[UO Herald] Publish 79 Notes (Test Center - TC1)

[UO News]

Publish Notes - for Test Center (TC-1)
2012 Nov 01 18:49 GMT
Publish 79.0.0 (Test Center - TC1)

New Veteran Rewards

• • 15th Year: Garden Shed House Add-On
    • Contains two secure containers that do not count towards house storage limits
    • Each container holds 125 items with no weight limit
    • The shed has standard house security settings controlling container access
    • To access the containers, stand near the door of the shed and double-click it
  • 13th Year: Exodus Statuette
  • 11th Year: Navrey Night-Eyes Statuette
  • 9th Year: Virtuebane Statuette
  • 8th Year: Davies’ Locker
    • This is based on a real-life glass top table containing a three-dimensional map of Britannia, created by Alan Davies. The table resides in the front lobby of Mythic Studios.
    • The in-game item is a house add-on that looks like the real thing.
    • Davies’ Locker can store up to 500 treasure maps and/or SOS bottles!
  • 5th Year: Metallic Leather Dye Tub
  • Moved ethereal horses to one year, all existing horses will also be one year to ride

Holiday Gifts

• • Players will receive a gift bag on login during the month of December. This only applies to paying subscriber accounts and characters that are 30 days old or older.
  • The bag contains:
    • 3 Snow Tiles usable for house decoration
    • 3 Grass Tiles usable for house decoration
    • A Metallic Cloth Dye Tub
    • A random small decorative holiday tree: either a “winter tree”, a “festive tree”
      • And rarely, an “infested tree”. What is it infested with???
    • A card from a member of the development team

Thanksgiving Horn of Plenty

• • A new Horn of Plenty will become available through unknown means during the month of November
  • Has a maximum of 10 charges. Regains 1 charge per day during November.
  • Double-click to obtain food from it.
  • New food items:
    • Sweet Potato Pie – contains six slices of pie
    • Mashed Sweet Potatoes
    • Turducken Platter – contains eight servings of various food items, including Roast Turkey, Roast Duck, Roast Chicken, Turkey Legs, Giblet Gravy, and plates of food.
    • Basket of Rolls contains a baker’s dozen dinner rolls
  • Chance of something special happening when used outside of your house

Castle Courtyard Ownership

• • Castle owners are now able to lock down and secure objects in their castles’ courtyards

New Fortune’s Fire Casino Game – Dice Rider

• • Place three bets. The dealer rolls dice to make a five-die “poker” hand. During the course of the game, you may pull back up to two of the bets.
  • See the casino dealer for payout information and complete rules of the game.

The Exodus Encounter

Those loyal still to Minax and Mondain’s creation work fervently to rebuild the mechanical demon, in hopes of once again summoning Exodus into Britannia.

• Visit the NPC Exodus Arch Zealot outside of what used to be Ver Lor Reg in Ilshenar to learn about how to gain the Keys to the encounter and how to perform the Summoning ritual.
• Keys may be collected via three paths, the Warrior, the Rogue, and the Craftsman.
• In order to perform the Ritual you must party up with those you wish to play the encounter with. You do not need to party to acquire the keys.
• Everyone in the party must have their own set of Keys to perform the ritual.
• You may perform the ritual at any shrine in Trammel or Felucca, except the Chaos shrine.
  • Due to the restricted architecture of the Spirituality Shrine, a “satellite” shrine has been constructed in front of the original, use that Shrine to perform the ritual.
• Exodus may be summoned so long as Exodus has not been killed in the last ten minutes.
• If at any time during the Encounter Exodus’ HP drops below 60%, additional groups will not be able to join the encounter, if Exodus’ HP regen to 75%, additional groups will be able to join the encounter.
• Players will be teleported to a random Ilshenar shrine if they opt to not leave the area within 10 minutes of Exodus’ death. There is a two minute warning message before this happens.
• Defeating Exodus will give a chance to receive powerful rewards:
  • Scroll of Valiant Commendation [Replica]
    • Gives the character who eats it a +5 permanent gain to maximum stats
    • Cannot be stacked with a previous Scroll of Valiant Commendation
    • If the scroll has been used it will have a “Claimed By” item property
  • Bracers of Alchemical Devastation [Replica]
    • Hit Fireball 35%
    • Mana Regeneration 4
    • Faster Cast Recover 3
    • Physical Resist 10%
    • Fire Resist 8%
    • Cold Resist 8%
    • Poison Resist 8%
    • Energy Resist 8%
    • Mage Armor
  • Hygieia’s Amulet [Replica]
    • Alchemy Bonus 10%
  • Asclepius [Replica]
    • 15% Bandage Healing Bonus
  • Clockwork Leggings (Platemail Leggings) - Imbueable
    • Dexterity Bonus 5
    • Stamina Regen 5
    • Defense Chance Increase 25%
    • Physical Resist 5%
    • Fire Resist 3%
    • Cold Resist 2%
    • Poison Resist 3%
    • Energy Resist 2%
  • Clockwork Leggings (Gargish Platemail Leggings) – Imbueable
    • Dexterity Bonus 5
    • Stamina Regen 5
    • Defense Chance Increase 25%
    • Physical Resist 8%
    • Fire Resist 6%
    • Cold Resist 5%
    • Poison Resist 6%
    • Energy Resist 5%
  • Dupre’s Sword (Viking Sword/Stone War Sword)
    • Hit Mana Drain 50%
    • Strength Bonus 10
    • Hit Chance Increase 25%
    • Swing Speed Increase 35%
    • Damage Increase 100%

