This affected things like plot re-sizing, as well as the number of lockdowns being reported incorrectly.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Tue, 02 Jun 2020 19:57:27 UTC

Existing pet deeds were originally scheduled to expire on 1/1/2020 but as you know we had delayed that to give people more time to claim them. Existing deeds will now expire on 6/15/2020 and existing deeds will be removed from the world at that time.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Sat, 23 May 2020 02:55:10 UTC

Several performance and server stability fixes from Britannia have been applied to the live server.

• Fixed long standing server crash (Also affectionately known as poison bug to some)
• Improved performance of housing.
• Fixed a long standing bug that was causing greatly increased skill gains for the majority of skills. This is a return to originally intended values and not a balancing adjustment.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Fri, 22 May 2020 08:56:53 UTC

• After suffering countless defeats over the last few months, Fangorn has recruited more capable Generals.
• Fangorn will now not chase his enemies indefinitely

Written by: LoU Staff @ Tue, 28 Apr 2020 13:16:16 UTC

• The Group window has been optimized and should work more reliably now
• "Group" option added to menu when right-clicking self while in a group, opens the Group window
• Fixed an issue with Miasmas not stacking in some cases
• Fixed issue with Kryss not being detected as bladed weapon for Skinning purposes
• Fixed cooked meat & cheese from Create Food being inedible
• Fixed issue with player's real name showing when Snooping instead of the disguised name
• Fixed issue with Whisper Window showing your name as the person who sent the whisper to you
• Fixed an issue with removing a saddle from a horse causing two deeds to be created
• Fixed an issue with some players becoming stuck and unable to log in after logging out while their character was a Ghost
• Corrected tooltip for lockpicks from showing the tooltip for scissors
• Fixed an issue with Ethereal Bear not being mountable
• Temporarily disabled Gender Selection in the Polymorph spell and Disguise Kits to prevent a client-bug causing players to become frozen after changing their body shape
• Fixed an issue with Notoriety becoming stuck sometimes when criminal

Written by: LoU Staff @ Mon, 06 Apr 2020 05:28:15 UTC

• Fixed an issue with not being able to add fish to gardening plants as fertilizer
• Fixed an issue with the Gardening button from the skill window not detecting shovel in backpack properly
• Fixed an issue with ore attempting to smelt erroneously when using Split Stack or other options
• Optimized the skill window "Set Cap" button to make it more noticeable
• Resolved an issue with numbers not being rounding when using the Skill Cap slider in the skill window

Written by: LoU Staff @ Thu, 12 Mar 2020 10:35:08 UTC

• Fixed mage vendors not having Moss ingredient for sale
• Fixed mage vendors selling improper staff, corrected to sell gnarled staff
• Increased range for stable master speech commands
• Fixed issue with not being able to steal blindly from pets
• Fixed an issue with speech commands "i wish to release this" and "i wish to place a trash barrel"

Written by: LoU Staff @ Sat, 07 Mar 2020 00:36:32 UTC

• Fixed an issue where self-healing pets do not heal themselves
• Fixed an issue where vendors would forever say "I cannot afford to buy anything else" when trying to sell them goods
• Increased the budget of Jeweler vendors by 2x
• Added a pet deed handler at the Britain stables to uncache pets
• Fixed an issue where pets would try to cast and gain skills in cases where the target is no longer a valid target (too far away, not visible, etc)

Written by: LoU Staff @ Fri, 06 Mar 2020 02:48:15 UTC

• Fixed an issue with Ethereals vendor not adding items to bill of sale
• Fixed an issue with skills gaining on Summoned creatures, they are not meant to gain skills
• Fixed an issue with recently released aggressive pets causing previous owner to receive criminal action when the released pet attacks another being
• Fixed an issue with recently released aggressive pets not fully engaging in combat again
• Reset Meditation to 0 on pets, pets don't need or use Meditation skill and it was a mistake that they were training it which caused some pets to reach the skill cap of 700

Written by: LoU Staff @ Thu, 05 Mar 2020 03:34:18 UTC

• Fixed training dummy skill gains not working
• Fixed murders not being able to be reported
• Fixed Clothing Bless Deed not working for some items (there may be other clothes that need added, please let us know)
• Fixed an issue with pets gaining skills they did not naturally have, like meditation
• Fixed Tracking window only showing part of an NPC's name, should now show full name

Written by: LoU Staff @ Wed, 04 Mar 2020 05:18:26 UTC

• The minimum amount of reagents offered by town vendors has been increased by 4x
• Pets that cast, will begin casting beneficial spells while attacking again
• Pets that cast, from the same owner, will now cast magic when attacking each other in order to assist with training their magic skills
• An issue with the In-Combat PVP flag being triggered when attacking one's own pets or in other cases when it should not trigger has been resolved
• An issue with the shovel and scythe not working with gardening related actions has been resolved
• Lockpicking wiki updated to reflect that skill level requirements were corrected from levels 44 to 45, 74 to 75 and 94 to 95

Written by: LoU Staff @ Tue, 03 Mar 2020 18:22:25 UTC

• An issue with some pets being weaker than usual should be resolved
• An issue with Blacksmith vendors not buying chainmail and some other items has been resolved
• Mobile Collision-ish removed
• If you see any vendors not buying/selling something as expected please let us know the specifics of the vendor and the missing items

Written by: LoU Staff @ Mon, 02 Mar 2020 21:43:13 UTC

Hello everyone, we have finished applying the following patch to the main server: https://uo4.life/patchnotes - Thanks for your patience!

Written by: LoU Staff @ Thu, 13 Feb 2020 02:39:21 UTC

• An issue with lockpicks not working that are sold by the Nujelm Treasure Hunting vendor has been resolved

Written by: LoU Staff @ Sun, 02 Feb 2020 06:36:32 UTC

• An issue with any player being able to open an unlocked door on plot causing it to refresh regardless of permission has been resolved
• An issue with Faction stones not activating properly has been resolved

Written by: LoU Staff @ Sat, 01 Feb 2020 15:39:23 UTC

• An issue with the F button not toggling the Friends window has been resolved
• An issue with Runebook cast charge not being interruptible has been resolved
• Runebook cast charge spell text has been optimized to appear the same as if you are casting Recall
• An issue with being able to duplicate runes in a Runebook has been resolved
• An issue with being able to use a Runebook outside your inventory from the hotbar has been resolved

Written by: LoU Staff @ Tue, 21 Jan 2020 05:10:24 UTC

• An issue with alerts not being received prior to an auto-restart occurring has been resolved

Written by: LoU Staff @ Mon, 20 Jan 2020 10:31:27 UTC

• An issue with logout times lasting longer than expected has been resolved, changes as follows:
• Logging out in a house you are at least friended to, or inside of a town inn, while not in combat against monsters or players, will now log you out instantly
• Logging out anywhere else, or while in combat will log you out after 60 seconds, subject to review -- the previous time was 60 seconds, so we're going to stick to that for now

Written by: LoU Staff @ Sun, 19 Jan 2020 03:46:49 UTC

• An issue with some commands not working has been resolved: /myjail /enchant /myenchant -- if you find any other commands are not working please send a bug report, thanks.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Fri, 17 Jan 2020 00:59:46 UTC

• An issue has been resolved with Fish not being recognized with Gardening

Written by: LoU Staff @ Tue, 14 Jan 2020 06:36:44 UTC

• A new command /refresh has been added to aid with some graphical glitches that occur occasionally; this command will freeze you in place for a couple of seconds, while refreshing the view of objects on your screen. This can help solve issues where a player appears naked and unmounted when they are in fact not naked and mounted. It also aids with decorating objects on plots that appear to move up while adjusting them; refreshing after adjusting these items will subsequently show the objects in their correct position.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Sat, 11 Jan 2020 04:39:02 UTC

• an issue has been resolved with bandage buff-icon spam
• an issue has been resolved with maker's mark being applied crafted items incorrectly or with someone else's name in some cases

Written by: LoU Staff @ Sat, 11 Jan 2020 02:39:29 UTC

• Fishing while in a Guarded location will now only yield fish; for other Fishing rewards, you'll have to step out of Guards protection

Written by: LoU Staff @ Thu, 09 Jan 2020 15:41:41 UTC

• An issue has been resolved with double clicking a fire beetle activating smelting ability instead of opening it's backpack as intended

Written by: LoU Staff @ Thu, 09 Jan 2020 09:44:32 UTC

• An issue has been resolved causing mobs to sometimes continue attacking after a player becomes hidden; damage should still apply from delayed damage like Poison or other delayed spells, while hidden, but mobs should de-aggro properly now

Written by: LoU Staff @ Thu, 09 Jan 2020 08:55:30 UTC

• An issue has been resolved causing the server to freeze in some cases when ejecting/banning mobs or yourself from a plot

Written by: LoU Staff @ Thu, 02 Jan 2020 23:49:54 UTC

Santa has closed access to his workshop in order to start working on next Christmas. Bye Santa!

Written by: LoU Staff @ Thu, 02 Jan 2020 21:14:18 UTC

• At last, the long-standing bug causing the server to freeze sometimes when players die while poisoned has been resolved

Written by: LoU Staff @ Tue, 31 Dec 2019 01:02:08 UTC

• An issue has been resolved preventing dead characters from using teleporters

Written by: LoU Staff @ Mon, 30 Dec 2019 05:49:43 UTC

• Auto-unstuck and stuck command has had some general optimizations and you sould see improvement both with using the command and when the system detects you being stuck automatically -- please report if you notice any funky behavior with this

Written by: LoU Staff @ Sat, 28 Dec 2019 03:45:55 UTC

• An issue has been resolved allowing anyone to open a Christmas Gift regardless of where the gift was located
• We've received a couple of reports now regarding stacking items disappearing if trying to place a stack onto another stack inside of a container that is over capacity or over weight causing the incoming item to be consumed and not added to the existing stack. We are investigating but need more details, if you have had this happen please send a /bug report with as many details around the issue you can recall. Thanks!

Written by: LoU Staff @ Tue, 24 Dec 2019 05:27:04 UTC

Santa's gate has closed in Britain, but the North Pole is still accessible (in and out) through the old entrance at the top of Serpent's Pass in very northern tip of Southern Rim.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Mon, 23 Dec 2019 13:10:56 UTC

Santa has opened up a portal to his workshop from Britain. Go visit him and see if he's got anything for you!

Merry Christmas to you all.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Mon, 23 Dec 2019 06:47:28 UTC

• Slightly reduced the chance for mobs to spawn while looting a treasure chest
• Added a leash to all mobs spawned by a treasure chest
• Mobs spawned from looting the chest are no longer required to be killed to loot the rest of the box, initial spawn still needs to be killed first
• Hidden players will now be revealed 100% of the time when looting an item from a treasure chest

Written by: LoU Staff @ Fri, 20 Dec 2019 20:55:06 UTC

The issue with being unable to remove items from a locked down paragon chest has been resolved

Written by: LoU Staff @ Wed, 18 Dec 2019 16:21:35 UTC

• The distance from which NPCs will catch thieves in the act and call Guards on them has been somewhat reduced

Written by: LoU Staff @ Sun, 15 Dec 2019 10:05:32 UTC

• An issue preventing criminal timer from being refreshed during PVP combat has been resolved
• Line-of-sight requirement for NPCs to call guards has been disabled for Stealing; normally the NPCs in town would wander around and change their perspective, making theiving more challenging and rewarding in some cases, but at this time the NPCs are set to not-wander, so we're doing this to balance in-town thefts until NPC wander has been re-enabled.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Sun, 08 Dec 2019 12:57:52 UTC

A summary of the changes: Bolas, House Deco Changes, House Ban List, Salvaging (Smelting/Milling/Scissors), Repairing, Disguise Kits, Skinning -- Full notes can be viewed here: https://legendsofultima.gamepedia.com/Patch_12/8/2019

Written by: LoU Staff @ Fri, 22 Nov 2019 10:37:02 UTC

Lockpicking success rates have been tweaked.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Thu, 14 Nov 2019 23:33:04 UTC

• An issue was resolved with Archery continuing to shoot while players are moving
• An issue was resolved allowing players to rapidly shoot bows by quickly unequipping and reequipping bows

(This was meant to be posted sooner, but did not get published erroneously.)

