We've deployed a minor update to the Shards of Britannia Launcher. Please make sure to close the launcher entirely (check next to the clock, in the system tray, for a SOB Launcher icon, right click it and choose Exit) and re-open it to receive the updates. This will ensure you have the latest update.

Looking For Group (LFG) System

Finding other players for activities just got easier! The new LFG system lets you create and browse group listings for dungeons, boss hunts, PvP, treasure hunting, crafting, quests, and more.

How to Use:

• Type /lfg to open the LFG window
• Browse active groups or create your own listing
• Set your group size (2-40 players), activity type, and optional scheduled time
• Choose between Open (instant join) or Approval Required (you review requests)
• Use /lfg followed by a message to chat with other LFG users

Key Features:

• Timezone support: Set your timezone in Settings to see scheduled times in your local time
• DST automatically applied for supported timezones
• Staff events are marked as Featured and last up to 7 days
• Regular listings expire after 12 hours to keep the list fresh
• LFG chat channel connects you with other players looking for groups

Discord Integration: (coming soon)

• LFG chat messages are now relayed to Discord and vice versa
• Stay connected with the community even when not in-game

Guidelines:

• You can create up to 3 active listings at a time
• 10 minute cooldown between creating new listings
• Your listing automatically closes when the group reaches maximum size or expires after 12 hours
• Staff events are identified with a special Featured marker

The tunnel to Frostfang's Cavern has opened up North of Santa's Workshop. Santa is being held captive in Frostfang's Cavern and needs to be rescued by players if he is to be available for the big holiday! Are you up for the challenge? Read more about the winter holiday activities: https://shardsofbritannia.com/news/2025s-winter-holiday-activities-are-here

Updates from last year:

• Frostfang's Cavern is no longer a Guarded area, enter at your own risk!
• The boss encounters in this dungeon have had their difficulty reduced by about 25% following last year's player feedback
• We've fixed some issues surrounding the Escort feature which caused Santa to teleport towards his Jail Cell as he is being escorted out of the dungeon (this fix applies to all types of Escorts, including the Elves)

Journal Updates

The Journal has received an update with improved logging reliability and expanded action tracking throughout the game.

Accessing the Item Log

• Right-click on your character to access the Item Log option
• or use your Journal hotkey to open the full Journal interface and click the Item Log button

New Item Log Tab

• Tracks your item activity: pickups, drops, looting, equipping, crafting, purchasing, trading, and more
• Shows where items came from and where they went (your backpack, a container, a corpse, or the ground)
• Click any entry to open a detail view with more information about the item and its history

New Controls & Settings

• Added a Recent Items button to quickly view recent item activity with options to locate or pick up items
• Added a Filters button to toggle which log categories are shown (Combat, System, Item, Chat)
• Added Window Width setting (small, medium, large) to adjust the Journal's width alongside the existing height option

Display Improvements

• Journal text now wraps properly when entries exceed the visible area
• Timestamps now display in 12-hour format with AM/PM

🎅 Write to Santa! ✨

Santa's Mailbox is now open at his workshop, eagerly awaiting your Letters to Santa!

🎄 How to Find Santa's Workshop: Santa’s Workshop can be accessed via the Cellar Doors at Windemere Bank, right next to the giant snowball.

Here's how it works:

• Purchase a Note from any Innkeeper or Provisioner.
• Write your heartfelt letter, explaining why you've been good this year and what you’re wishing for.
• Place your letter in Santa's Mailbox, and it will be delivered directly to Santa!

Santa plans to write back to everyone, so make it a letter worth reading! 🎄

Start writing today and share your holiday cheer! 🎅

Newest Changes

• Happy Thanksgiving, and enjoy the weekend! Each account will receive a jellyfish parachute sky lantern(!) as a gift upon login.

