Additionally we have a few updates as well:

Publish

• Players should be able to enter Dungeon/Cave entrances without any issues now.

Patch

• Removed Spam Filter

Today Publish 64 will be available on Test Center 1 and with it comes Valentine's and a whole list of changes you're sure to love (and we'd sure love to hear your feedback) so come check it out!

Continue reading for the full notes below!

The following changes will be availble on TC1 today, additionally we have included client changes available to all players. We encourage you to log into Test Center to check out the changes and give us your feedback, have fun!

Edit 2:20PM EST - Accidentally posted the wrong notes, we apologize for this oversight. The correct notes are now below, thank you!

Item Insurance Update

All items have been evaluated based on their true value and these values will now be used to determine insurance costs.

·         Scaling insurance cost

o   New insurance costs will be between 10gp and 600gp.

o   Magical items cost will be based on their worth in the Imbuing system.

§  All community collection items will remain 600gp.

o   Non-magical item cost is based on a percentage of the items vendor price.

o   Player will now be receiving 100% insurance value for player kills and factions players will receiving 50% insurance value for player kills.

·         New improved interface added to the player context menu

o   Displays all insurable items currently within the players backpack and equipped on paperdoll.

o   Displays current insurance status for each item.

o   Total insurance cost, the number of deaths payable, and the gold available are displayed for the player.

At 1:30PM EST we'll be releasing new publish changes to followup with yesterdays client. We have included notes for both the Publish and Patch that will be available, thank you!

Publish 63.0.0

• Due to the issues brought about by the recent hueing changes we have added new skin dyes to the Alchemist and Provisioner NPC’s – this will allow players to dye their skin to any hue within their race.  The name of the dye is Skin Tingeing Tincture.  The cost of the tincture is approx 2,500.
• Fixed a vendor exploit involving skill/stat changes.

Patch
7.0.4.4 (Legacy)
4.0.4.4 (Enhanced)

• Fixed an issue with cave walls blocking movement
• Reverting Snow
• Auto-joining a non-existent custom chat channels on login will now auto-create the channel instead of notifying the player that the channel does not exist.
• The volume on the Reveal Spell has been reduced.

We are currently aware of login difficulties players may be experiencing when attempting to access the game. We are working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible and will update if more information becomes available.

Thank you for your cooperation and patience!

Today we have several new items available on UOGameCodes.com just in time for the holidays! We’ve provided details below, visit UO Game Codes to purchase.

Smuggler’s Edge

The perfect thief needs a perfect weapon! The Smuggler’s Edge has a 5% chance to proc a stealing attempt when fighting a mob.  If the proc is not successful you have a chance of gaining skill in stealing instead.  If you have natural stealing skill you have a chance to steal one of two new stealable rares:

• Smuggler’s Tool Box – Produces lockpicks daily
•  Smuggler’s Lantern – Has Spell channeling, faster cast, and is hued

Undertaker’s Staff

  This weapon is perfect when you’re in a jam! (Or just don’t feel like running.) The Undertaker’s Staff can be used to retrieve your corpse if it’s within 40 tiles and you are not a criminal.

Merchant’s Earrings

Who needs to haggle with a set of baubles like these? The Merchant’s Earrings are a charged pair of earrings that discounts player run vendor costs per day.  Deducts one charge per day, there are two versions: The 40 use version grants a 10% discount and the 90 use version grants a 5% discount. 

We will be bringing all Shards offline for immediate maintenance at 5:45 PM EST. At this time we anticipate that all Shards will be back online no later than 8: 00 PM EST. We apologize for the short notice.

Please read on for the full 63.2 Notes

This evening we have released a new client for users to patch. Additionally we will be publishing additional server changes during schedule maintenance.

Publish 63.1

• Houses will no longer evict chickens when players claim them from coops.
• Players stuck in body-changing forms (such as Animal Form) will be reverted to their original form on login.
  

Patch Notes

Version 7.0.4.3 (Classic)
Version 4.0.4.3 (Enhanced)

• It’s snowing!  Turned on snow terrain for the holidays.  NOTE: This is only a temporary change.

Currently some players may be impacted by an issue that causes transformations to persist through logout. We are working to find a solution to return players to their normal forms to be included in the next maintenance cycle.

We appreciate your for your patience and apologize for our alchemists behavior. Thank you!

Publish 63 is coming to all live Shards tomorrow, 12/16/2009. Deployment of the Publish will commence with European Shards at 12:00 AM EST and will continue on the normal maintenance schedule.

For the full Publish 63 notes please read after the jump. Below are the additional changes we have made since TC1 last week:

Publish

• Fixed an issue that prevented skill on various artifact and crafted items from being detected by the imbuing system.
• Some community collection items cannot be imbued due to the balance issues.
• Eternal Guardian Staff cannot be imbued due to balance issues.

Patch

• Updated Global Chat color to blue to improve readability in the Journal.
• Fixed Classic Client crash when user clicks the Leave gem while the Create Channel dialog is open.
• Disabled Trial Accounts from participating in custom chat channels.
• Fixed a bug that prevented players from being able to enter certain cave entrance

Thank you!

At 2:00PM EST Origins will be brought offline to release Publish 63. Additionally Client 7.0.4.2 (Legacy) and 4.0.4.2 (Enhanced) will be available to all servers. We anticipate Origins to be back online by 4:00PM EST.

