The Santa Claws boss is now player triggerable. You must purchase Santa Claws' Candle from the gravedigging vendor, then place it under the Christmas Tree on the western side of the Yew area (where the spawn previously was). It takes 6 players nearby to activate. Once you've assembled, double click...
After the restart, the following items have been addressed:
Pending a restart, a new Necromancer spell has been added. It requires GM Forensic Evaluation, Spirit Speak, and Magery to unlock.
The spell is called Death Ward, and may only be casted on yourself. For its duration, if you are killed/ brought below 0 health, you will instead be returned to 1 HP (...
Pending a restart:
The Faction Pillar / King of the Hill is now in game. It activates once every 80 hours, and you will receive a server alert when it does. It can be found in Destard Level 2.
Hail citizens of Britannia!
I will be producing a 2 to 3 minute promotional video for SOB.
I would like to show player's in-game recorded video's showcasing everything we have to offer.
I would like to get a collection of videos showing people mining, lumberjacking, fighting, stealing, faction...
A new automated King Of The Hill style Faction event is coming soon to Britannia. The following details outline its basic ideas, but are subject to tweaks before release:
Every 80 hours, the Faction Pillar becomes active. This event is a King Of The Hill style event. Faction players must stay near...
Pending a restart:
Santa Claws has been successfully chased out of Yew and is now wandering the wilds in search of warriors whose Christmas he can ruin!
A cold wind came and quickly they figured out, that Santa Claws and his evil minions would soon be about!
'Twas a month before Christmas and all throughout Yew, not a creature was stirring - the guards had all gone too!
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Pending a restart, the following changes have been made:
'Twas a month before Christmas and all throughout Yew, not a creature was stirring- the guards had all gone too! A cold wind came and quickly they figured out, that Santa Claws and his evil minions would soon be about!
Launching sometime this evening, Yew will be invaded by Santa Claws and his evi...
The Lithos necromancy event will end tomorrow. Its spawn rate has been increased until then.
Necromancy is now live in Britannia! A method of procuring the Necronomicon has been introduced and players are encouraged to discover it.
For a short time, a boss event featuring Lithos, titan of Earth, is also active and is another possible way of obtaining the Necronomicon.
Please read the fo...
The cost of gravedigging tools has been reduced greatly and their charges have increased to 100 in preparation for Necromancy,
Relics of Lithos, titan of Earth, have been sighted in Britannia- a dark omen of evil events on the horizon.
Necromancy is coming to Britannia and is currently in testing! Shout out to Stimwalt who designed the ideas behind much of this system before he departed the team. The following wiki articl...
Some more decorations have been fixed in terms of an issue preventing placing them, included but not limited to:
An issue has been solved preventing people from buying mounts like the Fire Ostard that can be ridden by anyone if their skill level is too low.
We've received multiple reports recently of players stating they were unable to report being murdered by another player. We're looking for more details about this, if you have had this happen please let us know the details surrounding the incident.
Things that are helpful to know are:
The following is a preview of the upcoming Bulk Orders and Crafting Changes. Testing is about to begin, but there is no expected release date at this time. Near the release, we will write some Wiki pages to further explain some of these changes, but for the most part a lot of the mechanics are borro...
We've updated the Short and Long Spear to working models that properly show the weapon in your hands when you are in warmode. Spears made before this change will not reflect the updated models though, so you may want to hold on to one or two as they are now relics. :)
If you claimed a Resurrection Ankh and erroneously received the Hitching Post instead, and would like to swa...
More house decorations have been fixed that previously gave users trouble when trying to place them:
QOL: When taming or unstabling a pet, OR when summoning a creature, targetable healthbars for them automatically show up underneath the reagant counter. These disappear when you stable pets or when a summon expires.
3 Year Veteran Rewards Added
The server will remain offline for extended maintenance during the next restart window @ 9am UTC on the 12th November. We expect this maintenance to take approximately 1 hour.
Thank you for your patience.
When a faction owns a town, they may now spend town stone silver to purchase a faction guard, which will protect the stone against opposing factions.
If you have a Halloween Mask that still equips to the "Head" slot preventing you from wearing armor on your head simultaneously, you may now talk to the Candy Vendor to get it fixed.
The following bugs have been fixed, some potentially pending restart:
The evil mages summoning Arcadion are growing increasingly desperate and frenzied as their power appears to be waning!
The Arcadion miniboss event for procuring a Summoner's Tome will be ending after this weekend. The Arcadion spawn rate has been greatly increased until then.
Fixed an issue causing the invasion spawn to over-spawn after a server crash
The Headless Horseman Boss from town invasions:
Recently some people have reported the long-standing issue of items getting stuck to your cursor. This client issue has been around since the beginning of time sadly. We've reported the issue to Citadel Studios for resolution and are at their mercy to have the root cause fixed.
