The Summoner update is now live in game! For details about this new playstyle, check out this wiki article: https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/skills/spirit_speak
Many thanks to everyone who helped test!
Test Center has been opened to the public for testing of Factions and Summoner content. To connect to test center, open your client and in the address bar at the bottom, connect to test.uo4.life:5002
For Factions: NOTE: All timers (capture, etc) have been set to 5 minutes temporarily to ease testi...
A cold wind blows from the East and as it breezes past your cheeks you hear the faint cries of an otherworldly being. Its tongue is both unintelligible but strangely familiar, beckoning you, filling your mind with patterns you struggle to fully understand. What felt like an eternity of thought passe...
Discordance can now be "refreshed" on a target (as with Peacemaking and Provocation currently)- thus resetting the timer of the effect on a mob that already has the effect on them.
Sorry for the short interruption! Service has been restored. The server will come back online at it's normally schedule time in about 10 minutes after the posting of this
Factions have been completely overhauled from the ground up and include new content- including capturing towns and rewards! This content is currently in testing, but you can see what's coming soon (pending tweaks) at this article: https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/factions
(After next restart) Lumberjacking has been slightly tweaked to give more chance to gain per attempt.
We want to share with you that Stimwalt has decided to step away from the project indefinitely and retire as a player. To Stimwalt: thank you for all of your contributions over the years and we wish you the best in your endeavors! While you cannot be replaced, you will remain with us in spirit. We h...
Hotfix: Resolved an issue preventing organizer from working since a recent patch. Known Issue: Occasionally a visual client bug occurs when using Organize Backpack option where it organizes the items but they continue to appear in the old position inside your backpack. If that happens to you, you ca...
Dev Blog/State of the Game:
Staff Activity
Some staff is on break right now for one reason or another, but not everyone is playing other games. Life always comes first and if things come up in life, it is always advised for staff to focus on real life, which may warrant some time away from...
Two new tames have arrived in Britannia!
The Fire Beetle is a new mount available for taming that anyone can control. This mount also acts as a mobile forge and can be used to smelt ore on the go!
Bake Kitsunes have made their return to Britannia. These foxes are noted for their ability...
Signup for the PVP event closes tomorrow! Head over to https://event-signup.uo4.life/ if you'd like to participate!
After next restart:
The upcoming Fishing SOS changes are delayed slightly while we continue work on it, however, the container organization changes will go out tonight during the daily restart.
Fishing
Organization
Go play!
Apologies folks, we'll need a little longer to finish our tasks. This could be up to an hour, but should be sooner. Thanks as always for your patience.
We'll be offline for up to an hour during this evening's maintenance window @ 9am UTC. Thanks for your patience.
The Wiki Bot is temporarily offline, it'll return to service after it's had a pina colada or two on the beach.
Due to some server lag issues that we experienced during the original PVP Tournament preliminary rounds (which have since been resolved!), we're going to start from scratch and get another fresh bracket going.
Signup closes Saturday, 10/2/21. We will then get preliminary rounds under way, and as w...
Nightmares have been spawned in Britannia!
Rideable Pack Beetles have arrived in Britannia as a brand new tamable! These beasts are not only sturdier than horses, but are the only mount that also can act as a pack animal. While any player (even non-tamers) may control the beetle, tamers may find procuring one to be a bit tricky...
Lag issues should largely be resolved. We will continue to monitor the situation. Some players may experience intermittent issues based on their path to the server.
We're back online. Go play!
After next restart, if the owner of a pet is dead and the pet is attacked, the pet will defend itself.
During the next restart period (9am UTC 16th September) we will remain offline for up to 2 hours to perform extended maintenance.
Thank you for your patience.
We are aware of ongoing lag issues that some users are experiencing. At this stage, we are waiting for a core issue to be rectified at our host, at which time we will most likely move back to our original datacentre.
The latest advice is that they are working with their network equipment vendor t...
An exploit which allowed players to place houses in areas not intended for housing has been patched. If you have knowingly used this exploit to place a house somewhere it shouldn't be, please be aware that it may be subject to deletion without notice. It is recommended you move your home immediately...
After next restart, vendors now have a "Set All To Max" option, which sets the quantity of all items currently in the bill of sale to the maximum amount the vendor has on hand.
An issue causing furniture deeds to be named "Unknown Furniture Deed" or "Blank Deed" has been resolved, and any existing deeds have been corrected & should now be showing their correct name. If you find any remaining cases of furniture deeds not showing their full name please let us know.
Love Shards of Britannia? Want to help keep the lights on? Your support is appreciated! Visit https://www.patreon.com/shardsofbritannia
Legends of Ultima is rebranding and is now known as Shards of Britannia, update your scrolls and bulletin boards!
We are looking for ideas for the new Discord logo. Are you handy with Photoshop? We'd love to see what you can come up with. If you are interested in helping out and want to submit an image to be considered for the rebranding, please do so on our forums: https://forums.shardsofbritannia.com/topic/3...
We're aware that multiple users are having issues with moving around\decorating with the new forge models. At this time there is no solution and it advised to release the forge and place it in it's desired location to avoid issues. You may find after moving it a few times that the /refresh command h...
Forges in houses will be shrinking soon! If you have a forge in your house, it will be converted to the new style forge. We've also added two additional forge recipes for you to choose from. Note: If your forge was out of bounds you may need to release it and re-place it to bring the new model back...