List of Changes

• Fixed an issue with line of sight not being taken into account in some cases for spellcasting
• Increased seed drops and added seed drops to higher-level elementals.
• Reintroduced the skull token vendor in Vaelthar (young players can hunt mobs for skull tokens and exchange them for useful gear).
• Resolved a critical bug where the mature plant would remain when placing the plant in decorative mode (if you have such a plant, please submit an in-game bug report with the coordinates; they need to be deleted by a GM).
• Seed drops added to some (!) mob types of dragons, elementals, reptiles, arachnids — and of course, to fishing.
• The teleporter at New Haven Bank to Britain Bank is now accessible to non-young players. This serves as a means to leave the island once you lose your young status.
• “A Spot to Plant” locations have been added to the world as spawn points. These spots are used to plant green thorns and will trigger certain world effects when planted. https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/gardening_greenthorn
• Fixed an issue with player characters' Polymorphed flag getting stuck after a Halloween Costume is removed (if this is happening to you at the moment please log out and back in)
• Fixed issue with creatures sometimes getting stuck allowing players to damage them without the creature moving
• Fixed issue with Hireling Combat NPCs getting stuck in combat in some cases
• Fixed issues with boss encounters continuing to spawn in the Weekly Dungeon erroneously
• Fixed issue with bounty hunters being able to use portals to enter the Trading Post no-combat area
• Fixed issue with pets not following in some cases
• Fixed issues with some mobiles showing "Invulnerable" while wandering or idling erroneously
• Fixed issue with Ocllo/New Player Haven not appearing for new characters in some cases
• Fixed issues with players and mobiles not being able to cast offensive spells on non-PVP targets on Ocllo island
• Fixed issues with skills raising above 80.0 in the Young Player Dungeon (Ocllo & New Player Dungeon are capped at 80.0 for the new player experience)
• Fixed raffle announcements not being sent to Discord
• Changed res-kill protection to be prevented for thieves for balance
• Improved stamina loss to pets from damage; this should help White Wyrms, for example, manage their stamina better, as we've received several reports of users with white wyrms running out of stamina too often recently
• Fixed issue with Passive Animal Taming trying to gain while you are starved, now it will skip consuming your Passive Points and instead warn you that you're starved and cannot gain right now
• Added periodic starvation reminders to players; this is a vital part of gameplay and can prevent skill gains if starved, so this was added to reduce confusion in cases where skills won't gain at all
• Fixed issue with Crafting Tools not being usable in some cases after being traded via hireling vendors
• Fixed issues with throwable spider eggs not consuming charges
• Fixed Gravedigging not working at some grave sites like Moonglow graveyard
• Fixed issues with Fishing where some objects cannot be obtained during the holidays when special loot overrides have been added
• Fixed issue with Mining Caves kicking players out too quickly (should be 15-20 minutes normally)
• Improved label scrolling in vendor dialog windows
• Fixed issues with the subregion label under the minimap displaying incorrectly in some cases
• Fixed issues with new player books not being readable in some cases (please let us know if they continue to present issues)
• Fixed issue with Hireling Combat NPCs getting stuck in combat in some cases (duplicate of earlier? kept in high-priority list only)
• Added ability for house owners to destroy a guildstone on the property, even if they are not the guildmaster (note: this does not disband a guild ever; the guildmaster can always place/replace their guildstone freely in
• Fixed sound effects for Bandits from Daemon to Human
• Gardening Phase 2 has been activated on the live server. All UO T2A seeds are now available in-game, along with the cross-pollination, color hybrid system, and plant resources (which are useful, not just decorative).
• Seeds will drop from some mobs and can also be found during certain activities. This will be expanded further over the next few days.
• Spiderlings will no longer drop gold.
• Halloween shoulder parrots will no longer display “2024” in their name.
• New Haven/Ocllo market stalls are now rentable by all players; rent per week has been lowered to 350g/week.
• UPDATE on the plant growth bug: In some cases, the bug fix does not appear to work for plants that were planted before November 3rd (before we rolled out the fix). If you encounter this issue and find an empty plant pot, please open a ticket. Do not release the pot — we need it as evidence to verify the case. A bug was fixed that could cause plants to continue growing in very rapid cycles after reaching maturity. This usually led to the premature death of the plants and left behind an empty flowerpot.
• A new seed has been introduced and added to the gardening quest giver’s sales inventory.
• Intensive logging has been added to the gardening system so that errors can be better traced and corrected.
• Plants placed in “decorative mode” can now create a deed in the player’s backend instead of an actual plant object. This feature will help us handle larger plants more efficiently in the future.

Newest Changes

• After the server restart on October 30th, the Halloween vendor will sell special (non-exclusive and pretty cool) plant seeds for varying amounts of candy.