As a workaround, w...
We have a new addition to the team! Please help us welcome Transcendence to their new role. They will be starting out helping to triage GM Pages and also helping with events and general gameplay design. Welcome, @Transcendence#6283!
Thanks to everyone participating in the Halloween events and activities, we hope you've enjoyed it as much as we enjoyed putting it together for you. We look forward to doing more in the near future.
More evil mages have appeared in Britannia, summoning creatures from beyond the veil between worlds. Their conjuring ways seem to be learned from an ancient tome whose origins are unknown....
[A new method of unlocking the Summoner's Tome has entered Britannia]
All Town/Faction Stones have had their states reset again. We believe we have fixed the root cause of the ongoing sigil issues, but ask once more for you all to give it a go! Timers are all once again set at one hour so it will be easy to test. You may still recall with the stone for the moment.
G...
An item called the Skull of Hallows Eve has been added to the Halloween Candy vendor. This item will allow you to activate the Cove invasion spawn at the Black Gate in North Cove. The spawn requires 6 players total to start it, so you will need 5 other players to be near the spawn with you when tryi...
We're still working out some kinks with the town sigil capture system and appreciate your continued patience. As a quality of life and to enable quicker discovery of issues, the following temporary rules are in effect:
A Faction store has been added to town stones- usable when your faction controls a town. This store is used to spend your personal silver on items for yourself. Currently two items are for sale, and more will be added soon:
After next restart, the Lone Wolf Cloak, Cloak of the Dragon Slayer, and Citizen Cloak should no longer fail constantly upon crafting.
Halloween Mask rares should now (potentially pending a restart) utilize the Mask equip slot instead of Head slot- thus they will be wearable over armor.
Arcadion, an evil and powerful daemon, has crossed the veil between worlds and is plotting terrible endeavors that may endanger the citizens of Britannia. Brave warriors: take up arms and defeat this most evil foe!
The Summoner's Tome is now live and in game! It may be acquired by defeating Arcadi...
Faction ranks are available on Discord for the new factions- simply run /rank rankname to add your faction role.
Available ranknames are:
The Black Gate Model will be returning to the transition token vendor shortly! Check after next restart.
The new Factions system is now live! Faction Stones and Town Stones have been placed in the world. Players wishing to join a Faction should visit that faction's Faction Stone.
Details about the Factions system are outlined here: https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/factions
Faction Stone and T...
Several players have reported receiving excessive amounts of murder counts they didn't actually deserve. We're monitoring the issue. We may have fixed the issue this evening, but as it is a particularly difficult issue to debug, we ask that if you experience it, please submit a /bug report with as m...
Gravedigging is now live! Check out the details here https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/gravedigging Throughout the duration of the Halloween Event, Gravedigging will offer chances to yield more candy and items!
In other news, there have been numerous reports of Halloween forces assembling in...
The new Factions system is about to launch- in preparation, we have removed existing factions from all characters and removed the faction leaders as well. Hold tight while we get everything prepped!
The bravest warriors have fought valiantly in our server-wide PVP tournament, and only four remain: Vega Pepega, Theko, Carmen Sandiego and Havagrim.
On Saturday, November 13th at 16:00 UTC (That's noon American East Coast), the final four will duke it out at the Colosseum, one on one, until a cha...
The wiki has a new page for Halloween: https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/halloween-2021 here you can see information about the Trick or Treating and the kinds of treats you can get! ^_^ Happy Hunting
Candy Vendors have been spotted at multiple Graveyards around Britannia!
There is a known issue with Steam users trying to log in to the LOA game, specifically error 105. Citadel Studios, the makers of LOA has been made aware and have stated they are looking into the issue. We hope the issue is resolved shortly so you can begin your Halloween hunting soon! Thanks for you...
The server is coming back online with the Halloween festivities activated as described in the previous article here: https://shardsofbritannia.com/news/halloween-event-progress-report
Halloween Paragon mobs will spawn in both dungeons and in overland & smashing pumpkins and graveyard camps will...
Fixed several house decorations that were previously not able to be placed:
The server is now offline for Halloween updates and will remain offline for approximately an hour! 🎃We'll post again when the server is coming back up, thanks for your patience.
The server will go offline around 11pm UTC/6pm Central (approx 2 hours from the time of this post) or a little later depending on our schedules. An hour prior to that we will schedule an automatic shutdown and begin announcing. The downtime is expected to last about an hour to deploy the Halloween u...
The Halloween event will start soon! Gravedigging needs a little more time and will come as quickly as possible after the event goes live.
When: The goal is for Today or Tomorrow 10/21 or 10/22 and will last 3-4 weeks, to end before US Thanksgiving
What to expect:
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
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