Bug Fixes

• Tinkering Bonus Talisman will no show the correct success rate.
• Rioters and Protesters have left all the cities
• Players will no longer be trapped inside the card table at the Casino
• Raised garden beds and plants inside the bed will be deleted when a IDOC house falls after the next server maintenance.
• Halloween masks that had one strength requirement will now display the correct requirement
• Players can dye display cases after it has been returned to deed form and replaced.
• Players can now dye metal chests with the metal dye tub
• Gargoyles can now complete the Hag’s Quest

Classic client 7.0.27

Cliloc Changes
Enhanced Client 4.0.27

Cliloc Changes
Exposed the following functions to LUA for Enhanced Client Custom UI:

PlaySoundByID()


Plays a game sound.
Parameters

type (int) The type of sound: ambient = 0, action =1
id (int) The id of the sound file to play
x (int) The x coordinate of the target location.
y (int) The y coordinate of the target location.
z (int) The z coordinate of the target location.
Returns

Nil No return value
Example:

PlaySoundByID( 1, 23, WindowData.PlayerLocation.x, WindowData.PlayerLocation.y, WindowData.PlayerLocation.z)


GetDistanceFromPlayer()

Returns the distance in tiles from the target to the player
Parameters

Id(int) The id of the target used to measure distance
Returns

distance(number) The numbers of tiles from the player
Example

local distanceFromPlayer = GetDistanceFromPlaye(WindowData.CurrentTarget.TargetId)


GetTerrainType

Returns the terrain type id on the given coordinates
Parameters

x(int) The x coordinate of the target location.
y(int) The y coordinate of the target location.
Z(int) The z coordinate of the target location.
Returns

type(number) The terrain type id of the tile at the given location.
Example

local terrainType = GetTerrainType(WindowData.PlayerLocation.x, WindowData.PlayerLocation.y, WindowData.PlayerLocation.z)

Continue reading...

 

[Symma]

Woot! Glad the treasure map reward isn't 15th year. I'll be able to claim one!

 

[Storm]

awesome love davey jones locker and the additions to the EC are excellent

 

[funkymonkey]

Quite a nice pub!

 

[R Traveler]

GetTerrainType

Returns the terrain type id on the given coordinates
Parameters

x(int) The x coordinate of the target location.
y(int) The y coordinate of the target location.
Z(int) The z coordinate of the target location.
Returns

type(number) The terrain type id of the tile at the given location.
Example

local terrainType = GetTerrainType(WindowData.PlayerLocation.x, WindowData.PlayerLocation.y, WindowData.PlayerLocation.z)

This sounds interesting but ability to set target to terrain to cast few lobster traps each next to other is more important for me

 

[kelmo]

Players will no longer be trapped inside the card table at the Casino... *blinks*

 

[Picus at the office]

Defeating Exodus will give a chance to receive powerful rewards:

• • Scroll of Valiant Commendation [Replica]
    • Gives the character who eats it a +5 permanent gain to maximum stats
    • Cannot be stacked with a previous Scroll of Valiant Commendation
    • If the scroll has been used it will have a “Claimed By” item property
  • Bracers of Alchemical Devastation [Replica]
    • Hit Fireball 35%
    • Mana Regeneration 4
    • Faster Cast Recover 3
    • Physical Resist 10%
    • Fire Resist 8%
    • Cold Resist 8%
    • Poison Resist 8%
    • Energy Resist 8%
    • Mage Armor
  • Hygieia’s Amulet [Replica]
    • Alchemy Bonus 10%
  • Asclepius [Replica]
    • 15% Bandage Healing Bonus
  • Clockwork Leggings (Platemail Leggings) - Imbueable
    • Dexterity Bonus 5
    • Stamina Regen 5
    • Defense Chance Increase 25%
    • Physical Resist 5%
    • Fire Resist 3%
    • Cold Resist 2%
    • Poison Resist 3%
    • Energy Resist 2%
  • Clockwork Leggings (Gargish Platemail Leggings) – Imbueable
    • Dexterity Bonus 5
    • Stamina Regen 5
    • Defense Chance Increase 25%
    • Physical Resist 8%
    • Fire Resist 6%
    • Cold Resist 5%
    • Poison Resist 6%
    • Energy Resist 5%
  • Dupre’s Sword (Viking Sword/Stone War Sword)
    • Hit Mana Drain 50%
    • Strength Bonus 10
    • Hit Chance Increase 25%
    • Swing Speed Increase 35%
    • Damage Increase 100%

I am so glad I didn't spend 100+mil for these and I am equally glad that the team has brought out some nifty items. Are the leggings able to be enhanced I wonder?

 

[Symma]

Players will no longer be trapped inside the card table at the Casino... *blinks*

Here's hoping Mesanna will turn it on for us, so we can get stuck on Siege lol

 

[MalagAste]

Hum...... interesting.

Sadly I was hoping for a book to hold the SoA. How many of those stinking blue deeds I have I just can't say..... too many to just keep stuffing in my house. Need a nice book for them like the pink book.

 

[R Traveler]

Ok, since Horn of Plenty is live, does other stuff already live too?

 

[Storm]

Ok, since Horn of Plenty is live, does other stuff already live too?

no

 

[Quickblade]

I am so glad I didn't spend 100+mil for these and I am equally glad that the team has brought out some nifty items. Are the leggings able to be enhanced I wonder?

if you look closer all the rewards replica from the cures quest are slighty less powerful than the originals ! bracers had 60 fireball , 5 MR amd better resists , alchemy amulet had 15% alchemy bonus , so I guess the originals ones will keep their value, but at the same time Im sad they didnt make them equal since they are replica and wont last as long as the original..( guess 155 durability ?)

 

[Symma]

Just had an idea Dev's. Paints, like the ones for the new ships, to dye your shed! Not gawdy colours.

 

[Kyronix]

if you look closer all the rewards replica from the cures quest are slighty less powerful than the originals ! bracers had 60 fireball , 5 MR amd better resists , alchemy amulet had 15% alchemy bonus , so I guess the originals ones will keep their value, but at the same time Im sad they didnt make them equal since they are replica and wont last as long as the original..( guess 155 durability ?)

They have 255 durability.

 

[Symma]

if you look closer all the rewards replica from the cures quest are slighty less powerful than the originals ! bracers had 60 fireball , 5 MR amd better resists , alchemy amulet had 15% alchemy bonus , so I guess the originals ones will keep their value, but at the same time Im sad they didnt make them equal since they are replica and wont last as long as the original..( guess 155 durability ?)

I thought the original bracers were 40% fireball?

 

[BigEv]

Love it all especially castle courtyard lockdowns!....bout time

 

[BigEv]

I thought the original bracers were 40% fireball?

Pretty sure they are only 40.

 

[Quickblade]

I thought the original bracers were 40% fireball?

youre right 40% my bad but they had 5 MR and better resists tho !

 

[Quickblade]

They have 255 durability.

Does that mean these replicas will be pof-able ? or repairable?

 

[Blood Ghoul]

I am not seeing the NPC near Ver Lor Reg so that must not be active yet..

 

[Symma]

Well, I think they've just missed the Test Center in the title.

I can't see it going straight to live shards, as the 'champ' will definitely need testing.

