NEWS [UO.Com] Publish 88 to TC1

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2014 Nov 14 21:43 GMT
Greetings Everyone,

We are publishing to TC1 this afternoon. We will be publishing this out to Origin and Izumo on Monday, 17th. Publish 88 will go World Wide on the 20th. Please make sure you check out all the new content and give us your feedback.

UO Team







Huntmaster’s Challenge


The Huntmaster at the Skara Brae Ranger’s Guild now offers a monthly challenge for hunting various species throughout Britannia.

• 
  Visit the Huntmaster NPC at the Ranger’s Guild outside Skara Brae to obtain a hunting permit via the Huntmaster’s context menu.
  
  
• 
  Permits cost 5,000gp, the funds must be available in the player’s bank box.
  
  
• 
  Trophies throughout the Ranger’s Guild indicate which species can be hunted, and include:
  
  • 
    Grizzly Bear
    
    
  • 
    Gray Wolf
    
    
  • 
    Cougar
    
    
  • 
    Turkey
    
    
  • 
    Bull
    
    
  • 
    Boar
    
    
  • 
    Walrus
    
    
  • 
    Alligator
    
    
  • 
    Eagle
    
• 
  Double click on the hunting permit and target the corpse of a valid species to record the kill.
  
  
• 
  The Permit will display the Hunter’s Name, Date of the Kill, Location of the Kill, Species of the Kill, and a measurement for the Kill.
  
  
• 
  Taxidermy Kits can be used on the hunting permit to create a trophy for display.
  
  
• 
  Return to the Huntmaster to submit a kill for consideration in the monthly competition.
  
  
• 
  If a submission has the greatest measurement for a species, the kill will be displayed on the trophy inside the Ranger’s Guild.
  
  
• 
  If a submission ties the greatest measurement for a species the display on the trophy will not update, however the submitting player will be eligible for reward when the contest concludes each month.
  
  
• 
  If a submitted kill has the greatest measurement at the end of the month, the submitting player(s) will get points for each submission to redeem rewards from the Huntmaster.
  
  
• 
  Kills can only be submitted from the current month and year.
  
  
• 
  The Huntmaster’s month will be updated on server maintenance, each new month the contest will reset.
  
  
• 
  Rewards can be redeemed by double clicking on the Huntmaster, and include,
  
  • 
    A Harvester’s Blade
    
    
  • 
    A Horn of Plenty
    
    
  • 
    A Reward Title Deed: Huntmaster’s Champion
    
    
  • 
    A Sash – “Member of the Skara Brae Ranger’s Guild”
    

Vice vs Virtue Leaderboards


Leaderboards have been added to VvV. Leaderboards are accessed from guild menu.

New Horn of Plenty Items


A new house plant has been added to the Horn of Plenty.

• 
  The house plant must be locked down to grow.
  
  
• 
  The house plant will grow each day on server up.
  
  
• 
  Once the house plant has reached its full growth state, it will produce fruit.
  
  
• 
  Fruit can be harvested from the house plant by double clicking on it.
  
  
• 
  House plants are maintenance free.
  

2014 Holiday Items


Characters that are at least 30 days old that log in between 12/1/2014 12:01 AM ET and 1/1/2015 12:01 AM ET will receive a randomly hued gift box that contains the following:

• 
  New green, blue, or gold fireplace.
  
  • 
    Fireplaces can be ignited and doused by double clicking on the center piece.
    
• 
  A grinder that can be used to grind various plant products.
  
  
• 
  A steam powered beverage maker that can be used in conjunction with the cooking system to create new items listed in the “Beverage” section of the cooking menu.
  
  
• 
  A Power Scroll Book
  
  • 
    The powerscroll book can hold 300 power scroll, no more of 99 than any specific scroll.
    
    
  • 
    The scroll be must locked down in a house in order to add scrolls.
    
    
  • 
    Stat power scrolls cannot be added to the book.
    

Vet Rewards


The following items have been added as new vet rewards,

• 
  1 Year
  
  • 
    Flesh Renderer Statuette
    
    
  • 
    Coral the Owl (Town Crier)
    
• 
  2 Year
  
  • 
    Crystal Elemental Statuette
    
• 
  3 Year
  
  • 
    Dark Father Statuette
    
• 
  4 Year
  
  • 
    Platinum Dragon Statuette
    

• 
  7 Year
  
  • 
    Sewing Machine & Smithing Press
    
    • 
      The Sewing Machine & Smithing Press are house-addons that can be used in conjunction with the tailoring and blacksmithy skill, respectively.
      
      
    • 
      The machines will hold 5000 charges of their respective tools.
      
      
    • 
      Add charges to the Sewing Machine by dropping sewing kits on the stool.
      
      
    • 
      Add charges to the Blacksmith Press by dropping smith’s hammers, sledge hammers, or tongs on the crates.
      