List of Changes

• A Halloween raffle is now live! Visit Raff, the lottery official, outside Britain Bank. You will need 10 Halloween raffle tickets to enter.

• We have started distributing market stalls in New Haven and Ocllo to players in order to set up vendors there.

• A first quest for young players has been added to New Haven and Ocllo. Find Ranger Marcus in the city center for a bear hunt.

• Halloween candy will down drop inside the puzzle chests from the exploding well event.

• Halloween plant seeds now have a higher chance of dropping from the Headless Horseman summoned through grave digging.

• Aggressive beings will once again attack Young players instead of being passive towards them

• Fixed issue with players not being able to cast spells on beings in Ocllo

• Fixed issue with Necromancy spells against corpses not working as expected

• Fixed issue with creatures intentionally sent to Invulnerable, for display purposes, sometimes saying "Invulnerable" when they wander around

• Collision issues around Ocllo have been fixed

• The New Player Dungeon has been brought online and is accessible from the teleporter at the Cursed Village in Ocllo

• Choosing to "cancel" a teleport confirmation will no longer hide nearby mobs to you unexpectedly in some cases

• Grappling Rope can now be crafted by tinkerers. Players can use these to grapple onto boats, but beware: if the boat does not belong to you, you will become a criminal.

• Added a flying raven effect when using the bounty hunter's seeker ravens. The seeker raven will now also search for orc players as well as murderers.

• Reveal potions have been added for thief hunters. They can be purchased from the Thief Hunter Guild Master. See details on wiki at https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/thief_hunter#thief-hunter-reveal-potions

• A new Bounty Hunter Guild has been introduced! See details at https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/bounty-hunting

• Boats that are abandoned in Guarded areas will automatically drift to sea over time, this includes areas like docks, moats, rivers

• Boats will no longer be able to be deployed from drydocked state while recently engaged in any combat

• The Lord's Boon cooldown has been changed from 2 hours to 6 hours.

• The PK dungeon lockout has been removed and replaced with a 2-hour no-hostile-action period. This change allows players to use their blue characters in these zones, which they were previously locked out of.

• The chance of obtaining dragon eggs from greater dragons has been increased due to their recently enhanced difficulty.

• Players can now bring boats into the Britannia Moat!

• Ocllo now drops some candy, and a Halloween candy vendor has been added to the Ocllo bank.

• New loot has been added to moat fishing.

• The summoner's dark guardian cooldown has been changed to one minute.

• Removed the requirement to kill rats in the new Gardener's Delivery Quest in Britain.

• Beehives have been fixed.

• New loot has been added to moat fishing.

• The gardening vendor in Britain now also sells waterbags.

• Wearing the Fortune Favor Talisman now grants improved Halloween candy drops from Halloween mobs.

• Grave digging now provides a chance to drop a pile of fertile dirt (gardening resource).

• Digging on farmers’ dirt now provides a chance to drop a pile of regular dirt (gardening resource).

• A new special plant seed has been added to the Halloween vendor.

• Vorthas, the skeleton elite, can now be found inside the Halloween dungeon.

• The new Undead Dragon animations have been improved.

• Added a new Necromancer Cart Decoration Installation Kit and a special Halloween Cart Decoration Installation Kit. These can be found on the Headless Horseman boss in the Halloween Dungeon.

• Mailboxes not showing the Mail System options like Register Mailbox and other related options has been fixed, you may need to release and re-place your mailboxes if they don't show the correct Mail options on it

• Trick or Treating with Halloween Costumes has been fixed for users with negative karma; now anyone can wear a costume and beg vendors for "trick or treating"

• GM Tinkerers can now craft Adventurer's Rope, which teleports you to a selected location, similar to the Teleport spell, without requiring mana or reagents. It is single-use with a cooldown of 5 seconds in PvE and 30 seconds in PvP. Crafting requires leather and beeswax. Beeswax can be obtained through the new Gardening Delivery quest from Garin of the Green Thumb in Britain.

• Many new Halloween items have been added to grave digging, including new plant seeds for the gardening expansion.

• Adventurer's Rope New Cooldown Update: To balance gameplay, a 10-second cooldown has been added between using the Teleport spell and Adventurer's Rope. After teleporting, you'll need to wait 10 seconds before using the rope, and vice versa. Multiple uses of Teleport or Rope alone remain unaffected and the cooldown for PVP is now 30 seconds.