Written by: LoU Staff @ Fri, 08 Nov 2019 11:09:23 UTC

The temporary 10% bonus to skills has now been concluded and the gain chance will be restored to normal soon.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Fri, 01 Nov 2019 15:31:59 UTC

• An issue has been resolved preventing players from removing clothing from their own vendors
• An issue has been resolved with the clothing bless deed not working with 2019 Halloween handouts

Written by: LoU Staff @ Fri, 01 Nov 2019 05:40:02 UTC

• An issue with Pet Brokers being moved on or off of house plot when decorating and moving/rotating items onto the same position as the vendor has been resolved

Written by: LoU Staff @ Tue, 22 Oct 2019 03:48:57 UTC

An issue with players being unable to open the Plot Menu when the plot has a Guild assigned and the character is in a different guild than is assigned to the Plot has been resolved.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Fri, 18 Oct 2019 10:07:34 UTC

• Gardening gains have been slightly increased.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Wed, 16 Oct 2019 08:38:29 UTC

Phase 1 of pet balancing is now live. These changes are to bring pets closer to UO and balance DPS discrepancies. We will see fine tuning as we identify more issues. Happy hunting!

(Some changes may not take effect until reboot or respawn/resummon of creature) New:

• Frenzied Shadow Wyrm (rare)
• Pet follow and combat speed reduced
• Additional Brood Mother spawn location

• Additional Dread War Horse spawn location

  5 Slot pets Greater Dragons: Highest health of all pets, high dps.

• 5 Control slots required
• Health increased from 415-654 to 900-1500
• Low end damage roll increased by 10
• Attack speed increased
• Resist skill base increased

Cu Sidhe: Self healing mount with high survivability and mid-high DPS.

• 5 Control slots required
• Health increased from 417-654 to 655-900
• Low end damage roll increased by 6
• Attack speed decreased

• Armor decreased from 25-35 to 11-20

  Brood Mother: Highest DPS of all pets, lowest survivability of the 4 slot pets, but immune to poison

• 4 Control slots required
• Low end damage roll increased by 10
• Attack speed decreased
• Health decreased from 417-654 to 209-315
• Only pet to retain poison immunity

Wyrms: High DPS, moderate survival. Good all around pet

• 4 Control slots required
• Low end damage roll increased by 6

Dire Bear: Slightly above your average bear..

• 4 Control slots required
• No changes from current build

Vorpal Bunny: Nimble, stealthy, squishy

• 4 Control slots required
• Armor reduced from 25-30 to 11-15
• Health reduced from 417-654 to 316-360
• Attack speed increased
• Stealth
• Angry

• Will chase you down and kill you

  3 Control slot pets Dread Warhorse: Mountable, highest DPS of the 3 slot pets, pairable with lower slot pets, extremely rare.

• 3 Control slots required
• Similar in power to a dragon, with a higher attack speed
• Treasure map spawns are now a frailer version of their world spawn counter parts

Dragons: Mid range dps, highest survivability of the 3 slot pets

• 3 Control slots required
• Health increased from 316-360 to 417-654
• Armor increased from 11-20 to 25-30

• Low end damage roll increased by 6

  2 Control slot pets Nightmares: Great mount, high magic damage, moderate melee

• 2 Control slots required
• Health increased from 85-140 to 209-315
• Melee Skills raised from 60-80 to 90-100
• Magic casting skill base increased
• Resist skill base increased

Written by: LoU Staff @ Sun, 13 Oct 2019 13:39:03 UTC

The "Lost Room" changes(bring your lock picks):

• Shadow Wyrm spawn time decreased.
• Shadow Wyrm now guards a lost treasure.
• Introducing multiple new rares to lost treasure.
• Added new tamable creature (chance to spawn).

Written by: LoU Staff @ Sun, 13 Oct 2019 13:33:27 UTC

Gargoyle Vanguard and Hydras changes:

• Overall damage has been decreased moderately.
• No longer immune to barding skills.
• Armor reduced to allow for more viable melee builds.
• Gold drops reduced slightly to compensate for difficulty.
• Aggro radius reduced.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Sun, 13 Oct 2019 07:34:38 UTC

As a QoL adjustment and in preparations of upcoming Faction changes the following hot-fixes are in place:

• Group sizes limits increased from 5 to 20.
• Faction stone capture range has been doubled.

Please continue to provide feedback on the range of the faction stone as it relates to game play.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Sat, 12 Oct 2019 09:18:10 UTC

As part of our attempts to improve performance, we are temporarily altering the behaviour of overland mob artificial intelligence. The result of this is that you may see mobs teleport themselves back to their spawn points if they are pulled too far away from them.

We appreciate this may cause some disruption, however this move is vital to understanding next steps in our attempts to alleviate the lag and performance issues that we are occasionally experiencing. Please do provide feedback as we evaluate this change, and also keep in mind that this change is not necessarily permanent.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Sat, 12 Oct 2019 03:21:42 UTC

• Enchanting mats have been rebalanced again and now should be working as described in previous patch note
• Major paragon chest loot overhaul has been completed and loot from those chests should feel much better in terms of risk vs reward

Written by: LoU Staff @ Fri, 11 Oct 2019 17:53:00 UTC

• An issue with Gardening not being excluded from skill debuffs has been resolved
• The skill gain debug message will now round to the nearest hundredths place (ex: 27.43% versus 27%)
• An issue with Tinkering Golems being treated as a Mage Summon preventing it from bonding with it's owner has been resolved
• The Pet Brokers had a meeting with the townspeople and in an effort to increase Pet Broker business, they have agreed to slash the price to sell pets from 10,000gp to 4,999gp with a slightly higher consignment fee from 5% to 10%
• The /invite command has been re-enabled (was mistakenly disabled) to add friends to group by name; ex: /invite Name

Written by: LoU Staff @ Fri, 11 Oct 2019 02:02:23 UTC

Several changes have been made to enchanting material drop rates:

• They will no longer drop in the sewers
• On normal overland or dungeon mobs, the drop rate has been reduced slightly
• In treasure chests and champ spawns, mini bosses etc (higher end content) the drop rate remains the same

This is part of a move to address an overall economy issue, which will continue as we move towards the new map. If you notice anything that doesn't match the highlighted criteria above, please do let us know.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Thu, 10 Oct 2019 20:16:41 UTC

If you have an issue where you suspect someone is breaking the rules, or they are using hate speech, please send an email to [email protected] and if you have a screenshot to submit please attach it. Thank you!

Written by: LoU Staff @ Wed, 09 Oct 2019 15:25:54 UTC

The server is back online now. Thanks for your patience!

Written by: LoU Staff @ Wed, 09 Oct 2019 05:52:47 UTC

It appears that during one of the patches in the last 12 hours it caused vendors to give things out for free due to them thinking they were on the Test Center. Due to this, we're forced to rollback to an earlier save point. We're very sorry for the inconvenience. We're awaiting the completion of the rollback at this time and will post another update once we're able. Thanks for your understanding and patience.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Wed, 09 Oct 2019 05:29:53 UTC

The server is offline and while we investigate some issues thanks for your patience, sorry for the downtime.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Wed, 09 Oct 2019 02:25:45 UTC

• Fixed Stealing success chance calculation that was previously causing theft to fail constantly in some cases
• Stealing debug message will appear to thieves while stealing on Test Centers now showing the succes schance
• Town vendors will begin walking around again, they have brains and feet ya know
• Fixed instrument durabilities not being set on creation, particularly makes sure that the bamboo flute has correct max durability
• Fixe lockboxes becoming unlocked on logout/login
• Fixed security flaw with the Plot Window where any level guildmate could change the Guild Settings on a plot
• Makes sure that Guild Lockdown-level players can decorate on the plot as well

Written by: LoU Staff @ Tue, 08 Oct 2019 11:11:53 UTC

• An issue with melee stopping/target switching after casting should be resolved
• An issue with weapon Slayer bonus persisting after unequipping the weapon has been resolved

Written by: LoU Staff @ Tue, 08 Oct 2019 07:23:15 UTC

• To aid in troubleshooting Power Hour skill-gain discrepancies, we've updated the /skillgaindebug command to now show more details about the gain chances
• An issue with Pet Brokers preventing users from removing/buying pets has been resolved
• An issue with Lockpicks sometimes not producing any results has been resolved
• An issue with being unable to Steal from one's own packhorse has been resolved
• Several clothing items including the hooded robe have been corrected to allow dying them

Written by: LoU Staff @ Mon, 07 Oct 2019 18:12:28 UTC

• An issue with being unable to recall from any dungeon has been resolved
• It is now allowed to recall out of any dungeon again

Written by: LoU Staff @ Mon, 07 Oct 2019 16:32:05 UTC

These new additions have been added:

• Veteran Rewards
• Dyetubs & Dyes (for changing colors)
• Commodity Deed Boxes
• Soulstones
• Power Hour & Town Skill Bonuses
• Pet Brokers
• Details can be seen: https://legendsofultima.gamepedia.com/OctoberMegaPatch

Written by: LoU Staff @ Sun, 06 Oct 2019 14:58:14 UTC

Closer In line with UO:

• Skill Trainer NPCs have been removed
• Training a skill to 30 quickly now requires you to buy from the appropriate vendor NPC (such as the Animal Trainer for Animal Lore). It's not exact because UO had more NPCs than we have, but skill books for every skill can be found in the world, and in rare cases you may be required to travel to another city to find an appropriate NPC for the skill you're after.
• Healers and Bards now sell items as well as heal and entertain you
• the Trader is now known as the Provisioner
• the Weaver is now known as the Tailor
• the Tinkerer is now (more correctly) known as the Tinker

Written by: LoU Staff @ Thu, 03 Oct 2019 00:36:18 UTC

You can now begin uncaching pets from deeds again. Shrinking pets into deeds however is permanently disabled with the upcoming Pet Brokers mod replacing pet deeds.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Tue, 01 Oct 2019 20:33:35 UTC

• Items will now only be returned to their owner when the owner is within range when a thief dies to guardwhacking

Written by: LoU Staff @ Wed, 25 Sep 2019 11:13:20 UTC

• The bank window will now close whenever you begin moving
• When a thief dies to Guard whacking, the Guards will automatically return any recently stolen items, that are trade-blocked, back to their owners
• Recently stolen items are now prevented from being placed in the bank while it is trade-blocked

Written by: LoU Staff @ Wed, 25 Sep 2019 11:04:56 UTC

• Bola chance to hit target increased from 66% to 100%
• Armored saddled still provide a resistance of 25% to being hit, so the highest chance to hit someone with an armored saddle is 75%
• Bola cooldowns (user and target) have been reduced from 10s to 6s
• An issue with Incognito names persisting through logouts or disconnects should be resolved now

Written by: LoU Staff @ Mon, 23 Sep 2019 00:43:42 UTC

• Bards Now Play Music With Flute, Bamboo Flute, Drum, and Lute.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Mon, 16 Sep 2019 04:09:25 UTC

• Keg security has been fixed such that it requires a player to have plot permissions to interact with the keg
• With any newly locked down item, it will be possible to right click and set security to Owner/Co-Owner/Guild etc. This is not retroactive. You will need to release and lock down items again in order for this to apply

Written by: Alys @ Sun, 15 Sep 2019 09:08:36 UTC

• Healing will now correctly evaluate heal amount and apply as per UO formula
• Bandaging a player or yourself will now correctly check healing level, then anatomy level, prior to allowing cure poison
• Bandaging a player or yourself will now correctly check healing level, then anatomy level, prior to allowing a resurrection
• Bandaging a pet will now correctly check veterinary level, then animal lore level, prior to allowing a player to cure a pet
• Bandaging a pet will now correctly check veterinary level, then animal lore level, prior to allowing a player to resurrect a pet
• Curing a player or self requires 60 anatomy and 60 healing. Resurrecting a player requires 80 anatomy and 80 healing
• Curing a pet requires 60 animal lore and 60 veterinary. Resurrecting a pet requires 80 animal lore and 80 veterinary

Written by: Stimwalt @ Sat, 14 Sep 2019 11:41:18 UTC

-Added Ankh Of Resurrection Near Waterfall On Level 2. -Added Hidden Poison Traps to Destard.