      
    • 
      Runic, Ancient, or specialty crafting tools cannot be added to the power tools.
      
      
    • 
      Security can be set on the power tool to limit who can use and deposit tools into the attached stool or crates.
      

• 
  15 Year
  
  • 
    Hell Hound Mount
    

Bug Fixes & Misc Changes

• 
  The crystal portal will now teleport players to the Trinsic Royal Bank instead of the Bank of Britannia: Trinsic Branch.
  
  
• 
  Magic items generated from treasure chests have had their base budgets increased based on the difficulty of the treasure chest.
  
  
• 
  The following items are now stackable: Grass & Snow Tiles, Pristine Dread Horn.
  
  
• 
  Trade Crates will now accept 1000 stones.
  
  
• 
  Paladins have returned to the City of Trinsic
  
  
• 
  Lifestealers now have the correct karma.
  
  
• 
  Delivering trade orders will no longer increase karma if it is locked.
  
  
• 
  VvV Sigil stolen stat is now tracking correctly.
  
  
• 
  Fixed issue with Runic Reforging budgets being incorrect.
  
  
• 
  House placement tool will now always display conformation gump
  

Enhanced Client Bug Fixes

• 
  Player profiles now operate correctly
  
  
• 
  Opening bank box for the first time no longer defaults to list view.
  
  
• 
  Fixed issue where vendor search gump would not function.
  
  
• 
  Fixed issue when a player’s primary target is more than 10 tiles away from the player many of their hotbar icons become un-usable.
  

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[Miri of Sonoma]

Wow! I like this! :snoopy:

 

[Tranquility]

Damn I love this game!

Nice work Dev Team!

 

[DJAd]

• A grinder that can be used to grind various plant products.

Best gift EVER!

 

[DJAd]

• Opening bank box for the first time no longer defaults to list view.
• Fixed issue when a player’s primary target is more than 10 tiles away from the player many of their hotbar icons become un-usable.
• Fixed issue with Runic Reforging budgets being incorrect.

Thank you.

 

[HoneythornGump]

2014 Holiday Items

• A Power Scroll Book
  • 
    The powerscroll book can hold 300 power scroll, no more of 99 than any specific scroll.
    
    
  • 
    The scroll be must locked down in a house in order to add scrolls.
    
    
  • 
    Stat power scrolls cannot be added to the book.

Ahhh...Hells Yeah!

Thank you so much!

This will significantly add to my gaming experience enjoyment!

Huzzah!

 

[cazador]

POWERSCROLL book for the fudginggggggg win!! Woot freaking woot!!!!


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[cazador]

POWERSCROLL book for the fudginggggggg win!! Woot freaking woot!!!!

@Messana @Kryonix @Bleak @whoeverElse




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[Larisa]

This is the one that got me most excited: The following items are now stackable: Grass & Snow Tiles

When my account went inactive, thankfully the RtB came at the right time and I had time to empty my castle before it fell...and 2 out of the 6 chars I have..all they have on them and in there banks are snow and grass tiles :/ So a big thank you for this one lol.

The rest looks amazing too, but that one really made my day

 

[Picus at the office]

I spit out some coffee when I read about the grinder, oh to be younger.

 

[Poo]

excellent!

only thing i dont like is the statuettes.
not that i dont like the statuettes, its just that i COLLECT them and killing off my 15yr vet rewards to pick up a year 1/2/3/4 just cant happen!
also noticed that we have stopped at 15yr vet rewards and we are at 17 + years in game, would it not have made more sense to make the incoming statuettes higher years? say 15, 16, 17 year instead of 1,2,3,4?

really like the Huntmaster thing, quick question; im assuming that we can do this more then once a month?
so i can go and buy and kill like 30 bear tags in an attempt to keep getting a bigger bear for the competition? just wondering cause its not like we can tell the size of the animal before we kill it, no? so i assume as long as we keep paying the 5k per tag we keep hunting?

 

[Poo]

I spit out some coffee when I read about the grinder, oh to be younger.

are we all going to be hanging back out at the Brit West bank and selling some ground up herb behind the back wall like the old days?

 

[Schatzi]

excellent!

only thing i dont like is the statuettes.
not that i dont like the statuettes, its just that i COLLECT them and killing off my 15yr vet rewards to pick up a year 1/2/3/4 just cant happen!
also noticed that we have stopped at 15yr vet rewards and we are at 17 + years in game, would it not have made more sense to make the incoming statuettes higher years? say 15, 16, 17 year instead of 1,2,3,4?


I am just happy we still get these great publishes after all these years.

 

[Dot_Warner]

No raiding mutant turkey nests? *pouts*

 

[Cyrah]

Thank you Team very much for new stuff!
Could the 2014 holiday gifts be in pretty boxes? Plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz and pretty pretty sugary please?

