The server is back online and the following patch has been applied: https://legendsofultima.gamepedia.com/Fishing_Update_December_2020

Make sure to try out the new /macro command to help with repetitive tasks

Frozen Tundra has been populated with wildlife and some wandering healers throughout.

Due to some major backend changes with the Legends of Aria architecture, we need to temporarily retire the Covetous and Destard dungeons. This will allow us to proceed with the latest LoA upgrade, including moving to a new Unity platform, which in turn lets us push ahead with our plans for the Britannia map.

Rest assured they will return in the near future. If you have characters that are logged out inside Covetous or Destard, those characters will automatically be ejected if you try to log them in. Once the regions are removed entirely, you should be prompted for a town when you try to log them in.

Thanks as always for your patience while we work through these latest challenges. Keep an eye on #news for a notice around the upgrade, at which time you'll need to update your clients as well.

Frozen Tundra is now open! Throughout the rest of the month creatures spawned in the Frozen Tundra will have a chance to drop Winter Event collectibles. There will be new monsters, mini-champs and champs to contend with. New armour and weapons to collect as well as dozens of new collectible items.

The region will be open indefinitely and is housing-enabled allowing players to place houses. Soon we will be adding the new snowy house models provided by LOA!

That's not all! In the coming days we will also be adding Fishing Updates, Ice Fishing, and the in-game Macro System! See the full details at: https://legendsofultima.gamepedia.com/Fishing_Update_December_2020

But what about Britannia?! Well don't worry we haven't lost focus on the new map, as the team has been working steadily on that as well. While we don't have anything new to show you today, we may have some further updates coming soon. Keep your eyes peeled, and in the meantime please enjoy the Winter festivities!

We are pleased to announce that Legends of Ultima will be launching our 2020 Winter Event this Sunday 13th December at 11:00am EST

The event this year is different to previous years and we are proud to announce that we will be opening the Frozen Tundra for our players to enjoy.

There will be new monsters, mini-champs and champs to contend with. New armour and weapons to collect as well as dozens of new collectable items to aquire. There are a few more surprises and more details will follow in the next few days but there will certainly be lots to keep you busy during the holiday period.

We have enabled a higher verification setting for the Discord to prevent abuse. If you were affected by this please know we did not single you out, but you just need to either A) verify your phone number on your Discord account or B) send us an email requesting an exception at [email protected] if you cannot or choose not to verify a phone number. Thanks for your understanding.

• Agressive rats should now ignore mobile collision/shove mechanics, if there are other small critters that do not ignore please send bug reports
  - An issue with group messages sometimes referring to payers as "nil" has been resolved
  - Group members should no longer trigger "... has logged in/out" alerts when switching regions
  - Equipment circle buttons will now appear on player vendor paperdolls to allow owners to more easily manage the vendor's worn equipment
  - An issue that sometimes causes vendors/pet brokers to be ejected from the house plot immediately when being hired should be resolved
  - For privacy reasons, whispers are now restricted to friends only, meaning that you will need to have a player on your friends list in order to /tell them or whisper them
  - Known Issue: Some secured objects on plots may not show the "Security" option in the right-click menu, we are investigating. As a workaround, we've added a "Manage Object Security" option to the plot menu to allow you to target a secured object and change it's security level.
  - Known Issue: Some house blueprints are not displaying their dimensions in their tooltips. As a workaround, it will now display the dimensions required in a system message when trying to place a house and it does not fit.
  - To aid with house placements, you can now target the mailbox directly when trying to place a house to attempt placing directly on the center of the plot.

• An issue causing players to be unable to purchase pets from pet brokers has been resolved

• An issue causing some vendor interactions not to work, most notably with the stablemasters, has been resolved

• An issue that sometimes causes mobs to decay while fighting them should be resolved
  - An issue with Peacemaking not playing music sounds when succeeding has been resolved
  - You are no longer able to initiate a transfer for a pet that the target would unable to control
  - Player vendor interact window will now close properly when clicking "Goodbye" or "I change my mind" when deciding not to buy something
  - A skinning knife/blade is now required to cut heads off of corpses
  - Ghost players should no longer be able to shove or be shoved
  - Small creatures like rats, turkeys, etc should no longer trigger shove mechanics

• An issue has been resolved with casting spells and then pressing escape to clear the target cursor not properly clearing the spell-loaded flag

• The missing messages for bard abilities has been added by popular demand

• Another issue with Discordance not working sometimes has been resolved
  - An issue that sometimes causes another player's name to be used for Maker's Mark while crafting items should be resolved. If you encounter this further please let us know.
  - An issue with the price tooltip not being applied to items newly added to player vendor has been resolved -- you can remove/re-add the item or just do "Change Price" to correct any items that don't have a price tooltip showing.
  

Recently we have sometimes had issues trying to contact people back due to outdated/missing Contact Info setting in-game. Please make sure to keep your contact info up-to-date so that we can get back to you or ask questions about feedback to better understand issues being reported. You can access the Contact Info setting with the /contactinfo command. Make sure your Discord username matches what you see at the bottom left of your Discord screen, and you can left-click your username to copy it and easily paste it into the game. Thanks!

• Characters will now have a "Player Settings" right-click option to access the character's settings
  - A new option has been added to the Settings window, Other tab, "Show Target Previews" which will be disabled by default, when enabled will show object preview when unpacking deeds on a house plot
  - As a workaround for the known issue "Item Stuck To Cursor After Unpacking House Deeds," we've made the preview disabled by default, but if you wish to still use it you can re-enable it in the settings as described above
  

• An issue with mob AI causing mobs to sometimes freeze indefinitely after spawning should now be resolved

• An issue with Discordance being prevented from applying to some mobs erroneously has been resolved
  - Bard effect break range has been increased moderately to extend the distance allowed from mobs before the effects will break
  - An issue with monsters attacking the bard after being provoked should be completely resolved now, once monsters have been provoked they should no longer attack the bard at all, unless the effect breaks, let us know if this continues to be an issue
  - Patch Note Correction: The prior patch notes state that Provo/Peace will fall off if the bard dies, that was a typo and monsters should remain peaced/provo'd even if the bard dies, as long as they stay within range.
  - Clarification: Discordance does not have range check or hiding check, it only falls off after the timer ends.

• An issue has been solved preventing the Carpentry window Tools option from working.

• Player vendors will now keep track of the most recent 30 items sold on the vendor, allowing you to view when/what/how much items sold for; to view recent sales choose Interact --> Collect Gold
  - You can now set a filled contained as Not For Sale (price 0), after which you will be prompted to select the price to be set to each item individually inside the container, allowing for mass-price setting
  - When choosing "Change Price" on containers marked as Not For Sale, you will now be able to select a price to change the price of all items inside the container

With the US presidential election underway, we would like to ask everyone to please refrain from discussing politics in LOU channels. We already deal with such serious issues in our everyday lives so let's keep it out of LOU and keep our community neutral. Thank you!