Written by: Turtle @ Wed, 11 Sep 2019 16:58:44 UTC

• Deployed a Performance Fix for testing on Production (we will be monitoring closely.)
• The Imbued Recall Rune Recipe for Bucc's Den should now properly recognize the Bucc's Den Travel Marker
• Crafted Water Pitchers should no longer break after 1-2 uses immediately after crafting them

Written by: Turtle @ Wed, 11 Sep 2019 13:19:11 UTC

• Orcish infighting in the Orcish camps has quieted down.
• Pirates now properly recognize their Red cohort as allies
• Monsters in the sewers are now all properly hunting players, not each other.
• Blacksmiths everywhere came to the realization that the War Axe is an axe and is now listed as such in the crafting book.
• Notorious is now spelled properly on the character sheet.

Written by: Turtle and Gorgan @ Fri, 06 Sep 2019 11:32:57 UTC

• Fixed an issue with Treasure Hunting dig range to prevent rare cases of a treasure chest being spawned on top of a player
• Fixes Treasure Hunting dig range Mining bonus to be more in line with UO
• Mining bonus now properly applies to Treasure Hunting

Written by: Turtle @ Fri, 06 Sep 2019 02:42:32 UTC

• A number of new craftable items have been added to Carpentry and Tailoring. (Pictures of the items can be found in the Stream-N-Media channel. )

Enjoy!

Written by: Stimwalt @ Wed, 28 Aug 2019 15:02:30 UTC

• Camping Should Now Message Player Properly When They Have No "Plain Wooden Logs" In Their Backpack.
• Cooking Pot Should Now Require A Nearby Heat Source Or Hearth.
• Added "Miss" Sounds To Combat.

Written by: Gorgan @ Wed, 28 Aug 2019 07:43:28 UTC

• An issue with Help Requests not alerting staff properly has been resolved
• An issue with hidden players being revealed during load sequence has been resolved
• An issue with pets being resized erroneously has been resolved + autofix applied, pets should now be the same size that they were originally
• Player vendors refresh-required-frequency has been increased from 14 days to 32 days to match house decay and prevent vendors from decaying unusually sooner than expected

Written by: Quenton @ Sun, 25 Aug 2019 02:04:48 UTC

• Gardener vendors (including the Gardening Broker) now buy seeds back for a very modest sum.
• Super rare rideable llama spawns have been made slightly less rare.

Written by: Quenton @ Sat, 24 Aug 2019 14:13:13 UTC

• Mage NPCs will now buy any spell scrolls and miasmas that you may come across for a very small sum - small enough that you'll almost certainly make more money selling them to another player.

Written by: Gorgan @ Fri, 23 Aug 2019 08:52:19 UTC

It has been brought to our attention that people are selling Pet Deeds with pets that have 200/200/200 stats. Please know that this is an exploit people have been abusing by casting Bless onto their pets and then deeding the pet. Do not buy these deeds as the pets will be auto-corrected soon back to the standard stats. Pet caching has also been disabled due to this.

Written by: @ Fri, 23 Aug 2019 08:15:12 UTC

• Vendors will now buy back anything they sell, with a 20% restocking fee (that's 80% of the purchase price). Whatever you're selling must be able to actually be redeeded!
• It turns out houses sell for an enormous amount of very heavy gold pieces, so in order for you to not be stranded huffing and puffing after a sale, sales to a vendor over 15K will now go straight to your bank box.

Written by: Gorgan @ Fri, 23 Aug 2019 08:23:35 UTC

• You can now add items to sale that are locked down (useful for locking down items, moving them into place, and then adding to sale)
• Adds the ability to remove an item for sale that is in vendor's inventory by dragging it directly to backpack or elsewhere
• Adds "vendor sell" speech command support to player vendors
• Fixes inability to drop items into For Sale containers not inside the vendor's inventory
• You can now use the house deco functions to move for sale objects on plot
• I've recorded a video walk-through of how to use player vendors as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmM94sMqGQs

Written by: Quenton @ Thu, 22 Aug 2019 16:26:43 UTC

Some of these have been in for a little while.

• Travel Markers were mistakenly removed a while ago and have now been readded, and this time all mage NPCs have one for every town.
• Full spellbooks and runebooks are no longer available from event token vendors and Vela in Wind; this was forcing scribes to raise their begging skill.
• The portal to the shipwreck in East Valusia from Buccaneer's Den has been closed, matey! If ye wants to get onto the ship, ye will have to climb aboard the plank, ye scurvy dog!

Written by: Gorgan @ Thu, 22 Aug 2019 14:26:31 UTC

• Town containers have been turned back on with performance optimizations, and will begin spawning items inside for thieves to steal again
• Attempting to steal an empty container inside a thief box will now steal the container instead of saying "that has nothing of value to steal"
• Items should NOT be lootable from these containers, and if you find one that you are able to loot without Stealing, please let us know -- in cases where people were getting items stuck in their backpacks due to looting stealable items, those items should now auto-fix and not be stuck any further

Written by: Stimwalt @ Thu, 22 Aug 2019 10:40:23 UTC

• Global Potion Cooldown Reduced from 2 to 1 second.
• Explosion Potion Cooldown Reduced from 30 to 15 seconds.
• Cure Potion Cooldown Reduced from 15 to 7 seconds.
• Refresh Potion Cooldown Reduced from 30 to 15 seconds.
• Heal Potion Cooldown Unchanged at 10 seconds.
• Dropped Item Decay is now 5 minutes instead of 1.

Written by: Gorgan @ Wed, 21 Aug 2019 11:32:19 UTC

• Mobs not decaying from treasure chest spawns has been resolved
• Training dummy can be used to gain skill again -- this works up to skill levels 30
• Temporarily disabled skill title auto-selection to prevent players from having titles swapped erroneously while gaining skills
• Potential fix for random UI missing elements

Written by: Gorgan @ Wed, 21 Aug 2019 07:59:32 UTC

• An issue with Guards attacking players a long time after the player's criminal timer ended should be resolved
• An issue with Tracking ranges being too low has been resolved; target acquisition range is now scaled based on the Tracker's skill level
• House blueprints have become heavier than usual, perhaps it's the new heavy-duty paper the Architects are using

Written by: Alys @ Wed, 21 Aug 2019 06:22:55 UTC

Next time you log in or change regions, you may notice an updated dungeon asset download. Please be patient and allow this to download - it shouldn't take longer than 30 seconds or so.

Written by: Gorgan @ Sun, 18 Aug 2019 22:41:17 UTC

This concludes our Week-long Power Hour event!

• Default skill gain rates have been returned to 1x
• In-house gains have been reduced to 0.5x (Gardening still uses the Default Gain Rate)
• In-dungeon gains have been increased to 1.25x
• SOON TO COME: Following some further internal testing, we will be adding a Daily Power-Hour option for all players to enjoy at their leisure. Players will be able to trigger the Power Hour every 22 hours and receive approx 1.5x rates (final rates to be determined)

Written by: Gorgan @ Sun, 18 Aug 2019 22:08:35 UTC

• We are temporarily disabling the town containers from spawning items while we continue to isolate the issue with players getting items stuck in their inventory from these boxes
• We have included an auto-fix for any items currently stuck in players' backpacks that will fix the items the next time you log in or switch server-regions

Written by: LoU Staff @ Sun, 18 Aug 2019 10:52:21 UTC

• This adjustment is due to rapid population growth, as we simultaneously work on performance issues.

Written by: Silk @ Sat, 17 Aug 2019 22:22:30 UTC

Due to the destruction of their snowy homeland, White Wyrms have a temporary home just north of Misty Caverns.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Sat, 17 Aug 2019 18:07:13 UTC

• Items dropped onto the ground by players should now decay after 1 minute

Written by: Stimwalt @ Sat, 17 Aug 2019 12:31:48 UTC

• Reduced Health and Armor of The Lich King, Ancient Rotting Corpse, and Ancient Hydra.
• Reduced Gazer spawn count slightly and spread Gazers out more.
• Sentinels now won't path all the way to entrances, so players can have a brief respite.
• Wraiths no longer see invisible, but Gazers always will.

Written by: Silk @ Sat, 17 Aug 2019 08:05:09 UTC

In preparation for the upcoming PVE/PVP tamer pet changes: Treasure map Nightmares, Dire Bear/Wolf, Chimera, Dragon and Greater dragons are no longer tamable. (note: this ONLY applies to the creatures spawned from treasure maps)

Test Center is still available for testing upcoming changes.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Thu, 15 Aug 2019 22:47:23 UTC

After the next server reboot, we will be running some detailed information capture procedures in order to try and pinpoint the cause of the ‘lag over time’ and other current performance issues.

These procedures will be very intensive on in-game experience and may cause you to lag out or even kick you off the server entirely. We ask for your patience, as it is critical this information is gathered while the server is ‘under load’ with a player population active. We will give you advance warning when this is going to occur.

The first of these will be run at 4am UTC/12am EST tomorrow (approx. 5 hours from the writing of this message.)

Written by: Stimwalt @ Wed, 14 Aug 2019 12:46:31 UTC

• We have created the Magincia Faction Stone, and for the time being we have moved Faction Wars to Magincia.
• Order/Chaos/Balance Factions fight over control of Towns. By standing near these Control Point Stones as Faction Teams (2+), Faction Players will be called upon to defend the Stone from Capture. Faction Leaders spawn near each stone.
• Screenshot: https://imgur.com/vK1LT0F

Written by: Quenton @ Tue, 13 Aug 2019 05:24:03 UTC

• Britain: The first skill trainer has gained an appreciation for the arts and moved near Britain's stage
• Britain: A second skill trainer has arrived and can be found near the bulletin board in Britain, in line with most other cities
• Upper Plains: Ogres in Giant Steppes are now found closer to the bonfires and are less spread out.
• Magincia: There are now less elementals in Magincia mine, and enraged elementals will show to a much lesser degree near the entrance.
• World: A lot more healers have been added to the world. This has actually been happening a lot for the past month or 2 because you can only run around as a ghost without knowing where a healer is in the middle of the wilderness for so long.

Written by: Quenton @ Mon, 12 Aug 2019 06:27:24 UTC

Changes to horses have been made, brought in line with UO.

• Horses now cost 550gp at the stable master (down from 2500gp)
• Horses now have a minimum 29.1 Animal Taming skill to tame (up from 1)
• Also, horses now have more of a chance to spawn alongside other animals in the world

Written by: Silk @ Mon, 12 Aug 2019 05:39:54 UTC

Ruin level 1 boss, Xozhar The Corrupted can no longer be abused by kiting it to the Wandering Healer at the entrance. Please report instances of this bug abuse in the future.

Written by: Gorgan @ Sun, 11 Aug 2019 01:58:36 UTC

• Increased durability of drum and lute, bamboo flute respectively
• Weather is temporarily disabled
• Unlock spell now works correctly against thief containers and treasure chests
• You should no longer be able to "Loot All" from a thief container
• Known Issue: Occasionally, stolen items from town containers get stuck in the backpack, we're working to resolve

Written by: Gorgan @ Thu, 08 Aug 2019 09:19:36 UTC

Sorry everyone, we've disabled mounting on all of the bears. :( It wasn't intended to make all bears mounts after the Steam launch when they were added. Don't worry though, we're going to add them to the world in a meaningful way so that they matter! Bears lives matter! Thanks for your understanding.

Written by: Stimwalt @ Thu, 25 Jul 2019 12:26:08 UTC

• Melee Hit Chance Increased (PVP/PVE).
• Parry Block Chance Increased (PVP/PVE).
• Parry Damage Reduction Increased (PVP/PVE).
• Mages Mana Regeneration Increased, Where Meditation In Leather Armor Is Much More Viable (PVP/PVE).
• Round Two to include additional warrior changes and further balancing!

Written by: Quenton @ Wed, 07 Aug 2019 10:23:33 UTC

• Alchemists now buy and sell regular potions.

Written by: Quenton @ Wed, 07 Aug 2019 07:23:31 UTC

• The red moongate in Britain has vanished, and access to the new dungeons is now available using wagons near the Britain, Moonglow, Nujel'm, Magincia and Vesper graveyards, or directly via Wind's entrance in Misty Caverns just outside Riverside. Young players cannot use the graveyard wagons but can still enter via Misty Caverns.
• Added torches in Misty Caverns between the crystal to Wind and the tunnel exit to Riverside.
• Added a second healer to Wind's north-eastern area.