Did I mention please?

 

[Kyronix]

excellent!

only thing i dont like is the statuettes.
not that i dont like the statuettes, its just that i COLLECT them and killing off my 15yr vet rewards to pick up a year 1/2/3/4 just cant happen!
also noticed that we have stopped at 15yr vet rewards and we are at 17 + years in game, would it not have made more sense to make the incoming statuettes higher years? say 15, 16, 17 year instead of 1,2,3,4?

really like the Huntmaster thing, quick question; im assuming that we can do this more then once a month?
so i can go and buy and kill like 30 bear tags in an attempt to keep getting a bigger bear for the competition? just wondering cause its not like we can tell the size of the animal before we kill it, no? so i assume as long as we keep paying the 5k per tag we keep hunting?

You can hunt for as many permits as your bank box affords.

 

[R Traveler]

• 
  A Power Scroll Book
  • 
    The powerscroll book can hold 300 power scroll, no more of 99 than any specific scroll.
    
    
  • 
    The scroll be must locked down in a house in order to add scrolls.
    
    
  • 
    Stat power scrolls cannot be added to the book.

WHAT? What must be locked in a house? Scroll?
So we put book to backpack, put scroll on floor, lock it and add to book?

 

[Kyronix]

WHAT? What must be locked in a house? Scroll?
So we put book to backpack, put scroll on floor, lock it and add to book?

The book must be locked down to add to it.

 

[R Traveler]

The book must be locked down to add to it.

Ah, so its typo in publish notes...

 

[Rieley]

Thank you Broadsword, you are doing great!!!! I love this game and look forward to many more days of play. Thank you, thank you.

 

[Giggles]

Wow, Wow, and Wow!!!!

Simply amazing! all of it!!

THANK YOU!

 

[Larisa]

So...question.

It states that Publish 88 is currently on TC1

Is this true? Cus if it is...nothing is working :/

I see no gifts and no huntsman dude outside Skara...

 

[Aurelius]

Err.... how's this going to work, since they only 'spawn' from the cornucopia?

"Trophies throughout the Ranger’s Guild indicate which species can be hunted, and include

• Turkey"

 

[DJAd]

So...question.

It states that Publish 88 is currently on TC1

"We are publishing to TC1 this afternoon." I guess its not afternoon yet?

Also I just closed down my client and there is a new patch out. At least for the EC anyway. 67mb.

 

[Storm]

So...question.

It states that Publish 88 is currently on TC1

Is this true? Cus if it is...nothing is working :/

I see no gifts and no huntsman dude outside Skara...

not released till later this after noon

 

[Larisa]

Later this afternoon??

It's 5 at night.....are we time traveling now?

And it says when you log in that Pub 88 is on TC....so...

 

[Merus]

Very nice.

 

[DJAd]

Later this afternoon??

It's 5 at night.....are we time traveling now?

And it says when you log in that Pub 88 is on TC....so...

Have you updated the client?

 

[Larisa]

Well...yeah....of course I did

Trying again....but I did patch...was pretty big.

 

[Miri of Sonoma]

I dont recall them ever putting gifts on the test shard. But you would think the huntsman would be there

 

[Poo]

Err.... how's this going to work, since they only 'spawn' from the cornucopia?

"Trophies throughout the Ranger’s Guild indicate which species can be hunted, and include

• Turkey"

yes, so we can only hunt them in Nov?
or
they are turning on the big ones again?

 

[drewster513]

Have they changed the Hue on Ethy Boura??? im on TC1

 

[Cyrah]

Does the new plant come from both of the horn of plenty types? One maybe is named cornucopia. Will they both give a plant?

 

[Larisa]

I wanna know what mount Kyronix was on....that was sweet-lookin!

 

[RockoNV]

This is an excellent patch with what looks to be fun content. I was worried there for a couple months but it looks like the team is really making some long awaited progress. Bug fixes for the EC are a welcome sight indeed!

 

[Lorddog]

and there was the other thread just now of people begging for the power scroll book !!
what fast service

 

[James Moriarty]

Gifts worth logging in for this time. Well done devs!

 

[Ankanna]

Sweet! Thanks team!

 

[Cyanide_Mage]

Just wanted to say awesome publish, there is at least 1 item in there that has been asked for over many years, the player base appreciates it! Lets try for 2?


The randomly hued gift boxes? What style are the boxes? And is there a random chance to have a neon color like there was years ago? Nothing like getting that white holiday statue/rare name/awesome neon box for added Xmas excitement

 

[Kyronix]

Just wanted to say awesome publish, there is at least 1 item in there that has been asked for over many years, the player base appreciates it! Lets try for 2?


The randomly hued gift boxes? What style are the boxes? And is there a random chance to have a neon color like there was years ago? Nothing like getting that white holiday statue/rare name/awesome neon box for added Xmas excitement

We've got three new gift boxes this year in a variety of colors!

