NEWS [UO.Com] Publish 79 Comes to All Shards - 11/19

[tchappell]

Publish Notes
2012 Nov 16 22:28 GMT
We have staged Publish 79 to be released on Sunday evening, 11/18 during Maintenance for the European servers and Monday morning, 11/19 during Maintenance for the US servers. Please note we are turning housing decay back on when this publish goes live.

For your reading pleasure, here are the completed notes:

Publish 79.0.0

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
• Artifacts obtained from the Exodus Encounter cannot have powder of fortification applied
• The New Haven Mine has opened on the Southern Edge of the island
• The trade window will no longer be empty when trading a tamed turkey
• Exodus AI tweaks
• Adjusted Combat Path key drop rate

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)​

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[MalagAste]

Sweet! Can't wait to deco my courtyard!

 

[Storm]

Sweet! Can't wait to deco my courtyard!

This is one I cant wait to see people have wanted this sense there wave been castles maybe we can get some cool pics posted.

 

[Bazer]

gana be so much more fun with both of my castles, esp with my castle museum

 

[R Traveler]

Classic client 7.0.27
Enhanced Client 4.0.27

Lol already 7.0.28 and 4.0.28 released:loser:

 

[Frarc]

My Vet Rewards are itching to get my hands on a Davies locker!

 

[Petra Fyde]

And I worked out why it's being posted as 'tchappel, guest'. I screwed up the rss feed update. It's been picking up the author name from uo.com

 

[Victim of Siege]

Gargoyles can now complete the Hag’s Quest

wonder what they did exactly, did they remove the part of the quest where you had to Wear a Tricorn Hat? or did they make a Tricorn hat for Gargoyles? Inquiring minds want to know!

 

[MalagAste]

wonder what they did exactly, did they remove the part of the quest where you had to Wear a Tricorn Hat? or did they make a Tricorn hat for Gargoyles? Inquiring minds want to know!

Hum... good question.

I'm excited to get my hands on Davies locker as well. And a couple Navrey statues.... Oh I am so excited!

 

[Frarc]

I saw a suggestion to make a pool table from the davies locker!

 

[R Traveler]

Today is Nov 18, maintenance on Europa already done. No Publish 79 yet :whip:

 

[Kylie Kinslayer]

Today is Nov 18, maintenance on Europa already done. No Publish 79 yet :whip:

Ummm, maybe this is why...

Publish Notes
2012 Nov 16 22:28 GMT
We have staged Publish 79 to be released on Sunday evening, 11/18 during Maintenance for the European servers

 

[R Traveler]

Its bit cryptic for me.
Does it mean late evening 11/18 US date/time? During early morning 11/19 European date/time?

 

[Kylie Kinslayer]

I think it means on 11/18 your evening time for the Europe shards.

 

[Frarc]

No, it will be the 19th on monday morning at server up for Drachenfels/Europa for European players, that is still sunday evening at the 18th for US players.

The message is confusing

 

[Kojak]

african swallow? ... ptooooooo

 

[startle]

Hush

 

[Amber Witch]

Does anyone know if these items are shown in classic or enhanced?

In addition to being useful and nicely designed I hope we can place the sheds in castle courtyards as vendor shops with a vendor standing at the door.

Thank you for Davies Locker. Anyone know if it will reduce the item count like BOD books? This is going to make a nice addition to the War Room.

 

[THP]

Castles are the new must have.........courtyard time here i come!!!!

 

[Thunderz]

I think they got the GMT as it should say american time sunday, we get [europa] our server matinance at 5am monday but that sunday night to the devs.

So sunday night in american when they reset europa will be monday morning reset as usual

Thunderz

 

[Warpig Inc]

That is what I want to know is the table lock rate. If it is just a pretty container then the shed is a better, much larger pick for Tmap storage.

 

[Zosimus]

As always it would be a day later for our over seas brothers and sisters so it be the 19th for them.


Note to everybody on Baja. Give your full bod books to Amber since she will have storage for them

 

[Amber Witch]

As always it would be a day later for our over seas brothers and sisters so it be the 19th for them.


Note to everybody on Baja. Give your full bod books to Amber since she will have storage for them

And my answer to that my friend....​

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Click here​

 

[Zosimus]

lol

 

[Lord Frodo]

As always it would be a day later for our over seas brothers and sisters so it be the 19th for them.


Note to everybody on Baja. Give your full bod books to Amber since she will have storage for them

Is she getting 35 sheds (71 vendors full of BODs) already?

 

[Amber Witch]

Is she getting 35 sheds (71 vendors full of BODs) already?

It's all Xelious Norwoods fault.

 

[Frarc]

Drachenfels...

 

[Eärendil]

...can use now etheral mounts on all my accounts, even on those I freshly opened...



I love publish 79!

 

[Frarc]

With the Davies Locker my fisherman's room looks complete

 

[Cyrah]

Just adding this, thanks for all the new stuff. But... the no decay I counted on for city loyalty did not work.

I believed and I was wrong. They decayed during the no decay time.

 

[Adol]

With the Davies Locker my fisherman's room looks complete

No it isn't... where's the aquarium in there, eh?! Back to fishing with you matey!

But what lobster is that mounted on the back wall? Not the legendary Void, I think he's due in Publish 80, the bug fix...?

 

[Frarc]

It is the Blue Lobster from Ice Dungeon.


Seoman has no time to keep fishes in the Aquarium, he is gone for days fishing, he would give them away to the fishmongers anyway

 

[Frarc]

Don't forget to read: Summoning of Exodus

 

[Lady Michelle]

Publish Notes
2012 Nov 16 22:28 GMT
Holiday Gifts

• The bag contains:
  • A random small decorative holiday tree: either a “winter tree”, a “festive tree”
    • And rarely, an “infested tree”. What is it infested with???

Continue reading...

Infested tree I hope is infested with xmas puppies statues YaY !!!!!!!

 

[Kylie Kinslayer]

Infested tree I hope is infested with xmas puppies statues YaY !!!!!!!

Well.... If it's the kinda puppies Jerry 'The King" Lawler use to talk about.. ummm I can sign on to that

 

[Tribbles]

I like the Holiday Gifts but on one shard I don't receive my Christmas gifts today on 2 of my characters. Also the answer to your ? is....yes they are over 30 days old...I have gifts from last years Christmas...How can i get my gifts now?

 

[Ron Silverbeard]

I like the Holiday Gifts but on one shard I don't receive my Christmas gifts today on 2 of my characters. Also the answer to your ? is....yes they are over 30 days old...I have gifts from last years Christmas...How can i get my gifts now?

Acutally they are turned off - pls check www.uo.com for updates