Written by: Alys @ Wed, 07 Aug 2019 05:33:06 UTC

Guards have been removed from the sewers - the sewers are only accessible by Young Players now, so guards are not required any longer.

Written by: Alys @ Sat, 03 Aug 2019 13:20:54 UTC

• Fixed an issue where a young player was not able to target themselves with offensive spells
• Fixed an issue where a young player was not able to heal their own pets

Written by: Alys @ Sat, 03 Aug 2019 05:34:23 UTC

• Pets will now come with you under all scenarios where you use a charge from your runebook

Written by: Alys @ Fri, 02 Aug 2019 14:50:43 UTC

It's time! Phase 1 of the new player experience includes:

• Reopening the sewers, with a sewer token system and a sewer vendor with suitable items for young players
• Sewers will be accessible by young players only
• All young players will receive a 'guidebook' in their initial player loot that guides them towards our discord, wiki and the sewers as a starting dungeon
• Young players are now safe from other players, they can't be attacked with weapons, spells or pets
• Young players can still have beneficial spells cast on them by other players
• Young players cannot heal other players unless they are also young. This includes both magery and bandages
• We now have a mechanic to limit young player access to events as required
• Note that if you attempt to attack a young player, while you won't be able to land any damage, you WILL be flagged criminal. Naughty you!

Phase 2 is still to come. It will include the promised quest system, once we are able to move to the latest CS build after steam release. It will also include a dedicated tutorial area where young players will start. More on that soon!

• On an unrelated note, we are now serving custom assets (like Covetous and the other dungeons) on a global CDN. What this means for you is downloads of new files as they are updated should be much faster.

Written by: Stimwalt @ Fri, 02 Aug 2019 10:49:37 UTC

• Seeds drops off Magical Creatures and Boglings have been reduced.
• Mana Regeneration has been slightly reduced to balance Mages.
• Covetous Bosses LVL3+ are being actively balanced to guarantee achievable Group Content.

Written by: Alys @ Wed, 31 Jul 2019 13:24:51 UTC

• Fixed a bug with the war torn warg statue where it would get stuck in a player's backpack

Written by: Alys @ Mon, 29 Jul 2019 06:49:39 UTC

• Fixed various issues with interacting with items that were in pack animals or vendor backpacks

Written by: Stimwalt @ Fri, 26 Jul 2019 20:38:58 UTC

• We have disabled Five Star General as we have discovered performance issues with this enchantment.
• Your excess pets should be able to be stabled, and will remain passive until you do so.

Written by: Alys @ Thu, 25 Jul 2019 13:24:20 UTC

• When you place an object from a deed, the deco menu will automatically pop up now
• When you lock down an object, the deco menu will automatically pop up now
• If you use lock down on an already locked down object, the deco menu will automatically pop up now
• When you place an object from a deed, it will automatically become your current deco target rather than needing to change target to it

Written by: Turtle @ Tue, 09 Jul 2019 12:05:07 UTC

• The drop rate on the Radiant Staff of the Wizard has been significantly adjusted.

Written by: Turtle @ Tue, 09 Jul 2019 01:55:32 UTC

• Max number of item lockdowns for player plots has been increased.
• Bola Ball Recipe has had the required Iron Ingots amount reduced by 50% (from 10 ingots per ball to 5 ingots)
• Player signature when finishing an interaction with a merchant has been sped up slightly.

Written by: Stimwalt @ Thu, 04 Jul 2019 12:01:10 UTC

• The Destroy Campsite option will no longer instantly destroy a campsite, giving campers the opportunity to respond to players trying to stomp out their home away from home.

Written by: Turtle @ Thu, 04 Jul 2019 04:18:19 UTC

• An issue with the spotted dick recipe crafting into a deed has been resolved. (We are aware that the art is a pie. Please do not report this as a bug.)
• The gardening grown wheat item now properly displays as wheat instead of an apple.
• The Taste Identification skill book now properly grants 30 skill points in Taste Identification.
• An issue has been resolved with the Event Token deeds for the Librarian's Bookshelf and the Librarian's Corner Bookshelf. If you have a faulty deed, please /page and we will exchange for a working deed.

Written by: Stimwalt @ Mon, 01 Jul 2019 11:10:17 UTC

• GM Alchemist Perk - Potent Potions 25% Crafting Chance at 100 Skill.

Written by: Stimwalt @ Sun, 30 Jun 2019 12:58:47 UTC

• GM Alchemists Perk Added Granting 25% Chance To Craft Potent Potions.

Written by: Turtle @ Thu, 27 Jun 2019 05:24:43 UTC

• Fletchers can now craft a variety of baskets (Skill level 80 required). (Pending reboot)

Written by: Turtle @ Thu, 27 Jun 2019 04:02:50 UTC

• Fixed issue with "Crown of Dragon Meat" and "Rabbit Sausage" recipes. These should now be able to be crafted successfully again.
• The Occlo Fish Broker now has Raw Four Eyed Salar in stock again.
• For those adventurers who prefer natural light in the dark, General Goods vendors now sell torches.
• Bolas have had their charge-time removed to be more in line with UO

Written by: Stimwalt @ Wed, 26 Jun 2019 14:58:31 UTC

.- Add Potion Option in Gardening Will No Longer Consume the Bottle too.

• Commodity Deeds Price Reduced to 500 Gold at Bankers.

Written by: Alys @ Wed, 26 Jun 2019 11:51:36 UTC

• Fixed secondary skillbook to properly display 'My Skill' on detailed skill pages
• Removed favorite button from secondary skillbook (not required)
• Removed track button from secondary skillbook until we can fix skill tracking for secondary skills

Written by: Gorgan @ Mon, 24 Jun 2019 11:18:40 UTC

• The Treasure Map deciphering mechanics have been updated incorporating the latest base game's changes that should resolve issues with treasure maps choosing invalid or unreachable locations like house plots, mountains, etc.
• The "Reset Map Location" has been removed as it should no longer be needed
• Old maps will automatically convert (switch regions with them, or log out and back in with them if you have trouble using it at first)

Written by: Alys @ Sun, 23 Jun 2019 02:40:42 UTC

• Fixed several issues with camping where it would not locate the correct resource for building up campfires into full camps

Written by: Gorgan @ Sat, 22 Jun 2019 00:52:32 UTC

• Fixed an issue with some actions causing melee to halt
• Added printout of online guildmates when using /guild command
• Fixed an issue with Stealing not properly taking into account the incoming weight of items to check if the thief can hold the incoming item(s)
• Fixed an issue with Deposit and Withdraw speech commands not checking bank and backpack item count and weight

Written by: LoU Staff @ Thu, 20 Jun 2019 20:31:09 UTC

• The Magery spell Resurrection has had a correction made preventing players from resurrecting pets with it. Pets require bandages and veterinary to be resurrected, or the Stable Master.
• An issue has been resolved with bandages saying "Resurrection only works on Humans"

Written by: Silk @ Thu, 20 Jun 2019 13:36:24 UTC

Imps and demons have been added north of the "Destroyed Town". They have replaced the previous event spawns that were still there.

Written by: Stimwalt @ Thu, 20 Jun 2019 11:46:55 UTC

• Added Whitetail and Great Hart Spawn North of Moonglow.
• Soldier's Rest Meadow Contains High Level Tames in an Unprotected Zone.
• Screenshot of Meadow: https://imgur.com/mNkXo9z
• Map Location: https://imgur.com/J0gA1W3

Written by: Stimwalt @ Wed, 19 Jun 2019 22:41:16 UTC

• GM Alchemists can now craft New Potent Potions (100 Alchemy Required).
• Fresh Ingredients can only be found by Harvesting Rare Plants via Gardening or through Player Economy.
• Potent Potions require 4 Fresh Ingredients and 2 Moss in order to craft and GM skill.
• Depending upon the Potent Potion Type, value range is increased, or duration is increased, or charges are increased.
• Potent Deadly Poison now provides 20 charges, instead of 12 of Deadly Poison, but has the same Poison Level.
• Potent Nightsight now provide 1 Hour of clear sight at night, and is more powerful than the spell.
• Potent Invisibility now provides 5 minutes of invisibility.
• More Fun Potions are coming to Alchemy, as more Fresh Ingredients exist than are currently being used.

Written by: Stimwalt @ Tue, 18 Jun 2019 10:20:11 UTC

• New Green Thumbs Perks Added (100 Gardening Skill Required).
• Plant Harvesting (1-30), Soil Harvest (1-30), Seed Salvage (1-20), Fresh Ingredients (1-20).
• Bug fixed where Gardeners were unable to proc Harvest, Salvage, and Fresh Ingredients simultaneously.
• Alchemy Potions Using Fresh Ingredients Coming Soon.

Written by: Gorgan @ Tue, 18 Jun 2019 09:24:54 UTC

Fixes:

• Hiding in a house that you are at least friended to will provide a 100% chance to hide
• You can now unpack furniture on top of other furniture (chests on top of tables for example)
• Fixed an issue with containers going into negative weight sometimes
• Fixed an issue where the system thinks a player has a house when they don't caused by placing a house right before the server goes down/rolls back right after placing

Detect Hidden/Reveal:

• Detect Hidden skill and Reveal spell has been rewritten and now perform identicial to UO mechanics in terms of chance to reveal + range that users can reveal
• Wiki pages have been updated: https://legendsofultima.gamepedia.com/Reveal & https://legendsofultima.gamepedia.com/Detect_Hidden

Guilds & Guild Wars:

• Guild system has been updated incorporating the latest Guild Wars addition from the base game
• Guilds can now declare war against other guilds
• A red flag icon will appear next to pet and player names in opposing guilds
• You cannot perform benefical actions against enemies of a warred guild
• A transparent red flag will appear at the location of an enemies corpse when they die that is only visible to opponents of the corpse owner's guild
• Notoriety is exempt between warred guilds
• The Guild Wars system keeps track of Kills/Deaths for each side
• Guild menu's Last Online date for members will now be updated properly
• Wiki pages have not yet been updated, will work on this soon

Guildstones:

• Guilds now require a guildstone to be created and interacted with, with a limit of one guildstone per guild, per plot
• Pre-existing guilds that do not have a guildstone will be allowed to use the guild menu without a guildstone until the end of June; furthermore, the guildmaster can say "i wish to place a guildstone" to create a guildstone for free on a plot that they control
• You can also say "i wish to place a guildstone" to move the guildstone; the Guildstone also has a Destroy option in case you want to move it to another plot.
• You can say "i resign from my guild" to resign without needing to touch the guildstone

Written by: Quenton @ Tue, 18 Jun 2019 01:33:54 UTC

• Reagent quantities at all mage and alchemist vendors increased from 250 to 500
• Reagent quantities at the mage broker in Moonglow increased from 500 to 1000
• Mining broker in Magincia disappeared, but has now returned

Written by: Stimwalt @ Mon, 17 Jun 2019 17:49:10 UTC

• Made Potions compatible with all Gardening produce, so Gardeners can fully fund Alchemists.
• Reduced the cost of Nightshade for making high-end Poison potions.

Written by: Gorgan @ Sun, 16 Jun 2019 21:50:23 UTC

• Killing a blue-named human NPC, specifically vendors in towns, will now deal murder counts
• Shadow Robes color has been corrected from bright white to charcoal (this will be dyeable with the upcoming dyes and dyetubs patch)
• There is a known issue with the Wood Cottage House's collision blocking the doorway, at this time there is no known workaround. For now they have been removed from the architect until the issue is resolved.
• Players will no longer become unhidden during on-load events such as logging in or switching regions
• Combat Log is now persistent through log-out and region-switch
• Combat Log had an added 5px of width to try and solve issue with text getting cut off at the end (please submit screenshots of any remaining issues with text getting cut off)
• Combat Log order has been reversed so that newest entries are on the top and you no longer have to scroll down periodically

Written by: Stimwalt @ Sun, 16 Jun 2019 14:28:29 UTC

• Added Leather Bound Book at 80 skill, which allows Players to create, rename, and author long well-written books.
• Updated the Practice Books to be Mondain Book Volumes, describing the world in which you live.