 

[Yadd of Legends]

Amazing. Great job. And we've still got the new Pinco's UI and (I think) graphics updates coming (I can't wait). Will this finally end the complaints the developers "aren't doing anything"? (I wouldn't bet on it.)

 

[Uvtha]

Nice! Hell hound sounds cool! Nice patch!

 

[Obsidian]

Can the power scroll books be linked with a scroll binder to upgrade the ps while in the book?

 

[Swt Lippy Hippy]

Yeah!! Can't wait to start sewing soon with that new reward!! Ty great job!!

 

[Dot_Warner]

Huntmaster’s Challenge


The Huntmaster at the Skara Brae Ranger’s Guild now offers a monthly challenge for hunting various species throughout Britannia.

• 
  Visit the Huntmaster NPC at the Ranger’s Guild outside Skara Brae to obtain a hunting permit via the Huntmaster’s context menu.
  
  
• 
  Permits cost 5,000gp, the funds must be available in the player’s bank box.
  
  
• 
  Trophies throughout the Ranger’s Guild indicate which species can be hunted, and include:
  • 
    Grizzly Bear
    
    
  • 
    Gray Wolf
    
    
  • 
    Cougar
    
    
  • 
    Turkey
    
    
  • 
    Bull
    
    
  • 
    Boar
    
    
  • 
    Walrus
    
    
  • 
    Alligator
    
    
  • 
    Eagle
• 
  Double click on the hunting permit and target the corpse of a valid species to record the kill.
  
  
• 
  The Permit will display the Hunter’s Name, Date of the Kill, Location of the Kill, Species of the Kill, and a measurement for the Kill.
  
  
• 
  Taxidermy Kits can be used on the hunting permit to create a trophy for display.
  
  
• 
  Return to the Huntmaster to submit a kill for consideration in the monthly competition.
  
  
• 
  If a submission has the greatest measurement for a species, the kill will be displayed on the trophy inside the Ranger’s Guild.
  
  
• 
  If a submission ties the greatest measurement for a species the display on the trophy will not update, however the submitting player will be eligible for reward when the contest concludes each month.
  
  
• 
  If a submitted kill has the greatest measurement at the end of the month, the submitting player(s) will get points for each submission to redeem rewards from the Huntmaster.
  
  
• 
  Kills can only be submitted from the current month and year.
  
  
• 
  The Huntmaster’s month will be updated on server maintenance, each new month the contest will reset.
  
  
• 
  Rewards can be redeemed by double clicking on the Huntmaster, and include,
  • 
    A Harvester’s Blade
    
    
  • 
    A Horn of Plenty
    
    
  • 
    A Reward Title Deed: Huntmaster’s Champion
    
    
  • 
    A Sash – “Member of the Skara Brae Ranger’s Guild”

@Kyronix

So only one person a month can win per category?

I'm afraid that many people will give up on this system after being told their 'permit doesn't document a bigger kill!' (note, there is currently a typo in the Huntmaster's text, as he says "Begging thy pardon, but your permit does document a bigger kill!" even when it clearly doesn't based on the current trophy's weight).

I'd suggest this either be a weekly thing, or that the top 3 weights get points (3, 2, 1) and that the reward priced are bumped up a tad.

Edit to add: The new trophies are pretty cool though! I foresee the turkey one being used quite soon...

 

[Larisa]

I think...if I read it right...that even if your permit doesn't weigh more, it still counts towards points at the end of the month? So you can turn them all in to receive points is this correct?

Also...BIG gold sink omg...I've spent 20k alone trying to get the biggest walrus :/ LOL

 

[Kyronix]

@Kyronix

So only one person a month can win per category?

I'm afraid that many people will give up on this system after being told their 'permit doesn't document a bigger kill!' (note, there is currently a typo in the Huntmaster's text, as he says "Begging thy pardon, but your permit does document a bigger kill!" even when it clearly doesn't based on the current trophy's weight).

I'd suggest this either be a weekly thing, or that the top 3 weights get points (3, 2, 1) and that the reward priced are bumped up a tad.

Multiple people can win per month if they all tie. We'll see how it goes and make adjustments as necessary. Thanks for the feedback and the typo note!

 

[Lord Lew]

Kyronix, not to complain, or pull up a sore subject but! Do you have any plans to offset the inevitable use of scripts to farm this new system.

 

[Hinotori]

This is looking to be pretty awesome

 

[Parnoc]

Wow, Thanks guys, I am excited to see the new stuff which by the way, looks wonderful and also like a lot of fun, but more.............I am so happy that this "sky is falling" thing is put to rest for at least a while and so happy to see content like this to tell the naysayers, "Lookit that!! See what they did???!!!"

I for one, appreciate the work you've all put into this and I can't tell you thanks enough!!