• The loot of the skeleton elite in front of the Halloween dungeon has been adjusted (there is also chance of a rare drop :-) )

• Updated the loot for tentacle plants.

• Fixed a bug where thieves not in the Thieves' Guild had access to the special dungeon MOB loot tables.

• Updated the Fortune Favor Amulets loot for MOBs.

• Now when faction pillars are activated, factions cannot begin accumulating points until at least two factions have entered the faction pillar zone.

• The stats for the Summoner's Dark Guardian have been reverted to their original values, with the addition of a one-minute cooldown between Dark Guardian spawns. Please note that we are currently working on a complete overhaul of the Summoner class.

• As a reminder, all faction players on the winning side in pillar events will receive 10 faction coins and silver. The losing side will receive 5 faction coins and silver. The overall top player has a 10% chance of winning rare loot, including additional faction coins and gold.

• Increased the drop rate for ethereal undead dragon bones from grave digging.

• Added a new All Factions chat function, allowing all three factions to communicate with each other.

• Increased the drop rate for faction coins from fallen faction players in the overworld to 2 coins and in guarded towns to 4 coins.

• Added a rare chance for faction players to receive a faction chest (containing faction coins and gold) when killing faction players outside of pillar events.

• Gardening features are rolling out. Please note that it will be done in steps and is subject to change. The first step covers the core system and some special seeds. The original UO T2A seeds with breeding, color hybrids, resources, etc will be rolled out at a later stage:

• Public wells have been added to the towns. They will provide water for gardening to those who do not own their own water source.

• Thornwick, the gardener vendor has been added to the former alchemist house in Britain, just east of the bank

• Plain plant pots and regular dirt have been added to sales inventory of the gardening vendor

• A new craftable "Waterbag" has been added to tailoring (no recipe required)

• A new craftable watersource "Waterspout" has been added to tinkering (provides water for gardening and will automatically refill after a given period of time)

• Garin Of The Green Thumb, the new gardening token vendor has been added to the game (in front of the gardeners house in Britain)

• Garin will accept gardening tokens as currency to allow players to buy more fancy and efficient watersources like a fountain and a well, a composter to create dirt from organic waste and a watering can for more convenient plant watering.

• Please note: gardening tokens are not yet available in the game, we are working on it :-)

• The cost to insure Thief Hunter armor has been halved.

• A new leaderboard has been placed at the Thief Hunters' Guild in Britannia. Thief hunters can drop the decapitated heads of thieves they have killed onto the bounty hunter to add the kill to their tally.

• Rare gardening seeds have been added to the Halloween bosses, exploding tentacle plants and exploding desert cacti.

• The loot for the Headless Horseman and Necro Witch has been adjusted, with grave dust and other goodies added.

• A new horse-and-cart delivery quest has been introduced. Garin of the Green Thumb, located near the alchemist in Britain, will ask you to deliver three large piles of soil to farmers in Britain, Minoc, and Yew. The farmers will provide rare seeds, which you must return to Garin in exchange for a gardening token. This token can be used to purchase items for the new gardening system.

-The asset for the undead dragon/drake has been updated. Necromancers can now raise undead wyverns, which will use the previous undead dragon asset. Please visit the item fixer in Britain to restore any colors or dyes on your undead dragons if applicable.

The Fortune's Favor Amulet will now enhance loot for magic weapons, armor, shields, and other items, including unique items from all monsters in the desert: Balron, Dino Riders, Raptors, Bandit Brutes, Flain's Minions, Voraxis, Bone Lightning Mage, Oni, Orc Brute, Rotting Corpse, Stone Golem, and Daemons. Visit the Jeweler in Britain to buy one today for 5,000 gold!