Written by: Alys @ Sat, 15 Jun 2019 09:01:06 UTC

• Yardstick now craftable by tinkers - this is a useable object that allows a player to measure between two specific points. (Housing QOL improvement)
• Archery bonus now changed to be in line with melee skills. If your archer has GM fletching, they will have a damage bonus as per lumberjacking/mining

Written by: Gorgan @ Thu, 13 Jun 2019 09:18:16 UTC

• New Skill: Tracking
• To use: Open skill window (Press K) browse to Tracking and press the Tracking button
• Details: https://legendsofultima.gamepedia.com/Tracking
• New Command: /skillgaindebug - shows a chat message when you gain and do not gain

Written by: Stimwalt @ Wed, 12 Jun 2019 16:32:21 UTC

• Gardening Dowsing Rod allows a 40% chance to fill Gardening Well to 1000, or snap/destroy the Dowsing Rod.
• Dowsing Rod available at Fletcher under Tools, for 5 Boards each.
• Link = https://youtu.be/mE6R5FtnrZo

Written by: Stimwalt @ Tue, 11 Jun 2019 11:16:35 UTC

• Magic Reflection now has a 30 Second Cooldown on reapplying the spell, and re-casting after Cooldown works too.
• Reflect is a good Counter Spell in Mage PVP, but it is not intended to have no Cooldown at all.

Written by: Stimwalt @ Mon, 10 Jun 2019 21:53:31 UTC

• Harvesting from Plants remains an Initial Roll of (1-5) for Players with 0 Gardening, with no Scaled Maximum Bonus.
• Players with Gardening get a Scaled Maximum Bonus on their rolls, which increases their RNG max value.
• Scaled Maximum Bonus is a separate RNG roll using (1-GardeningSkill/10), which is added to the Initial Roll.
• Meaning Players at 99.9 Gardening can harvest +15 Potentially, rounded up.
• Players with 100 Gardening get the Green Thumb Perk, which is an additional Flat Bonus on top of their Scaled Maximum Bonus, which equals their Scaled Maximum Bonus.
• Meaning Green Thumbs can Harvest +25 potentially.

Written by: Silk @ Sun, 09 Jun 2019 19:28:16 UTC

The availability of Nightmares, Firesteeds, Brood mothers and a few other tameables have been adjusted/decreased. You will find that some of these creatures have also found a new home.

Additionally, small balance tweaks have been made to dungeons across the land.

Written by: Gorgan @ Sun, 09 Jun 2019 14:23:46 UTC

• Issue with dungeon doors not opening has been resolved
• Issue with hotbar icons/UI elements not saving or not appearing after a region-switch has been resolved

Written by: Gorgan @ Sun, 09 Jun 2019 13:43:41 UTC

• The server is now upgraded to the server to the latest build requiring Client version 0.8.8.x -- please make sure you have the latest client from the http://legendsofaria.com/dashboard to connect to LOU
• Fixed loading screen images not showing, previously showed a blank black screen
• Fixed /opendoor or /od command to work with house doors too
• Fixed fire steed stats from being 10/10/10 and no skills (not retroactive)
• Fixed Snooping command and targeting container inside inventory saying "can't see" or "too far"
• Fixed error with Stealing loot tables sometimes causing town containers to break and never receive loot

Written by: Gorgan @ Sat, 08 Jun 2019 10:46:31 UTC

• Fixed issue with Magic Reflect breaking melee combat in some cases
• Fixed issue with Stealing not grabbing some from a large stack of items/extremely heavy stack
• The Dread Horse's strength and hit points have been corrected from 100ish HP to 500ish HP as intended
• The Fire Steed has had it's hitpoints and melee slightly reduced but slightly increased intelligence and magic skills to be more in-line with a caster and to differentiate itself from the Dread War Horse that it was previously identical to

Written by: Gorgan @ Thu, 06 Jun 2019 10:56:51 UTC

• An issue with Poison Field not applying Poison to targets properly has been resolved
• An issue with Stealing not moving the stolen item to the thief upon successful theft has been resolved

Written by: Gorgan @ Thu, 06 Jun 2019 02:16:33 UTC

• Runebooks can no longer be opened on player vendors or pack animals
• Snooping now has a 1 second cooldown before being able to use the skill again
• An issue has been resolved with items on player vendors not being able to be interacted with
• Trapped pouches should now reveal snoopers + adds playing the explosion effect on the snooper
• The Thief Guildmaster should no longer call the Guards on fellow thieves
• Snooping nearby noticing system message has been optimized to prevent lots of spam
• Issue resolved preventing thieves from being able to steal blindly from selecting containers directly/right click steal
• Stealing is now blocked with items from secure trade window recursively
• Fixed an issue with opening containers from inside of a trade window doing a snooping check when it shouldn't
• All containers recursively within a secure trade window will now automatically close any open windows to both traders when trade ends
• Added UO-style auto-open container to trading-partner when we open a container from the window

Written by: Stimwalt @ Wed, 05 Jun 2019 21:36:30 UTC

• Added Fishing Bag with Stack All Fishing option.

Written by: Stimwalt @ Wed, 05 Jun 2019 17:08:13 UTC

• Players can now see their Seeds and Soil Counts within the Gardening UI.
• We recommend using a dedicated Pouch as Toggled Gardening Bag, and do Stack All Gardening.
• If you decide to use your base backpack, this will work too, but Garden Bag has Stack All Gardening QOL.
• Link = https://imgur.com/Ty94z0r

Written by: Nek @ Wed, 05 Jun 2019 01:35:26 UTC

• Faction Tower in Upper Plains should now be on a correct 2 hour respawn. The buff should now display the 25% bonus properly, pending restart for the buff display.

• New Faction Stones in towns!!

First test stone is in Moonglow close to the inn.

If two players of the same faction, and only of that single faction, stand in a circle of roughly a bow's range for 3 minutes the stone will trigger. The faction that triggered it must then keep at least 2 players inside the circle for 10 minutes, regardless of how many other faction are present, unlike for the trigger part where only 2+ of a single faction need to hold for 3 minutes. After the 10 minutes the winning faction players in a large radius (4x bow range) around the stone will get a 14% glory buff for 2 hours. This does not stack with the buff from the towers.

To recap:

1- 2+ of a faction and ONLY that faction in stone range for 3+ minutes = Stone Triggered, system wide message to call other factions.

2- 2+ of the faction that triggered the stone in stone range for 10+ minutes = Stone Claimed

3- Buff given and faction vendor spawned for 2 hours

NOTE: for now the faction leader spawns in it's place. We will add vendors that sell faction gear for twice the favor compared to crafting them and will add new means of gaining favor.

Please leave us feedback on the new Faction Stone mechanic so we can add new ones to most towns.

Written by: Gorgan @ Wed, 05 Jun 2019 01:27:22 UTC

• Added a simple Vendors List option to plot mailboxes (via right click menu)
• Added /reloadui command to hopefully alleviate issues where player healthbar(s) and hotbar(s) disappears
• The 3 new instruments can be equipped and all bard actions can be used while having it equipped
• Backpack of player vendors will now be updated when renaming them
• An issue should be resolved causing players to receive multiple backpacks

Written by: Gorgan @ Tue, 04 Jun 2019 16:57:18 UTC

• Issue with fame going over the max allowed causing the Dread title to not display when it should
• Begging record now gets cleared on town vendors periodically allowing beggars to attempt begging them again
• Escorts now have Dungeons on their Destinations list! They will pay 2x as much for taking them into a Dungeon

Written by: Stimwalt @ Tue, 04 Jun 2019 16:22:46 UTC

• The Farmer/Chef vendors now purchase Fresh Ingredients for good prices, at 8gp each.

Written by: Gorgan @ Tue, 04 Jun 2019 15:42:32 UTC

Bards and Carpenters Rejoice: New Instruments

• 3 new instruments have been added to Carpentry: Bamboo Flute, Lute, and Drum
• They all require 45 Musicianship to craft along with Carpentry
• They have progressively increasing durability, in order from Lowest to Highest: Flute (regular), Drum, Lute, Bamboo Flute
• The regular flute recipe and durability remains untouched

Crafting Potions Directly Into Keg

• Potion Kegs can now be toggle as a Crafting Keg
• When you have at least 1 empty bottle and 1 crafting keg in your backpack while crafting potions, the system will try to automatically drop the potion into the keg (note: it is not smart enough to handle multiple kegs/types of potions yet)

Written by: Gorgan @ Tue, 04 Jun 2019 15:42:05 UTC

• An issue with fishing Sea Creatures to shore has been resolved; you should now be able to use the Fishing ability and target a sea creature that is spawned in the water and bring it to shore
• An issue has been resolved with locked down paragon chests or other containers sometimes not receiving the Security options
• Issue resolved with house trash can not being able to be removed
• The Farmer/Chef vendor has been fixed and now buys all produce, both wild and from gardens
• The paperdoll will now show incognito name
• Paperdoll now hides Guild/Faction/Merchant Guild info on right panel when inspecting someone else + Adds "No Reputation" when we don't have a fame/karma title yet
• An issue with Tudor Door Pointed deeds not working has been resolved
• An issue with Paragon chests and Tinkering/Lockpicking boxes getting stuck as Locked after locking it down and releasing it from a plot has been resolved
• An issue with being able to split some off of a stack of objects on someone else's pack animal has been resolved

Written by: Nek @ Tue, 04 Jun 2019 03:45:57 UTC

• You no longer need to remove an enchantment on a skill before applying a new one.
• Enchantments can now be upgraded at any rank directly.

This means you only need to get lucky once at rank 1, then you can work on that enchantment to bring it up to rank 4.

Written by: Gorgan @ Tue, 04 Jun 2019 01:22:03 UTC

Snooping, Stealing, Disarm, Hotbars QOL Mega Update

• New Skills: Snooping and Stealing (https://legendsofultima.gamepedia.com/Stealing & https://legendsofultima.gamepedia.com/Snooping)
• New Combat Ability: Disarm, replaces Meditation on the Q hotbar icon (https://legendsofultima.gamepedia.com/Disarm)
• New Vendor: Thief Guildmaster, to join the Thieves Guild, also sells Disguise Kits
• Pre-existing decorative containers in towns will now spawn loot allowing thieves to train their stealing and get a little loot in the process

Hotbars QOL Additions

• The left-side hotbar is now draggable
• Hotbars and their icons can now be locked to prevent accidental dragging
• A new Lock button has been added to the bottom-center of the MiniMap to quickly toggle hotbar options
• The Player Settings (minimap gear-icon or /settings command) now has options to toggle Locking of all of the hotbars AND their icons

Various Fixes

• Player names have been removed from backpacks, they will simply be called "a backpack" now
• Pet titles showing "Name's Pet" will now be updated periodically when the owner's name changes
• Players' current target will be cleared automatically when dying and resurrecting
• Players will now be taken out of warmode automatically when dying and resurrecting
• An issue has been resolved with Guards attacking gray and red players on sight even though they have not committed a crime recently -- now they will only kill you if you recently committed a crime or are witnessed committing a crime, and either NPCs or player calls the Guards
• An issue has been resolved with Guards attacking and killing nearby gray and red players that were not their original target
• Fixed Magic Untrap spell to work with lower level traps on containers
• Fixed range on Telekinesis breaking traps to avoid damage
• Fixed an issue with being unable to equip an item from the hotbar when the item is nested in containers in the backpack

Written by: Quenton @ Sun, 02 Jun 2019 03:48:21 UTC

• Forestry Broker has arrived in Yew, buys and sells fletching/lumberjacking/carpentry items, including buying boards, at better value
• Mining Broker has arrived in Magincia, buys and sells blacksmithing/mining items, including buying ingots, at better value
• Treasure Hunting Broker has arrived in Nujel'm, buys and sells cartography/lockpicking items at better value
• Kindling can now be sold to traders for 1gp each, or to the forestry broker for 2gp each

Written by: Stimwalt @ Sat, 01 Jun 2019 10:49:22 UTC

• Veterinary now follows UO formulas for pet healing scaled to the Pet Health.
• Bandage Slip now reduces Heal Amount by 10% per hit taken, following UO formulas.
• Lich mobs have been tweaked with new Voice/Animation/Speech and have been re-balanced to be more like UO.