 

[R Traveler]

same client version like 2 month ago
Publish 78.0 Comes to All Shards - 08/31 | Ultima Online

 

[Tazar]

After confirmation - (Test Center) has been added to the title and notes.

 

[BeaIank]

This sounds good so far, but I feel slightly disappointed as I was hoping to see Conjurer's Grimoire and Trinket replicas as prizes for the Exodus peerless.
Maybe in the future, I guess.

 

[Hinotori]

OK. They had me at the dang garden shed. I hav so many, many seeds. Then it got better the more I read.

 

[Adrianas]

Love it all especially castle courtyard lockdowns!....bout time

I think this sounds great, too! But . . . I have a question. What about the things that *spawn* in the castle courtyards?

Does this mean that I no longer need to worry about a Reaper spawning in the back yard? Or the herds of sheep or cows or packs of wolves? Or, if I lock down stuff out there, will I need to stealth out to get to whatever because of such beasties still spawning in the courtyard area?

 

[Merus]

I think this sounds great, too! But . . . I have a question. What about the things that *spawn* in the castle courtyards?

Does this mean that I no longer need to worry about a Reaper spawning in the back yard? Or the herds of sheep or cows or packs of wolves? Or, if I lock down stuff out there, will I need to stealth out to get to whatever because of such beasties still spawning in the courtyard area?

*thinks about locking down a reaper in the court yard*

 

[claudia-fjp]

OK. They had me at the dang garden shed. I hav so many, many seeds. Then it got better the more I read.

You should get the seed boxes that are already out then.

 

[startle]

WOW ! Garden Shed, Davies’ Locker, new Horn of Plenty, and those Turkey Platters.. I tell you I feel revitalized these days! Finally, finally, finally the Dev's are BOTH communicating with us AND giving us some very cool stuff... I love the artwork on the new Horn of Plenty and the Turkey Platters, even the Sweet Potato Pies, well done people!

I'm happy with UO again, after many, many years of "almost" hanging it up - it's viable again! So thank you much Dev's, thank you, thank you!!

 

[Blood Ghoul]

Publish Notes - for Test Center (TC-1)
Publish 79.0.0 (Test Center - TC1)

Castle Courtyard Ownership

• • Castle owners are now able to lock down and secure objects in their castles’ courtyards

.

If it is not to late, and while the advantage to locking stuff down in courtyards far exceeds my request, I hope that trees in our courtyard stay!!!! I have a single tree to the left of my door in the courtyard that very well may be one of "my favorite" items in UO. I know I do not own the tree but for some reason I happen to really like what it adds to my castle.

Anyhow, I hope their is some way that trees can stay..but I am sure others may have a forest in their courtyard they hope gets wiped clean

 

[Phoenix_Mythic]

The castle courtyard lockdown feature will not affect the terrain or hide any "static" objects like trees and plants and rocks. It will prevent creatures from spawning.

 

[Adol]

If it is not to late, and while the advantage to locking stuff down in courtyards far exceeds my request, I hope that trees in our courtyard stay!!!! I have a single tree to the left of my door in the courtyard that very well may be one of "my favorite" items in UO. I know I do not own the tree but for some reason I happen to really like what it adds to my castle.

Anyhow, I hope their is some way that trees can stay..but I am sure others may have a forest in their courtyard they hope gets wiped clean

Only if they let me lock down the cows that spawn in my courtyard...

 

[Adol]

The castle courtyard lockdown feature will not affect the terrain or hide any "static" objects like trees and plants and rocks. It will prevent creatures from spawning.

Nooooooo! Give .... me.... back.... my cooooooooows!

 

[Phoenix_Mythic]

Also, one thing that got missed in the patch notes is that the MIB gump has been improved.

 

[Quickblade]

I still dont get it why they make replicas less stronger than the original, since when they do that ? If you look at all other replicas ingame : Lieutenant sash, all the robes, the boots, and any other piece of armor replica, they ALL have the same stats as the originals. Hope the devs will fix that otherwise they do not deserve the replica name, sorry a replica need to be a replica...

 

[popps]

Very good Publish, kudos to the Developers.

One question about the Thanksgiving Horn of Plenty. The notes say it only recharges throughout November.
So, basically one can get max 40 items out of it ? Is that so ?
Do the items stack with each other ?

Is there also any estimate of what will cost the 8th Year Davies’ Locker Reward ?