For the full Publish 63 notes please read here. Below are the additional changes we have made since TC1 last week:

Publish

• Fixed an issue that prevented skill on various artifact and crafted items from being detected by the imbuing system.
• Some community collection items cannot be imbued due to the balance issues.
• Eternal Guardian Staff cannot be imbued due to balance issues.

Patch

• Updated Global Chat color to blue to improve readability in the Journal.
• Fixed Classic Client crash when user clicks the Leave gem while the Create Channel dialog is open.
• Disabled Trial Accounts from participating in custom chat channels.
• Fixed a bug that prevented players from being able to enter certain cave entrance

Thank you!

Publish 63 will be available on TC1 today, we have a number of other changes in addition to the imbuing improvements that were released earlier this week. Below are the full notes for this publish (including the changes to imbuing) so have a look then see for yourselves on TC1, have fun!

Update - 12/11/09 @ 5:40PM EST: We've added two additional client notes to address issues that we have resolved with this afternoons client. Please see the Patch section of the notes for details. Thank you!

As many of you know UO was the one to unveil the joy, excitement, and adventure of MMO's to the world and we're proud that it continues to carry on this tradition with a vibrant and active community today over a decade later.

From Forbes.com:

"Fans of role-playing games remember fondly the Ultima series, which dates back to the original "Ultima I" from 1980. But when Electronic Arts took Lord British's empire online in 1997, it changed gaming forever."

So join us in celebrating and thank you to those of you who continue to make UO what it is today whether you've been with us from the start or just getting started. We look forward to many more years with you!

Source: http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/07/video-games-wii-technology-revolutionaries-09-games_slide_11.html

The team here at Mythic Entertainment is celebrating the end of a great year and the beginning of the next with 12 days of Mythic! Last Friday we kicked things off with simply a YouTube video and a tweet but now we want to give everyone a chance to join in on the fun!

For the remaining nine days keep an eye on Twitter and follow the @MythicNews account to catch the daily message celebrating each of the 12 days of Mythic on YouTube! Everyday we'll select one lucky winner and send them a present from the team here at Mythic celebrating all of the great games you enjoy.

So what are you waiting for? Todays message is already up and ready to be re-tweeted. Sign up at www.twitter.com and follow your favorite Mythic games @MythicNews.

Happy Holidays (and Twittering),

Your friends at Mythic Entertainment

Today we will be releasing the Imbuing overhall we have been working on to go live with Publish 62.3.7. We encourage those interested to hop onto TC1 this week to check it out, we want to get this hammered out before it goes live and as you can see we've made some significant improvements!

Below you will find all of the notes, enjoy and see you on Test Center!

This Monday, 12/7/2009, starting at 8:00 AM EST we will be performing maintenance on the servers which host the Ultima Online Herald. During this maintenance users will be unable to access the Ultima Online Herald. At this time we anticipate that thisdowntime will last no later than 11:00 AM EST.

As always, thanks for your continued support.

The Chesapeake shard is currently offline for immediate hardware maintenance. We apologize for the short notice on this, however, we anticipate the downtime to take less than two hours with the server being back online by 12:30PM EST.

Keep an eye on the Herald for news and information during this and other, future updates - thank you!

In case you're one of the millions of people who follows twitter on their computer or phone you can now start getting the latest news and info for Ultima and Mythic straight to your favorite app or webpage!

Join @MythicNews and @UOHerald for conversation, contests, updates, and more! We're just getting started and now's a great time to join with us, you can sign up at http://www.twitter.com

Some of you might have followed the old @UONews - we won't be using that anymore, so come help jumpstart the new one and show the world how active the UO community is!

 We have the following Bug Fixes for you this morning:

Bug Fixes

• Added guard ignore to the Giant Turkeys
• Fixed the barding difficulty on the Giant Turkeys
• Bards will be added to the lawful attackers list for discording and provocation of the Giant Turkeys
• Turkeys AI was adjusted to keep it from teleporting so often.
• Harvest Wine and Cider will no longer lose their TID’s at maintenance.
• Age was removed from using the Retouching Tool
  

At this time we are advising players to avoid purchasing Imbued Ecru Rings. There is an issue with imbuing that can cause these rings to be more powerful than intended, due to this they will be reverted with a future publish.

Thank you!

We have the following Bug Fixes for you this morning following yesterday's launch of 62.3 on all live Shards:

Bug Fixes

• Giant Turkeys no longer teleport into houses
• Fixed an issue with cursed parchment will be deleted on login
• Fixed several exploits with Turkey Nests
• Turkeys AI was adjusted
• Fixed an issue regarding the top twenty (20) Turkey attackers
• Attackers on the aggressive list must be within 50 tiles of the corpse
• Unstabled Chicken will no longer be kicked from players houses.
  

Publish 62.3: Client  7.0.3.0 is now live on all Shards!

Please note that this client is 336 MB in size.  While this is a larger than normal patch for legacy clients, we have modified the system so that future patches involving animation data can be smaller.  We apologize for this temporary inconvenience.

For the full notes, please continue on!

Publish 62.3: Client  7.0.3.0 is now live on Origin.

Please note that this client is 336 MB in size.  While this is a larger than normal patch for legacy clients, we have modified the system so that future patches involving animation data can be smaller.  We apologize for this temporary inconvenience.

For the full notes, please continue on!