Written by: Stimwalt @ Thu, 30 May 2019 11:09:58 UTC

• Players can now successfully Add Fertilizer during any stage of the planting process where it is a valid option.

Written by: Stimwalt @ Wed, 29 May 2019 22:12:02 UTC

• Hunger now shows on the Paperdoll, and updates in real time when eating, or progressing to a hangry state.
• Starvation, Hungry, Peckish, and Full now have unique Chat Window messages, so players can focus on those.
• Starvation is the only Hunger state that causes the Stats Debuff, but eating until Full is the smartest approach.
• Pet Slots now show on the Paperdoll, and updates in real time when Taming, Releasing, or Transferring pets.
• Several QOL updates to the existing Paperdoll, with expanded descriptions and some new ones too.

Written by: Turtle @ Wed, 29 May 2019 15:41:54 UTC

• All treasure chest spawned mobs have been adjusted to allow for Bard skills to function properly. (Thanks for the bug report, Rezo!)

Written by: Quenton and Turtle @ Wed, 29 May 2019 13:29:56 UTC

• Farmers/Chefs now correctly sell potatoes and tomatoes (thanks for the bug report FahQ!)
• Farmers/Chefs loved that very quick bug report so much that they now also buy and sell broccoli, cucumbers and onions as well.
• The Ethereals and Event Tokens vendors have moved nearby Magincia bank, city of riches and pride!
• Fixed bug with Elegant Small and Elegant Tall Glass craftables in Tinkering
• The crafted alcohol component of Elegant Small and Elegant Tall Glass craftables in Tinkering has been removed

Written by: Quenton @ Wed, 29 May 2019 02:08:59 UTC

• Farmers and Chefs now sell bread, fruit and vegetables
• Farmers and Chefs now buy grown fruit and vegetables, including apples, oranges, pears, lemons, potatoes and tomatoes.
• You say tomato, I say tomato, you say potato, I say potato.
• New Farmers and Chefs have shown up in certain towns where there's more demand for food

Written by: LoU Staff @ Mon, 27 May 2019 13:07:21 UTC

Thank you to all of our armed service members who made the ultimate sacrifice for us. We remember you and your sacrifice today. Thanks to all of our active duty and retired military as well! We appreciate you and your service! Happy Memorial Day!

Written by: Stimwalt @ Mon, 27 May 2019 11:52:14 UTC

• As the race for GM Gardener heats up, we have created a fully Blessed Server Unique "The First Green Thumb Suit."
• The winner will also have their name immortalized in LoU lore, as "The Founding Father/Mother of Gardening!"
• May The Best Gardener Win!!!
• FRONT = https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/439568060484026369/582534569639804944/Capture.JPG
• BACK = https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/439568060484026369/582534589952819211/Capture2.JPG

Written by: Alys @ Sun, 26 May 2019 13:54:14 UTC

With the fall of the Orc Warchief and his legions, the orcs have retreated back to their main camp, leaving Vesper in peace and its surrounds available for housing and expansion. Huzzah!

Written by: Stimwalt @ Sun, 26 May 2019 12:44:29 UTC

• Added 30 Second Cool-down timer on newly made Garden Beds/Plants, preventing quick Destroys of Beds/Plants.
• Added Toggle Defaults to the Gardening Scythe, allowing players to set the Default to Mow Grass or Kill Plant.

Written by: Stimwalt @ Sat, 25 May 2019 13:22:47 UTC

• Bandages now have a maximum healing potential of 64 with a single bandage.
• Several QOL Message/Effect/Sound improvements for Healing.
• ClearAllEffects command "/ce" now handles all Effects and Sounds.

Written by: Stimwalt @ Thu, 23 May 2019 14:37:08 UTC

• Treasure Map Mobs No Longer See Invisible (Unless Gazer).

Written by: Quenton @ Thu, 23 May 2019 13:14:40 UTC

• Skill book trainers added to several towns where they were missing (should be in every town now)
• Training dummies added to several towns that had none (near the bulletin boards and blacksmiths usually)
• Yew now has a barmaid, barber, jeweller, chef, notary and a skills trainer. Already has a banker to the west.
• Ocllo farm's wheat now looks more like wheat and less like cotton

Written by: Gorgan @ Thu, 23 May 2019 02:39:14 UTC

• The recipe for the Ornate Bookshelf not being able to be memorized has been resolved
• Another issue was resolved with the Ornate Bookshelf not appearing in the Carpentry menu

Written by: Stimwalt @ Thu, 23 May 2019 00:55:10 UTC

• Lowered Bandages Durations, which are now using (7-14 second) Bandage Self and (3-5 second) Bandage Players/Pets, depending on the standard Dex and Anatomy Skill formulas.
• For Example, 100 Dex + 100 Anatomy = 7 Second Self Heal.
• Added QOL bandage data messages to the chat window, updated Icons, and provided the Duration on the Icon.
• When you die, you'll now hear spooky death music, and see the classic "You Are Dead" too.

Written by: Gorgan @ Wed, 22 May 2019 19:11:56 UTC

• Can now mark runes in dungeons and quick-travel to them
• Reduced the rune block radius by 50% (fixes people blocking a rune from too far away)

Written by: Stimwalt @ Wed, 22 May 2019 17:41:07 UTC

• Bone armor no longer grants Passive Mana Regeneration without penalty.
• Bone armor continues to have no Dex penalty, but now has slightly Reduced Armor too.
• This only applies to new Bone Armor drops in the world, as legacy armor will keep their values, but we expect Macer Warriors to handle that issue for us. :D

Written by: Stimwalt @ Wed, 22 May 2019 16:25:20 UTC

• Players take twice as long to become Hungry/Starving, assuming Players eat until Full! (8+ Hungry/15+ Starving).
• Added Chat QOL improvements for understanding the current Hunger state when eating Food!
• Players now warned in Chat when Hungry or Starving, and eating until Icons vanish reactivates these messages.
• Players that eat until Starving icon vanishes, will be notified in Chat that they are Peckish and could still eat more!
• Eating until Full is the most efficient way to curb Hunger for long periods of time, and Garden Produce and Cooked Foods are still the best for Hunger management.

Written by: Turtle @ Tue, 21 May 2019 19:38:40 UTC

• Event Token vendor has been updated with new items and Carpenter Recipes
• Memorizable recipes have been introduced! https://youtu.be/s4afocpCahc

Written by: Stimwalt @ Mon, 20 May 2019 16:27:00 UTC

• Mobs that can Heal will now have a 3 minute cool-down timer between Heals for both Spells and Bandages.
• Healing amounts have been approximately halved, and we are waiting to see if this is sufficient.
• We expect these changes to improve PVE game play significantly, especially for Warrior Templates, and we are prepared to reduce these values even more if necessary.

Written by: Gorgan @ Mon, 20 May 2019 00:13:24 UTC

• The "/split" command has been re-added that allows you to attempt to split a specified amount from the targeted stack; example usage: "/split 50"
• Disabled the Guild and Group tooltips that get created on player corpses

Written by: Turtle @ Sat, 18 May 2019 19:13:22 UTC

• Adjusted all monster/animal templates to match new Audio Reference templates. (Monsters that were not utilizing their sound effects, should now do so, on respawn.
• Applied fix to fishing shirt and fishing pants (waders)
• Removed Blessed attribute from certain craftable tailoring items.

Written by: Stimwalt @ Sat, 18 May 2019 11:19:20 UTC

• Stack All Gardening works for Fish, Soils, Seeds, and Potions.
• Garden produce will be added later for further QOL measures!

Written by: Stimwalt @ Fri, 17 May 2019 11:38:14 UTC

• New characters will start being completely full now.

Written by: Alys @ Fri, 17 May 2019 08:47:18 UTC

• Gardening scythes are now craftable by tinkers

Written by: Quenton @ Fri, 17 May 2019 01:10:59 UTC

• All graveyards have had their spawns altered so that you won't get completely swarmed by the undead
• Mage broker pricing/quantities fixed

Written by: Gorgan @ Fri, 17 May 2019 00:35:24 UTC

• The chance for bandages to slip during movement has been removed
• The chance for bandages to cure being reduced during slips has been removed

Written by: Stimwalt @ Thu, 16 May 2019 10:53:59 UTC

• Quick update for Boglings, who now drop seeds depending on their difficulty.
• The Boglings outside Britain have slowly gathered closer to a Mossy Rock formation farther away from the Guards line of sight, and Strong Boglings spawn there now.

Written by: Alys @ Thu, 16 May 2019 10:34:33 UTC

• Mage vendors now sell a limited supply of empty bottles for alchemy to save you getting sand in your... bags.

Written by: Gorgan @ Wed, 15 May 2019 11:42:26 UTC

• Shovels now have a Toggle Default option when you right click them to choose which option you want the shovel to do when you use it. This change is retroactive and all pre-existing shovels will be switched to Dig automatically. Please use the new option to change it to Garden if you would like to.

• Slightly increased the chance that you will anger a beast when attempting to tame it to be more in line with UO

Written by: Stimwalt @ Wed, 15 May 2019 20:30:01 UTC

• Added new effect to Bless spell, so that keeping Dispel Resistance active on a Summon has a visual indicator.
• Tweaked the Nightsight effects to not conflict with new Bless effects.
• Cunning, Strength, and Agility spells now remove Bless correctly, so PVP Players can remove the Dispel blocking effect on a Player Summon by buffing them first with Cunning/Strength/Agility and then immediately casting Dispel on the Summon. Mob AI will never buff a Player Summon so this mechanic is designed for PVP, and to mitigate Dispel Blocking Summoned armies in PVP.
• All Magery Buffs at GM Magery can now last up to 5 minutes.
• All Mage Vendors now stock 250 of each Reagent, as the Gardening market ramps up.
• All Casting Monsters will now drop Rare Seeds, where stronger Casting Monsters have more drops and in larger quantities.
• All Treasure Chests now drop all Seeds, and more difficult chests drop more and in higher qualities.
• Using Take Soil can gain Gardening skill up to 30.
• Using Take Soil over 50 Gardening gives you multiple clumps of soil!
• 15 bread, whether purchased from an NPC, or made with the Create Food spell, will fill you entirely. However, Garden produce and Cooked food fill you up in about 5 - 6 bites.
• Hunger currently takes about 6+ in-game hours to reveal a Hungry state and an additional 2+ hours to enter Starvation mode Debuff Stats. Eating until you are completely stuffed each time you get Hungry is best.
• New GM Gardening Perk, your Harvest Range will increase to 1 - 12 from the standard 1 - 5.
• Fixed a few bugs and corrected some wording within Gardening system.
• Fixed some bugs with Fresh Ingredients not showing the correct graphic.
• Some QOL improvements to Fishing, making it more obvious when you can cast again.

Written by: Quenton @ Wed, 15 May 2019 06:02:52 UTC

• The Magic Broker with cheaper prices and greater quantities has arrived in Moonglow's mage shop.
• Enchanting items can be sold to Mages and the Magic Broker.

Written by: Quenton @ Wed, 15 May 2019 03:59:29 UTC

• (the completed) Gardening Broker with cheaper prices and greater quantities has arrived in Ocllo.

Written by: Stimwalt @ Tue, 14 May 2019 11:57:14 UTC

• Garden Bag Price Reduced to 2k from 10k.
• All Rare Seeds Removed From Garden Bag, and currently Rare Seeds cannot be purchased from NPCs.
• Stanis O' Mathis has entered Bucs Den selling Gardening Supplies.

Written by: Gorgan @ Tue, 14 May 2019 06:37:11 UTC

• An issue has been resolved with items for sale on a player vendor not allowing account owners to use or see the options Change Price and Remove From Sale
• An issue has been resolved with Notoriety not being confirmed or punished for splitting stacks from player corpses
• A recipe has been added to Fletching for Arrows that can be made using Kindling

Written by: Quenton @ Tue, 14 May 2019 01:55:35 UTC

• The wagon to Minoc has been moved from Moonglow to Magincia (half way between Magincia Mines and Helm's Crossroads to the south-west of Magincia)
• Fisherman's Wharf is now only accessible from Vesper's docks (not Cove, Papua or Ocllo), and only goes back to Vesper at this time.
• The teleporter from Magincia's very old rune library to Moonglow ridge has been removed.
• The ladder from Moonglow ridge to Moonglow's mage shop has been taken down.
• The wagon from Britain to Riverside has left.
• The wagons from Riverside's north to Riverside's south have both left.
• The wagons from Moonglow to north Magincia and back have broken down and are no longer in service.