Great news for all Shards of Britannia adventurers! The Amulet of Fortune’s Favor is now available for purchase at the jeweler in Britain for 5,000 gold, bringing a spark of arcane fortune to your journeys. This powerful amulet enhances your luck across a wide range of activities, unveiling rare treasures from special loot tables as you plunder the world’s hidden caches and defeat its monstrous foes. Don’t miss your chance to secure this game-changing item from the Britain jeweler today! The Amulet of Fortune’s Favor grants an array of specific benefits: it doubles the base drop chance for Message in a Bottle items from fishing, boosts rare loot drop rates by 1.5x for shore fishing, ice fishing, and daily dungeon fishing, and increases item drops from heavy horse carts when defeating ore elementals and reapers. It also improves drop rates for magic weapons, armor, shields, unique cosmetic items, treasure maps, and golden apples from mid - higher end MOBs, while enhancing rare item drops from mining and lumberjacking. Additionally, it slightly increases the chance for wells to explode during the Exploding Wells event, though less effectively than the Blast Weaver Talisman. Note that equipping the amulet disables Lord’s Boon, cannot be removed for 24 hours, persists through death, and is Blessed. Equip this amulet and let fortune guide your path!

Greetings adventurers!

We've rolled out a new update with a focus on improving fairness, security, and stability across the world of Britannia.

🔒 Security & Fair Play

• Implemented updates to tighten security and reduce cheating/botting.
• These changes are part of our ongoing efforts to make the game safer and fairer for all players.

🐞 Bug Fixes

• We have done some small improvements in the client code which should help to run things smoother.
• Updated the Web Map to address issues where it wouldn't load or work properly for some players.
• Added a new option on the Web Map to track group members.
  • Note: The Web Map remains experimental. Please continue to report any bugs you encounter.

⚠️ Crash Issues

• Some players may experience crashes caused by some files that shouldn't be in their game folder, or external software that affects the game while it runs.
• To resolve this:
  1. Create a new empty folder.
  2. Place the launcher inside it.
  3. Let the game download cleanly.
• This should fix all crash-related issues.
• If crashes persist, please open a support ticket and we’ll assist further.

Thank you all for your continued support and feedback. See you in-game! 🏹⚔️

NEW (updated Sept 1st, 2025)

• Fixed an issue with using a skinning knife that becomes broken due to durability causing the next weapon to only do 1 damage
• Fixed an occasional memory leak and/or server crash related to Hireling Mercenaries
• Fixed an occasional memory leak and/or server crash related to Blade Spirits
• Fixed an issue with Young characters' backpack contents being moved to their corpse when they die, this should never happen for Young characters
• Fixed an issue with Reactive Armor causing notoriety consequences to beings who have this active; players should no longer become criminal unexpectedly just for having Reactive Armor enabled

NEW (updated August 27th, 2025)

• Fixed the double deed in Season 6, Champion's Hoard chest
• Some plants that we will reintroduce with gardening will no longer be accessible through other mean in the game

List of Changes

• Seasonal Challenges: Season 6 will begin today! (see: https://shardsofbritannia.com/news/seasons-are-about-to-change)
• CAPTCHA has been improved and no longer uses a button-style interface, instead 3 numbers will be drawn with icons and you just have to type the 3 numbers to complete it
• CAPTCHA may appear more often now while harvesting, but still no more than once every 20 minutes

Until further notice, the exploding well event has been canceled going forward. Thank you to everyone who participated we hope you had fun! The event will return at some point soon with some exciting changes!

Hear Ye, Hear Ye, Brave Adventurers!

Let it be known throughout the lands — this is the final call! The glorious Season the Fifth shall draw to a close with the coming of the morrow. Steel thy blades and ready thy satchels, for Season the Sixth shall arise anon, the hour of its birth resting in the hands of the attending sages and stewards.

The treasure chests have been laden with insensate riches and rare spoils, a bounty fit for kings and champions alike! Seek them ere the sun sets on this cycle.

Moreover, let it be heralded: the Fishing Token Vendor shall now bestow upon worthy fishers newly crafted fishbowls, sanctified for the dawning season.

Make haste, heroes — destiny awaits!

NEW (updated July 30th, 2025)

• Enhanced auto-targeting system - casting spells now sets your "Current Target" for reliable auto-targeting, press Escape or click X on healthbar to clear target, added Clear Target macro option, Target Self macro now clears current target first
• Auto-target setting now available in Character Settings → Combat tab (in addition to Main Menu → Settings)
• Fixed Auto-Defend not working consistently
• REDO: Fixed auto-targeting for spellcasting - spells now properly use your selected combat target when auto-targeting is enabled
• REDO: Fixed Vendor Search system only showing partial results - now properly displays all items for sale across all regions