This is a reminder to all that placement of objects outside the boundaries of your house foundation is not intended. Objects placed in this fashion are subject to removal, with a priority given to those that block access to land masses in any way.
Thank you for your understanding.
The stuck command menu has had another pass of improvements, adding an additional option, that can be used more frequently, and will try to move you out of stuck positions without teleporting far away, and also added an option to unstick nearby pets.
We're aware that some people are having trouble with equipping a weapon immediately after casting a spell and keeping it loaded, causing a message "you are too busy". We have made previous attempts to try to resolve this but some people are still affected, so we'll continue to look into it and try t...
We're back online. Thanks again for your patience.
Apologies for the delay, we are running a little overtime with the maintenance work. We will aim to be back online by 11am UTC (ideally before that!).
Hail citizens. We have some important news to share with you!
As you may be aware, this project started out as an experiment. It was unimaginable that it would grow into what it is today. To see where we've come today, let's take a quick look back at the history of the game and our project for a...
Tonight's maintenance window @ 9am UTC (approx 1h 10 mins from the time of this notice) will be extended by up to an hour while we work on the 'lag' issues that are currently being seen.
Thank you as always for your patience.
Group Combat, Shared Loot
Hotfix from today:
Hotfixes/changes from last week:
Some performance updates are being applied. Should be back in just a few minutes.
*Torches should now occupy the torch slot and not unequip the right hand
*Killing/stealing from someone in town and looting with another multibox character should now be prevented.
The rules have had some amendments to the following sections:
Please make sure you read the updated rules at: https://legendsofultima.online/about/rules
The Paralyze spell now interrupts the victim's spell cast on success
The use of an invisibility potion now breaks spell casts
Skeleton Keys now properly open chests of any level regardless of lockpicking skill
Carpentry kegs have been fixed and no longer produce deeds
As stated in our previous announcement https://legendsofultima.online/news/the-conclusion-of-celador Celador will be shutting down within the next 24 hours, and access to any remaining characters, items, and houses left in Celador will be lost.
We are aware some people have had issues going thr...
Town NPC Changes
Test Center is now ready for transition testing! A few items to note:
What you'll see on Test Center is not 100% reflective of what you will see on launch day. There will be no lore etc, this is functional testing ONLY. We don't want to spoil everything!
Your existing characters from Live...
There may be some kegs remaining that were made prior to the hotfixes posted in https://legendsofultima.online/news/recent-hotfixes -- if you have any kegs that do not work as intended, please throw them out and replace them. Sorry for the inconvenience!
Earlier today, we identified an economy breaking issue. While we won't go into full detail on this, what we can say in summary is that a small group of players leveraged an exploit. Our telemetry identified this and we acted as soon as we noticed it.
The end result is that group of players have...
In addition to our website and forums being updated in preparation for our big day on June 20th, our wiki has also been migrated and revitalised. Head on over to:
https://wiki.legendsofultima.online
to check it out. Don't forget you can search it directly from Discord - just type "!wiki searchte...
The server is temporarily offline due to an outage with the hosting provider. It was unexpected to have any downtime associated with this maintenance, but something has come up unexpectedly, so we appreciate your patience. We are monitoring the situation and will alert you as soon as the server is c...
Server will be back in about 15 minutes after updates. Thanks!
-Stealing is now disabled on the Colosseum island
-Murderer restrictions will not be incurred when a red dies on the island
To all,
We sincerely apologise for the (very brief) housing launch today. The server will be coming back online in the next few minutes, however there is some additional impact.
Unfortunately we are unable to return to the world save from just prior to the housing launch. Instead, we have ha...
Gameplay
Server will be restarting in about 5 minutes. ETA about 15 minutes. Thank you!
It's time! Housing will be launched at 10am US Eastern Time/2pm UTC on Saturday 24th July. Some notes for you all:
Water definitions have been added to every town! In those areas:
Fixed a bug where players could rename recall runes which were not in their own backpacks.
All town vendors have been made invulnerable for the time being while we work on updating their AI to be in line with Britannia-era combat mechanics and as such, they will be unavailable for snooping or thievery while invulnerable. Thanks for your patience while we continue to work on things
Gameplay Notes
We've identified an issue with Looting Rights not being handled properly for bards killing monsters with provocation and have disabled criminal checks on monster corpses for the time being while we work the remaining issues out.
Unidentified musical instruments will now properly identify
This evening we will be coming down for daily maintenance 15 minutes ahead of schedule. We will return to service at 5am US EST/9am UTC.
After this maintenance period, the server will restart once every 6 hours. We apologise for this, however it is a necessary step in order to ensure performan...
An issue with accepting trade has been resolved.
It's been a bumpy ride, no question about it. Thank you all for bearing with us during this time. Today, we broke another record for number of players online, as more and more folks jump on board with our little project.
With that being said, we absolutely have some growing pains to deal with, a...
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Update your bookmarks! The news feed has been migrated from the old news.legendsofultima.online to https://legendsofultima.online/news and the in-game feed and Discord bot now reflect the new feed.
Cut off heads of murderers now show the fee the deceased paid to resurrect, to become glorious trophies for your display
Dungeon Despise is now available for again for your spelunking pleasure.
It's finally time! Here is some more supporting information on what to expect:
https://wiki.legendsofultima.online/en/welcome-to-britannia
See you in game!
The issue with the official map has been resolved, and it is now available again.
The interactive map has now moved to:
https://map.legendsofultima.online
Please update your bookmarks! We have also updated the wiki.
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