Written by: Turtle and Quenton @ Mon, 13 May 2019 16:31:58 UTC

• Added Secondary Titles for Forestry and Surveying (player requested - https://trello.com/c/YcJyoJpB)

Written by: Quenton @ Mon, 13 May 2019 11:44:57 UTC

• Ocllo field now spawns twice as many wheat plants
• The farmers in Ocllo's fields have put up a signpost so they could tell the wheat and cotton apart (but you can hold CTRL while in the field)

Written by: Stimwalt @ Sun, 12 May 2019 14:43:02 UTC

• Bless Spell now prevents Dispel on Magery Summoned Creatures.
• This was a player recommended enhancement, as so many caster creatures cast Dispel often.
• If Players keep their Bless Buffs cycled nicely on their Mage Summons, then the Dispel spell is completely nullified in battle, but if the Bless Buff drops, your summon will be Dispelled as normal.

Written by: Stimwalt @ Sun, 12 May 2019 13:43:44 UTC

• Rare Seeds were placed inside Garden Bags on the Garden Vendors by mistake.
• These will be removed by end of day today, so stock up before they are gone!
• As a reminder, Rare Seeds drops from stronger magical creatures, off Fishing mobs, and inside Treasure Chests.
• We will continue to monitor drop rates, and expand them if we feel not enough Rare Seeds are in the world.
• As another measure, we may consider selling Rare Seeds at Garden Vendor again for high prices, but this would be after trying to alter loot tables initially.

Written by: Stimwalt @ Sun, 12 May 2019 11:04:08 UTC

• Take a look at the new Gardening tool making waves in grasslands near you!
• Gardening Scythe Demo = https://youtu.be/tFUXZwRIRpY

Written by: Stimwalt @ Sat, 11 May 2019 23:26:32 UTC

• Create Food spell now provides very minimal hunger restoration compared to very effective garden produce.
• Grow rates from Seedling to Full Grown Plant are now 6 hours, down from 24 hours at launch (subject to change).
• Plants atop their Garden Beds now give you the ability to Examine Plant (this will have future expanded information), as well as Destroy Plant.
• Added the Gardening Scythe tool to Royal Gardener Walter O' Mathis at Lord British's Castle inside Britain, which can clear away grass inside your plot, making it far easier to tend your Gardens. The Gardening Scythe can also Kill Plants within your garden without having to interact with the Plant or Garden Bed.
• All of these changes will be fully available after the next server restart.

Written by: Quenton @ Fri, 10 May 2019 23:43:22 UTC

• An issue has been resolved preventing players from dragging a button from the skill window to the hot bar
• An issue has been resolved with corpses being teleported off of plots automatically

Written by: Quenton @ Fri, 10 May 2019 11:55:04 UTC

All cities and parts of the world have been getting some specialisation recently and more is to come.

• The sewers in Britain has been dramatically reduced in size and spawns.
• The sewers now connects to a teleporter near the mage shop in Papua, allowing either end to be equally accessible.
• Ocllo is set to become the farming capital of the world, and now has a cotton and wheat field to the south, a beekeeper, and will soon see more changes now that Gardening has been introduced.
• Magincia, city of pride, is becoming recognised as a centre of trade, and Crazy Carl has moved in and is willing to buy some new rare bits and pieces. He's still won't sell you anything.
• The guards around Nujel'm and Moonglow have managed to tighten their borders against the threat of hostile creatures surrounding their cities.
• All reagents can now be found in various parts of the world, depending on the reagent (see the Magery page on the wiki for locations)
• Signposts in the wilderness have been labelled. We might have missed a few, so page if you find one with names that don't look right or without names at all.
• Buccaneer's Den is not as crowded as it used to be, and many of the pirates that used to roam the place have left.

Written by: Stimwalt @ Fri, 10 May 2019 11:26:56 UTC

• Plants should now scale correctly, but won't take effect until new plants are created.
• Seed Salvage should now properly fire when the plant is consumed.
• Shovel range for Dig/Thunters should be restored.
• Grow rates have been reduced to half a day, instead of a full day, as an experiment (Subject to change)

Written by: Stimwalt @ Fri, 10 May 2019 11:26:38 UTC

• Gardening: Who wouldn't want to grow their own reagents? Definitely easier said than done! The race towards Green Thumb begins, and be sure to read the Wiki for the nitty-gritty deets, and watch the tutorial video for Gardening in the Wiki!
• Camping: Discover the wonderful world of Camping with exciting Campfire Regeneration Rates, Buffed Stat Bonuses from Tents, and Classic Instant Logout features when Resting. Be sure to read the Wiki and watch the tutorial video for Camping in the Wiki!
• Hunger: Players will now be expected to eat something, occasionally, or take a -10 Stats Debuff until they are well fed. It will take approximately 10 in-game hours for a player to start feeling hungry again. Gardening produce is the most effective food at taking care of your hunger pains.
• Drugs: Old Toby enters our world as a Common plant, but it will be the gateway drug to many more rare drug plants and eventually an expanded Drug Tolerance system, so partake in moderation! You can find the Smoking Pipe for Old Toby a high price from Walter O' Mathis, the Royal Gardener at Lord British's Castle, or simply ask a GM Fletcher to make you one for a lot less.
• Gardening Wiki = https://legendsofultima.gamepedia.com/Gardening
• Camping wiki = https://legendsofultima.gamepedia.com/Camping

Written by: Banish @ Thu, 09 May 2019 21:10:15 UTC

• Riverside vendors are now neutral. So both blue and red players can bank and shop
• Smoking pipe has been added as a fletching craftable

Written by: Banish @ Thu, 09 May 2019 14:55:08 UTC

• All NPC mages once again sell moss, at the original price but at a much lower quantity.
• All NPC mages and alchemists now have lower amounts of regs.
• Gardening well has been moved from furnishings to tools in the carpentry menu.

Written by: Banish @ Wed, 08 May 2019 15:32:17 UTC

The Moonglow Mage is once again selling Moss. This is overpriced moss in limited quantities for those that need it before the gardening patch comes out.

Written by: Gorgan @ Fri, 03 May 2019 01:16:19 UTC

• An issue has been resolved with Lumberjacking not receiving the appropriate harvest bonuses from both GM Lumberjacking and GM Forestry secondary skill level
• An issue has been resolved with Gargoyle Pickaxe & Uncle Tuk's Hatchet dropping as legacy items -- newly created ones will be correct, this is not retroactive
• Gargoyle Pickaxe and Uncle Tuk's Hatchet will both grant you 3 or 4 pieces per swing as the baseline; this stacks with normal harvesting bonuses; they also have a limited number of charges to use, consuming 1 charge per swing
• Gorgan's Pickaxe has been replaced in the loot tables by the Gargoyle Pickaxe
• Secondary skills Surveying and Forestry have had their Mining/Lumberjacking skill-level prerequisites reduced from 80 to 30

Written by: Gorgan @ Thu, 02 May 2019 21:33:18 UTC

• An issue has been resolved with using/double-clicking any object in your backpack causing players to become revealed if hidden -- you will only be revealed when performing certain actions as intended like looting, casting, going into combat, etc
• An issue has been resolved with criminals being unable to use public teleporters in the world while In-Combat -- this was only meant to occur with player-created moongates via the Gate Travel spell

Written by: Silk @ Thu, 02 May 2019 06:01:07 UTC

With the re-opening of Ruin adventurers will be faced with new and unique challenges to overcome. While the majority of the changes effect level 2 of the dungeon an update to dungeon chests (server wide) has been made. (Dungeon chest loot will be available on re-spawn)

• Dungeon chests levels 1-5 loot tables have been updated.
• Dungeon chests and dungeon coffins now have chances for new rare items.
• New item: Cursed runebook.
• New lock picking tool has been added: Skeleton key. This item will allow anyone, regardless of skill-level, to open(one time use) a locked chest/coffin/door.
• New locked doors have been added to Ruin. These doors are very difficult to lock pick.
• New dungeon coffin system implemented. With these new coffins lucky players will find new loot inside.. Or unlucky players may find monsters, traps or nothing at all. You will find locked and un-locked versions of these coffins in Ruin.
• Additional passageways between level 1 and level 2 have been added.
• New tamable creature: Shadow Wyrm.
• New world spawn rares added to Ruin.

Written by: Turtle @ Wed, 01 May 2019 21:31:20 UTC

• Tailors can now craft Tiny Bags.

Written by: Gorgan @ Mon, 29 Apr 2019 22:08:47 UTC

• An issue has been resolved with containers that were released from a house plot having the "locked" attribute stuck on them

Written by: Gorgan @ Mon, 29 Apr 2019 01:33:08 UTC

• Enchanting books are now blessed retroactively and durability will no longer apply to them
• Inscription crafting will no longer consume mana when failing; mana consumption has been moved to the end of the crafting sequence
• Player vendors now support account-wide ownership -- any pre-existing vendors will need to be interacted (double click) with one time following this patch to receive the update, after which all of your characters on that account will be able to manage it
• An issue has been resolved preventing players from marking items as For Sale that are placed on a table or on the ground of a house plot
• Double clicking/using a lockpick no longer reveals you instantly
• An issue has been resolved with containers that are locked down on a plot when they are already locked losing their "locked" attribute upon releasing the container rendering Paragon Chests un-pickable

Written by: Gorgan and Turtle @ Fri, 26 Apr 2019 21:38:20 UTC

• GM crafters rejoice! Non-Equipment items crafted at GM will now properly display Maker's Marks.
• Note: All Equipment items will continue to get Maker's Marks applied at their respective GM crafting level with Exceptional or Slayer quality.
• Stone Manor: South-facing house sign has been moved to opposite side of door to counter an issue with being unable to click on the door due to the sign blocking it
• An issue has been solved with all North/West placed houses having backwards signs
• A problem was resolved with the dyetub not being created when crafted or purchased from a vendor
• "Pick Lock" option has been added to locked-pickable containers right click menu

Written by: Turtle @ Fri, 26 Apr 2019 16:54:09 UTC

• Tailors can now craft cloaks (Min. Tailoring skill of 41 required)
• Crafted cloaks can be dyed using dye tubs for a variety of colors.

Written by: Gorgan @ Thu, 25 Apr 2019 11:47:43 UTC

• House plots will now refresh automatically for friends or above when interacting with objects that are on the plot like the house sign, mailbox, containers, workstations, etc.
• Player vendors no longer auto-face shoppers, and a new option for merchant owners to have the vendors "Face Me"
• The player speech mumble no longer logs to the chat-box when taming animals

Written by: Gorgan @ Sat, 20 Apr 2019 06:15:00 UTC

An issue has been resolved with pack animals losing all of their items after dying.

Written by: Sentinel @ Sat, 20 Apr 2019 02:04:13 UTC

Minoc has been rebuilt in it's old spot near the Mines (or quarry west of Moonglow). Elementals have poured forth from the mines and destroyed the town and slaughtered it's residents. Even the small village cemetery has become restless. Come get some revenge for our lost fellow Britannians and check out the new Minoc which has been sorely missing.

Written by: Gorgan @ Wed, 17 Apr 2019 12:50:17 UTC

New recipes have been added!

• Robe and Dress Deeds have been added to Tailoring recipes which will turn any chest piece into a robe, affecting only the item's appearance.
• Bola and Bola Ball have been added which can be tossed at players to dismount them and can be crafted by Tinkerers.
• Saddle and Armored Saddle has been added to Tailoring Recipes; the Armored Saddle has a slight resistance to bola dismounts and also provides some armor/defense to your mount

Written by: Gorgan @ Mon, 15 Apr 2019 04:26:33 UTC

Recently we put out a fix that would solve an issue with durability not being reduced on Blessed Instruments. Following that update, 2 or more new issues surfaced, specifically with causing durability to be degraded on Forges, Fire Beetles, as well as other items that should not lose durability. This issue has been resolved, sorry for any losses you might have incurred due to this. Thanks for your patience and understanding as usual.