I am then curious about the 15th Year Garden Shed House Add-On. Sure, 250 more items is a very nice thing to have but what will 15 Years Veterans do with their 2 extra picks ? Get a Garden Shed House Add-On OR another Shard Shield ?

 

[kelmo]

So... polar bears are endangered... got it. *winks*

 

[MalagAste]

Very good Publish, kudos to the Developers.

One question about the Thanksgiving Horn of Plenty. The notes say it only recharges throughout November.
So, basically one can get max 40 items out of it ? Is that so ?
Do the items stack with each other ?

Is there also any estimate of what will cost the 8th Year Davies’ Locker Reward ?

I am then curious about the 15th Year Garden Shed House Add-On. Sure, 250 more items is a very nice thing to have but what will 15 Years Veterans do with their 2 extra picks ? Get a Garden Shed House Add-On OR another Shard Shield ?

No they don't stack so I'd suggest not getting too click happy. The Roast items do stack, the legs do stack... but the plates do not, the bread baskets do not, the pies do not, the sweet potatoes do not.... The bread from the bread basket do stack.... the pie slices do NOT stack... just saying

 

[Hinotori]

You should get the seed boxes that are already out then.

I have a couple. They don't hold enough. I have a collection of every seed out there in every color, and enough I can grow up decor in one batch instead of waiting to grow out seeds first.

 

[G.v.P]

Publish Notes - for Test Center (TC-1)
2012 Nov 01 18:49 GMT
Publish 79.0.0 (Test Center - TC1)

Just wanted to stop by and say the above patch notes are well written and informative. Love all the metal tubs coming our way, and the 500 TMAP/MIB container will be great for me since I can't keep up with the Dolphin Rug, lol.

 

[Viquire]

Well, it isn't customization, but is the coolest damn thing to happen to castle owners, maybe ever.

I do, now, have a question about multile addons in the front row of all buildings however. Is this necessary any longer?

*High fives the Dev team*

*edit* quick note-replicas typically have a durability score. Just throwing that out there.

 

[Goodmann]

Very good Publish, kudos to the Developers.

One question about the Thanksgiving Horn of Plenty. The notes say it only recharges throughout November.
So, basically one can get max 40 items out of it ? Is that so ?
Do the items stack with each other ?

Is there also any estimate of what will cost the 8th Year Davies’ Locker Reward ?

I am then curious about the 15th Year Garden Shed House Add-On. Sure, 250 more items is a very nice thing to have but what will 15 Years Veterans do with their 2 extra picks ? Get a Garden Shed House Add-On OR another Shard Shield ?

Shard shield much more useful than 250 storage....

 

[Cetric]

Man... i've been waiting to see possible armor/specials revamps since they were originally talked about, and was so excited to see a pub coming up. Unfortunately these are not included obviously... bummer.

On another note though... sucks if you spent alot of gold on those alchemical bracers lol

 

[SlobberKnocker]

so the +5 scroll can be had in trammel. no mention of even a better chance of the drop in fel.... bummer.

 

[Xalan Dementia]

so can you get into exodus dungeon on TC? is it a newer entrance or what. the old ways dont seem to work

 

[flappy6]

well since ive only been playing for 13 years, will i be able to buy a shed from someone or can only 15year vets use the sheds?

 

[Olahorand]

Interesting - but I wish the shed would be a kind of placeable minihouse independent from housing server, so that you could use it on any shard and not only on the one, on which you have a house.

Again a flood of unstackable holiday gifts per character? Last gifts overloaded some of my rarely used characters, so what about a weight check before putting stuff in the backpack?

And still no ridable ethereal dragon ... (starts waiting 5 more years ...)

 

[flappy6]

where at in ish? they just give a name of something ive never heard of?

 

[Xalan Dementia]

*nvm* i found one of the passages wasnt blocked with efield.

Guess this is kinda a Exodus Dungeon Revamp, since they droppin newer loots

 

[Viper09]

15th Year: Garden Shed House Add-On

• Contains two secure containers that do not count towards house storage limits
• Each container holds 125 items with no weight limit
• The shed has standard house security settings controlling container access
• To access the containers, stand near the door of the shed and double-click it

I am very interested on what the shed will look like. Is it an actual addition, as in a new room? Any chance we can get a picture?