List of Changes

• Drop rates for moat fishing have been slightly adjusted.
• We are currently optimizing the size of our asset bundle containing the deco items. A new version will be released on July 2nd, which will also include some new stuff in preparation of season6.
• Fishing treasure loot from SOS has been updated.
• Ability to dye drakes added.
• Ability to use special hues dyes for drakes and dragons added.
• Bow speed changes, for details see https://shardsofbritannia.com/news/update-bow-speed-adjustments
• Further improvements to the SOS fishing experience.
• Added new items and new wearables.
• Small update to black market goods
• Small update to moat fishing
• Rescale scrolls for ponds, fishbowls and fishtanks have been added to the fishing token vendor and selected loot tables.
• A new fishtank and a new special dragon dye have been added to the wandering vendor (see #staff-spotlight in discord).
• New (silent) windmill items have been added to the game. Players can exchange their existing windmills and mini windmills at the item fixer.
• We took the update of the assetbundle loudeco as an opportunity to add a new item to the Magical Valorite Cotton vendor. Get your grandfather clock today!
• Not a change, but just to let you know: behind the scenes, work is being carried out on Ocllo :-)
• The fishing token vendor is selling his goods again, you can now buy fishtank, fishbowl and/or pond rescale scrolls.
• We have modified the effect triggered when activating boss spawners, removing the annoying sound.
• The equippable Orc Drum is now fixed.
• Players on the losing side in the Faction Pillars event will now receive 5 faction coins.
• We began to overhaul the boss loot. The work will be carried out stepwise over a longer period of time. Please expect adjustments as we go.
• Added a chicken event arena in Moonglow zoo.
• Added a deed to the vendor to bond event chickens.
• Added an undead chicken scroll to the event vendor at Moonglow zoo.
• New plants and potted plants allowed outside houses, see https://shardsofbritannia.com/news/newly-added-plants-allowed-outside
• Feather drops has been increased moderately, stone harpy's can be harvested now.
• Prevent Daily and Weekly dungeons from overlapping.
• Ongoing work on Ocllo.
• Different types of chickens can now be registered for chicken fights.
• Loot tables updated for "The Lich King"
• Loot tables updated for "The Archmage"

Congratulations to our lucky winners:

1st Place: Cicirider 2nd Place: Snuff Alapagus 3rd Place: Echo Saber

Winners, we will be in touch soon to give you your Mystery Box prizes! Stay tuned for more epic lottery adventures soon! ⚔️✨

Hail, adventurers! Due to the roaring success of our last Paws explosion fest, we’re cranking up the chaos with a brand-new, heart-pounding event! This is no ordinary rerun—it’s bigger, badder, and bursting with madness! Get ready for 24 hours of non-stop action this weekend!

Keep your eyes peeled for Special Exploding Barrels popping up across the Town of Paws. These barrels are slippery—they’ll vanish in just 60 seconds, so sprint to snag one! Use them to blast open one of the two wells in Paws: one near the Brit Bridge, the other by Colleen the Gypsy. This time, we’ve got Guaranteed-Break Barrels—rare, barrels that will crack those stubborn wells open on the first try!

Smash a well, and you could score a Puzzle Chest stuffed with even more rare loot than before. But beware—bigger explosions mean more ferocious monsters guarding the wells, ready to test your mettle. These wells are tough nuts to crack, so bring your patience and determination!

SPECIAL HANDOUTS THIS WEEKEND

Check our official discord for all the information!

The recently introduced plants and potted plants have been added to the list of allowed items and can to be placed slightly outside the walls of some house types. Active after the next server restart. Happy decorating!

Exciting news for all aspiring chicken fighters! There's now a new NPC at the Moonglow Zoo who will let you register your pet chicken for the upcoming cockfighting event just target your feathered friend to sign up, but remember, each player can only enter one. Once registered, you can purchase special scrolls from the NPC to customize your chicken's size and color, making it stand out in the arena. This is a player run event with full details dropping late next month, so in the meantime, start training your chickens and tweaking their looks to get ahead. Have fun!

Hail, brave adventurers of Britannia!

The hour draws near to tally thy final deeds and claim the rewards thou hast earned. Season V shall draw to a close ere the end of July. Yet fear not — for as one chapter ends, another begins! Prepare thyselves for the dawning of Season VI, bringing forth a trove of wondrous and thrilling new treasures.