Written by: Gorgan @ Fri, 12 Apr 2019 12:00:45 UTC

An issue has been resolved with some Guild Tags not being displayed sometimes when they are 2-characters long. The issue was related to wrapping the tag in brackets symbols, as the client interprets valid tags as a transparency-color-code. To resolve, we have changed the symbols from brackets to hyphens.

Written by: Gorgan @ Fri, 12 Apr 2019 03:00:39 UTC

An issue with the paperdoll not appearing on the character-creation screen has been resolved.

Written by: Gorgan @ Thu, 11 Apr 2019 07:22:03 UTC

An issue was identified and quickly resolved causing problems during pet transfer or death. Everything is working as expected again. Thanks for your patience.

Written by: Silk @ Wed, 10 Apr 2019 19:54:16 UTC

The dungeon: Ruin is temporarily closed for balance and modifications. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Written by: Banish @ Mon, 08 Apr 2019 20:37:32 UTC

Ahead of the upcoming gardening changes we have made some changes to the ingredients that NPC vendors sell.
Until the gardening patch goes live cooks may find it difficult to obtain ingredients.
This is temporary until the gardening patch goes live and will benefit both gardeners and cooks.

Written by: Gorgan @ Sun, 07 Apr 2019 23:35:40 UTC

• Paragon chest loot has been fixed and they will now drop correct amounts of gold pieces
• Wooden storage chests can no longer be equipped
• Pets that become tamed while under the effects of Peacemaking will no longer remain frozen until relog
• Playing an instrument will now show musical note visual effects on both the bard and the bard's target

Written by: Gorgan @ Sun, 07 Apr 2019 21:44:29 UTC

• An issue with mob corpses sometimes not disappearing, especially pets, has been resolved
• An issue has been resolved with stacked items being purchased from a vendor not receiving their defined hue, causing problems with stacking due to hue mis-match
• Polymorph optimizations: Issues with Polymorph spell not returning characters to their original appearance should be resolved

Written by: Gorgan @ Sun, 07 Apr 2019 18:14:39 UTC

Various Fixes

• An issue with attempting to dig sand with a shovel not doing anything has been resolved
• An issue has been resolved with runes being blocked from dead mobs
• Fixed some various errors that were occurring with Bandages and Poisoning that may solve unforeseen issues associated with them

Player Contact Info Registration

• Players can now register their Email Address and/or Discord Username for use with sending GM Pages; this will allow us to reply back to you outside of game and reduce wait times or page-abandonment
• Type /register to bring up the Contact Info Update menu at any time

Written by: Gorgan @ Sun, 07 Apr 2019 09:07:14 UTC

We're streamlining our announcements, patch notes, known issues, and town crier news into a new system that will allow everyone to see them in Discord, in-game, on our webpage, and on the Wiki. This is in an effort to make sure we're always providing up-to-date information in all outlets.

Changes coming with this:

• You can view the news webpage at http://news.legendsofultima.online (mobile-friendly, save to homescreen to make an app shortcut)
• The in-game MOTD window has been replaced with the LOU News Feed that will popup on login unless you chose it not to; you can also use /news to open it, or double click a Town Crier
• Town Criers now have their own stream of news and they will only announce recent news, ignoring news that is too old. If no news is available, they will wait until fresh news comes in.

Written by: Gorgan @ Sat, 06 Apr 2019 09:06:12 UTC

• Auto-doors for house doors is working again. All new house doors will automatically have the feature, pre-existing doors just need to be used once to receive the update.
• An issue has been resolved with the Combat Timer being triggered on players when attacking a target that is exempt from notoriety repercussions (group/guildmates).
• An issue has been resolved with Bandages not storing the Last Bandage Target when you target someone with a bandage.
• An issue has been resolved with House Signs not being updated for Decay and Transfers.
• An issue has been resolved with Ethereal Mounts having 0 stamina when mounted
• An issue has been resolved with pets sometimes becoming incapable of being mounted by double click or right-click

Written by: Silk @ Fri, 05 Apr 2019 04:49:39 UTC

• Added: Enchanting mats. - all levels
• Added: Major ingredient chances.
• Added: New rare Cartography items.
• Added: New Treasure hunter only rares and other new drops.
• Changed: Gems & Reagent stacks are now more bountiful.
• Changed: Gold count averages increased in most chests.
• Changed: Item count chances increased in each chest.
• Changed: Buffed loot chance on all non rare items.

Written by: Banish @ Thu, 28 Mar 2019 17:09:47 UTC

The NPC vendors have been in discussions regarding the current price they pay for raw materials. They have decided that in approximately 24 hours they will begin paying 50% less for all raw materials.

Written by: Nek @ Sun, 24 Mar 2019 01:11:40 UTC

• Fixed issue with skill gains from using bandages

Written by: Stimwalt @ Sun, 24 Mar 2019 01:09:34 UTC

:spellbook: Mana Drain and Mana Vampire Changes

• Mana Drain has a 3 second Cool-Down, and does percentage-based mana drains of 20% of target's current mana pool with maximum drains capped at 20, for both players and mobs.

• This spell does not return mana back to the caster, and as a Circle 3 spell, can be resisted a great deal at GM resist.

• Mana Vampire has a 5 second Cool-Down, and does percentage-based mana vampires of 50% of target's current mana pool with maximum drains capped at 50, for both players and mobs.

• This spell does return mana back to the caster, and as a Circle 7 spell, can fizzle, but can also get through GM resist checks a fair amount.

• Vamp can now be used strategically in PVE and PVP to return mana above the 40 spell cost, with maximum of 50 potential, but is a gamble due to potential resist.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Wed, 29 Apr 2020 17:39:44 UTC

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.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Thu, 05 Mar 2020 22:20:12 UTC

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.

Written by: LoU Staff @ Wed, 05 Feb 2020 21:53:32 UTC

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

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

    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

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

    Skinning for mobs occasionally gives logs or skulls

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

    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

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

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

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

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

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

    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

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

    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.

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

    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.

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

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

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

    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) 

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

    Engraving doesn't always work on some books

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

    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

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

    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

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

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

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

    Guards sometimes whack players when using some utility spells like Mark

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

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

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

    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

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

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

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

    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.

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

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

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

    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).

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

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

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

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

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

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

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

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

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

    The Combat Log has been temporarily disabled it to debug an issue with persistence as it may get cleared when you cross regions or log out.

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

    Certain containers (such as crates), may not show the background/objects inside.  Relog to resolve this or use another type of container.

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

    Joining a Guild may turn the under-character floating healthbar into a gold-trimmed healthbar that does not update and always shows full. We've deferred to CS for resolution.

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

    Donations: you may not be automatically added to the Discord Patron role. If you wish to participate in the #Γ¡Épatrons-clubΓ¡É after making a donation, send an email to [email protected] with your discord name, the email address you used, and whether you used paypal or patreon. Allow 72 hours from when you send the email for us to process. Thanks for your support!

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

    Skill titles may randomly change while raising skills

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

    Assets like individual fence pieces may on occasion not 'draw in' properly on the client.  While you can seemingly run through them when this happens, you'll notice very jerky walking behaviour until you return to the point of entry.  Note that in these scenarios, the server knows you have not 'passed' the object and still considers you to be on the other side.  You will not be able to interact with anything until you return to the point of entry and the 'jerky' behaviour disappears.

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

    Heater Shields may appear as Pink, this is a client issue. CS has been made aware, and will be patching this in an upcoming release of the client.

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

    Fishing Nets may not be selectable when placed on the ground, as well as not being selectable by the item in a backpack or bag. This is a client issue. Suggestion for workaround is to use the right click option on the item when it is in backpack to use and utilize the Control + Click 'Fishing Net' name on the item to pickup when on the ground.

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

    Halloween pumpkins from 2018 may not be movable.  If you need to move these items, please do not drag them to a new location as they may get stuck on your cursor.  Instead, please pick them up first and then drop them again in the new location. If an item is stuck on your cursor, you will need to /resync or log out and back in again.

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

    Enchanting skill may not gain when applying enchants

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

    Weapon sounds may not play under certain circumstances.

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

    Housing: Blacksmith Houses (28x24) , Double Houses, 'Tudor Houses', Tudor Manor Houses and 'Oak Houses' require MUCH more space than the size of the blueprint.  You may need to extend your plot further to accommodate.

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

    Housing: If your existing plot does not reflect the updated lockdown number, refresh your plot at your mailbox.

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

    Housing The door on the south-facing Stone Blacksmith house seems to be blocked by the house's collision when trying to click the door. Newly placed houses will have the door slightly adjusted to resolve it, but the fix is not retroactive. If you have a South-facing Stone Blacksmith house with a door you can't click, please page a GM or re-deed and re-place the house if possible.

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

    Housing: the Stone Blacksmith house, the interior may be unusable.  It has been removed from the architects in game temporarily while we wait for a fix.  If you're affected by this, please page a GM and we can assist. 

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

    Housing: the Wood Cottage House's collision blocking the doorway, at this time there is no known workaround. For now they have been removed from the architect until the issue is resolved. If you have a Wood Cottage deed and would like to receive a refund, please reach out to a GM (use /page in-game) and we'll work with you. This bug has been forwarded to CS for resolution.

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

    Murderers going into guard protected towns is intended. Like original UO, it is intended for reds to be allowed into towns under stricter provisions. Please see the UO wiki on this: http://www.uoguide.com/Murder_Counts#Towns.2C_and_Murderers a murderer may enter town freely, but will still be held to the letter of the law. Any aggressive actions will call down the wrath of the guards and your corpse will be freely lootable by anyone.

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

    We have received a couple notices from people about the List View in backpacks in regards to stealing. Unfortunately we cannot turn that off at this time.

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

    Some decorative items when moved via house deco menu appear to move only in an upwards fashion. This is a client related issue. Suggestion is to release the object and lock it down at the new location. -- Additionally, you can move/spin objects, go off-screen/leave the region and come back and they will appear properly.

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

    Gardening: Certain areas in the world seem to prevent the Gardening Scythe effect from clearing grass. First try Closing the EXE, and relog to use your Scythe again, and if that doesn't fix it then it's the actual CS terrain that's preventing the Gardening Scythe from working it's magic. If all else fails, I would suggest moving your plot and trying your Gardening Scythe first on your new plot (before building) in order to make sure that your new plot location it's ideal for Mowing Grass. Finally, you could always move to the desert, where there is no grass!

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

    Secondary Skills do not appear to be tracking in the on-screen Skill Tracker UI element.

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

    Name change deeds may not update your name in places such as: your backpack, your pet's title, your house/plot, etc. If you change your character name, you can rename your plot mailbox and house sign from their respective menus.

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

    Health Bars dragged directly off of mobs cannot be modded but we are looking into ways to make it easier to identify targets like poisoned targets, faction targets, etc.

Written by: LoU Staff @ 1/17/2020 2:14:46 AM

    Flutes can not be colored. We will try to find a new model that can for them

Written by: @ Wed, 04 Mar 2020 06:22:40 UTC

Town vendors no longer sell skill books and instead train skills by speech command: vendor train skillname

Written by: @ Wed, 04 Mar 2020 06:22:03 UTC

The Legends of Ultima Test Center has many upcoming changes including combat changes and the Britannia Map preview. Stop by and check it out!

Written by: @ Wed, 04 Mar 2020 06:21:27 UTC

Some of the town vendors that sell reagents have had their minimum quantity increased.

Written by: @ Wed, 20 Nov 2019 00:38:00 UTC

Have you filled out the LoU Player Survey yet? View the Announcements for a link to it.

Written by: @ Mon, 19 Aug 2019 17:28:48 UTC

Do you love LoU? Help support our server costs by visiting our Patreon page at: https://www.patreon.com/legendsofultima

Written by: @ Mon, 19 Aug 2019 17:28:12 UTC

Currently the server restarts every 6 hours, but we plan to move back to daily restarts after we squash some gremlins.

Written by: @ Fri, 16 Aug 2019 00:21:38 UTC

Anyone can get to and from Wind through Misty Caverns, north of Riverside.

Written by: @ Fri, 16 Aug 2019 00:21:28 UTC

Britannian dungeons like Covetous can be accessed via Wind! One-way wagons can take most there but won't bring you back.